Comments on: Compressing my Thunderbird Inbox

By: C Wmson

C Wmson — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:16:29 +0000

I run Thunderbird on my G4 Mac with OS 10.3. Went to compress my InBox and everything in it has disappeared. All my emails that were not yet saved to a folder are gone. What is the safest way to try to get that back? Thanks for the help.

By: Pepperl Mustein

Pepperl Mustein — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:07:59 +0000

@Richard Eline: It is really sad, that you made this experience with Thunderbird and some Firefox plugins. I am happy with all the things you mention and they work absolutely perfect for me. I am always as wondering how anyone could live without adblockers and scriptblockers.

By: J E

J E — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:58:55 +0000

adblock works perfectly for me and so does thunderbird. have you checked it wasn’t an EBKAC error? (get some one else to check it as these are hard to self-diagnose)

By: Richard Eline

Richard Eline — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:43:55 +0000

I don’t know what you’re so proud of, Thunderbird is worthless.
Nearly impossible to access, stubborn and miserable to use, I will say it does well as a filter system, however, I cannot send mail from many sites contact places, the system refuses to send the mail.
I tried to send an email this morning-wouldn’t transmit, saved it to draft, can’t get to the page to try to send it by a system that will actually work.
My inbox might as well be a tomb, as I cannot get into it.
Firefox is good, your other systems stink on ice.
(btw, I installed your Adblock, it never blocked any ads, but it neatly disabled my spell check, gee, thanks, and be assured I will NEVER download any of your programs again).
You can do better.

By: Elliott Back

Elliott Back — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 07:38:24 +0000

File -> Compact folders does a pretty good job. It cut another 200mb off the compressed version!