{Solved} Disappearing Thunderbird Inbox

[BobK54]

This time I can confirm it was NOT me....

I had Thunderbird open with 20-30 emails in my inbox and walked away for a few hours.  When I came back, my inbox was totally empty.  This has happened right before my eyes a few times before so I thought it was a poorly placed finger on the keyboard or some other "senior" mistake.  This time I was not even near the computer and nobody else was in the house.  It spontaneously deleted my mail.

I'm running 2010 KDE fully updated.

Spooks???  

Any ideas?  

[Texstar]

This time I can confirm it was NOT me....

I had Thunderbird open with 20-30 emails in my inbox and walked away for a few hours.  When I came back, my inbox was totally empty.  This has happened right before my eyes a few times before so I thought it was a poorly placed finger on the keyboard or some other "senior" mistake.  This time I was not even near the computer and nobody else was in the house.  It spontaneously deleted my mail.

I'm running 2010 KDE fully updated.

Spooks???   

Any ideas?   

The cat did it! You have to watch them. They are sneaky creatures.

I have T-bird set with a gmail imap account and if I log into to gmail via the browser and delete mail via the browser then it disappears from T-bird. Maybe you should consider changing your password.

[BobK54]

Thanks Tex!  I'll give that a try and report back.

[BobK54]

I think I found an answer to the disappearing mail.  This particular machine is not my primary mail machine.  When setting up TB3 after the fresh 2010 install I let TB do it's autoconfig thing that seems to be built in now.  It auto-magically sets the servers etc now.  When it did that, it configured my email account as IMAP instead of POP.  My account is POP.  I couldn't seem to find the "leave a copy on the server" checkbox but there was something similar in one of the account config dialog tabs.  Guess it was not the same.  Now that I have deleted my old account and reinstalled it while MANUALLY choosing POP instead of letting TB chose IMAP, I think the issue is resolved.  So far I have not seen disappearing emails.   So far......

Sometimes automation, and blind trust in it, can getcha.  

I'll test for 24 hours and then mark "Solved".

[BobK54]

Testing done.  All my mail is there and not disappearing.  Solution:  make sure TB sets up your account as POP if it's a POP account!  The auto-magic setup wasn't correct.

Thanks!!