Thunderbird for Android: allow moving emails between different accounts

[Fhamtaom]

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.

[Jon]

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