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incoming email stopped

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Hi. My email comes in to my iphone, then by hotspot to my desktop. (and also to my macbook pro and other phone) The emails have now stopped coming into my desktop Thunderbird. They do come into desktop Outlook (which I don't want) My Thunderbird emails have been successfully coming into my desktop for many years. Please help me get my Thunderbird emails back to my desktop. Thanks. Don Santin cazdon@hotmail.com

Hi. My email comes in to my iphone, then by hotspot to my desktop. (and also to my macbook pro and other phone) The emails have now stopped coming into my desktop Thunderbird. They do come into desktop Outlook (which I don't want) My Thunderbird emails have been successfully coming into my desktop for many years. Please help me get my Thunderbird emails back to my desktop. Thanks. Don Santin cazdon@hotmail.com

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Make sure Thunderbird is set up as the default email client on the desktop.


re :They do come into desktop Outlook (which I don't want) .

Stop Outlook from running. It might be set up as the default email client and also set up to auto start up minimised when you start up computer and set up to be running in the background. The link below has information which sounds like this is what is going on.

How to change which apps auto run on startup:

But if you really do not want Outlook to access emails even if you do start it up, then remove the account from Outlook.