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We had Netscape for our mail then switched to Thunderbird. We download the new e-mails on one computer (shared on our network) and every one can see them. If any one download the e-mail only the new messages were dowloaded. Something has changed and if any one start downloading the new messages all the messages on the server will be duplicated on the main computer again and again.
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Inappropriate?Am I to understand that your e-mail profile is on a shared directory, and accessed by multiple thunderbird installs on different computers?1 Comment
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Yes you are right and it was working fine. Then for no reason when a different computer starts to get the new e-mails instead of downloading only the new messages (as usual) it starts to download whatever available on the internet provider's server. I repeat we were fine with Netscape and fine withe Thunderbird but it is happening recently. -
Inappropriate?I found the same problem when I tried to leave the emails on the server in the hope they wouldn't be destroyed by the software but then I discovered that every PC on which thunderbird was running would download its own version of the email.
All in all, someone clearly forgot about fairly ordinary households where we have a network drive and share PCs and so we have to be able to use any PC in the household to access the same email.
I’m Very annoyed
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It is in no way "fairly ordinary" for people to share an mbox over a network disk. mbox was never designed for that. Your other thread about sharing an mbox over a network drive for multiple installs of Thunderbird to access concurrently was the first of it's kind here. That doesn't indicate "ordinary" or "common" to me.
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Inappropriate?I think this is the generation gap speaking. I'm a family man with teenage children and it is common in my generation to have to share PCs and for each person in a family to have their own email.
OK, you might be in the single generation, with one PC per person which doesn't yet have to juggle fit in your PC access between the social aspiration of your children, but when you've got children, you'll thank me for getting you to sort out this problem so that you WILL BE ABLE TO READ YOUR EMAIL (on the odd machine that isn't being used by the hoards of teenagers and their friends.)
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Hello, I initiated the request to solve the doubling problem as we have one PC per user and every one has a program installed but all of us used to see the same Inbox of the company. Something happened and we do not know why it starts to repeat downloaded messages for every user . We found a solution, if one of the users (called user 1) wants to see or to down load the new e-mail without asking the main user (can call him server), User 1 has to: go to TOOLS then ACCOUNT SETTINGS then SERVER SETTINGS then ADVANCED at the left hand side then mark GLOBAL INBOX like that the new e-mails only will be downloaded in the PC of user1 and still the user called Server can down load the new e-mails at his own will. The best that User 1 when he sends a mail it will be saved in sent of Server as normal. After seeing the new e-mails and sending out whatever is necessary User one go back to the same steps and chooses Inbox for this server account.
Hope that this solution is helpful but it raises another question about the advanced options where they seem mixed and not functioning as it should be especially when you find the bottom box active saying include this server. -
Inappropriate?Hi Lenzie and S. Saleh:
I am a father too! There are many file sharing alternatives and ways to share accounts on Windows. What seems to work best to have separate Windows userids for your children so they can't see your email.
Some suggestions that may help are here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird...
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Secondary_a...
I’m hopeful that this helps
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