I must have missed something. Wouldn't it be easier if you removed the
e-mail account from your old computer, instead of dealing with messages ?
Once account was removed, messages went with it.
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"Evelyn" <begone@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I have just bought a new computer and transferred all my email accounts (3
> accounts in total) and all the e-mail messages in each 3 over to my new
> computer.
>
> I should mention that one of the accounts is an Imap account.
>
> What I am trying to do is delete all the e-mail messages in each account
> on my old computer so that it is completely clean so I can then give it to
> my daughter without any of my messages on there.
>
> The first time I deleted all of the emails on my old computer, it also
> deleted all of them on my new computer as well.
>
> How can I keep all of my emails that were transferred to my new computer
> and delete all of them on my old one without affecting my new computer?
>
> Is it a question of deleting each actual account in my old one completely?
> Or by doing this, will I subsequently delete all of the accounts on the
> new one as well?
>
> Can anybody tell me the right way to do this? Basically, I want to keep
> all of my emails of my new computer but not the old.
>
> Thank you
>
> Evelyn