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All 3 of my email accounts deleted when I tried to bulk delete some emails on my thunderbird email account

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I was bulk deleting some emails on my thunderbird account yesterday. I clicked on delete and a message came up saying that I needed to empty the deleted folder. I did this and from then on, all 3 of my email accounts have disappeared. Only one is a thunderbird account; the other 2 are hosted on different servers.

I was bulk deleting some emails on my thunderbird account yesterday. I clicked on delete and a message came up saying that I needed to empty the deleted folder. I did this and from then on, all 3 of my email accounts have disappeared. Only one is a thunderbird account; the other 2 are hosted on different servers.

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Many people come here asking how to remove accounts and have to be guided through several steps. Deleting an account is not something you can do by mistake.

I suggest that you might have set to view only read messages or similar. Check |Folders is set to "All".

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I don't have access to folders to perform set to all as suggested above. When I click on the email icon on my laptop I get a screen with the following words - email chat newsgroups feeds movemail. If I click on any of those, it tells me that I don't have an account set up. I can send and receive emails on my iPad and iPhone.