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have profile on server and access from different pc's but get emails downloaded twice.

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howardrunge
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I have my Thunderbird profile located on a server. I than have a copy of Thunderbird located on 2 different PC's which are set to access the server based profile. Works great except that when I open the email on my 2nd machine it re-downloads all of my recent emails. I other words I get 2 copies of each email whether they have been read or not. Is there anyway to prevent the 2nd copies from being downloaded.

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Howard

I have my Thunderbird profile located on a server. I than have a copy of Thunderbird located on 2 different PC's which are set to access the server based profile. Works great except that when I open the email on my 2nd machine it re-downloads all of my recent emails. I other words I get 2 copies of each email whether they have been read or not. Is there anyway to prevent the 2nd copies from being downloaded. Thanks Howard

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duggabe
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Look at Account Settings -> Synchronization & Storage -> Message Synchronizing. Uncheck 'Keep messages for this account on this computer'