
Frequent Missing emails...
My problem is bigger than just this, but I'll begin here. 1. Sometimes, when requesting "Get Messages" from a Thunderbird account, I will see a message count appear, download, and then conclude. 2. However, when looking through the email inventory for this account, no email appears. 3. IOW. If I have "Myemail" defined, and I'm ABSOLUTELY sure that "Myemail" is entirely empty.
- I then select "Get Messages" for "Myemail", and I see one, or more, email documents found, and begin receipt.
- When the receipt concludes, I open "Myemail" Inbox, only to find nothing there. I wander through the entire "Myemail" definition(s), only to find that any/all email receipt(s) for "Myemail" have disappeared.
This is an infrequent occurrence, but does occur. But, the real problem is the synchronization between a specific Thunderbird email account(i.e. "Myemail"), and what a product called "YOTA email migrator"(https://yotasoftware.com/thunderbird-migrator/) says about the current contents of "Myemail". Obviously, the discrepancies are varied, but there will usually be some kind of discrepancy in reporting an "inbox", "sent", "trash", etc. discrepancy. I never keep my email collective permanently in my Thunderbird definitions.
My Thunderbird account definitions redefine ALL message repositories from the default (C:) definitions to another (Q:) residency, permanently mounted external drive. So, by the end of my day, my Thunderbird email inventories have all been drained/distributed to other more topic related final storage.
I've been a long time Thunderbird user, except during the time when Tbird was struggling with many definition changes for POP3 access. But, I've returned to Tbird now that the smoke has apparently cleared. But, this is my FIRST use of the "YOTA email migrator", which was acquired for use during a "Mailbird" usage, while Tbird was being rebuilt.
If you install this "YOTA email migrator" product on your Tbird system, I'm sure you will experience the Tbird email (sub)directory discrepancies that I am describing. I've learned that because my Tbird directories are always zeroed by the end of the day, I can simply erase all those "Local directory" definitions, and they will be rebuilt upon the next Tbird initialization. At which time, the Tbird/YOTA director(ies) content representation will be equal at zero. But, as Tbird email content begins to arrive, and be saved, moved, deleted, etc. the message directory representations between Tbird, and "YOTA email migrator" begin to drift apart.
I KNOW this explanations are quite complex, but I think it will become quite clear if you install the "YOTA email migrator" product, and then begin to review the eventual discrepancies between Tbird's message inventory(ies), and that reported by "YOTA".
Thank you, very much. And, I'm usually frequently available if desired.
Gary Walker - twf6714@outlook.com - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/thunderbird/form
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1 2 and 3 sounds like a failure in an antivirus product. Do you have one? Norton make a very good product for doing exactly as you describe when it gets a malformed email in a pop connection. Is your account set up as pop?
Why are you pressing get messages? That can in itself be a cause of issues as Thunderbird fetches messages on startup and on a timed basis.
This will be exacerbated by having Thunderbird profile somewhere other than an internal drive. External says to me network or USB. Neither of which are as fast as an internal drive bus with the inherent issues of data simply being lost. If you are locating the account data on another place to the profile using the account directory best of luck is all I can say. I want nothing to do with it. Trouble is all that comes from those setups has been my observation over 15 years of doing this support gig.
I did look up this Yota thing as I have never heard of it. I have no interest in migrating my Thunderbird data, so I guess the best thing you can do is actually describe the issue you think you are seeing in terms of life without YOTA, seriously I can not see an volunteer in this forum installing it in an attempt to understand your comments.
BTW If you could explain what this means would be appreciative. "'I've been a long time Thunderbird user, except during the time when Tbird was struggling with many definition changes for POP3 access." It might allow me to understand where you are coming from as the statement makes no sense to me, either literally or figuratively. Unless you are referring to the spate of setting changes imposed by Microsoft on the Hotmail,MSN, Live, Outlook.com franchise over the years, and still continuing with their "modern" authentication.