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Is there any way to reduce the space that Gmail accounts take? from my own domain (the top account), it can all be closed to "inbox" but Gmail seems to feel the need to take up far too much space. Other than unsyncing these subfolders, is there a way to put them all in one folder?

thanks!

Przy próbie wysłania wiadomości pojawia się komunikat o niemożności zapisania wysyłanej wiadomości i przypuszczalnych powodach tego problemu. W Thunderbirdzie mam zamontowanych kilka kont. Ta usterka występuje tylko na jednym koncie i to tym najmniej używanym. -Na dysku mam około 60 GB wolnego miejsca, -Usunąłem stare wiadomości, -Opróżniłem kosz, -Uporządkowalem foldery' Nie pomogło. Proszę o podpowiedź, jak usunąć tę usterkę.

Thunderbird 115.5.1 Windows 10 When I use the Archive Function in this latest edition of Thunderbird, it does not consistently put my emails where I specify in the settings. As far as I know, this only began occurring in this specific version of Thunderbird.

When an account setting is set to archive to Local Archive > Year by Month, it puts the file in a monthly folder in the Local, but!!! it does not put it into the Archive Folder. Nor does it put the Month folder under the specific year as Thunderbird had done in previous iterations.

But, when the account is set to Archive by Year but not by month, it actually does put it into that Year folder in the Archive folder.

I am pointing out an error in the programming of the Archive feature. If I try to manually move the month folder 2021-02 from Local to Local Archive, I get an error message that "A subfolder with the name already exists"

Is there anything that I can do to fix this on my end?

Recently updated to Thunderbird 115.5.1. Everything appears fine except my Local Folders do not appear anymore. The TB menu bar shows only "Local Folders", plus 3 default options of Archives, Trash & Outbox, all empty. My TB Profile folder still shows subfolders: E:\Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\z5qq0yvq.default\Mail\Local Folders E:\Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\z5qq0yvq.default\Mail\Local Folders.sbd E:\Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\z5qq0yvq.default\Mail.sbd\Local Folders E:\Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\z5qq0yvq.default\Mail.sbd\Local Folders.msf and it looks like all my data is there, but nothing shows up in the TB window.

For the last month or so, I receive this message at my Email In-box (leemann@windyridge.us). Problem is, I didn't send the email and don't know the recipient (not always the same recipient). Have .jpg of the message should you want them. What's up?

Lee

Some messages get duplicated in my outlook.office365.com Inbox. They both have the same date, time and content.

Deleting them deletes only one of them while the other becomes an empty message marked as received on December 31st 1969 at 7:00 PM.

Quitting and restarting TB make the duplicate / empty message disappear.

While this duplication is not very frequent, maybe 1 in 50, the following behaviour is constant. This has never happened in my Gmail Inbox. The duplicates appear only in TB, not in the Outlook web client. I have been using TB since a week or two.

MacOS 14.1 / 14.1.2 TB 115.5.1

Thanks !

One user's Thunderbird profile was acting strangely with settings reverting back to previous values, so I decided to build a new profile. I backed up their address book and calendar files to .ics files, then uninstalled Thunderbird, removed all registry entries, rebooted, installed a fresh copy of Thunderbird, imported address books then tried to import the calendar .ics file and each time I try to import the .ics file in the import screen a red bar appears as an error saying no importable items found in this file. I re-installed the same version of Thunderbird that was installed 102.15.1. This did not involve 115 at all.

I tried two different times with this user's calendars and it produces the same result. I tried exporting the calendars as .html files, but there's no option in the import wizard to choose that file format.

I also tried going to the user's old profile folder and into calendar-data and copying all of the files from there and copying them into the new profile folder, then re-launching Thunderbird but that also didn't work, nothing imported and the home calendar is blank.

I found one forum post suggesting importing the calendar .ics file into a google calendar then exporting it back down as a .ics then importing it to Thunderbird, but this user is not comfortable with that.

Does anyone else have a solution?

I am using a Mac with Big Sur (macOS Monterey Version 12.7), and my email is POP, using Thunderbird Version 115.3.0. My incoming messages are sorted in reverse order so that the latest message is listed first. I retrieve the message headers first then I either delete the message or download the contents of the message. The problem is that when I download the contents of the message Thunderbird does download the message BUT it highlights the message just downloaded and it jumps to the next message. This is very annoying because in order to read the contents of the message I have to go back one message and purposely select the message just downloaded. It did not do this previously.

With the update to version 115.5.1, TB can not see the printers other than print to PDF. Addtionally it causes the system and all other programs to no longer have access to the printer.

The printers are brother mfc default. Xerox 3215, save to pdf

From a fresh boot, I can open word, excel, quicken or any other program. These can then print on either the default printer or other printers can be seleted.

