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Thunderbird and Yahoo mail not syncing

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mikebrittan
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Hi - I can't seem to delete from my Yahoo Mail via Thunderbird.

With Yahoo's new mailbox limits I wanted to clean up my Yahoo mail box and Yahoo obviously does not provide any decent tools to support search and delete.

I downloaded Thunderbird and despite several deletion attempts my Yahoo mailbox still shows 160,000 emails whilst my Thunderbird client only 9,000 - so when I delete it is not syncing.

Most emails are deleted from Thunderbird however some are now reappearing (in Thunderbird). No deletions from Thunderbird are reachign my Yahoo mail inbox, however I can send emails from Thunderbird and see the sent and received email in Yahoo and I can add folders in Thunderbird and see those folders in Yahoo.

I tried several things

- immeadiate delete in Thunderbird - moving the emails to a folder in Thunderbird and then deleting from that and then deleting the the folder - I check this article https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-yahoo and everything appears correct

I've had to pay for extra storage to get the code to make this post.

Mike

Hi - I can't seem to delete from my Yahoo Mail via Thunderbird. With Yahoo's new mailbox limits I wanted to clean up my Yahoo mail box and Yahoo obviously does not provide any decent tools to support search and delete. I downloaded Thunderbird and despite several deletion attempts my Yahoo mailbox still shows 160,000 emails whilst my Thunderbird client only 9,000 - so when I delete it is not syncing. Most emails are deleted from Thunderbird however some are now reappearing (in Thunderbird). No deletions from Thunderbird are reachign my Yahoo mail inbox, however I can send emails from Thunderbird and see the sent and received email in Yahoo and I can add folders in Thunderbird and see those folders in Yahoo. I tried several things - immeadiate delete in Thunderbird - moving the emails to a folder in Thunderbird and then deleting from that and then deleting the the folder - I check this article https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-yahoo and everything appears correct I've had to pay for extra storage to get the code to make this post. Mike

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mikebrittan
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anyone??

mikebrittan
mikebrittan Eieren av spørsmålet

Anyone can help?

Lin
Lin
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It's unclear to me what you've done so far. Some questions...

- When you set up the Yahoo account in Thunderbird, did you set it up as an IMAP account or POP3?

- Are you trying to preserve all the email that's currently on Yahoo's server, or is some of it expendable? If there is some you know you for sure don't want to keep, like what's in the Trash and Spam folders, delete it online.

If you are at or near their former storage limit of 20GB, any operations are likely to take a good while. And my experience with Yahoo is that they can be flaky, with intermittent time-outs and failures to connect. So, expect some hassle. Be patient.

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