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The archived messages keep showing up in the active folders. Why?

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Eric
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I tried to archive today. All was going well and then I noticed that the folders I had archived suddenly started to show new messages (pre 10/1/2017). So I archived them ... again. Suddenly again the folder showed new messages in the dates I'd just archived. As fast as I can archive them, the messages return. If I leave this alone I predict that all that I archived will be returned as unread messages.

I would guess that these are coming from the att.net archives but I've read all of those either in Thunderbird or the online reader.

I tried to archive today. All was going well and then I noticed that the folders I had archived suddenly started to show new messages (pre 10/1/2017). So I archived them ... again. Suddenly again the folder showed new messages in the dates I'd just archived. As fast as I can archive them, the messages return. If I leave this alone I predict that all that I archived will be returned as unread messages. I would guess that these are coming from the att.net archives but I've read all of those either in Thunderbird or the online reader.

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Eric
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The problem still exists. Does anyone support still Thunderbird?

I tried to add mail from the server. All went reasonably well at first. Then it started reading the messages that I had archived. It's still doing this. It's now added almost 500 messages that had already been archived.

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Zenos
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You mentioned AT&T. So this is yahoo account?

POP or IMAP?

What's your motivation for doing this archiving? I use the archive function to keep my working folders down to a manageable size. Sometimes users say "archive" when they are really wanting a backup. Sometimes users use archive to release space on a server, not understanding that in an IMAP-connected account, it's all on the server and no space is actually released.

I don't (can't) use AT&T and I choose not to use yahoo, so I can't offer any insights based on personal experience. It may be that what you're seeing is an artefact of the way yahoo or AT&T run things. Depending on your reason for archiving, it may be that making an archive on your local disk would be more effective.

Eric
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Yes, a yahoo account.

I used to archive my message simply to keep things tidy, I created a year ad then in Jan I'd archive the prior year Jan-June. Then in July I'd archive the rest.

This just plain doesn't work anymore since as soon as I get rid of the messages, yahoo downloads them. Today I simply tried to mark them as "Read". Suddenly they started back again. I now have 4 copies of each 2017 message,

HELP!