Thunderbird 1.0.7: was working fine, now isn't

Gorgonzola

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I retrieve my e-mail from my ISPs POP server using Thunderbird 1.0.7 and have had no problems for over 12months untill now.

I had 100 odd new messages to retrieve. Thunderbird got halfway through retrieving these messages and then started to chug on one of them for 30seconds or so. After this time I recieved the following error:

The RETR command did not succeed. Error retrieving a message. Mail server pop.netspace.net.au responded: Message is deleted.

If I login to my ISPs webmail I can access all new messages and there does not seem to be any problems. From the error message it sounds like it is trying to download a message that doesn't actually exist on the mail server anymore. How can I force it to skip this message?

Each time I load up Thunderbird, the first 1 or 2 tries to retrieve my mail will result in the error message above. If I try again it crashes Thunderbird with either no message at all or a generic windows error message.

I know others who use this same mail server and have no difficulty... what could have caused this? A corrupt message?
 

Gorgonzola

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I am now using Thunderbird 1.5 and the problem still exists. Any other ideas?

Has anyone else had this error before?
 

PurdueRy

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Does it happy with Outlook? If it does then something has changed with your settings that are needed to get it to work. See if your ISP had changed anything/