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Some emails keep reapearing after they have been deleated from the inbox, as many as 5 times.

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After deleting from the inbox some emails reappear in the inbox in 1 to 3 hours. When I look in the trash they are in there multiple times with the same received time. It seems to always be my Hotmail account.

After deleting from the inbox some emails reappear in the inbox in 1 to 3 hours. When I look in the trash they are in there multiple times with the same received time. It seems to always be my Hotmail account.

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Reappearing emails can mean that the folder maybe corrupted.

If you don't compact your folders regularly, performance can slow to a crawl, you can't store new messages anymore, start losing parts of messages or have deleted messages resurrected.


Move all good emails out of the Inbox into other suitable folders for organising. If the Inbox is corrupted, it may not be possible for TB to work out where the end of a 'marked as deleted' email actually ends, so you may lose good emails, hence why I say move them first.

right click on 'Inbox' and select 'Compact'. This will remove all traces of marked as deleted emails.

Read info on compacting, what it does and why it is important. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compacting-folders?esab=a&s=compacting&r=0&as=s