10/12/2023 0 Comments Mozilla thunderbird 32 bit![]() ![]() ![]() So the only copy could be in the pop mail account.īackups are required regardless of whether you use imap or pop because essentially there is only one copy. When you send emails, those emails are only in the pop mail account, they are not on the server as there is no synchronisation. Pop mail account folders do not show what is on server and often emails are auto deleted off server upon download. Pop mail accounts can only access and download from a server Inbox.Įmails are not stored on the server unless you instruct it to keep messages on server. So, unless you have a backup you have lost those emails. The server updated your imap mail account. ![]() You allowed a synchronisation of imap folders with known empty server folders. This explains why you have lost the emails. The imap folders and the server folders are in essence one and the same. You use the second computer, the imap account synchronises with server and immediately the email you had deleted using the first computer will now disappear from the second computer without you doing anything. On first computer, you delete an email and folder synchronises with server to update it. Imagine you have two computers, both set up to use the same imap mail account to connect with server.īoth computers have an identical copy of what is on server. So when you entered the password and connected to server it does exactly that, it looks at server, synchronises with server and shows exactly what is on server. ![]() This is when you should have moved all the emails out of the imap account and put them into 'Local Folders' account for safe keeping.Īs you use an imap mail account, imap mail accounts only show a virtual copy of what is on server. Thunderbird had not been able to synchronise with server as password was no good because contract expired, so it still had a copy of server folders in the old state.Īt this point your only copy (assuming you had not made any backups) was still in the imap mail account providing you did not connect to an empty server. You could see emails because you had synchronised the folders before the account expired. This is not a Thunderbird thing it is how all imap mail accounts work. This is what occurred, so I'll elaborate a bit to explain how an imap mail account works. Re : When my email was wiped I could still access all my emails through thunderbird ![]()
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