You have me, what do you expect Thunderbird to do? Stopping it is as easy as clicking the two blue icons in the bottom left of the screen, but that will not help in the long term until you answer the first question. What exactly is your expectation that is not being met?

Stupid answer Matt.What I expect is ThunderBird not to send me eight months worth of E-mails I've long ago deleted.I'ts just dumb! Obviously ,the current month would have been acceptable. If they know this problem exists, they should endeavor one of their programmers to write a fix!

But you said "archive" which I read as "kept deliberately", not "deleted".

If the account uses IMAP, and a folder is synchronized, then Thunderbird will show you its contents. If you really don't want to see particular folders, unsubscribe them.

Is this Gmail? Are you looking at the All Mail folder? I think you don't need it and I'd recommend unsubscribing it.

I used the word archive because I couldn't believe they could go back that far and then to make matters worse forward them to me.In any event, I was able to delete them quite easily after confering w/a friend!

Thunderbird downloads messages on your providers server. If it downloaded them, you have not deleted them from the server as you want to claim.

apachejoe said

Stupid answer Matt.What I expect is ThunderBird not to send me eight months worth of E-mails I've long ago deleted.I'ts just dumb! Obviously ,the current month would have been acceptable. If they know this problem exists, they should endeavor one of their programmers to write a fix!

It you had deleted the mail, it would not be on the server to download. It downloaded. Ipso facto it was not deleted.

I will say no more, I am being continually told if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing

Airmail said

Thunderbird downloads messages on your providers server. If it downloaded them, you have not deleted them from the server as you want to claim.

When I indicate delete in my options,The message is deleted from my messages permanently as far as I'm concerned!How to remove them from my server will remain a mystery,as I'm sure it is with you?

No mystery here.

Hi apachejoe,

Before Thunderbird started downloading those messages, had they been deleted using Thunderbird? From the same folder they are appearing in now?

Also, what's the domain name of the email address? Gmail? Yahoo? Hotmail?

I also get the impression that you think the people answering questions here are Mozilla employees or developers. They are not. This is a community forum for Thunderbird users to help each other.