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When I try to download massages it does nothing. everything else seems to work.

Mike

When I try to download massages it does nothing. everything else seems to work. Mike

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Hello there mikem

Gmail is not working properly in combination with thunderbird. In gmail :Settings > See all settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP. Check if imap use is enabled in gmail.

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I am not using gmail this is a pop3 account. that was working fine yesterday

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Hello there

Yes ,i do see now.

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Hello there

Okay, it stoped downloading these mails? Do you use anti virus programs like Norton or other antivirus is there that exception for thunderbird.exe. Make sure that it is accepted by firewall software there on that pc of you. Make sure that thunderbird is not working offline./file>work offline.

To solve this issue is to go into that inbox and delete all unwanted or older emails that cause blocking to download it might be a quick one to see if this is related to that issue here. Other good things to go there are disabling anti virus scans that are involved with thunderbird mail.

My excuses , it s a kind of late down here. It was email not g-mail.

Did you had error messages or blacklisted messages onscreen?

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