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Thunderbird won't download new email

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Up until today Thunderbird (v. 102.15.1) was working well. Today I found it was not downloading messages from my email server (Zoho). I tried many things to fix it, to no avail. Finally I restored everything from a full backup I had made a day previous when Thunderbird was working well. Thunderbird *still* doesn't work. Even test messages I send to myself are not downloaded.

When I click the button "Get Messages" normally it checks for and downloads all new messages. Now clicking it does nothing. If instead I click the down-arrow next to the button and choose "Get all new messages" it does check for new messages and claims to be downloading them, but they never appear in my mailbox.

I have Thunderbird (admittedly, a later version) installed on another computer and that continues to work fine, so the problem doesn't appear to be caused by the server.

What could be causing this behavior?

Up until today Thunderbird (v. 102.15.1) was working well. Today I found it was not downloading messages from my email server (Zoho). I tried many things to fix it, to no avail. Finally I restored everything from a full backup I had made a day previous when Thunderbird was working well. Thunderbird *still* doesn't work. Even test messages I send to myself are not downloaded. When I click the button "Get Messages" normally it checks for and downloads all new messages. Now clicking it does nothing. If instead I click the down-arrow next to the button and choose "Get all new messages" it does check for new messages and claims to be downloading them, but they never appear in my mailbox. I have Thunderbird (admittedly, a later version) installed on another computer and that continues to work fine, so the problem doesn't appear to be caused by the server. What could be causing this behavior?

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