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Why are most of my emails blocked?

stratrat
stratrat
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Almost all my incoming emails are blocked. They are common websites. It is getting old. The same emails come on my other mail client just fine...

Almost all my incoming emails are blocked. They are common websites. It is getting old. The same emails come on my other mail client just fine...

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I have no idea what that last post means. Is gmail your provider? Then they should be available first on the gmail server. That would be where Thunderbird downloads them from.

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user01229325
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Thunderbird has no provisions for blocking anything. It downloads messages that are in the Inbox on your providers server. If your other email client downloads them and does not leave them on the server for Thunderbird then you have your answer.

Are you using POP or IMAP?

stratrat
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Thanks Airmail. It is POP. Let me reword what I said: Most emails on Tbird are blocked. Then after I allow them to be read THEN they are available on gmail...

user01229325
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I have no idea what that last post means. Is gmail your provider? Then they should be available first on the gmail server. That would be where Thunderbird downloads them from.