Subject Re: thunderbird - repeated false new posts? From roy price <royprice@royprice.name> Date Mon, 03 May 2021 20:41:11 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Mervyn Bick Wrote: > On 2021/05/03 09:45, Gaetano D. wrote: > > > > For the last 2-3 days, I  have had daily notifications of new posts > > (bold characters for the folder name) but there are actually no new > > posts - has anyone else noticed the same thing? > > I'm using Thunderbird 78.10.0 (32-bit) with Windows 10 Pro, 64-bit, > version 20H2 and I haven't seen this. > > What I have seen is some duplicate messages in this newsgroup (about 5 > hours apart in each case) from Roy Price who uses Web-News to post. > There have also been a couple of messages from him with quoted text but > no new text. > > I haven't dug too deeply into Thunderbird's capabilities (I'm happy with > the present set up so I'm letting sleeping dogs lie. :-) ) but there may > be a setting to discard duplicate messages.  This could explain why the > folder name is in bold but there is nothing to read. > > If you are seeing the problem in other newsgroups then a reinstall of > Thunderbird may be called for. > > What I have seen in the past is that if I try to read a new post > immediately after Thunderbird has opened but before it has, presumably, > finished its background housekeeping then the message is blank. > Checking in Web-News shows the message actually has content, it's just > the local copy that is empty. > > I've now learned to be a bit more patient when Thunderbird first opens. :-) > > Mervyn. > I read this post and see my name, as using Web-News. Should I be using something else.? Regards Roy Price