Basically, this is a problem that was introduced in the development versions of the Hotmail extension.
It would only tell Thunderbird about the first 50 messages in the Hotmail Inbox no matter how many were in there when the POP protocol demands that the server (in this case the Hotmail extension) should report all messages in the Inbox to Thunderbird. This problem is corrected in the 1.2.19 release but it means that users who used a development release and who have inboxes greater than 50 messages on Hotmail will get all messages (except the first 50) downloaded again. This is a one time event - after that Thunderbird adn Hotmail will be in sync again. The download unread only option is not consistent with the POP protocol but it can help avoid this re-download but it also has the following drawbacks: If you have read a new message on the Web then it will not get downloaded to Thunderbird (unless you mark it unread again) You cannot delete messages in Thunderbird and have the message also deleted on Hotmail (as you can when you do not use "download unread only") and you must manage the Inbox via the Web interface only. If you prefer not to use the "download unread only" option then the main alternative would be to move all messages older than the 50 most recent messages from the Inbox to a custom folder via the Web interface of Hotmail. For any user with a large Inbox this makes a great deal of sense to do periodically since it removes a lot of the work that the extension has to do in returning the full message list every time you access your Hotmail account from Thunderbird. On Dec 6, 8:53 am, Spindizzy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Same problem here. Although Download unread only works fine, it's not > quite right: ideally it should download whatever messages are new > since last download, whether or not they are marked as read. This is > how it was working for me before upgrading. > > On Nov 30, 11:54 am, Webmail Author <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Have you checked the download unread emails only option --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
