Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

2015-09-14 Thread David King
I wonder if the add-ons are interfering with each other in some way that blocks one inbox. Did you try it with no add-ons and with combinations of 2 of the 3 add-ons? David K On 03/09/15 09:07, Dianne wrote: On 01/09/15 11:41, Dianne wrote: I'm running Thunderbird 38.2.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

2015-09-13 Thread Dianne
On 12/09/15 21:28, David King wrote: Do you have the settings set to leave messages on the server or not? And where is the mailbox saved for the one that keeps losing emails? You should be certain they are set in a location that is always going to be writeable and not going to be unavailable a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

2015-09-12 Thread David King
Do you have the settings set to leave messages on the server or not? And where is the mailbox saved for the one that keeps losing emails? You should be certain they are set in a location that is always going to be writeable and not going to be unavailable at any time (e.g. USB drive). I have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

2015-09-04 Thread Simon Greenwood
One thing that occurred to me is that the time might be wrong somewhere, which can confuse the relationship between a server and a client and it could be that Thunderbird thinks that the messages are dated incorrectly. You might see something to that effect in the debug logs. s/ On 4 September 20

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

2015-09-04 Thread Barry Drake
On 04/09/15 09:54, Dianne wrote: That's the strangest thing - all the accounts are pop3, but all the others are acting normally, including one that's on the same server. And if I start in safe mode the problem persists, but goes away if I use Help> restart in safe mode! That is so weird, I dou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

2015-09-04 Thread Dianne
On 03/09/15 20:28, Barry Drake wrote: I wonder if there is a bug in Thunderbird that causes a problem with pop3 accounts? If the problem account is your only one using pop3, I'd be inclined to think that might be the problem. If you are fairly sure it is a Thunderbird problem, check out if al

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

2015-09-03 Thread Barry Drake
On 03/09/15 17:23, Dianne wrote: > I'm using pop3 - it seems to be a problem with tbird, as they reappear > when I go to safe mode. I wonder if there is a bug in Thunderbird that causes a problem with pop3 accounts? If the problem account is your only one using pop3, I'd be inclined to think

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

2015-09-03 Thread Dianne
On 03/09/15 09:18, Barry Drake wrote: I've seen something like this happen with imap accounts when there were problems at the mail server end. I think that might be where the problem is. If the server allows pop mail access, I'd set that account temporarily as pop mail and work with that un

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

2015-09-03 Thread Barry Drake
On 03/09/15 09:07, Dianne wrote: I've been playing with this - if I load in safe mode with no add-ons, all emails reappear. I've tried disabling each add-on in turn (there are only three) but the problem remains. If I load in safe mode but tell tbird to always load without add-ons, the problem r

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

2015-09-03 Thread Dianne
On 01/09/15 11:41, Dianne wrote: I'm running Thunderbird 38.2.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. There was an update to tbird last week, which seemed OK. I have four email accounts that I download with tbird - my ISP allocated mail, my yahoo mail, and two email addresses on a server from a place I volunt

[ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

2015-09-01 Thread Dianne
I'm running Thunderbird 38.2.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. There was an update to tbird last week, which seemed OK. I have four email accounts that I download with tbird - my ISP allocated mail, my yahoo mail, and two email addresses on a server from a place I volunteer, and one of these has a major