Email Problems Galore

[DD716TED]

For many years now I have been using the "Thunderbird" email program with no major issues..That was until last week when I turned on my shop computer and the email program started downloading every email that I have sent, received, placed in trash and so on..1000's of emails.. and each time I accessed a different email account using Thunderbird, the same thing happened.. Might be coincidence but Windows 10 had just updated again.. Anyone else use Thunderbird experiencing problems? Maybe time to change email programs...

[DD716TED]

Chris Bryant wrote:
Did you switch from imap to smtp?

did not switch...

[theoldwizard1]

Chris Bryant wrote:
Did you switch from imap to smtp?

Sure sounds like this !

Believe it or not, once you have imap working again, I am pretty sure you can put all of those emails back on the server !

[wa8yxm]

There is a file you lost.. IT records what you have and have not read (It is the index pointer)

Now myself I use Web Mail. So when I' done with it I toss it in ye old bit bucket and there is nothing left for a "Client" to download .

[Alan_Hepburn]

Been using Thunderbird for probably 15 years now, but most of that time it was with a linux OS - the last Windows platform I have, and don't use for email, is 8.1...

[Chris_Bryant]

Did you switch from imap to smtp?

[swphotobug]

I am using Thunderbird and its predecessors for 2 decades and am not experiencing any problems at all. I am on a W10 PC but have no idea what update level. I know it just updated 1-2 weeks ago.