Hi, Thunderbird stopped allowing pop3 emails from being downloaded. It said there was a lack of disk space I deleted heaps of old stuff and compacted the folders, but that didnt work so I then copied the pop3 file to a large portable hard drive, changed the settings in the incoming server field, This enabled TB to read the folders ok but it still has a warning message that wont let it download any new messages due to a lack of room There is 690GB free space on the portable hard drive I even tried re-installing TB thanks Mike