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Upon startup Thunderbird downloads multiple copies of every email. A few days ago it was just 5 copies of each now it is 10 or 15 copies of each. Of course it then gives the disk full message. But this drive has over one Terabite of free space.' Been a user since Thunderbird inception and donated a few times but this and other iss are making it hard to stay loyal.

Bonjour,

Depuis plusieurs semaines, je ne peux plus du tout joindre de pièce à mes mails.

Pourriez-vous m'aider à résoudre ce problème, svp ?

je vous en remercie par avance.

Bien cordialement

I accidentally dragged and dropped the "Inbox" of a POP3 account into the "Drafts" folder, nesting it there. I tried to drag the "Inbox" back to its proper location (directly under the account), but I am unable to drop it (the cursor indicating a valid drop target does not appear). What should I do?

Thunderbird has become extreme slow. Like it's doing task in the background. Takes emails longer to display and mouse becomes jerky. All other programs OK Especially noticeable after leaving TB running for a while. The previous versions were snappy. This version is very noticeably slower.

Situation: Several Earthlink accounts using IMAP in Thunderbird. Earthlink/mindspring folders show the same folders as webmail. However, Thunderbird includes (by default?) "Sent Spam" and "Virus Blocker" folders. These are not visible in Earthlink webmail.

The folder subscribe function doesn't appear to do anything.

Deleting the msf files from the profile and restarting Thunderbird recreates the MSF files, and the empty, non-existent (on webmail) folders persist.

Have had this issue for a very long time. Would like to know, just to assuage a tiny bit of OCD, how to remove the folders from the list displayed for the account(s) on Thunderbird.

Thanks in advance. M

Hi,

In my one account in Thunderbird, I still have the old POP folders, that was a different account. I also have an IMAP account, both have the same address. The pop one does not work but the folders are there, I use them to look old mails up, so far so good. When I sent out an email with my IMAP account, the sent mail goes into the sent folder of the IMAP account, so far so good. BUT when I click on that sent mail and click on reply, it replies to the same address that what it already was sent to, now here comes the problem. THAT copy of the mail, I called the NEW sent, does not go into my sent folder. It goes directly into the sent folder of my old pop account. Even though everything on the IMAP account is standard, re-sent mails are not placed in the IMAP account sent folder. What am I doing wrong here, I know when writing the mail is that I can choose the send address and if I change that it goes in the IMAP sent folder but why is it standard on my old POP account, and why not on the IMAP account even though the IMAP is the standard?

I want to be able to left click a link & open in a Firefox private window. It always opens in a regular browsing window. The only way I have found to do this is to right click the link & left click "copy link location" & then paste in a private window address bar. I do not want to use a 3rd party program or extension & I don't want to create another Firefox profile either.

For years I had an pop account in my Thunderbird, next to my Imap account. Both live happily next to each other. Today I moved all the mails from my pop account (which was no long active, nor was it connected to a server) to my local folders. I found out that all of my folder were suddenly twice the size. Compressing didn't do a thing. Why is this?

My Thunderbird (158 Meadow) is very slow sending emails. Up to 30 seconds for an ordinary message. Most often thew people are in my address book but even if they are no the problem is common across all outgoing emails. Windows 11 Laptop 26H2, 64Gb Ram, 500Gb SSD, 200GB free, i7 (12 Edition) Intel I have already checked that my Windows Defender antivirus has the profile folder as an "exception" Compressed my "send" folder Run "repair" on my send folder I have about 500 emails in my send folder I have an IMAP set up with SMTP set to 465 SSL/TLS Normal password I have checked my webmail and that works fine so it is not a problem with hosting etc.

Hello there,

With one of the email addresses I am montoring on Thunderbird I experience an unusual difficulty.

There are times, I get to see a pop-up window that the login failed, and being prompted to enter the password again.

I've learned that in those instances I need to remove the password from the password list in thunderbird, restart my laptop, and in opening the thunderbird dashboard re-enter the password, and then it's fixed.

Today, however I keep repeating this procedure time and time again, but this time it doesn't fix the issue, and this pop-up message keeps popping up, each time enter the new password.

Is there anyone who can help me resolve this issue ? ...

That would be great, because since the login fails, I am unable to receive any incoming mails of, nor send any from that account in thunderbird.

Kind regards, Christiaano

Subject: Thunderbird fails to send multiple PDF attachments – Server timed out

I am using Thunderbird on Linux Mint 21.3.

Thunderbird sends ordinary emails without problems. However, when I attach two specific PDF files received by email from my bank, sending fails with the error message “Server timed out”. The message cannot even be saved as a draft.

The files are very small (148 kB and 54 kB).

I have established the following:

Each PDF can be sent individually from Thunderbird after renaming it.

Sending the two PDFs together fails, even after renaming them.

Forwarding the original email containing the attachments also fails.

Sending the same attachments together via GMX Webmail works immediately.

Other emails sent through Thunderbird work normally.

This appears to be a Thunderbird-specific problem involving multiple attachments or the processing of the original email, rather than file size or a general mail-server outage.

Could you advise how to diagnose this issue and identify the cause?

System: Linux Mint 21.3 (Virginia), 64-bit.

Hello I have just set up Thunderbird successfully and I'm trying to fine tune it.

In "account settings>synchronization I checked to keep messages on this computer. I think I understand that that means all synchronized folders including inbox in TB will match up with the same on the server, headers and main text body. If I uncheck that setting while online, does that mean that all message bodies will immediately be deleted from my TB profile? or does it only apply to new downloads so that headers only are downloaded, until they are clicked on?

I type enter and there is an extra blank line

Like this

I can't seem to find a way to stop it.

It doesn't affect bullet lists:

• Bulleted list item
• Bulleted list item

But I can't provide a tidy chunk of information, e.g. when providing my Address to someone (where bulleting doesn't make sense)

Probably something obvious - I tried from 'Format' menu changing from 'Paragraph' to 'Body Text' but it doesn't seem to stick.

FOUND IT: From MAIN APPLICATION window Menu...Edit...Settings...UNCHECK 'Use Paragraph format instead of Body Text by default' I must have checked it at some stage (or maybe it's the default)

Sometimes I enjoy a conversation with myself...but in any case maybe someone else could find this useful.

I Am needing some help. I was using Proton VPN (free version to try it out) and it was working fine until just now when I opened my thunderbird and it keeps saying pop.dreamhost has been reset and I cannot get my emails now. I looked at the help section here and it said something on here about issues with this and so I tried the suggestions there and it did not work so I just disconnected the VPN entirely and restarted my laptop and it still is giving me the same issues. I need step by step on how to be able to get my emails working again on thunderbird here and also what to do step by step so if I use a VPN again that this will not happen as I travel and need to have access to my emails without these issues. I Am not very technical so an easy step by step would be appreciated. Please help. Thank you

I am unable to access my emails in Thunderbird. Thunderbird opened but does not respond as there appear to be some files /emails that it could not accessed.

I tried deleting the Parent.lock file. I then deleted Thunderbird and re-installed it.

On opening the updated instance, it comes up with the same couple of files/emails in the list. With the same ones seemingly trying to be loaded. See attachment. The files are Invoice 03-10-20 and Ticket_1.pdf

I've received the following message the last few days when I send an email with Thunderbird:

Your message was sent but a copy was not placed in your sent folder (Sent) due to network or file access errors. (I am sure neither of those errors apply.)

It then gave me the option to "save" (I didn't get the exact wording before I clicked on "save") and I don't see it anywhere. This was a very important email and I need to find it.