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I normally get over 100 emails a day. Recently there have been random days where i receive no emails all day. I know that is not possible. So what happened to them?

I was having some trouble with an email account. I deleted and re-added the account. As this is my primary email account, it was at the top of my account listing. After adding it back, it is now at the bottom of the list. I opened Account Settings and dragged the account to the top. When I departed Account Settings, the account still shows at the bottom of the list. I tried moving the top accounts down. I tried moving other email accounts up or down. All of them remain in the same order when I exit Account Settings. I did read somewhere that I need to accept or otherwise indicate that I confirm the new account order before leaving Account Settings. I cannot see any button in Account Settings that allows me to do this. I just X-out of Account Settings. I would very much appreciate any suggestions. Thank you !

Running Tbird 128.x on Windows 10 64 bit. When a calendar reminder pops up, it appears to be near the center of the default screen, even though Tbird itself is on a different monitor (which is much larger and easier to read). Is there a setting or a chrome modification that would allow me to change the popup position? Something like the code below might work...but the issue is the name of the particular css item (is it *popup or *window or *pane?)

1. calendar-reminder-popup {

   position: fixed !important;
   top: 50px !important;
   left: 100px !important;

}

Hi Thunderbird Community,

I started using Thunderbird yesterday. I am using the latest update, 28.7.1esr (64-bit).

I’m encountering an issue with how URLs are displayed in my incoming emails. Instead of showing shortened, clickable links, emails from LinkedIn and other sources display the entire lengthy URLs, which include various codes and symbols. This makes the emails difficult to read.

For example:

https://www.example.com/messaging/compose/?connId=exampleUser&lipi=urn%3Aexample%3Apage%3Aemail_email_accept_invite_digest_02%3Bb6%2FtTggbExample&midToken=AQFfExample&midSig=ExampleSig&trk=eml-email_accept_invite_digest_02-null-0-null&trkEmail=eml-email_accept_invite_digest_02-null-0-null-null-Example~Example~iq-null-null&eid=Example~Example-iq

The URLs show up in their full form rather than as clickable links or with descriptive text. I have checked the settings, but I could not find an option to improve the readability of these URLs.

Can anyone suggest a way to configure Thunderbird to display URLs in a more readable manner, similar to how they appear in Outlook or other email clients?

Thanks in advance for your assistance!

Anders

For the last year or so, whenever I delete a message from anywhere in my Inbox, Thunderbird then jumps to the last message, rather than staying where I was. This is infuriating when trying to clean up my inbox, necessitating scrolling back to the previous position each time. Is there any easy solution to this?

Bonjour, j'ai perdu tous mes mail des dossiers sur la gauche entre courriers entrant, corbeille, envoyer, c'est très importent pour moi conversation avec un commissaire de justice. Les dossiers sont toujours à l'écran plus une deuxième liste en double en dessous mais tous est vide. Merci de votre aide. Cordialement DD pasdag@sfr.fr

Hi - I have a problem very similar to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1493859?page=1 I think.

I am unlikely as technically savvy as user @iwright2 though.

I am running a MacBookPro 14.1.1, Thunderbird 129.7.1esr

Like the other user, this is no doubt due to my overstuffing of folders. I have, as a friend says, terrible computer hygiene.

I can see from the size of the empty inbox that there are many messages there. These messages all display in AllMail and outbox. These are all embarrassingly large.

I believe the problem stems from my searching on a string in one email's inbox and highlighting just these - they numbered n=60 I think, and I transferred them to an inbox on a different email account. They transferred slowly and after that, the entire first folder was empty.

This is a mac, running a lot of different gmail accounts all as IMAP.

Perhaps I need to restore some file, but I'm pretty nervous to do this. I will backup the computer first.

I'm not sure what else to tell about or investigate. Is there anyone who might be willing to help see me through trying to restore these emails to visibility. I tried someone's suggestion to change the display parameters, but that doesn't work. I must have messed things up in the transferring. I can also try repairing a disk as suggested in the other thread, though I'm not sure that's the root of the problem, I think the transfer amid way-too-big-files is.

