Thanks Webmail Author for your persistence. I found the Accept- encoding in tools-options-advanced-general-config editor. Then I searched to locate it asnetwork.http.accept-encoding (isn't Google wonderful!). I modified to "deflate".
Now it works. A load of test messages suddenly arrived and checking send and received is good. And I now have the missing X-folder which is actually where this issue all started! I'll keep my eye on it for a few days. That account was one we had never got around to using - so there was little likelihood of significant harm. I would like to change the main accounts similarly, I understand that would allow me to leave Junk and any filters in Hotmail operating normally but still allow me to download all to Tbird. Is that correct? If I change do I need to re-import email from Outlook at setting up? Will filters carry through? It would be a nuisance if I lost a load of emails as a result but I've got functioning Outlook 2003 on an old PC and have a temperamental trial of Outlook 2010 on this PC for another week - so the emails should not disappear completely. Many thanks Sandy On Jan 15, 9:15 pm, Webmail Author <[email protected]> wrote: > You need to make a change to Thunderbirds "Accept-Encoding" pref so > reads "deflate". only. Microsoft made a mistake with a server on the > last update and haven't fixed it yet.
