When I delete an e-mail in Thunderbird, multiple copies of the deleted e-mail show up in my trash can. Why?
It only does it in my AOL mailbox, my .edu mailbox doesn’t do this.
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Are they all Thunderbird? Or do you have multiple browser clients that are deleting the same email?
I am only using Thunderbird to delete the emails. Is it possible that AOL is deleting a copy as well?
Just a stab in the dark guess, but how do you connect to your e-mail server? Is it via IMAP? Because when you delete an e-mail the e-mail server may delete it and put it in the deleted e-mails folder and at the same time Thunderbird may delete it and put it in there as well (that’s where it may move it to for example). I know this sort of thing is possible in Outlook with the sent e-mails (Outlook stores the sent e-mails somewhere, as does the GMail server automatically). Just a guess :)
@Skyrail It is IMAP, so that’s likely what is happening. I guess I can just over look it; I’d much rather have 2 copies in my trash than none at all.
Thanks.
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