I have a Vista (Home/SP1) laptop with Thunderbird (with auto updates on).
The email account is with 1and1.com and configured to get messages via POP3.
The account gets maybe 100-300 emails a day.
TBird is set (I think anyway) to delete messages off server when deleted in TBird.
I delete off maybe a thousand messages at a time (from TBird). But every day or two it will re-download **all** the messages that are on the email server.
So two problems:
- Thunderbird shouldn't be downloading the same message twice
- And it's not getting them deleted off the server.
Help please.
I have other PCs with Tbird that don't have this problem. But not with Vista and not with such high email volumes.
(ps: what I have to do now it logon to the email server direct via their web-mail front end and manually delete a few thousand of the older messages at a time).
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Log in to 1and1's webmail and remove the message that keep getting downloaded. It is possible that the pop session got interupted while downloading a batch of emails. Messages to be deleted are not physically removed until a successful disconnection by the QUIT command. If the POP3 session is interrupted, messages are not removed and the server downloads them again.
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by: sda100Posted on 2009-08-21 at 01:58:51ID: 25150027
You said you *think* Thunderbird is set to delete messages off the server. Can you confirm this? Can you also list all your POP3 options?