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I am receiving the following error message when I try to download messages from my Comcast.net account:

The RETR command did not succeed. Error retrieving a message. Mail server mail.comcast.net responded: Message 41395 expunged.

This just started happening yesterday, and I can no longer download any messages from the account. Comcast has no clue why this is happening.

Please can you stop updating Thunderbird, or at least give us poor users the option of whether to accept them? Every time you update it I like Thunderbird less.

I was guided to use Thunderbird by my computer repair man when Outlook Express became unavailable to me. Gods, I miss good old Outlook Express; I could do anything I wanted with that.

My thunderbird works okay, but when I select emails from imbox folder to delete it takes too long. I researched to find the problem and the only option I found was to add an exclusion to the profile folder on my windows security antivirus. Now I can select emails from the imbox and delete them without a problem, but my concern is if I will be vulnerable to virus.

After suffering a disastrous loss of email caused by our web hosting service I've begun to use the Archive function in TB.

The objective is to not lose emails caused by others than myself.

Where are TB Archive folders located specifically? (yes, I understand they are somewhere in my default identity)

If I make a copy of the Archive folder contents located on my computer, put it in a stick drive (for example), delete the entire Archive folder contents located on my computer, can the backed-up folder contents be copied back to the former so that the emails will appear in TB as before?

Or, perhaps you can suggest a simpler way to backup emails?

Thanks,

Craig

Been using ThunderBird for many years to access my ATT email account ( [edited] @pacbell.net), but for the last three days it won't allow ThunderBird to access it and download emails. Have reloaded T-Bird, Changed passwords,, etc. but no good. Called ATT twice and they say since I can download from ATT sites it's T-Bird that's the problem....why after this many years???

Tom Sailers [email removed from public]

I am getting desperate as the harder I try to sort this out the bigger mess I get in.

I think after about 20 years I may have to stop using Thunderbird but I do not know what other Email client to replace it with as they all seem to be confusing.

The archiving problem particularly relates to gmails but I cannot understand the gmail webmail system at all - it seems to sort emails into categories I do not understand or need or want to use.

I cannot send a screen shot easily due to the confidential nature of emails

Hello, have the latest version of Thunderbird (102.5.0.) in Windows 11 Pro. I'm using 6 IMAP accounts there.

I want to stop check mails automatically in one account, so I unchecked: - Check for new messages at startup - Check for new messages every 10 minutes - Allow immediate server notifications when new messages arrive

Problem is thunderbird still checks for new mails of that account and shows me notifications. What is bad please?

Tried to clean install of thunderbird, didn't help it. Thank you

Gmail refuses to allow Thunderbird to connect as it is "less secure" app. I used to have access using a "app password" but now even that does not work. Microsoft will be doing something similar this fall. So ThunderBird will not be able to work with Microsoft or Google mail servers. I installed OWL as a temporary work around, but I have multiple email accounts on several domains, and "ModernAuth" seems to use a web access and cookies, which means only ONE email address per domain can be used. What is the work around?

I have Thunderbird 102.4.2 (64bit) for Linux. With this upgrade, the "subfolders" now open at startup. I have to then close each one. It is most annoying. How do I prevent this? Thank you.

I have made many attempts to move Thunderbird from my old Windows machine to my new one. The old machine was running Windows 8.1, the new one is Windows 11. I've exported, then imported using all the different ways listed but can't get all the data. I've had some success doing it one account at a time including my address book and accounts setup information and they are working properly but can't get the folder data for my accounts or any Local Folders for some reason. I don't want to mess up what I've been able to successfully migrate so I'm reluctant to doing a mass migration again. Is there a way I can migrate doing it one folder at a time without messing up the other ones?

I'm migrating to a new computer and from Windows 10 to W11. I have successfully exported/imported the contacts using the export tool, but cannot figure out how to ex/im the calendar. I am using a SanDisk drive to move the files. Both systems have TBird 102.1.2 (64-bit).

Please give step-by-step instructions to do the calendar (only) ex/im. I do not use the Mail feature.

Hi

Why does Thunderbird want all my personal information.......??

I'd be MORE THAN happy to make a donation to support you guys, but I am NOT happy about all the info I have to provide - and frankly I'm bot going to be bullied into giving info I don't want to. I donate to Wikipedia and they don't ask such intrusive questions - so why do you? You say that less than 2% of TB users donate - this PROBABLY the reason why they don't...!

And the fact that there is no direct link to ask somebody ask question about this subject, is really frustrating.

Thanks

When I receive a message in Thunderbird and click Reply, the Write window opens with some of the quoted text in the reply — that which has more than one line in a paragraph — containing overlapping lines. That overlap does not occur in the original received message.

Hello Community Please help me to start again with Firefox from scratch. Last Month I downloaded Thunderbird email app and set up with a new email account using mailfence. Now I find that my mailfence email address was only a free trial and I have to pay to continue to use. I now wish to set up with my original free email with gmail. I did uninstall the Thunderbird app and then installed from fresh. Unfortunately it still has the mailfence email remembered in the Thunderbird App. How so I start again from scratch using my gmail account instead of the mailfence account that has now expired? Thank you in anticipation of you help.

