Thunderbird - get all mails

J_B

Just swapped to a new PC - Installed Thunderbird 78 but my previous add-on 'get all mails' is no longer compatible!

I have five email accounts on TB I used to press the drop down arrow next to 'get messages' and select 'get all new messages' but sadly, that no longer works.

Shift/F5 does nothing. File / get new messages for all accounts, just checks Mrs B's account but not the other 4

Any suggestions?

alanwsg

Go to account settings,
Then, for each account, go to 'Server settings'
click 'Advanced'
check that 'include this server when getting mail' is selected.

BTW - you don't need to use the drop down arrow, you can just click the 'Get messages' button.

J_B

Thanks but .....

That option is only available to me if I want to d/l the messages to 'a different account' otherwise, it's greyed out. 🤷‍♂️

alanwsg

Oh right, I download the mails from all my accounts into the 'Local folders' file, so that works for me.
Don't know what you can do unless the author of 'get all mails' updates it.

stragglebod

Doesn't Thunderbird just get all messages as and when they come anyway? What purpose does this button actually serve?

J_B

alanwsg said:

Oh right, I download the mails from all my accounts into the 'Local folders' file, so that works for me.
Don't know what you can do unless the author of 'get all mails' updates it.

Hmm, but even the "File / Get New Messages For / All accounts" only downloads one account (Mrs B's account which is 2nd on the list!)

stragglebod said:

Doesn't Thunderbird just get all messages as and when they come anyway? What purpose does this button actually serve?

It's only ever got the messages when I've asked it to ... for each individual account.

That's what the button used to do.

ianto11

I use Thunderbird, I have 2 email accounts setup on it.  When I open TB, it automatically syncs first one account then the next to the one Inbox, and if I leave it open and a new email arrives it syncs that too.
So I don't know why yours doesn't do that ?

J_B

I use POP3 (and would like to continue to do so) don't know if that matters.

I just want TB to work like it's done in the many years that I've used it

alanwsg

J_B said:

alanwsg said:

Oh right, I download the mails from all my accounts into the 'Local folders' file, so that works for me.
Don't know what you can do unless the author of 'get all mails' updates it.

Hmm, but even the "File / Get New Messages For / All accounts" only downloads one account (Mrs B's account which is 2nd on the list!)

I just tried "File / Get New Messages For / All accounts" on my installation and it does the same as just clicking the "Get messages" button (I do have a couple of old accounts that don't have the  'include this server when getting mail' option set, they still didn't get downloaded).

ianto11

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/unify-your-pop-email-accounts-global-inbox

J_B

ianto11 said:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/unify-your-pop-email-accounts-global-inbox

Thanks, but that wants to put all messages in a 'global inbox' whereas I would prefer to keep them separate. 😊