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I was using my email receiving and send in the late evening everything was fine. Next morning I get up and now I cannot send emails. What the heck happened. I've been using outlook and I hate it. I want my Thunderbird back. First it comes up with box that says "login to smtp.gmai.com with user name has fail.' Then asked to enter new password which I don't have but I try different passwords anyway. After a few tries it seems to connect to something and tries to send the message. But after a few seconds nothing happens. Did Thunderbird update that night and bigger things up? I'm so upset.

Hello, after updating the last version 128.10.0 I cannot send emails anymore. I read online about possible solutions, nothing worked. I have an updated Windows 11, my provider is KPN (Telfort). Telfort is a company that has been taken over by KPN, but I can still use my Telfort email address and smtp.telfort.nl as smtp address. That has not changed. I tried several adjustment for the smtp adrress, but the problem remained.

 I hope you can help me, thank you.

Hi. I am trying to set up thunderbird on a new travel computer using gmail accounts. I enter the username and password and press done and it brings me to a screen saying thunderbird wants to access your google account, telling me to press allow. But there is no allow button to push (see screen info below). I have changed my accessibility settings to see the full screen but there is still nothing. I can't do this without an allow button. Help!

Mozilla Thunderbird Email wants to access your Google Account undefined <redacted>@gmail.com This will allow Mozilla Thunderbird Email to: More info Read, compose, send, and permanently delete all your email from Gmail Click for more information More info See, edit, download, and permanently delete your contacts Click for more information More info See, edit, share, and permanently delete all the calendars you can access using Google Calendar Click for more information By clicking Allow, you allow this app and Google to use your information in accordance with their respective privacy policies. You can change this and other Account Permissions at any time.

Hello, My TB account is setup properly and I am getting mails from my gmail account. But when I compose mail on my TB account I am not prompted for any address completion while composing the e-mail. On Thunderbird and my web gmail there are many e-mail ids in the inbox.

How do I make TB so that it prompts me with these e-mail ids which are in Inbox when I compose mail?

Any help will be apprecated. Thank you, Deepak

The ability to insert and resize images in-line with email text is a major function in my use of email. There have been at least two add-ons that smoothly and efficiently accomplished this task in previous versions of Thunderbird, the most recent being 'Shrunked Image Resizer'. Both those add-ons became unavailable due to updates to T-bird. Please Please allow compatibility with an add-on that does this. It is a make-or-break issue for me. Thank you.

For some years now I have been unable to delete some messages which, when deleted, keep reappearing multiple times in the Trash folder and in the original folders. This is extremely frustrating of course. Hoping you might be able to help. Regards Adrian

I have gone to windows and set the mailto up as Thunderbird being the default app. I have placed the shortcut in Thunderbird in %appdata% for the user.

If Thunderbird isn't open, and I right click on a file on my desktop, send to - Thunderbird, it will open Thunderbird, but it will not begin a new email and attach the file to the email.

Is there another setting I need to do to get the right click - send to working?

Hello Frinds!

Please help me find a solution to a fatal Thunderbird crash that erased the Inbox folder and its subfolder structure. All emails have disappeared, and the cause is unknown. Tried "View" but did not help. Didn't find any local program tools to restore the before-crash-state.

Here are the details:

1. The incident happened due to a random, uncontrolled cursor movement in the bottom left corner of the program window using the "drag and drop" feature. There was no clicking involved. Or maybe it was a coincidence: happened when Thunderbird was upgrading.

2. The current version of Thunderbird Portable is:128.10.0esr on Windows 10 Home.

3. As a result of auto backup creation on the day of the crash, the backup was overwritten by the corrupted original.

4. The size of the main folder has not changed, so I believe the files needed for recovery are still available.

Is it possible that this disaster is the result of a version update? So so far, Thunderbird worked seamlessly.

Looking for help. So far, I have not been able to find a solution, including with the assistance of AI. Thank you in advance.

Best, Max

Years of email folders have been rearranged and all my current client email folders are gone. Other folders are now in gray italics. This just happened suddenly when I went away from my computer for a few hours and then returned. I've tried to restart but nothing has improved. I opened my Gmail account and everything is also rearranged and/or missing from Gmail. This is my business, so I'm very concerned.

Hi,

Using the latest version.

I've just done a search for a text string and have a list of messages 600 exactly. I select all and right click and "Move messages to", and select a folder name.

Nothing happens.

If I do it on a single message the message moves successfully. A group of two messages also appears to work. Sometimes a group of three will work but anything more than that, nothing happens.

It does appear to think the messages have been moved because when I right click, in the menu I see "Move to <foldername> again" as an option. But If I use the option "Open Message in containing folder", it takes to to the Inbox and not the folder.

If I open the Activity panel, When I try 1, 2, or sometimes 3, I see an entry appear moving the message/s, but when I try to do them in bulk, no entry appears.

I have 600 messages to move, how can I achieve this?

When trying to update Thunderbird on Ubuntu 24.04 the installer says "Quit to Update". I have quit Thunderbird and unpinned from task bar, restarted and still the same. I then decided to uninstall and used 'sudo apt remove Thunderbird' which says it was removed, I then used 'sudo apt purge Thunderbird' which comes back with Package 'Thunderbird' is not installed, so not removed. So tried again, Guess what same result! Any Ideas please?

sudo apt purge thunderbird Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Package 'thunderbird' is not installed, so not removed 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 3 not to upgrade.

Receiving this error a couple times a day when using Thunderbird: "The folder 'Inbox' could not be compacted because writing to folder failed. Verify that you have enough disk space, and that you have write privileges to the file system, then try again."

I can delete some emails but for the most part, everything in the Inbox cannot be deleted. I have looked at other forums but I haven't found a concrete set of steps to get this error fixed. I am not very familiar with the inner workings of Thunderbird, so more details on how exactly to get this fixed if possible would be appreciated.

Per the subject line, Thunderbird is no longer emptying trash on exit. There have been some other quirky behaviors over the last several months but I didn't write them down. Is there some kind of clearing of cache or some other procedure needed to rectify this?

When we moved, our internet service provider did not provide service at the new address. As a result, they killed my IMAP email account I had for more than 20 years. There is a Thunderbird profile folder located in Users\name\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\********.default-esr\ImapMail\. It is 49GB in size. How do I get Thunderbird to access this folder and these emails? Do I rename it and/or move it to a different location? Please help. Thanks.

Right now Thunderbird is taking all my deleted Comcast email and undeleting it. It's doing it for every folder and going back to 2008. This happened about a year ago o a gmail account. I hope it doesn't hop over to gmail when it's done with Comcast. This is TERRIBLE! Did a setting change with the last update? What can I do other than manually go through thousands of emails and re-delete?

Every time Thunderbird upgrades, my Comcast account access breaks complaining of needing a new password. I have tried everything and nothing works - other than to leave everything alone. Then, about 2 days later, it just works again... until another Thunderbird upgrade gets pushed out. Is there any way to prevent this other than to forego future updates?