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On 14/11/2019 15:57, mr meowski wrote:
What I don't understand is that the same set up on my laptop computer is just fine. Being IMAP it should be identical. Both machines are up to date.Oh same here - happens mostly on my main (linux) workstation and mostly on this email account. It's usually after a reboot and checking the folder for this mailing list actually, which is a big ol' folder. Thunderbird will sit and think for a bit, I'll realise all of the other folders for the same account are empty and that's the end of that basically. I just nuke the account from Thunderbird and recreate, let it sync again and all is well. Happens maybe once every year or two perhaps, at most? I look after a lot of Thunderbirds for a lot of people and it doesn't ever effect the majority of them - I _think_ it hits people with multiple email accounts and lots of extra configuration, mailing list subscriptions, rules and antispam, etc more than regular users which kind of makes sense. I don't know if I've ever seen this issue on a typical end user machine running Windows with just one or two gmail work accounts plugged come to think of it. Good old Thunderbird has never really let me down though so I'm more than happy to put up with the occasional glitch. Compared to the horrors of Outlook especially :| Neil your original problem is quite possibly the troublesome system not authenticating with the server properly - check deep in the Thunderbird settings, you probably know where to look by now. Everything is complicated these days so you might have an OAuth token not negotiated properly for example.
Will it eventually put itself right, given time, or do I really need to sort it out somehow? How about I remove some of my old emails, which I do occasionally? Or do I really need to do more?
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