Thanks - Huge Thanks!!! - if someone has a thought/suggestion as to where to start.

so i made my Microsoft account [email]@GMAIL.com insted of [email]@outlook.com so then how can i use my microsoft account WHEN thunderbird knows @gmail= gmail.com and knows @outlook = outlook.com PLS HELP PS: im useing family link so im useing a bypass from microsoft. ;)

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I need to move around 9,000 emails from a business Google workspace email to a personal Gmail account. I successfully exported all 9,000 emails to a Mbox file. I added the new Gmail account I want to move the emails to and the exported file to Thunderbird and it shows over 20,000 emails in Thunderbox (even though there should only be around 9,000). I have tried moving the email file to the new email account within Thunderbird twice now. Both times it shows like it is moving the 20,000 emails but when it finishes it only moves around 1,200 emails. How do I get it to import all 9,000 of the emails that are in the exported file?

Background - my old (selfhosted IMAP) server died, I was able to recover the Maildir but for whatever reasons both dovecot and courier ignore the "message read" metadata embedded in the filenames so the local copy in Thunderbird is suddenly the most authoritative.

But every time I try to bulk copy from the old account to local folders or to my new server it fails because it tries to contact the dead server.

Looking for ways to attack this problem

When I open up my Thunderbird to get emails I keep getting getting error code 0x80570015. I can't see attachments and cannot respond to emails. Also cannot delete emails. I Iooked it up to see how to fix it and they say to remove the "lightning" add on. When I go under tools and look for this add on, it is not there. In fact it doesn't seem that I have any add-ons. Something to do with the calendar which I don't even use. It says Thunderbird is up to date. Could you please give any advice how to fix it. Thanks, Matt

I am an office worker. I close all applications every day before I leave for home. If I forget or miss and leave Thunderbird open overnight, I do not have an internet connection the next morning and I have to reboot my machine. Any ideas as to why that might be?

I am using Thunderbird 128.7.1 on Windows, have several mailboxes (POP and Imap) with many sub-folders and large email archives (~20 years of emails) under "Local Folders". Indexing used to work fine over all those folders and I liked it a lot, in particular the timeline view on global searches.

Now, since a while (not sure for how long) indexing only looks into all my "Sent" folders, and not any of the incoming folders or local folders. I see that in all the global searches I try now. Note, whenever I archive a large amount of emails, I delete global-messages-db.sqlite and re-start TB to make sure the index gets re-built to match the real folder content. Previously global-messages-db.sqlite had a few GB in size, not it does not get larger than ~100MB.

How can I tell TB to index all folders as it used to do?

I am not receiving any emails on one particular account (I have several and the others seem to be working normally). I did receive messages yesterday on this account. I can see the messages on my phone and on the web interface and if I forward the message I can see it in the "sent" folder. What could be going on? Thanks for your help

Dorrit

On Thunderbird on macOS, I am trying to use a Security Device to client certificates made available by the OS for TLS authentication to IMAP servers and S/MIME signing and encryption. Under Security Devices, there is no Security Device that provides this functionality so in Security Devices I click Load and Browse... and select /Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/libosclientcerts.dylib to add the appropriate security device. However, when I click okay, I get "Alert" "Unable to add module" . What am I doing wrong?

I also use libosclientcerts.dylib in Firefox just fine. Why is it not working in Thunderbird?

Dear technician,

I have configured my email account to Thunderbird mailbox, but the email sending speed is too slow and cannot be sent successfully.

When using Thunderbird mailbox mail merge plug-in, it always shows: Your email has been sent, but due to network or file access errors, the copy could not be placed in the outgoing backup folder (sent). How to set up the account to solve this problem, you can put the email into the outbox or draft box of the email account.

How to activate Thunderbird mailbox account enterprise version and enterprise version fee and daily email limit?

Just setup a second Thunderbird profile for Exchange. Using Owl for Exchange plugin.

I right click onto a subfolder, and pick Properties, then go into Synchronization. I click onto a checkbox for "Select this folder for offline use" and I hit OK to close the window. Nothing happens. I go back, and the checkbox is not checked. I tried hitting the Download Now buttons, nothing happened.

Any clue why my check box selection is not accepted?

When I used Outlook, I set it up to use OST, so I have a copy of my email that is on the remote Exchange server. Now I am trying to do the same with Thunderbird.

Thank you

Today I opened Thunderbird and found that half of my address book entries are missing. Also it takes several seconds for the address book to load. What could have happened? If I need to reinstall Thunderbird do I need to erase the existing program before reinstallation?