Firefox claims I got unread email...

...but I DON'T!!!

Published on January 17, 2006 By Thomas Thomassen In Personal Computing

In Firefox 1.5 under the Tools menu, one of the items is "Read Mail". However, mine says "Read Mail (3 New)". I click it and it opens Thunderbird which is my email client, but there is no new email there. Does anyone know why Firefox just randomly claim I got new email?

Comments

Double Zero

on Jan 17, 2006

All I could suggest is doing a clean "Reinstallation" of FF... I have the same set-up running with no issues...FF 1.5 and Thunderbird...

sweetasman01

on Jan 17, 2006

I have got 11, and i dont even have a email client installed!!!! I removed express so it doesnt count

_02

on Jan 17, 2006

Don't feel bad. Mine says I have 233 new emails. Maybe it's because I don't use Thunderbird?

Reppiks

on Jan 17, 2006

When I was using 1.0, it said I had 1 email, did a clean install of 1.5, says the same thing. It's probably postage due anyhow!

thomassen

on Jan 18, 2006

So,.. basically,... this is some evil trickery designed to make us inspect every little bit in the computer to find these alleged unread emails? hmpfh! ... or perhaps it's a puzzle! With a secret price to whoever solves it! ah ha!

jebro

on Jan 18, 2006

Try this:
Exit Thunderbird.
Go to Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\apI60ezk.default\Mail\The name of your account\ and delite "inbox.msf"

Do not delete the file just named inbox (with no filename extension), as it contains your messages.

Then restart Thunderbird. It will analyze your message file and rebuild the index file from your existing messages, which might take a while if you have a large number of messages in the folder.

Hope this will help.

However, I got rid of the same problem when I delited Outlook Express.

thomassen

on Jan 18, 2006

I found the solution! http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1104280

but not secret price...

jebro

on Jan 19, 2006

I think I had 0,5 right. Half of the price?

thomassen

on Jan 19, 2006

Sure. In fact have it all. Here:

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