Opening thunderbird and trying to print, only shows save to pdf. If you then open any program and try to print you see "no printers installed."

rebooting restores system and normal printing until thunderbird is opened. Some how thunderbird is interfering with the system print functions.

After altering account settings in Thunderbird to, say, "synchronize the most recent 30 days", will Thunderbird proceed to remove from the local drive previously synced emails that are older than 30 days? Or will it allow those previously synced messages to remain on the local drive?

I have multiple accounts linked to Thunderbird and am trying to speed things up. [article] provides a helpful overview of how to do that with IMAP connections, but it doesn't say whether the already synced messages will remain on the local drive or not.

Thanks for any information you can provide!

After updating today I appear to have some sort of configuration problem. Two versions are opening at the same time and I can see the original one flash up briefly before being hidden by the second. I close down one but a second is still there. Both have the Welcome to Firefox message in the lower pane but I cannot remove this. It is not linked to a message in the inbox. I have tried everything I can think of and searched the community questions but cannot find anything similar. I have uninstalled the program and reinstalled it but the problem is still there. I hope this makes sense and would appreciate any advice. I am a 65 year old novice slowly pulling my hair out!

Is there a built-in way or an addon that will allow the ability to create folders as a filter action?

I can move or copy to an existing folder but is there a way to make a folder in a specific location with a specific name based on previous parameters.

Thanks in advance!

Hi. Recently Thunderbird automatically updated(current version is 115.5.1 32bit) on my win 10 Pro 64bit (v22H2) desktop, and now most of my accounts have a problem. My GMAIL account is the only one that I can both receive and send mail from.

Both Outlook accounts can receive mail, but only one account can send. Both accounts have exactly the same imap & smtp settings. Both have Authentication set to normal password. The account that cannot send mail fails login, the popup window suggests this is a password problem, but no password I have works. (this includes 2 MS generated App passwords).

Most importantly, my main Yahoo account cannot send or receive mail. I will just focus on this one for the time being. The 2 error messages I get are:- 1. "Connection to server export.imap.mail.yahoo.com timed out" (after several minutes) 2. "Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to outgoing server(SMTP) smtp.mail.yahoo.com timed out. Try again" (after several minutes).

Here are things I`ve tried.

Disabling the ipv6 setting using config editor as suggested here https://support.mozilla.org/gl/questions/1401034 Changing the timeout mailnews.tcptimeout with config editor as suggested here https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1367042 Logged into my yahoo account through browser using email address and password. Deleted all app passwords for TB. Waited 24 hours. Logged back in to check changes had taken. Generated new app password, and took copy of it. Checked with yahoo that the spaces in the password should be removed. I deleted the Yahoo account from TB, and re-installed it, both with the automatic configuration TB uses, and the manual configuration method. Despite TB asking for a password (I supplied the newly generated Yahoo App password), there is no password for smtp, imap or OAth2 stored in the saved passwords within TB.

I have checked the imap & smtp settings against these https://help.yahoo.com/kb/manually-download-yahoo-emails-sln28681.html, and used OAuth on both incoming & outgoing. I have also tried these settings with Authentication set to normal password. I have tried these settings https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN4075.html with OAuth2, and with normal password.

I have previously temporarily turned off Avast free antivirus, as well as Win 10 firewall. Since there is activity on some of the accounts I`m assuming the problem is not this. I have also previously loaded windows in safe mode with networking, and that did not make a difference.

Outlook on my Android has no problems sending or receiving from any of these accounts. I can find no useful info on the net with regards to problems after updating, but refuse to believe I am the only one experiencing problems.

After 3 days I have run out of patience. I have exhausted information and options. Can somebody offer suggestions? Thanks in advance, Dave.

I tried to migrate my thunderbird-stored local calendar to another computer. Both machines are running Debian GNU/Linux 12 with Thunderbird 115.5.0 (64 bit).

I exported by right-clicking the calendar, selected 'Export Calendar...' and exported it to a .ics file.

To import I tried Menu - Tools - Import and Selected 'Import from a file', 'Import calendars' and get the error message "No importable items found in the file."

If I open the .ics file with gnome-calendar, it imports all events without issues.

So it seems Thunderbird cannot import ics files it previously exported.

What can be done to get the calendar imported?

Please let me know how to remove this empty column when I work on a large monitor, it doesn't bother me, but when I use it on a laptop, it takes up a lot of valuable space and is generally pointless.

Hello!

We use the Thunderbird Labels (not an add on) to mark the mails "to do", "started by NN" or "get back to customer after offer" etz. After the latest uppgrade (or earlier) mails labeled on one computor does not show on others (IMAP). Do not find any settings in Thunderbird about this (for example on some add ons you have to mark that the changes done on one computor should not be local).

Gratefull for help because this is a great tool when you are more persons working in the same system. Thanks in advance!

/Magnus