Index Synchronization question

Runbox 7 Runbox 7 Webmail
#1

Normally I use RB6. While the interface is outdated, I find it works better and I prefer the interface to RB7. Once in a while (every month or 2) I will switch to RB7 to see if anything has changed.

Last week when I switched, it started to display emails from over a month ago. Emails that were removed from the server. I check my emails with Thunderbird in POP, so I do not keep emails on the server other than some sent emails. Anyhow, a whole bunch of emails that had long been downloaded using ThunderBird, showed up. (Not there in RB6). I was able to view them and everything. Then I guess when the Sync was over, they all disappeared and it showed me the emails that were still there.

How come those emails were still floating around somewhere? If I use TB to download the messages in POP, it gets deleted from the server. How come they showed up over a month later when RB7 did the sync? Granted they disappeared after, but before that happened, I was able to download and view the contents of those emails.

#2

Hello. The messages would most likely have been stored in the browser from the last time you used Runbox 7. Then as you say once Runbox 7 had done the sync with the server they were removed. It would be similar to using an email client that you hadn’t used for a while. When you first launch it again it would have all the old email and would then update and sync with the server. You can think of Runbox 7 as an app/client running in your browser as that is exactly what it is :slight_smile:

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