Mail Disappears From Inbox!
So I'm running the Thunderbird mail client on Uruk. Mail is set to IMAP, and downloads from Xfinity just fine.
THEN, I opened my mail in my old Apple macbook to check for something. It downloads a few current emails. (Also IMAP).
Later I return to my mail client on my Uruk OS computer, and all my inbox email are gone.
How is that possible? WHY would it happen?
Thanks for any insights.
- Zem
If it only happens after checking mail from your proprietary email program perhaps that seems to point the finger in that direction. Before you say "but I can still see them in the proprietary program", keep in mind that the messages that appear in that proprietary program don't necessarily have to even exist on the mail server anymore.
Other people using proprietary software seem to have similar problems, like https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8231116
But, really, the best solution is: Don't use proprietary software. My hope is that you're using Trisquel because you're on the way into software freedom and away from proprietary junk.
Yep, heading out of proprietory for sure. Some files and folders were the old capple laptop.
On 2020-07-19 01:30+0200, name at domain wrote:
> THEN, I opened my mail in my old Apple macbook to check for something.
> It downloads a few current emails. (Also IMAP).
>
> Later I return to my mail client on my Uruk OS computer, and all my
> inbox email are gone.
>
> How is that possible? WHY would it happen?
Often mail clients delete the mail from the server *after* retrieval.
This is to reduce you mailbox size at the remote server. You often have
a quota, if you go over that quota then mail bounces. Spammers get wind
of this and use the desired recipient as the 'mail from' and send mail
to your over flowing account. The mail can't get delivered due to quota,
and the innocent person in the 'mail from' gets the spam content. This
is called back scatter spam.
The Apple client is probably removing mail when it is downloaded to
reduce mailbox size.
Ed