Get yourself a cuppa for your nerves, a pencil and paper to make notes with and dive in. For Authentication method choose normal password. In Thunderbird, for connection security choose SSL/TLS.
You will get a security complaint and you need to accept that POP3 (according to Google) is less secure than IMAP. You will need to configure gmail to accept POP3.
You will need to manually sign into your gmail account and enter the setup section which took me forever to find. One of my frustrations is that it took me all day to discover that for my user name they wanted my email address. Your migration might be easy or it might take hours and hours and be frustrating. Just remember, it's not a bible and your settings may be different. The instructions in this link are reasonably good. For those of us who still used POP3 the migration was a nightmare. IMAP does not support contacts, but if you have Exchange, it is possible to sync contacts too.Īlternatively, Gmail + CardDav on recent versions of Thunderbird is a way to go.A year ago my long suffering ISP made a deal with Google and migrated its email service to gmail. Is there a way to sync Thunderbird contacts on Android, either the native contacts or some other contact manager or email app?.Since you are using IMAP, just opening and let thunderbird sync is all you need to do. What about using a file sync program like SyncThing to keep the Thunderbird Profile folders on both computers in sync? Is this ok and a good idea, or could it cause consistency and collision issues?.You will even copy the email already, so no need to sync those either. It might ask you to enter the password for the accounts once, but that's it. You can copy your thunderbird folder and it will work. Should the Thunderbird installation on the second computer be set up from scratch, or is it ok to copy over the Profile folder from the first computer?.What you have in Thunderbird will be mirrored to what you have on the server, and multiple installs of thunderbird will therefor all have the same emails and folders. IMAP only supports email messages and folders, so yes, they will be synced. If using IMAP for email accounts, will the emails and folder structures at least (and maybe contacts?) be synced between Thunderbird installations on different computers?.Very short answer: Yes, this is exactly how it was meant to work.
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