Dell Latitude 5400 Chromebook; all current maintenance applied
K-9 Mail v6.804
POP3 account
(Please don’t rag on about not using POP3. What I have is what I have.)
I had a number of business emails in my INBOX. When I wanted to delete some new unneeded messages, I accidentally did a select all and put everything in the Trash folder. They are there, but I can’t seem to get them out of Trash. It would be satisfactory to forward them to another account, but I can’t find a way to do that.
When I open a message from Trash, there is no option to forward. In the upper right corner there is an arrow to Reply, which is not what I need. There are also three vertical dots. When I hover the cursor pointer over it, the pop-up says More Options. However, when I click on the dots, nothing opens up. So I can’t find a way to forward the emails out of Trash.
Any suggestions?
If I select an email in trash by long-pressing it then on the top righthand side immediately to the left of the 3-dot menu there’s an icon to “Move to”, see screenshot. I’m not sure if POP is any different, I wouldn’t know. But for me on IMAP it works as expected.
K-9 may work differently on a Chromebook from the way it does on an Android phone, at least for POP3. There does not seem to be any “long press” in the Trash for a Chromebook, so that does not work. I may have found a workaround, long, klunky, and tedious. I opened a message in the Trash. The Reply option still works. I can reply to the message, go into the headers, delete the original sender, and type in my own address. Then put in a period for the message, with the original message still attached. When I Send, the replied message with the attached original shows up in my Inbox as if it had been forwarded. As I say, long, klunky, and tedious. but it may allow me to recover the accidentally deleted emails in a usable form. I have another way of saving messages apart from K-9 (skipping the long explanation), so I will do that once I have (more or less) recovered the messages.
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