How to Recover a Deleted Thunderbird E-Mail Account

Deleted Your Thunderbird E-Mail Account by Accident? Here’s the Fix

I just switched web hosts for one of my web sites and created my new e-mail account on Thunderbird. It was late at night, and without thinking, I deleted the old account, along with all of my folders and templates!

This morning I Googled “can i undelete an e-mail account in thunderbird” and found this helpful page:

Recovering deleted mail accounts

Step 1:

Using Tools > Account Settings, create a new e-mail account with the same name as the old one, using the same settings

Step 2:

Locate the folder for the old account in the Thunderbird profile on your computer. Example:

C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\oadkkice.default\Mail\pop.1and1.com

Note: The “.default” folder on your computer may have a different name. Replace “UserName” with your user name, “oadkkice” with your default folder name, and “pop.1and1.com” with the folder for your old account.

Step 3:

Make sure the old account you just created is selected, then select Tools > Account Settings again. Select Server Settings and locate the Local Directory box. Click the Browse button and select the old account folder you located in Step 2.

Voila! Your old e-mail folders appear. You can now move messages from the old folders into folders in your new account.