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I ask a person to send me a signed email so that i can send them an encrypted email. How is this process supposed to work in thunderbird? I receive a signed email, what next? Clearly, thunderbird sees the signature but does not add the public key to the contact. This is in contradiction with [page] that states: The standard way of distributing a person's certificate is to send a digitally signed email. If you have received a signed email from your correspondent, click the email to view it. If Thunderbird considers the email's signature and the sender's certificate valid, it will automatically be imported and available when you attempt to encrypt an email to that correspondent using the S/MIME technology. If you don't have a signed email from your correspondent yet, you could ask them to send a digitally signed email to you.

Note that certificates issued by CAs may have a short validity period. Certificates are no longer usable after the validity period has expired. In that case your correspondent will have to obtain a new certificate. Once that happened they will be able to send you a new digitally signed email with a valid certificate.

Organizations that operate an LDAP server may configure their server to store S/MIME certificates. If an LDAP server is configured, Thunderbird may automatically query the LDAP server if it needs to obtain a S/MIME certificate.

To review the list of S/MIME certificates that you already have, you can use Thunderbird's Certificate Manager.

The certificate shows that it is valid, yet, clicking reply gives "key issues" which shows no key available. Similarly, if I sign an email with pgp key and send it, thunderbird sees that it is signed but tells me that i need to obtain public pgp key. So it seems that signatures and encryption are completely unusable.

128.6.0esr (64-bit):

Have in the past received occasional e-messages where I needed to go to a file-sharing site to open pix. That is the extent of my understanding of file-sharing, how to file-share my e-message with the .mp4 files attached, etc., etc.

PC here; Windows 10.

So how can I file-share my message with .mp4 attachments?

Thank you. Appreciated.

One of my six different Gmail accounts that I have active in Thunderbird takes forever to catch up and load up compared to all the rest ... this has been going on for years

The update bar in the lower right will sit there at halfway through for minutes... .

Attach screenshot please look at the bottom right corner also

Thank you for Anybody's help Craig, Seattle

Hey,

I use thunderbird for email purposes and noticed today that I could not send or receive emails. When I go to compose an email it allows me to type email as usual but there is no send button or option to send when I right click the screen. I got someone to send me an email as a test but I did not receive the email. My email address is ianwil@interlog.com.

Please let me know.

Thanks

Thunderbird works well for me and downloads to the Thunderbird Inbox from my email providers host Inbox.

However I would really like the sys to also download to my Thunderbird "Spam" box from my host "Spam" box which would be seen immediatly rather than have to go to my host web mail account which is a bit longwinded and a hassle. I find that some valid emails are treated as spam by my provider.

I have created a "Spam" box in Thunderbird and the path is exactly the same as the Inbox but substituting "Spam" in lieu of "Inbox".

Is this possible? Help! What do I do?

Many thanks

Robin

I am currently using Thunderbird (128.6.0esr) on a Mac with OS Sonoma (14.7.1). I have used Thunderbird for many years with a Gmail account on both Windows and Mac machines, and it has always worked well.

But a couple of days ago when I tried to open Thunderbird it went into some kind of loop. The MacOS spinning beach ball appeared and would not go away no matter what I did or how long I waited. The only way out was to Force Quit Thunderbird. Rebooting the Mac and trying again produced the same results.

I have logged into the Gmail account on the web and had no trouble accessing it. But every time (and I have made many attempts) I try to load Thunderbird the spinning beach ball appears again.

I cannot check any of the various settings that Help articles have suggested checking since Thunderbird will not load at all.

If anyone can suggest how to resolve my problem, I would greatly appreciate it.

I am using Thunderbird 128.6 in an attempt to get away from Microsoft Outlook. I still use an outlook.com address though through IMAP on Thunderbird. Each time I send a message I am getting two copies in my sent box. I understand this is because Outlook sends an automatic receipt for the email and this gets filed in my sent box along with the original message sent. The receipt from Outlook is always larger in size than the original message, presumably because of the garbage added on to the header ID. An earlier post suggested filtering out these receipts if one can identify a standard item in the receipt which could be used to filter. I have established that the receipts headers always end with, in capitals, 'PROD.OUTLOOK.COM' but the filters in Thunderbird appear not to permit the header to be used for filtering. Any suggestions how I can use this identifying aspect to automatically delete these messages as soon as they hit my sent box?

All of a sudden I have no emails since January 13th, when I usually have emails every day. I tried sending myself a message as to why no emails, and thunderbird would not allow me to send a message to myself. Based on this I'm sceptical whether an email will reach me. What can I do?

After new installation of windows 11 and Thunderbird at 15.Jan 2025 the connetion to my e-mail accounts cannot be opened by saved passwords - every time I open Thunderbird I have to tip in my passwords. Very uncomfortably.

How I can get access to internet-links via Firefox or Windows Edge to open the links in Thunderbird ---> new installation of Thunderbird at 15.Jan 2025 after total new installation of Windows 11

Hello - Some years ago I had old Emails recovered by the support team which were indeed fully deleted in all folders of T'bird. They directed me to the online version to achieve the recovery and it worked well. I am need again and cannot locate those instructions. To be clear, the procedure was from the support team guiding the way. Anyone have possession of these instructions or algorithm, or a better method that still works? Many thanks :)

I have been using the old Microsoft Calendar app on my laptop to manage my Google calendar which is also shared on my android phone, but the MS Calendar app no longer works after the latest Microsoft update. I decided to switch to using the calendar in Thunderbird since I already use it for email. But I get an error if I try to import a single calendar event from a .ics file.

I successfully shared my entire Google calendar read/write in Thunderbird and I can create new calendar events, so I know that it is writeable. But when I attempt to import a .ics file, I get an error saying "Import failed unexpectedly. more information may be available in the Error Console." I don't know how to view the Error Console, so I'm stuck. I can see that Thunderbird opens the .ics file and previews the contents just fine. But the last step of the import process fails.

Why won't Thunderbird import the calendar invite in a .ics file into the calendar from my Google account?