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Fhamtaom
Strollin' around
Status: New idea

Thunderbird Desktop lets users move an email from one account to a completely different account (e.g., from a Gmail IMAP account to another IMAP or POP3 account). This is currently not possible on Thunderbird for Android: the "Move" function only works within folders of the same account.

Requested feature:

Add the ability to move and copy an email from one configured account to a different account on Thunderbird for Android, matching the behavior already available on Thunderbird Desktop.

Use case:

Users who manage multiple email accounts on their phone (e.g., personal + professional, or several IMAP providers) often need to reorganize messages across accounts — for archiving, forwarding a whole folder to another mailbox, or consolidating accounts — without having to manually forward/re-download each message.

Current behavior:

Move is limited to folders within the same account.

Expected behavior:

When selecting "Move to," the target account list should include all configured accounts, not just the folders of the current one.

2 Comments
Status changed to: New idea
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

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Bimaclan
New member

This feature should be standard. I have five different work email accounts, and it's very useful to move client emails between folders in different accounts.

 

It would be easy to access Clicking the icon will open a dropdown menu that says OTHER FOLDERS AND ACCOUNTS. Like Aquamail. Thanks