Thunderbird stopped uploading my emails from Cox.net almost 2 years ago and then suddenly today it uploaded over 1000 emails from my cox account, removed them f
When Thunderbird suddenly started uploading emails from my Cox account after 2 years of not doing so I saw over 1000 emails come in - new unread. It is true I had not been able to keep up with my emails on line with Cox although I had read some and had moved 20 or so from last weekend to sub accounts on cox which I do not believe have been affected. While I was trying to begin the process of sorting and categorizing these 1000 emails suddenly all of my new emails disappered except for those 4 or 5 which I had just read on thunderbird. they are all gone from cox. They are not in the trash. They are not in my recycle bin. They are just gone and I am not happy about it at all.
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Right click the account in to folder pane, select settings and turn on the option in server setting to leave messages on the server.
Matt said
Right click the account in to folder pane, select settings and turn on the option in server setting to leave messages on the server.
Actually that setting was already clicked and it wiped them out anyway!!!
I am sorry this is very unclear as to how to answer so I answered in your box instead -- That setting you suggest was already marked and Thunderbird went ahead and deleted everything from the server anyway - very upset but I guess I am going to treat it like a major crash and go on instead of spending any more hours of my one day off a week trying to retrieve all those lost email - or any more money for that matter. I am pretty disgusted with Thunderbird at this point -- thank you for trying to help