Maybe it will help if you understand what you are doing. The ShortId option in the Yahoo extension was added by the developer as an option. It would have made more sense to make it the way the extension worked by default but that is now an old argument.
Thunderbird "remembers" the messages that have been downloaded based on the identifiers of the messages held on the server. Thunderbird keeps a list of the downloaded message identifiers and every time you connect the Yahoo Webmail extension gives the latest list to Thunderbird. Thunderbird (not the Yahoo extension) compares the new list with the old one and then downloads the messages to the Thunderbird Inbox. This is how Thunderbird works for all mail accounts - Thunderbird neither knows or cares about the existence of these extensions. The problem with Yahoo is that it changes part of the message identifiers on a regular basis. So every week or so the list of message identifiers given by the Yahoo extension to Thunderbird fails completely to match the list Thunderbird is holding and Thunderbird downloads all of the Yahoo messages again. That is why, when I first started to use these extensions, I worked with the developer to get the ShortId option implemented (as I had previously done with the developers of MrPostman and of FreePops - however in both of those it was made the default setting). It is possible to avoid the parts of the message identifiers that Yahoo regularly changes and avoid the constant re-downloads by Thunderbird if the ShortId option is used and then *never* changed. Every time you change the option it will cause all the messages on the server to be downloaded again. This is no fault of the extensions or of Thunderbird. It is the primarily the fault of Yahoo and, sorry to say, of the user for not understanding what they are doing. On Jan 13, 3:04 pm, ewoks <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually.. webmail and yahoo extension just update to new version.. i > still can't find option u talk about but there is DhortID option > @Advanced tab.. if I uncheck it thunderbird download all my messages > from inbox again..even already downloaded msgs,so it makes > duplicates,doesn't matter..but it still buggy.. or confusing.. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
