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Having just read Mark Wilson's somewhat glowing report of Thunderbird 2, I would be interested to know if anyone is using it and if they have had problems with it.

I tried it when version 2 was first released and had several problems with it of which the most serious were that incoming messages appeared to be superimposed on each other and the other was that although I ticked the "Leave messages on server" option I found that suddenly one day all the messages in all the accounts on two different servers - I have two ISPs one in the UK and the other in France - had been deleted. I was able to sort out the "superimposition" of messages but could not find out what to do about having messages deleted that I wanted to keep, so I uninstalled it.

Since then I have read that losing messages is not an uncommon occurrence; one ex-Thunderbird user found that some 500 messages had been irretrievably deleted and as he was a computer engineer and the messages were from his customers this caused him no end of problems. Other Thunderbird users have, apparently, had similar problems.

Now that Thunderbird is Version 2.0.0.12 I am wondering if this problem has been sorted out and if it is worth giving it another try

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I was enjoying Thunderbird since December and then suddenly this morning it was wiped out, all settings gone! Lost everything and a pop-up box is now asking me to start from scratch. Back to Outlook Express...

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