Hi thanks for reading my big problem yes i am user from Thunderbird for many years all was going fine then i cudnt conect to optusnet.com.au to download emails so i did get help from another person so he ended up reinstalling the program all working fine i had all my mail and evrething else but wen i did turn off the computer and restarted all my mail disapired i cudunt see any were but for same unknown luck i did find all my emals in my account of Gmail yes 1230 emails were in gmail so my question for you guys the guru of thanderbird to se if you can solv my problem sorry for the long explainig many thanks Mile Marinkovic