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On Wed, 27 May 2009, Neil Winchurst wrote: > Thanks to all who have replied to this. Along the way I have learnt some > more about Thunderbird. > > I eventually found the answer to my problem. My ISP, with my permission, > has moved me, along with most/all of his clients, to a new, more > powerful, server. Apparently, this often causes problems with the > transfer of emails if the new system set up is not quite the same as the > old one. So I have lost all my old emails. Since I use IMAP they were > all on my web site. All I have now are those emails which arrived after > the change over. I can live with that. > > And there *was* a slight difference. On the old system my user name was > just my name, neil. The new system requires the user name to be the > actual email address, that is neil@address. I made this slight change > and it all now works. I had to add some sub folders and re-enable a > couple of filters, but that was easy. > > The may be useful to others on the list if they get moved across to a > new server at any time. I have to say - if an ISP moved my email to a new server and lost all my old email they would not be my ISP anymore... I have migrated all my clients from server to server over the years and not lost anything - occasionally a minor settings change, but never lost any data. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html