Thunderbird

[Jim Monck]

I thought I would try Thunderbird and it has downloaded into my inbox over 2000 email going back to 2008. Are these email I deleted but were stored on my computer someplace even though deleted?

[Jim Monck]

One more question, should I just use gmail through mozilla and not thunderbird?

[Billie Goodson]

Thunderbird has a couple of settings. If you choose, you can have all of your mail downloaded to your client (Thunderbird) or you can keep it all on the server. There are advantages to each. If you are using gmail, I think the best way is through the browser, but that is a preference. Have you been using gmail, and just decided to try thunderbird? ONe thing to be careful of.... if you downloaded all of your email from the gmail server to your thunderbird client, then the only copy of your email may well be on your client. I would try to access gmail through a browser before taking any action like deleting your client. Been there, done that....

This might help if you are trying to figure out how to get it to leave messages on the server:


http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/05/04/how-to-set-thunderbird-to-leave-mail-on-the-server/

[Gina Stevenson]

Tho't there were a couple of options from which to choose: Leave it on Gmail after DL'ing to T'bird, or have it erased. Computer crashes I've had, I'd leave it there.

Just have to make sure the option to leave it there on Gmail after DL'ing it to read in T'bird. ;)

[Jim Monck]

I'm not sure I have it checked or where you do that, all I know is that it downloaded onto Thunderbird things I thought I had deleted when I was a little boy.

[Cecil Wallace]

I've used Thunderbird for several years, and I love it.
I download all my mail from my ISP's server to my computer, and have it deleted from the ISP server.
I also download my GMail, but leave that on the server. I only use GMail for notifications posted on my Facebook.
With filters that I have set up, I have my mail delivered to various folders on my Thunderbird.

[Gina Stevenson]

I'm not sure I have it checked or where you do that, all I know is that it downloaded onto Thunderbird things I thought I had deleted when I was a little boy.

Now, Jim, if you email when you were a little boy, it had to have been in your dreams!

:smilies0262:

ETA: perhaps what you did was send them to "archives" instead of deleting them?

[Jim Monck]

Maybe I should just stick with my pencil and paper.

[Gina Stevenson]

I know that were I to have T'bird again [another lost-in-the-crash item], I'd again tell it to keep my mail on the website once it's DL'd to T'bird. That way it's not lost when T'bird/computer crashes. ;) Liked having T'bird, but definitely want to keep the mail DL'd to it on the website, too!