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The enter password dialogue box to open thunderbird to receive and send messages is now very slow to popup. This occurred after the request for donation hijacked the program functionality. Email colour scheme also changed. Any thoughts to rectify please ?

I run Thunderbird 115.18.0 (64-bit) with calendar and tasks connected to a NextBase Caldav account on the web. The Caldav then syncs with my Android phone using DAVx.

When I try to add a new task but without adding start and end dates it will initially appear to save and show in the tasks list. However this is lost following a Thunderbird restart. NB the task view is set to "All"

If I either edit the task to add start and end dates the task disappears from the task list. Similarly if I create a task with start and end dates the task does not save.

This issue only seems to have started recently as I have been using this process for a while without issues.

Is there a way to fix this?

bold textover the past week several times my Thunderbird does not show any emails from 7 or 9 pm until the following am. I know, from accessing through aol that there were many messages that are completely missing. In addition, several important emails from different dates in Feb are also missing although because they were sent to multiple others, i received notice of them. Why is this happening. I cannot loose clients because I did not receive messages!!

Dear Thunderbird Community,

First, thanks for any help and guidance anyone might be willing to provide.

I have an issue where the "Date" and "Received" columns (in my Inbox) always show the same exact date/time even when the message source shows a different date/time for the "Date:" header verses the "Received:" header.

I know this has been asked before, but the suggestion of adding "Received" (without the quotes) to mailnews.customDBHeaders, restarting, and then repairing a folder did not work for me. I am on build 128.7.1esr (64-bit).

For example, I emailed a message to myself, selected to send later, waited a few minutes, then released it from the Outbox. When the email came in, it showed "2/23/2025, 11:27 AM" for both the "Date" and the "Received" columns. If I view the email source (some data removed for clarity) I see:

X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by atlas-production.v2-mail-prod1-gq1.omega.yahoo.com pod-id atlas--production-gq1-dcf999469-vgzhb.gq1.yahoo.com with HTTP; Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:32:18 +0000 Return-Path: <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX> . . . Received: from 66.163.187.32 (EHLO sonic308-9.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com) by 10.253.234.152 with SMTPs (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256); Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:32:18 +0000 . . . Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic308.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with HTTP; Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:32:18 +0000 Received: by hermes--production-ne1-bfc75c9cd-5z7p6 (Yahoo Inc. Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID cc25d64c8dd18900ecd1c9eeccb8355a; Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:32:17 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <7deddc4d-f689-4d8d-bcc9-40a9ab4d22d9@yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:27:45 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX From: XXX <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX> Subject: Date test Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7deddc4d-f689-4d8d-bcc9-40a9ab4d22d9.ref@yahoo.com> X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.23369 mail.backend.jedi.jws.acl:role.jedi.acl.token.atz.jws.hermes.yahoo Content-Length: 1 X-EsetId: 37303A2928E79356607C64

From above, the "Date:" header has "Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:27:45 -0500" which is correctly displayed in the Date column as "2/23/2025, 11:27 AM" however, the latest "Received:" header has "Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:32:18 +0000" (which is 11:32 AM Eastern) but the Received column shows the time as 11:27 AM instead of 11:32 AM.

Might anyone have a thought as to why I can't get Thunderbird to show the correct Received date/time?

Thanks.

Hello,

Due to a drag-drop error on my part, all my mail subjects are now encrypted again, i.e. with ‘...’. Is there any way that I can get all the subjects decrypted again at once without having to click on all 6,000 or so mails individually? I really enjoyed using the TB search function...

I have Thunderbird 128.6.0esr (64-bit) installed as a Flatpack package on Fedora, running on Gnome / Wayland.

Whenever I click a link in from an email from Github, that normally opens the browser, Thunderbird immediately freezes, and Gnome asks me if I want to kill Thunderbird. Waiting never works, and the link never opens. This is somewhat recent behavior.

Links to other websites *do* open. I know how strange this sounds. How can I debug this?

Hi there I have recently started using Thunderbird again on my iMac and have noticed when I send a email using Gmail the sent email is showing in my sent folder on my Gmail account but is not showing in the sent folder on Thunderbird the only emails in my Thunderbird sent folder are emails I have sent using Thunderbird any emails sent from devices like my iMac or iPad are not showing up in the sent folder on Thunderbird.

I am not sure why this is happening any help would be much appreciated.

I can not get beyond the request box asking me to enter my server password. I called ATT tech support and all my settings are correct and there is no password. Any suggestions besides forget Thunderbird?

I have two email accounts. One is about 2% of my email sending and one is 98% of my email sending. One of them is the default choice when I create a new message to send. Guess which one is the default?

How the absolute F do I get TB to re-order these so that I am not sending so many messages from the wrong address?

Do I need to set up a completely different profile for TB and only launch into that when I am going to send from the lesser-used account? What the heck do I have to do?

- ray

In my work, I get PDF documents all the time from a trusted source, and in every case, I have to find an editor to make edits required.

The last time I searched, I could find only one free editor available, and that has disappeared from online access.

Thunderbird could benefit us enormously by providing an integrated PDF editor.

I'm currently using Thunderbird 128.0.1esr (64-bit) on an iMac with Ventura 13.7.4. I have email correspondence in Archives on my Local Folder going back to 1998. On July 10, 2007, Mozilla phone support helped me get my Netscape mail into Thunderbird. For many years, I had no problems loading this old email correspondence in Thunderbird. I'm not sure exactly when it started, but emails from 1998, 1999, and 2000 no longer load. Also, I'm not sure, but it is probably all Netscape mail. I can still see the header information (sender, recipient, date, subject, etc.), but cannot open up the messages to read them.

Any solution?

My email which functions under Mozilla Thunderbird (which was created Jan 28, 2018 - yes that is 2018) has begun to "freeze". I cannot do simple filing of messages or delete batches of emails.

I went to HostCentric and cleared out the webmail version of all of my emails, hoping that this would "fix" my problem. It did not.

I do not know if my version Thunderbird should have been updated in the past or not. If I were to update my version of Thunderbird, would my existing email address remain in tact? Or do I have to back everything up in order to preserve my email "world"? I do NOT want to lose my email address and all of the inbox contents or sub-folder files.

My email is how I manage and communicate with my lawyer, accountant, summer rental property etc.

Help?

Nancy D

Hi folks,

Thunderbird 128.6.0esr (64-bit) on Fedora 41 Linux...

I'm trying to export all messages in a mailbox on an old Yahoo mail account and then import all those messages into another email account. I access both accounts from Thunderbird. I'm using IMAP protocol, and all email accounts keep the messages on the server.

I've exported the mailbox to a folder on my computer; now all the email messages exist as separate .eml files in that folder. But I can't see how to import them into the second email account.

It seems that exporting my entire profile won't help as I'm not moving everything to a second computer. But I cannot see any way to select just the one mailbox from the one 'source' email account that I want to import into the 'destination' email account.

Thanks...

I am trying to send a message with lots of MIME attachments from Thunderbird and I get this error message: "Number of MIME parts exceeds maximum permitted". Unhelpfully it does not say what the maximum is and I cannot find this information in Support. Anyone know what the maximum number of MIME attachments to an email is? Thanks in advance

This morning, none of our Thunderbird desktop email is working. We can't send or receive email at all. Our webmail works but we don't want to use that. I just upgraded to 128.7.1esr hoping that would fix the problem. It hasn't. Attached is an error message I get when trying to send an email. I have checked and all the settings are correct.

I am not a developer so if you have any suggestions, please keep it simple. Thank you!

In new version of thunderbird Having tasks with start and end dates make days appearing highlighted in calendar. Is there a way to doesn't have this behaviour ?