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When starting a New Message I start typing the recipients name, but Thunderbird stops at the first letter of the name and takes about 20 seconds to respond before bringing up a list of correspondents.

Hello I have asked this before but i did not get an answer i could use i did get an answer but it did not work. So i am asking again. I can run Thunderbird for like a month and then all of a sudden all inbox mail goes to trash folder abut not with the name of the sender with my name as the sender I have reinstalled several times i have changed my security gone from 64 it to 32 bit removed some add ons or extensions. Now it is run from Comcast email and that is correct as far as i know. Not sure i have it filtered correctly i am stumped please help me here . every time i d reinstall i need to put back manually all my contacts and that takes forever . Please i have even disabled Norton antivirus for 1 hour and it was doing this with windows explorer as well so please I know i asked this before but nothing worked. I hate to stop using Thunderbird but if this keeps happening i may need to. the only extensions i have in Thunderbird enabled are emojis, config button, restart, and ublblock. Not sure how to get to filters and change any thing. Thanks Please i need help thanks upset Thunderbird user

Hello. I encountered the following difficulty. There is an email address that is used on several computers. How can I make it so that each user can highlight a letter in a different color from the others to understand who is working with it? For example, one - red, and the other - green

Hi Guys,

How do I export all my emails from Thunderbird to my local HDD?

I know there are a few different methods but which is the best option for me?

I have 21GB of Emails on my Yahoo Mail and I want to download them to my local HDD. Check the attached screenshot.

What is the best option if I want to download everything?

When I have a complete backup of the entire thing I plan to delete them from my Yahoo Mail to clean up some space.

Thanks, Plamen

After updating my Thunderbird mail application from version 128 to 140, the shortcut icon for composing a message is no longer responsive and I cannot create a new message from it. I can no longer create a new message without right-clicking on a sent email and using “Edit as New Message (E)”. How can I get back to being able to create a message from the message creation shortcut?

Hi Guys, please help to fix a very strange problem, that more and more Emails don't match up with the Sender and show different Message content (see attached Screen Shots) Never happened before ... why now ?? Thanks in advance, Werner P.S. my Thunderbird Version is 128.9.1est (64-bit) and my iMac is on Sequoia 15.5

Following i Windows update I have reinstalled Thunderbird. Then imported adressbokk from previos export file (LDIF).

Opening the adressbokk I get a list that looks empty ! But the lower left corner indicates there are 500+ adresses i the base. If entering a name in the search-box I also get the mail-address.

Why are the adresses hidden ?

アプリの更新後より、以下のエラーメッセージが表示され、メールの送信ができない状況となっております。 エラーメッセージ： 「メッセージを送信できませんでした。 送信（SMTP）サーバー ○○ との接続がタイムアウトしたため、メッセージを送信できませんでした。再度お試しください。」 また、アプリ起動時には「サーバーとの接続がリセットされました」との通知も表示されます。

セキュリティソフトの一時的な無効化なども試みましたが、状況は改善されませんでした。 別のPCでも試しましたが、使用開始から3～4日ほどで同様のエラーが発生いたします。

何か対応策などございましたら、ご教示いただけますと幸いです。

どうぞよろしくお願いいたします。

Recently the reminders from my calendar in Thunderbird have failed to show, as if there is a setting that has been turned off. How can I turn them back on again? Thank you.

View > Folders > Folder Pane Header [v] All Folders All folders is greyed out (cannot select).

I believe being able to make this selection would cause the email account name to display expanded selections. I want to be able to select this for all my email accounts to display properly in the Folder Pane: (example) Inbox Drafts Sent Spam Trash

Uploaded images are:

1. 1. View > Folders > Folder Pane Header > [v] All Folders > All folders (is greyed out - cannot select).
2. 2. My email client name list with no expanded selections.
3. 3. An example of and expanded email client name

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You

Sziasztok!

Új üzenet írásakor nem jelenik meg a az új üzenet ablaka. Látszólag aktív az "új üzenet" gomb, de nem történik semmi ha rákattintok. Mi lehet a probléma? Köszönöm, ha segítetek.

