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I'm using Thunderbird 140.6.0esr under 64-bit LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) v6.0, fully up to date with patches.

Last night, Thunderbird was working justfine when I switched the PC off. This morning, when I try to collect mail, I get a dialog box with the message

Unable to write the e-mail to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox.

I have multiple Terabytes free on the drive, and I have gone through a full file listing and checked all the file attributes. Yes, I have write access.

Just to be sure, I ran a chown against the entire ~/thunderbird directory (~/.thunderbird is a logical link) so I own ~/thunderbird and everything beneath.

I also ran a fsck on the drive, and fsck gave it a clean bill of health - no errors reported. This was just a normal fsck, not including a badblocks check, although I did run badblocks against the drive when I got it new, about two months ago.

I am out of ideas. I suppose I could try running TB with a sudo, but I'm not really happy with doing that routinely.

Does anybody have any ideas? . Thanks,

Brian.

Thunderbird 140.6.0esr (64-bit) does not highlight the open message in the list. There is no indication of which message in the list I'm currently viewing, the it used to be. I like to have that instant recognition.

Of course there is no category for general concerns, so category choice is wrong by default, sorry about that.

The recent "year in review" included this attached bit. Does that mean that the Mozilla foundation is deciding to not allocate any of their overall revenue to Thunderbird and rely solely on user donations for it? If so, why does it own/manage Thunderbird? To me the entire purpose of an entity like Mozilla managing a project like Thunderbird is like most companies, to be able to allocate extra revenue from more lucrative projects to ones that are less so. Seems that the userbase of a project you own doesn't matter, money^s somehow better allocated to stuff that nobody asked for?

I sent out an E-mail invitation to some thirty friends. The E-mail had the invitation attached. Of those, perhaps fifteen (one half+/-) were received. What went wrong? If I did something wrong, what was it so I don't do it again. Thank you for your help. John La Farge

Bonjour,

J'envoie, depuis une mailing liste d'OVH, un mail présentant l'aspect suivant : une image encadrée (cf: PJ) Lorsque je le réceptionne avec Thunderbird, seule l'image apparait (cf: PJ)

Le code source de cette dernière montre que le code html du cadrage est présent. Un réglage bloque la lecture de l'html ?

Que se passe-t-il ? Merci de votre aide.

I am able to receive but not send messages. I get an error (photo included), sometimes it asks me to sign in again and then the error appears.

Running Thunderbird(78.14.0)/Firefox with Windows 8.1. Purchased a new computer and I would like the Email to be working before switching. Pop account. Application Basics Name Thunderbird Version 78.14.0 Build ID 20210901192859 Distribution ID Update Folder C:\ProgramData\Mozilla\updates\8216C80C92C4E828 Update History Update Channel release User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 OS Windows_NT 6.3 Application Binary C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe Profile Folder (Local drive) Build Configuration about:buildconfig Memory Use about:memory Performance about:performance Registered Service Workers about:serviceworkers Launcher Process Enabled Multiprocess Windows 0/0 Disabled Remote Processes 0 Enterprise Policies Inactive Google Location Service Key Missing Google Safebrowsing Key Missing Mozilla Location Service Key Missing Safe Mode false Profiles about:profiles Telemetry Data about:telemetry Mail and News Accounts ID Incoming server Outgoing servers Name Connection security Authentication method Name Connection security Authentication method Default? account1 (pop3) pop-server.nycap.rr.com:110 None Normal password smtp-server.nycap.rr.com:587 None Normal password true account2 (none) Local Folders None Normal password Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days Report ID Submitted

This may be a poor / wrong description, but the problem(s) is related to ? server settings ?

Using a Win 10 laptop TB 140.5.0, can receive, & save as a draft, but cannot send e-mail(s).

Using a Win 11 laptop TB 140.6.0 cannot get / receive e-mails random exceptions, unrelated to using Get Mail.

     "         "     "     "        "       "            "      save messages prompt mentions server.
     "         "     "     "        "       "            "      send messages     "              "             "

I tried to look at / check server settings, but have no understanding of what to look at / check / do. I try to screen shot/save what I see, but it times out (disappears) before I can accomplish (remember how) to activate save.

