Junk email disappears from Hotmail after downloading

I use Thunderbird & I download the mail onto my local machine using POP3. Normal mails are moved to "Deleted" folder on Hotmail after I have downloaded them.

I have been facing this problem from some time now. I receive junk messages supposedly from Microsoft asking me to confirm my account or click the url to authenticate myself. Obviously all these are junk & phishing mails.

When I download them, these mails disappears from Hotmail account altogether. Can't find them in any of the folders so it's not possible for me to block them or mark them as Junk. Is it possible to send such kind of mails ? If yes, how ?

 

Is this the answer?

 

No. I can see all other emails except the mails that I want to mark as Junk.

 

That's what I'm trying to do but after I have downloaded these mails, they just disappear from my Hotmail web site.

 

Never used Thunderbird, but is there a place in it to leave mail on the server like there was in OE and there is in Windows Live Mail? That needs to be done if there is.

 

When the mails are downloaded all other mails, except these mails, go into "deleted" folder on Hotmail web site. It seems they are employing some mechanism to delete themselves permanently.

 

Have you checked ALL your settings in TB Account and Options? cache space - time to delete email?

 

Now I have set the time to delete to 5 days from 0. Let's see if it helps.

 

My problem is that I can see some junk emails & not others in my Hotmail deleted folders. I am not bothered if MS stops updates to junk filters. If I can "see" the mail, I can mark it as Junk.