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not all my folders are showing

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MarkVanLoock
MarkVanLoock

I am using Hotmail and have about 50 folders within the Inbox. These all appear online, on my iphone, and on the windows 10 mail client, but a handful of folders are missing when I use Thunderbird. I've set up Thunderbird on a couple of windows machines and the same folders are missing.

I've tried renaming the missing folders, but they still don't appear.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks.

I am using Hotmail and have about 50 folders within the Inbox. These all appear online, on my iphone, and on the windows 10 mail client, but a handful of folders are missing when I use Thunderbird. I've set up Thunderbird on a couple of windows machines and the same folders are missing. I've tried renaming the missing folders, but they still don't appear. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks.

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MarkVanLoock
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Hi, thanks for you reply. Sadly the folders do not appear when I hit refresh.

MarkVanLoock
MarkVanLoock Fraacheigener

Well, I went through the hotmail web interface and renamed every folder that wasn't appearing in Thunderbird, then from within Thunderbird I created new folders and used the hotmail web interface to move all the emails from the old folders to the new ones. I then deleted the old folders, and everything is now working as it should. Fingers crossed it won't happen again.

Matt
Matt
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Microsoft have never bothered to fix some serious bugs in their IMAP and POP implementations. Perhaps a motivating factor is they want you to buy outlook and use that as it does not use IMAP or POP. Instead a Microsoft proprietary protocol.

But regardless of the reasons the Microsoft IMAP implementation is quirky to put it nicely.

Celtmaidn
Celtmaidn

I've NEVER been accused of being nice to Microsoft/Windows/Hotmail/Live/Outlook.... for simplicity, let's call them 'Legion' ... if you catch the reference. They have ALWAYS been a total nightmare from .... well if you caught 'Legion', then you know. Would you like to see something scary? Sign into you 'Legion' account on the web then go here: https://outlook.live.com/mail/options/mail/brandsSubscriptions Some are ones YOU signed up for. Others are ones THEY signed you up for. Not a lot of people know about this little list in OUR email. Considering a switch to Gmail to end the nightmare.