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Re: New messages not appearing

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On 08/04/21 17:56, Molly Mockford wrote:
> Yesterday, something has changed in the behaviour of my Thunderbird
> (Windows 78.9.0) which has me bewildered.
> 
> A) Newsgroups
> 
> I have TB set to download new messages on startup, and yet when I open
> the program no new messages are displayed.  If I expand the folder which
> contains the majority of my newsgroups, I see bold text and an unread
> count where appropriate, but no bold text was displayed on the
> unexpanded folder name to alert me to the fact that there were new
> messages within it.
> 
> B) E-mail (POP3)
> 
> I have TB set to check for new messages on startup and to automatically
> download new messages, and yet when I open the program no new messages
> are displayed.  Opening folders shows me no new messages;  I have to
> click on Get Messages before my mail appears, and the appropriate
> folders are then emboldened and unread counts appear.  After that, new
> messages are treated as expected (e.g. writing this draft has caused my
> Local Folders to be emboldened because there is a copy in the Drafts
> folder inside it).
> 
> I cannot imagine that something has changed with both my e-mail host and
> my newsgroup provider at the same moment, so the answer to the problem
> must lie with TB;  but I cannot for the life of me think what it is.  I
> have made no changes to my settings which should affect this - the only
> thing I have done recently is to add a.c.s.thunderbird and a.c.s.firefox
> to my subscribed groups and stop checking news.mozilla.org at all.

Whatever was causing it, it is now no longer happening - undoubtedly
because of the update to 78.10.0 the other day.
-- 
Molly Mockford
Nature loves variety. Unfortunately, society hates it. (Milton Diamond
Ph.D.)
(My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.)

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New messages not appearing Molly Mockford <nospamnobody@mollymockford.me.uk> - 2021-04-08 17:56 +0100
  Re: New messages not appearing Molly Mockford <nospamnobody@mollymockford.me.uk> - 2021-04-08 17:58 +0100
  Re: New messages not appearing Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2021-04-14 18:06 -0500
  Re: New messages not appearing Molly Mockford <nospamnobody@mollymockford.me.uk> - 2021-04-24 18:10 +0100

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