I believe you are mistaken. You need to specifically instruct Thunderbird to import settings to get it to talk to another email client. And at present the import from the Outlook client is broken.

Find your Thunderbird profile, delete it or rename it then restart Thunderbird and you'll find it starts afresh.

G'day,

I reckon that I found the problem, all my own fault, of course - we'll I'll accept part of the blame. Looks like I might have tried this client out [thunderbird] several years ago and when it was removed I didn't delete the profile - obviously it didn't ask/warn me either !

I'll give it another try later - with the profile removed first, a clean sheet.... :-))

Bob

Outlook does not tell you it did not delete your PST file either.... nor would you be happy if it did. While perhaps not expected, the reverse would see more support calls I think.

G'day Guys,

OK, yes the ancient profile still existed - it would be beneficial on uninstall if this situation was highlighted, the opportunity to remove the profile would have been helpful.

As it happened, on reinstall, with Yahoo mail data, TB went away to download the first of 152 emails - but only that one, seven times.... :-))

Not really suitable it seems for my purpose.

thanks for your help, Bob

Multiples of the same email are common with Norton's anti virus, and when their is a corrupt email stored on the server.

Norton's fix is turn off email scanning until the mail download complete and turn it back on. My fix it turn it off and leave it off. It does not scan Yahoo mail anyway.

For the corrupt email, usually it is not the email that is duplicating, but the next one in the list. Usually occurs only with POP mail accounts and the offender is usually spam that is malformed in some way. Cure is log in using a browser and empty the spam folder and if that does not fix it judicious deletion of a couple of mails in the inbox... or moving of them to a folder other than inbox.

G'day Matt,

no norton here..... :-)) precious little spam via Yahoo as well !

I ended up going to Outlook Express, as it was spare to requirements - at least I'm familiar with how it works ! Which seems to be working OK except for a few old emails it stalled on as well, all with attachments.

"crook" ones moved to another folder on the server, as you indicate, and it was happy. It did not download multiples of the same email though like TB and resumed from where it left off on restart.

So far so good, much easier driving Yahoo mail locally than via their mail interface.

cheers, Bob

You are asking for trouble using;

• Outlook Express. (no support of years now, like 5)
• Eudora (Abandoned by it's makers entirely)
• Windows mail (discontinued from just this July IIRC)

All three popular, all three a problem waiting to happen. A bit like Windows XP really.