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Compacting inbox is deleting emails on my server.

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Every time I compact my emails on Thunderbird, it deletes a swathe of emails from my inbox and server due to being set up as IMAP. It's a real pain in the ass, I've lost some important emails. Is there any way to compact without this happening? I've looked at a ton of pages already, and none have any answers, figured this would be the place to get some resolution. It's a great email client, I'd like to persist with it, I know there will be something in the advanced config to iron it out, any help is hugely appreciated. I'm running the latest version on Windows 11.

Cheers Neale

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Every time I compact my emails on Thunderbird, it deletes a swathe of emails from my inbox and server due to being set up as IMAP. It's a real pain in the ass, I've lost some important emails. Is there any way to compact without this happening? I've looked at a ton of pages already, and none have any answers, figured this would be the place to get some resolution. It's a great email client, I'd like to persist with it, I know there will be something in the advanced config to iron it out, any help is hugely appreciated. I'm running the latest version on Windows 11. Cheers Neale :-)

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Wayne Mery
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The compact operation doesn't delete messages from the imap server, because compact is a local operation on your computer.

What happens if you do properties > repair on your Inbox?

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