I've also been unsuccessful in transferring - saving book marks - profiles to the Win 11 laptop.

Season's GREETINGS to one & ALL!

Robin

1. I am getting Mozilla Thunderbird ESR notices pop up when I log on to my PC (W11). I checked my Thunderbird version and I have 146.0.1 and I am on the release channel so why am I getting these notices ? 2. Recently I noticed that when I try to move e-mail messages to a specific folder, I right click on the message and get the prompt Move To and then Recent Destinations where the problem exists. The list of Recent Destinations used to be in alphabetical order and now it is sorted by most recent destination time. This slows me down considerably. Please revert. Thanks !!

I was in the process of searching my files to attach one to an email when the attachment window suddenly expanded from approx 50% of the screen to almost full screen and I can find no way to reset it. I can see the sideand bottom edges of the window, and move the expand/contract arrow on the cursor to these sides and the bottom corners, but it does not operate, and there is no button to minimise or adjust it. I have just checked and it is operating perfectly fine on both Firefox and the main Thunderbird window, and email viewing windows. Is this a change to the program settings - it appears to only apply to the "Attach" setting - viewing attachments and emails are as they always were.

1 How can the list "recent folders" in the icon "store in" be sorted alphabetically? (sorry, my version of Thunderbird speaks German) It used to be alphabetically, but now is sorted chronologically.

2 I cordially suggest to add a function exactly like this one, but with item at my own disposal (maybe the favorite folders).

Thanks, Martin

Hi, TB will not retrieve POP mail since 12/19/25; IMAP on same accounts fine (smart phone, notebook, etc.).

Host email server says no changes, and I have made no changes. Odd. *Something* obviously "changed", and only affected POP collection. Kindly, does anyone have an idea as to what variables to pursue?

Win 11 (all latest updates), TB latest update (140.6.0esr), no 3rd party VP, etc.

Thx in advance, Tom

I am using an email server that currently is using certificates that have expired. That problem is being worked on. In the meantime, whenever I access the server to open a folder, I get a pop-up notification telling me that the certificate has expired. I go ahead and confirm the security exception and check the box to permanently store the exception. Trouble is this ISN'T being persisted, when I open a different folder I have to go through this process again in order to access my emails in that folder.

Me thinks you got a bug in your software Kemosabe!

ich kann von Anfang Dezember an nicht mehr auf mein Arcor Mail zugreifen äh der sagt der Server ist nicht erreichbar habe schon alles versucht hier mit Windows 7 ist der PC ich habe zwei PCs mit Windows 7 und beide gehen nicht nur am Windows 10 habe ich wieder hinbekommen aber Windows 7 Minuten ich bin schon am verzweifeln oder geht das nicht mehr in Windows

A couple months ago, I asked internet provider to discontinue service. I continued to get emails from their server anyway. In fact, I think I am continuing to get some from them but appears they maybe forwarded to my gmail address instead of iowatelecom.net address that I was using. Now, when Thunderbird downloads my emails, first thing that pops up is a message saying "The certificate for imap.iowatelecom.net is not valid for that server. Someone could be trying to impersonate the server and you should not continue." Then, it gives me the little box with "Dismiss", that I can check. It will go ahead and download my emails into the gmail folder. The iowatelecom.net folder is in RED and no emails are going to that folder. Can I or should I get rid of the iowatelecom.net folder and if so, how should I proceed. Just don't want to mess everything up. Thanks for the help.

Have TB on my laptop (146.0.1 (64-bit) on Win11) all set up the way I want it. Would like to "clone" those settings/profiles to my desktop. AI site said, "Copy profiles folder and profiles.ini to the new machine." Didn't work. Asking me to set up from scratch. Laptop is on "standard" edition, think desktop is on beta. Is that the problem? What do I need to do?

For some unknown reason my Karoo account suddenly refused to open and allow mail in or out. I have continually tried all all karoo's advice and getting nowhare. Please help. Campbell Whyte