I recently screwed up my PC (http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?t=87353) and have since replaced it. When I tried to access my e-mails (on eircom.net) with Thunderbird (v.1.0.7) on my new PC I can only retrieve e-mails sent in the past few days and not my previous e-mails, which I thought were stored on the eircom server. Also when I accessed my e-mail accounts using webmail only the unread e-mails and none of the old ones were in the account. Eircom tell me that Thunderbird downloads e-mails when they are read and deletes them from their server. I presume this is true?
I’ve a back-up of the HDD of my defunct PC (straight copy of the disk using LaCie back-up software). From what I can figure out, I need to retrieve mbox or .eml files but I can’t find them anywhere on the back-up disk. Any suggestions on where these files might be located? Also, is eircom actually correct in saying Thunderbird deletes e-mails from the server?
I’ve a back-up of the HDD of my defunct PC (straight copy of the disk using LaCie back-up software). From what I can figure out, I need to retrieve mbox or .eml files but I can’t find them anywhere on the back-up disk. Any suggestions on where these files might be located? Also, is eircom actually correct in saying Thunderbird deletes e-mails from the server?