Backup imap mail by using pop

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The Dreamhost web hosting thread below was started by pangea33 on 2009-03-27 17:14:22:

Post Reply? I am not sure which is the correct forum to post this, so please forgive me if I chose wrong. I have been using imap mail for a long time and would be pretty disappointed if I lost that mail. Someone suggested that I just install a client somewhere that connects through pop, but to configure it so that I don’t delete messages off the server. I then installed Thunderbird on my notebook and was able to download everything in my inbox with no problem. None of the subfolders of my inbox were downloaded though. I have gone through all the account settings and don’t see anything that looks like it would help me get those folders. I also manually created a folder under my inbox of the same name as one in imap and tried getting messages, but it only appeared to try and get new mail in my inbox. Can anyone tell me how I can go about getting the mail in subfolders to my pop configured client? Any input would be greatly appreciated.

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