"MichaelEvangelista" <zionblue@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I use Windows Mail to manage several email accounts and dozens of news
> accounts. Since moving to Vista early last year, everything has seemed
> fine... until now.
>
> Starting a few days ago, Windows Mail will show new messages in a
> newsgroup (the account name is bold in the folders pane and has a blue
> number in parenthesis showing the number of new messages) BUT when I
> click the account name, the new messages do not download.
>
> What's odd... the little preview count at bottom left will show "xx
> messages, 0 unread', while the folders pane shows there are some
> unread, but won't display them!
> I did find a way to at least get the messages - if I right click the
> account name and select "catch up", the new messages will appear - but
> unless they are the newest by date, I can't tell which thread they
> were in, which renders it useless to try and find them.
That may mean that some of the messages in the newsgroup don't
have even the header downloaded yet, so they can't be displayed.
Click on that newsgroup, then Tools, then Get next 300 headers.
If it doesn't download all the missing headers, you may need to do
this a few more times.
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> Can anyone offer some help?
>
> As a side note, I noticed at the same time this started, my mail
> accounts' inbox is now grouping messages by title, with the little '+'
> box to expand ... I am 100% sure it never used to work this way... and
> I can't find a setting to turn that off.
>
> Is my WinMail hosed?
> Did I get some kind of 'auto update' that broke it, perhaps?
>
> I would seriously consider another email app if I can import my
> messages in all of their prospective folders and, just as importantly,
> all of my many message rules - any suggestions? ( will anything import
> Win Mail rules?)
>
> thanks for the much needed help!