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Cannot download email from POP account

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Judy
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I get the message: Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox.

I get the message: Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox.

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Matt
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do you have a third party anti virus program? That sounds like the sort of issue that arises when it is scanning your inbox while Thunderbird is trying to write to it.

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