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Hi,

On my desktop, thunderbird does an awesome job cutting spam. While on the mobile its terrible, not just are most spam mails coming thru but some legit emails are getting flagged. Is there some way to make it mimic the desktop.

Thanks in advance

What's happened here. I cannot check my e-mails without changing my Password. Accept no matter what password I put in it rejects it. I have a backlog of about 600 e-mails. I recently changed my password with the phone company. Is that the one I should be using?

I have an Optus email and use Thunderbird, for a week now I can only send but not receive emails with my Optus net email in Thunderbird, phoned Optus up say the problem is not theirs,got an it expert in spent 2hours on it at a cost of @$250 said to me ,everything is fine it seems Optus is blocking the Optus email from coming in,note I can send and receive emails with my iPhone with Optus email but not in Thunderbird. I am pulling my hair out is there a solution to this? Spent 20 hours plus trying to solve it ket alone paying an it technician plus on the phone to Optus and NO SOLUTION!!

Had a 'Onetel' e-mail address for years and have had the same issues with it a few times where as it just 'drops out.

Have been on here before and received good advice. Last time it dropped out apparently because it didn't know the servers name and that was it it didn't want to play any more. I am determind to get this working again so that I can send from One Tel. It has a Forwarder to another account so I still get the messages. Also have gone in via TalkTalk (who apparently now own Onetel and can receive the messages on my phone (iPhone13) but very hard to reply from it. Any help to get this account up and running from my Desktop gratefully recieved.

Thanks, Dick.

I just updated to version 140.0 and now my subfolders are out of order. Is there a fix for this, short of fixing it manually? I miss how they were automatically alphabetized. That went away when manual reordering was implemented. I can't grab a bunch at the same time and move them, since the order is so messed up.

Hello, I usually redirect incoming email automatically to custom local subfolders (POP account).

Today I noticed that, since october 2024, my Message Filters started copying emails, instead of moving them, despite the still-correct instruction. So I'm left with a bunch of duplicates.

Does anyone know how to fix this bug?

I had to get a new laptop for widows 11 as my old one could not upgrade from windows 10. I trasferred my old laptop to new, but when I downloaded new Thunderbird, my address books did not come over. Where are they and how can I import them to my new laptop? I do not know what version Mozilla Tb that i was using. Please help

I open my email which is Thunderbird but when I try to sign in to Google they say "The server cannot process the request because it is malformed. It should not be retried. That's all we know."

Hi guys. It used to be that when I read an email and click the delete button, the tab would close and it would return to the folder the email was in. But since the last update, it just shows me the next email in the folder.

Is there a way to change that? I want to return to the folder after an email was deleted. I don't want to look at the next email.

I looked in settings everywhere and if there is a way to change that in settings, I can't find it.

Thank you so much in advance for your help.

Dragging and dropping a folder into another folder opens target folder. It shouldn't do that. The target folder should simply accept the folder being dragged into it and stay closed, as it always did since inception until a few versions ago. It is sooo annoying to always have the target folder fully expand when I have not desired it to do so! How can I prevent that from happening? Any help much appreciated.

I exported up my Thunderbird data to an external hard drive from my PC in Croatia which I have been using there for the past year.

I am in South Africa now for a few months and imported the data to my laptop with a new Thunderbird installation.

I have 5 email accounts on one domain, and 1 on another domain.

When I checked for new mail, I was asked for passwords for the 5 accounts on the one domain, and after entering this, the new emails came through fine.

However the one email account on the other domain did not ask for a password, and when I connect I get a message: "Connection to server xxx@xxx.com was reset" I can send emails with this account, but cannot receive any.

Interestingly, I have a previous installation on a desktop PC here in South Africa with the same email accounts. I tried that specific email account and it connects perfectly. The settings are exactly the same.

How do I solve this on my laptop?

There were prob 20 or so, but now just blank tabs. My In Box and incoming email still show OK and I can read those in a new tab. but what about the old ones? And if I cannot recover, how can I remove those blank tabs. Deleting the usual way does not work.

On Windows 10. I wonder if Co Pilot has something to do with it

Thanks Tealeaf

I cannot deliver emails with attached images. This has only started being a problem with upgrade to Win 11 64 bit 24H2. The message shows up in sent with the image.

I'm currently on Office Outlook 2021......something happened and the license became invalid....according to Msoft.....I will have to re-purchase.......bought if it at huge discount on ebay so should have expected this... I'm investigating moving to Tbird.....but I have some questions.... 1. The importation of PST file seems rather complicated....is there an easy way to do this...??? 2. In Outlook I use the email....calendar....and notes.....I have a lot of notes as this is how I keep track of what I do for my clients......If somehow I import my PST file into Tbird....does all the email...calendar and notes come with it or just emails...??? 3. I POP Gmail into Outlook....but Gmail requires an App Password......can Tbird handle this..??? 4. My current PST file is about 3gb in size....Can Tbird handle this large amount of data..???

Thanks in advance for any assistance the community can offer... Steve

I was following instructions for the problem of some task bar icons showing as grey boxes. Still have that problem plus added the problem that thunderbird launches with the setup accounts dialogue page. The 'help>troubleshooting information>profile file location' reveals the correct profiles that have been updated to the hour before I caused the problem. I have saved the '...roaming/thunderbird folder to an external SSD, and made a new new thunderbird installation following the instructions for moving files to a new computer. Problem persists. Thunderbird will not 'see' the profiles therefore I cannot see my emails.

Ciao :)

I used to use these add-ons

Old Icon Phoenity Buttons Phoenity Icons

to make Thunderbird more attractive, but now I'm having constant problems. The interface has become schizophrenic, and every time I open it, the icons have a different style, so I've been forced to disable the add-ons.

The question is, are there any supported add-ons left? I can't find any on the website. :(