Please clarify. Your emails come first to your email host provider website where you can view messages online. Thunderbird then displays those messages after they arrive to the website.

I have an email account and a web hosting with a reliable service. I have noticed that from time to time some of my thunderbird emails transfer automatically to my website and appear in the 'posts' pages as 'pending'. The site admin email is different from my email address so in theory this should not be happening any suggestions?

You're saying that some messages are sent to your website and queued to be published as posts on a page?

To which address are those messages getting sent? What person or process is sending them?

How is Thunderbird involved?

The emails come to Thunderbird, first sit in my inbox and sometime at random, they transfer to my website as a pending post.

Understood. But we need more information.

How are the messages coming into Thunderbird? Is there more than one recipient of them? Are there sent messages in your sent folder? To which addresses were they sent? Are you using webmail or other e-mail clients? Do you have any message filters set?

How are the messages coming into Thunderbird? In the inbox

Is there more than one recipient of them? No Are there sent messages in your sent folder? To which addresses were they sent?

Are you using webmail or other e-mail clients? No

Do you have any message filters set? No

Sorry, I should have been more specific. What is the source of the messages that come to the Thunderbird inbox and that you believe then go to your website? Who sends them? Are they part of a publishing workflow?

You missed a couple questions: After one of these messages appears in your website post queue, is a copy of it in your sent folder in Thunderbird? To which address(es) were they sent? (Is the address for posting on your website among them?)

After one of these messages appears in your website post queue, is a copy of it in your sent folder in Thunderbird? No, the mails disappear completely from thunderbird

To which address(es) were they sent? (Is the address for posting on your website among them?) They were sent to my normal email - ben@eagle.ca I have an email account in thunderbird for be@burdreport.ca and the emails from that account are not affected.

Note 1. The admin email for the website is ben@burdreport, but used to be ben@eagle.ca When the problem first occurred I changed it and the problem still persists 2. Both the website and the email account is hosted at eagle.ca, I believe that there may some cross contamination on that server but want to check if anybody could find thunderbird at fault. 3. This is a complete mystery as there is no regularity to the problem and I cannot find a 'trigger'

Are these the facts? —

• A message addressed to ben@eagle.ca arrives in the Thunderbird inbox.
• Soon after, that message appears in the posting queue on your website.
• Then that the message disappears from Thunderbird. It is not in the inbox. No sent copy is in the sent folder.

Do the messages really disappear from Thunderbird? Are they in the trash?

I do not know a reason to believe that Thunderbird has anything to do with what is happening. I suspect that you did not actuallly change the address for posting on your website, so the messages are going both to your Thunderbird inbox and your website queue. Was the admin address the right one to change? Is there another address that must be changed?

But I am mostly guessing. I have not used this kind of publishing workflow, so I do not know how messages would be affected. In any case, is there any evidence that Thunderbird is doing anything other than receiving a message (and maybe holding it in the trash after a process somewhere else deletes it -- maybe you deleting it from the somewhere on your website?)?

Maybe someone else knows more.

Are these the facts? —

A message addressed to ben@eagle.ca arrives in the Thunderbird inbox. Soon after, that message appears in the posting queue on your website. Then that the message disappears from Thunderbird. It is not in the inbox. No sent copy is in the sent folder. Yes but not all the emails do this - it is very random

Do the messages really disappear from Thunderbird? Are they in the trash? No

I really appreciate tour views on this and I also think that it may not be a Thunderbird problem as well it does not hurt to check everything - thanks ben burd

You could test Thunderbird's role by closing Thunderbird, sending a message to the account in question, and seeing if it appears in the posting queue.

I could do that but because of the irregularity and randomness of the occurrence it may not be a true test. I will observe and try to discover the trigger ben

Are these the facts? — Yes but not all the emails do this - it is very random Do the messages really disappear from Thunderbird? Are they in the trash? No

Is there more to know about the source of the messages? You did not answer my question about it. Do messages from Source A go to the posting queue, but not messages from other sources? What differentiates the messages that go to the posting queue?

What do you do with messages in the posting queue? You delete them? Could that me an instant/permanent deletion, so the messages never appear in the trash?

I could do that but because of the irregularity and randomness of the occurrence it may not be a true test. I will observe and try to discover the trigger ben

It must occur only once to show that Thunderbird is not involved.

Is there more to know about the source of the messages? You did not answer my question about it. Do messages from Source A go to the posting queue, but not messages from other sources? What differentiates the messages that go to the posting queue? As the emails are from various sources no common theme I cannot answer this question, I will search for a common element when it happens again

What do you do with messages in the posting queue? You delete them? Could that me an instant/permanent deletion, so the messages never appear in the trash? the emails in the posting queue go from thunderbird to the website and leave no trace in thunderbird I delete them from the posting queue as part of website maintenance

I have not heard any evidence that messages go from Thunderbird to the queue. Messages do not send themselves, delete themselves, and delete their sent copies. Thunderbird only shows what is on your server. Something is happening outside Thunderbird.

That's what I think too thanks ben