Thunderbird Virginmedia

[stuart noble]

"Mark as read" doesn't seem to be working for me. I keep getting the same week old messages. Is it me, or are Virgin messing with the server again?

[Andy Burns]

All groups, or just one or two?

If the latter, right click, properties, "repair folder" on the affected ones(s)

[stuart noble]

Thanks Andy. It's all the groups but I'll try the repair option anyway

[Brian Gaff]

If you want just text groups, why not use a different server like Eternal September or similar. Brian

[stuart noble]

It may come to that, but Virgin is the devil I know :-)

[Lobster]

My TB/VM combo is doing it fine here... David

[The Natural Philosopher]

are you downloading again or just ereading again?

If you want read messages to 'disappear' use the view->threads->unread option

[stuart noble]

Yes, that is my default view. I'm still getting the odd few messages from 10th April with a "no such message" message if I click on them

[The Natural Philosopher]

well your history file will eventually catch up. Or virgins will.

[John Rumm]

Sounds like something has gone wrong with the message indexing... not uncommon on BM by many accounts

[Andy Burns]

Not unheard of from TB either, if messages have been cancelled between header collection and body download, when it does happen TB gives you a link to clear out all non-existant messages

[John Rumm]

Yup, that will also happen on very old messages that have been recently expired on the server.

[Mr Pounder]

I got pissed off with Virgin newsgroups not working a few months ago so I tried Eternal September. It is free and it always seems to work. I am crap with computers and had to play with the settings. No big deal. Just find out the settings to change before you do it. Brian will know. You can always go back to Virgin.

[stuart noble]

I'll give them another couple of days........... :-)

[Mr Pounder]

Okay. There are only a couple of settings to change anyway. I have them written down :-)

[GlowingBlueMist]

The good thing with Thunderbird is that you can have both news servers entered into it. That way you can use which ever one is working for you at that time.

I also grab a couple of the same groups from multiple news servers just to be able to compare the servers for message completeness. It's a little extra bandwidth downloading the same couple of groups twice but I can see right away which server or it's feeds are having problems.

[stuart noble]

VM has just spewed out another load of "no such article" stuff from April 10th. I might just try your suggestion tomorrow.