Yvonne -- I checked my settings under Gmail in Thunderbird and I do not find anything that would delete emails in both places. BUT---- When I go to Gmail on the web I did find the problem, I think -- MAYBE. :-) Open your Gmail account on the internet To the right of your Gmail screen, shows an icon for settings (like a lug nut?) Click on it and then click on settings in that list At the top are different links Click on the Forwarding and POP/IMAP link I use the IMAP, so under that section is an option: When I mark a message in IMAP as deleted: It had the Auto-Expunge on - Immediately update the server (Default) I changed it to Auto-Expunge off - Wait for the client to update the server. Now, since I do not use the POP, I cannot see the options for that, but if you use POP, then check and see if there is a similar option. I also find in IMAP When a message is marked as deleted and expunged from the last visible IMAP folder: the option is to Archive the message (default). Hope I have written all these things correctly. I have a tendency to go to fast sometimes. I am going to check that and see if I can find the ones that were deleted before. Will let you know what happens with my settings. By the way - I like the Heck a doodle saying. I may use it. Joy On 1/24/2013 9:19 PM, Yvonne Strong wrote: > Hi Joy, > > Well, I guess "Too Bad" - it sure is. I would think maybe that > something that you and I are doing is just not quite correct here. I > wonder if it has something to do with Account Settings? I set up RR > again tonight. But I hesitate to use it as my default email - > Thunderbird tells me it is not secure - something to do with encryption. > > This has not been the computer month for me. Two crashes with my old > computer and a bad technician plus a new computer. Oh "Heck a Doodle" > as my auntie used to say. > > Let me know how you come out. > > Yvonne > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > On 1/24/2013 9:08 PM, Joy Gulden wrote: >> When I deleted emails in Thunderbird, thinking they would remain on the >> Gmail website, I lost them all in both places. So, I guess if you >> delete them in either place, it looks as if you will lose them in both. >> Too bad!! Joy >>

Check your settings in gmail and make sure the box is checked that leaves a copy of the message in gmail when POP'd to your T'bird email program. Once the email has left gmail without this box being checked it is gone forever from gmail. On 25/01/2013 2:12 PM, Joy Gulden wrote: > Yvonne -- > > I checked my settings under Gmail in Thunderbird and I do not find > anything that would delete emails in both places. > > BUT---- > When I go to Gmail on the web I did find the problem, I think -- MAYBE. > :-) > > Open your Gmail account on the internet > To the right of your Gmail screen, shows an icon for settings (like a > lug nut?) > Click on it and then click on settings in that list > At the top are different links > Click on the Forwarding and POP/IMAP link > I use the IMAP, so under that section is an option: > When I mark a message in IMAP as deleted: > It had the Auto-Expunge on - Immediately update the server (Default) > > I changed it to Auto-Expunge off - Wait for the client to update the > server. Now, since I do not use the POP, I cannot see the options for > that, but if you use POP, then check and see if there is a similar option. > > I also find in IMAP > When a message is marked as deleted and expunged from the last visible > IMAP folder: > the option is to Archive the message (default). > > Hope I have written all these things correctly. I have a tendency to go > to fast sometimes. > > I am going to check that and see if I can find the ones that were > deleted before. Will let you know what happens with my settings. > By the way - I like the Heck a doodle saying. I may use it. Joy > > On 1/24/2013 9:19 PM, Yvonne Strong wrote: >> Hi Joy, >> >> Well, I guess "Too Bad" - it sure is. I would think maybe that >> something that you and I are doing is just not quite correct here. I >> wonder if it has something to do with Account Settings? I set up RR >> again tonight. But I hesitate to use it as my default email - >> Thunderbird tells me it is not secure - something to do with encryption. >> >> This has not been the computer month for me. Two crashes with my old >> computer and a bad technician plus a new computer. Oh "Heck a Doodle" >> as my auntie used to say. >> >> Let me know how you come out. >> >> Yvonne >> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >> On 1/24/2013 9:08 PM, Joy Gulden wrote: >>> When I deleted emails in Thunderbird, thinking they would remain on the >>> Gmail website, I lost them all in both places. So, I guess if you >>> delete them in either place, it looks as if you will lose them in both. >>> Too bad!! Joy >>> > > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >