It is, I think, worse than that. I reported a problem in the management of the popstate.dat file years ago in Thunderbird that means that the "arrival date" of messages in the popstate.dat can be misreported. I have not done the analysis again in T3 but I suspect it still means that messages are often deleted earlier than the x days limit selected in Thunderbird. The Mozilla folks almost need you to point to the line of code to get something fixed. I had to do that recently with a T3 upgrade problem - now I have told them precisely what to fix they have got round to doing it.
There are a couple of points to be made about deletions in Thunderbird. - once you have deleted a message it can not be undone. Moving the message back to the Inbox is totally irrelevant, the deletion will have been recorded in the postate.dat file and cannot be undone. - some folks may have opted to keep the old Thunderbird setting that allowed for deletion of messages once moved from the Inbox. The setting can be seen via the config editor in Thunderbird > Tools > Advanced tab > General tab > Config editor If the entry: mail.pop3.deleteFromServerOnMove is set to true then moving messages from the Inbox will result in a deletion on the server. - the state of the messages in the mail folders it totally irrelevant to the deletion or download of messages in Thunderbird. The decision to download or delete message is totally controlled via the use of the popstate.dat file. On Feb 14, 11:25 pm, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > > it is not these add-ons that decide what messages to > > download or to delete. the decision is made in the main Thunderbird > > program. > > If the option to leave messages on the server is checked, are the two > sub-options, "For at most x days" and "Until I delete them" both > unchecked? Either will cause messages on the server to be deleted, > either after the specified time, in which case the message will still be > in Thunderbird, or when you delete messages in Thunderbird. > > > > alanrf wrote: > > See this Thunderbird add-on for restoring messages to the POP server: > > >https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/550 > > > Note in the comments for a link to an updated version compatible with > > Thunderbird 3. > > > By the way it is not these add-ons that decide what messages to > > download or to delete. the decision is made in the main Thunderbird > > program. > > > On Feb 14, 3:56 pm, Rajeev <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Hey guys.. > > >> Iv been using this extension for few months now to retrieve emails > >> from Hotmail.. Since it is working well i stopped using my web based > >> email client.. > > >> Today i got the surprise of my life.. I am missing 119 emails in my > >> inbox on the server... Sent messages, junk mails are synced > >> properly.... > >> i have all those missing emails available locally in Thunderbird.. It > >> seems they have been downloaded and then deleted from the server.. > >> At the start, when installing this extension (before doing the initial > >> download of the emails), i set the option to leave the messages on the > >> server until delete them.. > >> This option is still set the way i did few months ago.. > > >> I wanna know how to get these 119 emails back on to my server.. > > >> I have something interesting to note.. my inbox is not entirely > >> empty.. i have the last 6 emails on the server.... > > >> anybody any clues? anyway to upload/import these emails back to the > >> server? > > >> Would appreciate any help > > -- -- 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.
