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canetoad

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1. Are the mailboxes

Reply to KS Toronado (Original post)

Tue Feb 4, 2025, 07:56 AM

Feb 2025

POP3 or IMAP?

I could understand something like this happening with IMAP - your mail is stored on a server. POP3 - the mail is physically downloaded and perhaps deleted off the server when you check. I've never, ever seen mailboxes vanish like that.

If your mail is IMAP. the messages are kept on the server and can be accessed by other devices and mail apps. A server-side glitch could have caused your mail to vanish briefly.

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Something strange happened [View all] KS Toronado Feb 2025 OP

Are the mailboxes canetoad Feb 2025 #1

Couldn't see IMAP or POP3 anywhere in my settings KS Toronado Feb 2025 #4

If you click on your Email account name in Thunderbird JoseBalow Feb 2025 #5

From memory canetoad Feb 2025 #6

It's IMAP. KS Toronado Feb 2025 #7

You'll need to visit the website canetoad Feb 2025 #8

I use Thunderbird JoseBalow Feb 2025 #2

Tried that, didn't work, thanks KS Toronado Feb 2025 #3

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