Hotmail has been regarded stupid for many years, but I saw myself unable to not use hotmail (in thunderbird) due to 10 years of distributing my hotmail adres to about everything.

But recently thunderbird keeps loading all hotmail mails I ever had for unknown reason. The past week I have a copy of all my emails four times now. 4000 mails are pulled in every time. I can only assume the cause is an update or change in the hotmail service, and because hotmail doesn't allow emails being marked as read from a third party like thunderbird, it resends a note to thunderbird that 4000 new mails are waiting to be loaded. This is also not the first time it occurs, have been 2 or 3 times more in the past, but never as much as 4 copies.

Does anyone got a familiar problem? Otherwise I will have to convert everything to gmail. Oh dear.