19 Oct 16 09:26, you wrote to Ed Vance:

 EV>> I had one big problem with Thunderbird when several thousand messages
 EV>> in the In-Box got cleared out after I compacted TB.

 HG> I never leave any amount of messages in the InBox. The most I've had
 HG> there where over 1700, after my ISP account had been idle four years,
 HG> but they were quickly cleared out. Now there are less than 10.

i use the filters prodigiously... when the emails come in, they are
shuffled off to their own folders... then i just use the "next unread
message" button at the top of the screen to go through them... emails
without filters remain in the inbox until i either create a filter and
folder for them or i delete them... so what if there's a bunch in there and
they've all been read... it is the unread ones that matter ;) ;) ;)

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Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin'
it wrong...
... I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
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