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Title. Thunderbird is a really cool client but it's pretty slow. I blame that on the thousands upon thousands of emails that my hotmail and gmail each hold. I don't necessarily want to delete these emails, but I have seldom a reason to have any email older than 2 months in my thunderbird client slowing and crashing the program whenever I want to combine inboxes.

To this end I went to "Synchronization & Storage" and told it to "Synchronize the most recent 2 months" but it didn't delete the huge cluster of older emails. The next option is to tell TB to delete these emails in the same menu but as I understand it that would also delete them in the server, which I don't want to do for posteriority.

What do I do?

This is the message I get when trying to send emails: "Sending of the message failed. An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: pgbentley101@gmail.com recipient rejected. Please check the message recipient "pgbentley101@gmail.com" and try again."

Please tell me how to remove the notice of new emails that comes onto my computer when I'm working with a different program. It's very distracting and annoying. Thanks.

When I transferred my icloud email account to TB only a few of the 15 folders were transferred. Troubleshooting first with Apple, I was told to delete the account and re-create it. I did but that did not restore to lost folders. How can I get the rest of my folders to transfer?

There are times when I have 100's of messages in my INBOX, and others where for some reason, TB has my current message way below. So, on MacOS at least, I get the side bar active and I move it to the top. But I thought how clever it would be to have a button that simply reset the view to the top-most (current) message.

Get this error message when I try to send an email:

"Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) mail.twc.com timed out. Try again."

Spectrum blames Thunderbird. How can this be fixed??

Hi, I kept OS Snowleopard around for years too long in order to keep using Eudora. I finally got fed up with viruses/crashes, having to rebuild the mailboxes, but I was never able to find anything to take its place and have frankly been limping along ever since. I regularly need to find things going back months, years, and even decades. It used to be simple with Eudora. Recently, one of my parents passed away and I'm kind of the family scribe, so I really need to pull together all the past communications, from Eudora (going back to almost 1990), gmail, yahoo, my website, icloud, my college alumni address, my Ronin Institute address, my 15 Sonic addresses--and there's probably a few I'm forgetting offhand. I really need to consolidate them. I tried various email clients, including years ago a previous version of Thunderbird, but they were a lot of work to set up and couldn't handle all the email addresses.

I see better reviews of Thunderbird now. Can Thunderbird really handle all those email addresses? Since my Eudora mbox files are still on OS Snowleopard, and I'm running Macbook M1 with the latest OS now, what's the best way to incorporate the entire archive of messages and also start hopefully wrangling current messages (like I haven't been able to since I had to stop using Eudora)? Eudora pretty much only did POP well, and I actually did appreciate having my data on my own computer, but now there are some email accounts I'd prefer as IMAP and others as POP. Is it possible to mix them? Is it possible to download AND keeps messages available for viewing by phone? This situation has been a problem for me for years--I was just wondering if there might be any volunteers at Mozilla who might be willing to spend a few hours on the phone with me to help me bring my email into the 21st century? Nearly every day of my life I have to let someone down over something I can no longer do or find because I don't have Eudora. But the problem doesn't go away just because I find another program that does some of the things Eudora did--I really need some help integrating everything. Thanks so much for all you do!

for years I have used Thunderbird, and during that time have replaced serveral old pc/laptops. My new laptop when trying to open Thunderbird asks for a password. I have no record of that anywhere!! So how do i create a new password or gain acess to use Thunderbird. Im using Windows 11

Haven't been able to download incoming emails on this laptop. They are downloading on my Tablet. I'd be grateful for any ideas about what I can do to rectify this. Not too complicated - I'm 83!!anks

Hoping something will turn up on my Tablet Th

Unbelievable I know but when I open the highlighted email sent to the highlighted recipient it's a email that was sent to someone else!!! This has happened regularly since Supernova and I am sorry to say as a user of Thunderbird for donkey's years (I have donated several times) this is of course unacceptable. Unless you can quickly tell me what is wrong and fix it I will be having regrettably to change email platform to someone else.

In quick filter toolbar I am missing to search by from, to , subject, body as it was in TB112. Without using addons, such as Expression Search this would be a major flaw of the new TB115 in the usability.

Since I updated to Supernova, I've been unable to resolve issues related to constantly expanding subfolders and not being able to access folders due to summary file issues. My sent and trash folders disappear randomly and I can't see emails in other folders with repairing them, which doesn't always work. I've used Thunderbird for many years. Sadly having to pursue another option.

My Thunderbird client has been automatically deleting emails marked as "trash." I changed the setting to move trash to a speified folder, but the button to select the folder does nothing.

I am trying to set up a new email address on Thunderbird but comes up as a POP account. I then set it up on another computer and it comes up as IMAP. I have tried setting up the IMAP manually but Thunderbird rejects. I have uninstalled the app and re installed it.