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Thursday, April 20th, 2023 4:42 PM

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Problem Downloading Email

I can no longer download emails to my PC this morning.  Half way through this morning's download, I received the message, "The RETR command did not succeed.  Error retrieving a message.  Mail.comcast.net responded: Message 9 expunged."  So I'm stuck using webmail for now.  What can I do?  It looks like I'm trying to download a nonexistent message.  I'm still using SeaMonkey to download emails.

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OK -- I solved the problem -- it appeared to be on Comcast's end.  I found this article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1026836

It says to "change your Junk mail options to 'delete the email'" (in webmail).  However I didn't see any such option in Comcast, and my junk mail folder was empty.  So under, My Folders, I created a subfolder and named it "Test".  I moved all the emails under Inbox to the Test folder, and tried to download messages again.  No error this time.  So I moved 5 emails back to "Inbox", and successfully downloaded them.  I continued doing this 5 messages at a time, until there were no more under "Test", and was able to successfully download all of them.  Evidently the Comcast email server corrected the problem when I moved everything to the "Test" folder.  (Phew).

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