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Why do emails do not download automatically?

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Thunderbird is set to download emails on starting and every five minutes, but it doesn't do that, I have to click on "get messages".

Thunderbird is set to download emails on starting and every five minutes, but it doesn't do that, I have to click on "get messages".

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AlanClark said
...After downloading manually it goes back to normal operation.

Bug reports have been filed on this issue. Some, not all, users experience this problem. A manual request for mail seems to start the auto-downloads again.

TB-38.2 Win10-PC

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You have to go into Account Settings and under Server Settings there is a checkbox 'automatically download new messages'. You can change when it check your messages to download them.

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That box is checked and always been.

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That box is checked and always has been.

It seems to happen when I have put the computer to sleep (Windows 10). After downloading manually it goes back to normal operation.

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AlanClark said
...After downloading manually it goes back to normal operation.

Bug reports have been filed on this issue. Some, not all, users experience this problem. A manual request for mail seems to start the auto-downloads again.

TB-38.2 Win10-PC