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Mozilla Thunderbird keeps stalling, and then deleting all but 2000 emails.

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colinmpratt
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I am having a problem with Thunderbird in that, seemingly at random, Thunderbird stops responding for a few minutes, then it deletes all but 2000 emails locally from my inbox, then, after a while, it re-downloads them all from the server. I have 96973 messages in my inbox on the server.

The email server in question is mail.yahoo.com

I am having a problem with Thunderbird in that, seemingly at random, Thunderbird stops responding for a few minutes, then it deletes all but 2000 emails locally from my inbox, then, after a while, it re-downloads them all from the server. I have 96973 messages in my inbox on the server. The email server in question is mail.yahoo.com

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Matt
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Have you looked at the limits yahoo place on IMAP? My understanding is you may have exceeded the number of email they are prepared to actively synchronize.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/v4ydu0/10000_email_limit_via_imap_in_yahoo_email/

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