Last weekend, I was looking back in my personal email archive, searching for a couple of e-mails I know I had archived. I couldn’t find them. Well, I could find one of them, and it was the most important one, so that’s fine, but I lost two other e-mails (and who knows how many others that I can’t recall right now but might need in the future). I don’t know what went wrong, but I had a feeling something had failed to synchronize.
Today, I ordered something online, and within minutes I got the usual confirmation of my order and a bit later the confirmation of my payment. I moved those two e-mails to my archive, subfolder ‘orders’. Then clicked on the orders folder itself. Lo and behold, only the order confirmation ended up in the archive folder. The confirmation of payment.. nowhere to be found. Eventually, I got that one back by repairing my inbox. So I uninstalled Thunderbird, logged into my webmail and moved the confirmation of payment message from my inbox to archive.
Turns out this is a bug from 18 years ago (reported here), that I encountered today.
Maybe it’s my age, but I just can’t be arsed to work around this, for example by moving only one message at a time. I might forget at some point in the future, and lose e-mails again. Uninstall it is.