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My POP email account stopped receiving messages after a server upgrade. Sending works fine. I had another account on this server that also stopped receiving messages (sending also worked fine) and I had to delete the account and start over, which fixed the problem, but this second account has thousands of messages filed in 50 folders and I do not want to lose any of the information, so how do I fix this without deleting the account?

Many thanks.

My POP email account stopped receiving messages after a server upgrade. Sending works fine. I had another account on this server that also stopped receiving messages (sending also worked fine) and I had to delete the account and start over, which fixed the problem, but this second account has thousands of messages filed in 50 folders and I do not want to lose any of the information, so how do I fix this without deleting the account? Many thanks.

Asịsa ahọpụtara

Account 9 - westportnow.com:110

Account 13 - mail.westportnow.com:110

Different server names.

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Check your firewall and see if it is blocking the new version of Thunderbird. They have a habit of doing that. The firewall should have Thunderbird set as allow or always depending on the terminology they use.

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This happened before I updated TB and were the only two accounts affected. Nothing changed other than the server being upgraded from PLESK 11 to PLESK 12.

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Then I would suggest that you get a current list of server settings from your provider and see if any of the settings in Thunderbird need updating.

Have you compared the settings for the account that works with the one that does not?

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Yes, I checked everything, re-entered the password info on the server. One account now works once I deleted it and re-did it, the other does not work and I would like a solution that doesn't involve deleting this huge account. The admin that hosts our server does not know why the accounts stopped receiving (but not sending) as the settings did not change.

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You could post your troubleshooting info and see if someone can spot a setting that needs changing.

In the Help menu is Troubleshooting Information. Click that and then select Copy Text to Clipboard

Uncheck the box to include account names

Paste that info into a reply box here.

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The problem account is ACCOUNT 9 -- ACCOUNT 13 is the other account on the same server, which I fixed by deleting and adding back.

Application Basics
   Name: Thunderbird
   Version: 31.0
   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0
   Profile Folder: Show Folder
             (Local drive)
   Application Build ID: 20140717165725
   Enabled Plugins: about:plugins
   Build Configuration: about:buildconfig
   Memory Use: about:memory
 Mail and News Accounts
   account2:
     INCOMING: account2, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext
   account6:
     INCOMING: account6, , (pop3) pop.optonline.net:110, plain, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: mail.optonline.net:587, plain, passwordCleartext, true
   account8:
     INCOMING: account8, , (pop3) webmail.newheadings.com:110, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: webmail.newheadings.com:587, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext, true
   account9:
     INCOMING: account9, , (pop3) westportnow.com:110, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: mail.westportnow.com:587, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext, true
   account11:
     INCOMING: account11, , (pop3) mail.cortinalearning.com:110, plain, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: mail.cortinalearning.com:2525, plain, passwordCleartext, true
   account12:
     INCOMING: account12, , (pop3) mail.leefleming.com:110, plain, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: mail.leefleming.com:2525, plain, passwordCleartext, true
   account13:
     INCOMING: account13, , (pop3) mail.westportnow.com:110, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordEncrypted
     OUTGOING: mail.westportnow.com:587, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext, true
   account14:
     INCOMING: account14, , (imap) mail.infopulsellc.com:143, plain, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: mail.infopulsellc.com:2525, plain, passwordCleartext, true
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   http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-7e87372d-7ee9-47bf-b601-38b612140710 (7/10/2014)
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   Manually sort folders, 1.1, true, tbsortfolders@xulforum.org
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     extensions.lastAppVersion: 31.0
     font.internaluseonly.changed: true
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     Vendor ID: 0x10de
     Device ID: 0x0a6a
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     Adapter Drivers: nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
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     Driver Date: 8-29-2013
     Direct2D Enabled: true
     DirectWrite Enabled: true (6.2.9200.16571)
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     WebGL Renderer: false
     GPU Accelerated Windows: 2/2 Direct3D 10
     AzureCanvasBackend: direct2d
     AzureSkiaAccelerated: 0
     AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: cairo
     AzureContentBackend: direct2d
 JavaScript
 Incremental GC: 1
 Accessibility
   Activated: 0
   Prevent Accessibility: 0
 Library Versions
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     Version in use
     NSPR
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     4.10.6
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     3.16.2 Basic ECC
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     NSS S/MIME
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Asịsa Ahọpụtara

Account 9 - westportnow.com:110

Account 13 - mail.westportnow.com:110

Different server names.