Thunderbird hangs trying to download email. "downloading message 1 of 140"
Thunderbird will display older email, but will not retrieve new email. It puts up a message "downloading message 1 of 140". That second number continues to grow. It was 76, then 138, now 140. I cannot retrieve new email. That email address is [redacted] @att.net.
I suggest you reply to me at [redacted] @gmail.com.
Fred Bohle
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- What version of Thunderbird?
- Who is your email provider?
- Is this an IMAP or POP3 account?
I've seen it happen when a single message is corrupt and the server chokes on it. A potential fix is to use web mail to move all Inbox messages to a temporary folder, then move them back to the Inbox in small batches, fetching mail with Thunderbird between each move. Eventually the corrupt message can be identified.
move all messages to a
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