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Adding a hotmail email account to Thunderbird 153.0 (64-bit) on Windows 11 Home succeeds, but ends with only inbox folder and it stays empty even when the server shows many messages

Thunderbird Send and receive email
Kari Karhi
Kari Karhi

I ran TB in troubleshooting mode and the problem was still there. I deleted the account and created it again but it did not help. I killed TB and restarted, no joy. I rebooted Windows (build 26200.8875), no help. I have a working hotmail account so I compared the Account Settings and Server Settings, they are identical. Both accounts can contact the Mail Server and I get the Certificate ok. I could add the hotmail email account to my Mail app on iPhone and iPad and that worked fine, so seems like a Windows Thunderbird issue. I tried changing the password of the account to the real password but then restarting TB I got an error message: "login.microsoftonline.com needs you to confirm access again to keep syncing with your account. Username: <foo>@hotmail.com". I do not know how to handle that.

I ran TB in troubleshooting mode and the problem was still there. I deleted the account and created it again but it did not help. I killed TB and restarted, no joy. I rebooted Windows (build 26200.8875), no help. I have a working hotmail account so I compared the Account Settings and Server Settings, they are identical. Both accounts can contact the Mail Server and I get the Certificate ok. I could add the hotmail email account to my Mail app on iPhone and iPad and that worked fine, so seems like a Windows Thunderbird issue. I tried changing the password of the account to the real password but then restarting TB I got an error message: "login.microsoftonline.com needs you to confirm access again to keep syncing with your account. Username: <foo>@hotmail.com". I do not know how to handle that.

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