Just one other point.  The Hotmail extension can and does delete
messages on the Hotmail server when deleted from Thunderbird and the
appropriate options are selected.in Thunderbird.

On Nov 20, 3:48 pm, alanrf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris ...
>
> The "download unread emails only" should not be needed to prevent re-
> downloads.  This option causes the Hotmail extension to only return to
> Thunderbird the list of messages marked unread in the Hotmail Inbox
> instead of the full list of messages on the server as required by the
> POP protocol.  It is required to be used with the "Mark messages as
> read" option.  It means that the messages, once read, will disappear
> from the popstate.dat and using this option prevents any deletions in
> Thunderbird form being reflected back to the Hotmail server.
>
> The re-downloads of Hotmail have been due to a problem where the
> extension has been returning only the list of the first 50 messages on
> the Hotmail server to Thunderbird even if there are more than 50
> messages on the server.  As the user deletes messages older messages
> bounce around the 50th message mark and come in and out of the
> popstate.dat.  As the older messages appear in the popstate.dat they
> get downloaded.  Newer messages arrive and the older messages move
> above the 50 message mark and disappear from the popstate.dat.  Then
> the users deletes some messages ... and around and around it goes.
> The use of the "download unread messages only" option is a
> circumvention of this (temporary) problem with the Hotmail extension.
>
> This truncation of the list appears to have been fixed with b53.
>
> On Nov 20, 12:04 pm, search <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > For b54:
>
> > - Thunderbird downloads the messages in duplicate. In duplicate only:
> > there is improvement  :)
> > - If I delete one of the two identical messages: the message is
> > removed in hotmail  :(
>
> > thank you ^^
>
> > (sorry for my bad English)
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