I got a new phone and I really woukd like to get draft and sent emails from my old phone loaded on my new phone in k9 mail.
Can I do this? If so, how please?
If you use IMAP then they’ll automatically be there. If you’re still using the outdated POP3 method then not a chance. Unless you send/forward them all to yourself from the old phone I guess.
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Thanks Nimueh.
Yes I use Pop3. Can’t forward them as the old phone is dead. I thought maybe I could hook up via USBc from my old phone to my PC and manually move files and then do USBc to my new phone. I have done that kind of thing for Deja office contacts that didn’t transfer in the past. 
As there are still many people using POP3 it would be great if K9/Tunderbird could add a feature to backup and restore local mails - this would help for these migration requests
Better yet. Dump pop3 from the app.
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While IMAP has been the only sensible choice when using email on more than one device for more than three decades, removing POP from the app goes too far. K-9 could easily present a warning so that anyone who insists on using POP has at least been given a chance to make a better choice, but the responsibility ultimately falls to the user.
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Pop3 serves no useful purpose. Time to bite the bullet.
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Now that cketti is leaving, there might be less vehement opposition to such a feature.
Have you put in a feature request over at Mozilla?
No, did not. Also, I am not using POP3 but IMAP, so the feature would not for me. I just wanted to say that there should be a way to savely backup local data (including POP3 mails) so that people do not loose them - or some kind of migration path…
For me it would also be OK no longer to allow new POP3 accounts - but what about all of the current POP3 users?
I use Pop3 to INITIALLY get my emails on my phone and to be able to respond quickly. I then allow the server to dump the emails onto my PC ehen o logon to my PC which then clears them from my phone. For legal reasons I need to keep some emails longterm and I DON’T want that on my phone, but on my backed up PC.
So if this functionality was removed, I would leave K9Mail
Respectfully request that POP3 is kept
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You can all of that and more just fine with IMAP - read up on it. POP3 has been outdated for years now and you should really switch over to IMAP.
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POP still has it’s uses, but the cases are extremely narrow. General purpose use on a mobile device is not on my list.
POP is perfect as an alternative to forwarding when you want all messages to be delivered to another mailbox and DMARC policy interferes.
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