Blank IMAP Email Messages (Fixed)

[DanRaisch]

I have not found any way of moving the existing email into a new folder so that I can then try to fix the Tb Inbox.

What is stopping you from creating a new folder under Local Folders in Thunderbird and copying the messages from the Inbox folder to that new folder and then deleting them from the Inbox?

[John Liebson]

I have not found any way of moving the existing email into a new folder so that I can then try to fix the Tb Inbox.

What is stopping you from creating a new folder under Local Folders in Thunderbird and copying the messages from the Inbox folder to that new folder and then deleting them from the Inbox?

Dan, I am sorry, or just confused, as you seemed to say that that was not your intention, which had something to do with moving them out of the server.

At any rate, I can recreate the folder I had made, then delete the messages from the inbox. Should I then repair the inbox folder, and move the messages back to the inbox?

I just deleted perhaps fifty readable messages from the inbox, including two responses to my Clink ticket.

[DanRaisch]

Should I then repair the inbox folder,

Yes

and move the messages back to the inbox?

No, why do that?

[John Liebson]

Should I then repair the inbox folder,

Yes

and move the messages back to the inbox?

No, why do that?

Because I am quite confused. Based on the message to which I am replying, would I be correct that I should try to read the messages which I had moved out of the inbox?

Today started out with about 85 readable messages, then one or more blanks, followed by one or more readable ones, then repeats of non-readable and readable messages.

[John Liebson]

Something is truly amiss: I created a subfolder of the inbox, told Tb to move everything from the inbox to the test subfolder, but there was nothing in the subfolder. I then moved two new emails from the inbox to the subfolder; each time, the subfolder showed there was one message there, and each of those two messages promptly disappeared.

I have apparently lost over 500 messages. Furthermore, none of the over two hundred new messages in the inbox appears to be readable. I just don't understand what is going on, nor why IMAP is supposed to be better than POP, which has so far been far from obvious to me.

Later: The two messages I sent to the test folder and which seemed to disappear have now appeared in readable form; perhaps the over 500 messages that I first moved from the inbox will eventually show up.

[John Liebson]

The missing five hundred are still missing, but I just had the best-ever session,deleting over at least three hundred readable new messages, leaving only four non-readable ones in the inbox.

[John Liebson]

I hope that this does cause my IMAP account to realize that it is, finally, working rather well. i am still seeing occasional duplicates, and a few non-readable messages, but those now become readable after a short while.

Given that I now have a working IMAP account, I am going to close this lengthy exchange.