Üdv.Anna

Sending emails stopped working yesterday but I can send. Have confirmed with email provider that all is good there end. They suggest it is the Thunderbird rejecting the message. Your help would be welcome. Errol

I keep installing the Add-on to customize the message body toolbar. Unfortunately, the toolbar returns after a while. Now I can't seem to find the Add-on to customize it.

Any ideas? James

Although I have been using it for years, Thunderbird stopped sending my email messages and gave an error message looking for my Password. I looked at my Account Settings and there is a Red Box with Delete. This came on suddenly. I downloaded a Thunderbird Upgrade & installed it however it didn't fix the problem.

How can I fix this without Uninstalling the program. There is too much data saved including a substantial Address book that I can't afford to lose.

For many years I have enjoyed using Mozilla Firefox Web Browser and Mozilla Thunderbird email client on Windows 10. The server for my Internet Service Provider (ISP) was POP3. Consequently, I set up a POP3 account and created Message Filters to move inbox emails directly into my Local Folders and Sub Folders. My ISP has now changed their server to IMAP. After consultations with them I created a new account named [my current email address (IMAP)] and used their Incoming Mail settings and Out Going SMTP settings.Their additional advice was to delete ONLY my POP3 account BUT NOT Local Folders. On the positive side, all emails are arriving in [my current email address (IMAP)]. On the negative side, nothing is split into the Local Folders. Because I have not found a suitable answer in the Community Forums' pages, I will ask; Q1. Is it possible to move the Message Filters onto the ISP's IMAP server so they put messages into the folders before incoming to the desktop PC? If yes, then how? Q2. Is it possible to change some settings in Thunderbird so the incoming emails follow the Message Filters details to distribute into the Local Folders? If yes, then how? Q3. At the moment, I am leaving incoming messages in my inbox. However, I am able to drag and drop from the inbox into their respective Local Folders and Sub Folders. Is this the only way to sort them? If not, then how to set up an alternative simple system? Regards, Colin (Yorky)

When I close TBird, I usually have multiple tabs open -- the folders and subfolders that I work with all the time -- so that I don't have to open them again each day.

I have folders set up with 20 or 30 subfolders. This means that I may have 3 or 4 of those subfolders open in tabs at any given time. It also means that the folder list display shows every folder AND SUBFOLDER, including those I am not working with.

However, I can't just close the parent folder to hide the subfolder list because that closes the subfolder I am working with and changes the tab to the parent folder's label, which of course contains no messages. To continue working with that subfolder, I have to go back to the parent folder and expand it again, which in turn expands the list to show all the subfolders in the folder list.

This creates a lot of clutter in that list. It would be much easier to work with that list if I could collapse the parent folder to hide the subfolders without interfering with the subfolder tabs I have open.

To test: Create a folder Friends Add subfolders Friend A, Friend B, Friend C Add emails to each folder. Expand the parent Friends folder in the folder list. This shows the 3 subfolders. Open the Friend A and Friend B subfolders in tabs. Close the parent Friends folder in the folder list. This will cause whichever tab you last worked with (Friend A or Friend B) to revert to displaying the parent Friends folder label, which of course will have no messages under it. To keep working with those messages, you have to open the subfolder again, which requires expanding the parent Friends folder in the folder list. Collapsing the Parent Folder in the folder list should have no impact on whichever subfolders are open in tabs.

I am usually working with 3 or 4 folders that each have 20 or more subfolders. With all of them displayed in the folder list this creates a lot of unnecessary clutter in the list if I am working with only a couple of subfolders from each folder open in tabs

I switched from Eudora to Tbird a decade ago. Eudora always behaved correctly in that closing a folder in the folder list did not close whatever subfolders were open in tabs. I've never understood why Tbird didn't behave the same way.

Is there a way to have all of the folders in all accounts collapsed upon restart every time? There is no "Collapse All" option on a right-click of a folder which has been suggested. Deleting folderTree.json and session.json only opens with the configuration that it most recently closed with. I just started using Betterbird, version 128.13.0esr-bb31.