DavidR
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I don’t see how that’s posible, yes it can delete infected emails (that you instruct it to delete), but it does this before the email reaches the email inbox and not within the inbox its self.
Have you checked where thunderbird stores email data and is there an inbox database there, is there more than one. Thunderbird may create a missing or corrupt inbox like OE does.
I would suggest that you check out the Thunderbird forums and see if there is some way of recovering a corrupted or deleted email database.
It is quite possible that your inbox became corrupted in some way, which happens at time with Outlook Express. My solutoin the the possible inbox corruption problem is not to store email for long periods in the inbox, having read them they are moved to a specific mailbox for that type of email, personal, newsletters, etc.