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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."

Hello, Linux environment is running on my chromebook, thunderbird has been installed. 2 issues: - When I try to install an extension, I always get a message "This extension will have permission to have unlimited access to thunderbird and the computer". and I'm stuck. The add button does not trigger any action. This does the same thing if I want to install a dictionary from the settings. - I have no access shared folders like my Drive on my Chromebook, despite having Linux sharing enabled. Thank you for your help Céline

I have Thunderbird on my laptop and also on my desktop. I have had for years.

I have not experienced problems. I like Thunderbird.

However for 9 days now I can'r receive emails on my desktop even though, with the same settings I can on my laptop.

I have spoken at length with my broadband provider (Sky) and my business web hosting company (Ionos). Neither has been able to help. They both recommend contacting Thunderbird (ie Mozilla).

I am using the same email address and server password as I do on other devices including Sky Web mail on a browser, successfully. However it doesn't work with the Thunderbird desktop email client I have installed (which is also the most up to date).

Please help

Hi. From the Wayback machine. We have an older iMac (2011?) in the office running OS X 10.6.8. The version of Thunderbird is 45.8.0. This system used for Email in updating customers, has been used right up until this past week.

We have used GoDaddy for Email for years without any issues, until this week. Godaddy migrated all Email over to Outlook/365 on Monday. We cannot send a thing.

Contacting Godaddy's Migration department, we were given a new server (smtp.office365.com) for outgoing Email. It simply doesn't work.

Obviously, our entire system is outdated, and needs to be upgraded, but is there any way that we can use this system for now, because if is so important to get these Email message sent!

Would any other service/server be compatible with this antiquated system so that we can complete this project?

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Jerry

jerry@redshark.com

When I move an email from my Inbox to a folder, every now and again the screen refreshes and I find the emails in my Inbox are now threaded. I turn off threading by View>Sort By>Unthreaded and the view reverts to how I want it . . . until I move another message to a folder when (sometimes) the same thing happens again. Please advise, as it gets extremely annoying to have to repeatedly turn off the Threaded view.

I was not getting email so I installed the new version. Now my entire email inbox is empty. When I click GET MESSAGES, I get a message "ADD SECURITY EXCEPTION" with details. What do I do now?

Hey all,

My dad is one of those guys who lets their inbox get very very large. We're talking 5000+ messages large.

Yesterday all of his subfolders - each containing anywhere from a few to several dozen emails - all just suddenly appeared empty. The main inbox folder still seems OK, but it's the sorted, categorized emails in the subfolders that are important.

I can still see the subfolders's extensionless data files in the Inbox.sbd folder - all quite sizeable (20 to 200 megabytes) - so I know the data is still there. I even opened a few in Notepad and, sure enough, the email data lives on.

What I tried:

- "Repair Folder" on folder properties - Deleted all MSF files and restarted Thunderbird so it could rebuild the index files - Created a new directory and subdirectory under "Local folders" and copied the extensionless data files (without MSFs) into its storage folder - Created a new profile and copied the extensionless data files to its email storage folder

Nothing worked. When the subfolders appear in Thunderbird and their index files rebuilt, they still show as empty, and right-clicking to view their properties shows a non-zero filesize, but "0 messages"

So, I'm at a loss. Hoping there is an easy way to recover the emails, since I can see them plainly when viewing these data files in a text editor.

Thank you ever so much for your help. Really appreciate you guys offering up your time to help people in need.

- jt

Working with my ISP, I am trying to determine why my "trash" automatically empties itself despite my setting both in Thunderbird and in the settings with the ISP. I am at a total loss. When accessing the properties of the Trash folder, I have it set NOT to delete any emails in the retention section, but yet, when opening the program, without any notification or warning, many trashed emails have disappeared.

I would want to decide when mails are to be deleted. Can you provide any explanation or any advise as to avoid losing "trashed" emails. Thank you.

Ken Yeager - ken@wriede-yeager.de

I have set up several folders and subfolders, with auto filtering in my Thunderbird. When a new mail goes to a subfolder that is nested in two or more folders, the display for new message on the side does not appear. For Example: "Grantparent Folder" (1 new mail)

     |-> "Parent Folder" (doesnt display the new mail is here)
            |-> "Child Folder" (displays there is a mail here after i open up the Parent folder)

This is a problem because there a several Parent folders and I have to open up each one of the in order to find in which Child Folder the mail went to.

Any ideas would be appreciated. Thank you in advance

TB 115.7.0 I have about 8 filters that move messages from inbox to subfolders by using a word in the subject l for the filter. It works for part of the messages, but not all. I can run the filters manually and all messages are moved correctly. Why are some being moved on receiving them as expected and some only if I manually run the filters? Before manually running the filters some of the messages are not filtered at all and some end up in the junk folder. As stated, if I run the filters manually, they are moved as expected. This has been happening for quite a while under previous TB versions also. All filters are enabled and set to run upon receipt of the email Before Junk filter. TIA

It takes a while to figure out which Thunderbird you're talking about in your emails! Tell us from the start so we don't walk down the wrong road trying to figure out what's the topic. Thunderbird sports and Thunderbird mail all have the same followers and fund-raising issues. Thanks!

Numerous users of Thunderbird have expressed their total dissatisfaction with the recent upgrade, especially the new font and layout in the email lists. Why has the Mozilla team ignored requests to return to the previous load to restore the font and list displays? Do you expect users to support your product when they totally do not like the new version?

bigger and cuter imojies would be great. email backgrounds would be nice too like Incredimail had. It would make it more fun to use your program and I bet you would get more users.