My mom's version of Thunderbird is crashing a lot on exit. She's running the latest version of Linux Mint as OS. What is going on with this crash and how can we prevent it?

AdapterDeviceID: 0x0106 AdapterDriverVendor: mesa/crocus AdapterDriverVersion: 22.0.5.0 AdapterVendorID: 0x8086 Add-ons: google%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,amazondotcom%40search.mozilla.org:1.1,bing%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,ddg%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,wikipedia%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,default-theme%40mozilla.org:1.2,langpack-en-GB%40thunderbird.mozilla.org:91.0buildid20220628000715,langpack-en-CA%40thunderbird.mozilla.org:91.0buildid20220628000715 AvailablePageFile: 56758272 AvailablePhysicalMemory: 121081856 AvailableSwapMemory: 4186173440 AvailableVirtualMemory: 1174671360 BuildID: 20220628000715 ContentSandboxCapabilities: 119 ContentSandboxCapable: 1 ContentSandboxLevel: 0 CrashTime: 1661903862 DOMIPCEnabled: 1 DesktopEnvironment: mate FramePoisonBase: 9223372036600930304 FramePoisonSize: 4096 InstallTime: 1659837862 IsWayland: 0 MozCrashReason: MOZ_CRASH(Shutdown hanging after all known phases and workers finished.) Notes: Linux Mint 21FP(D00-L1000-W00000000-T000) WR? WR+ OMTP? OMTP- libGL.so.1? libGL.so.1+ GL Context? GL Context+ ProductID: {3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6} ProductName: Thunderbird ReleaseChannel: release SafeMode: 0 SecondsSinceLastCrash: 17313 ShutdownProgress: xpcom-shutdown StartupCrash: 0 StartupTime: 1661900719 TelemetryEnvironment: {"build":{"applicationId":"{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}","applicationName":"Thunderbird","architecture":"x86-64","buildId":"20220628000715","version":"91.11.0","vendor":null,"displayVersion":"91.11.0","platformVersion":"91.11.0","xpcomAbi":"x86_64-gcc3","updaterAvailable":false},"partner":{"distributionId":null,"distributionVersion":null,"partnerId":null,"distributor":null,"distributorChannel":null,"partnerNames":[]},"system":{"memoryMB":3820,"virtualMaxMB":null,"cpu":{"extensions":["hasMMX","hasSSE","hasSSE2","hasSSE3","hasSSSE3","hasSSE4_1","hasSSE4_2"]},"os":{"name":"Linux","version":"5.15.0-46-generic","locale":"en-US"},"hdd":{"profile":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null},"binary":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null},"system":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null}},"gfx":{"D2DEnabled":null,"DWriteEnabled":null,"ContentBackend":"Skia","Headless":false,"EmbeddedInFirefoxReality":null,"adapters":[{"description":"Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 2000 (SNB GT1)","vendorID":"0x8086","deviceID":"0x0106","subsysID":null,"RAM":0,"driver":null,"driverVendor":"mesa/crocus","driverVersion":"22.0.5.0","driverDate":null,"GPUActive":true}],"monitors":[{"screenWidth":1366,"screenHeight":768}],"features":{"compositor":"none","hwCompositing":{"status":"available"},"gpuProcess":{"status":"unused"},"wrQualified":{"status":"available"},"webrender":{"status":"available"},"wrCompositor":{"status":"blocklisted:FEATURE_FAILURE_WEBRENDER_COMPOSITOR_DISABLED"},"wrSoftware":{"status":"available"},"openglCompositing":{"status":"available"},"omtp":{"status":"broken"}}},"appleModelId":null},"settings":{"blocklistEnabled":true,"e10sEnabled":true,"e10sMultiProcesses":8,"fissionEnabled":false,"telemetryEnabled":false,"locale":"en-US","intl":{},"update":{"channel":"release","enabled":true,"autoDownload":false,"background":false},"userPrefs":{"browser.cache.disk.capacity":1048576,"browser.search.region":"US","widget.content.allow-gtk-dark-theme":false,"widget.content.gtk-high-contrast.enabled":true},"sandbox":{"effectiveContentProcessLevel":0,"contentWin32kLockdownState":3},"addonCompatibilityCheckEnabled":true,"isDefaultBrowser":null},"profile":{}} TelemetrySessionId: 005b2f8d-19e8-4128-baf4-545bddbf06e6 ThreadIdNameMapping: 4740:"IPC I/O Parent",4748:"JS Watchdog",4750:"TaskController Thread #1",4749:"TaskController Thread #0",4762:"GLXVsyncThread",4766:"WRWorker#0",4768:"WRWorkerLP#0",4767:"WRWorker#1",4769:"WRWorkerLP#1",4814:"Breakpad Server",8745:"IMAP",8747:"Shutdown Hang Terminator", Throttleable: 1 TotalPageFile: 8192700416 TotalPhysicalMemory: 4005740544 URL: about:blank UptimeTS: 3143.70473289 Version: 91.11.0 useragent_locale: en-US

Keeping got massage: The folder 'Inbox on parkerlin@hochien.com' 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.

Have clean up all In box mail and compacted it, but still has same problem .

After updating Thunderbird to the new version 91.9.1, most of my email messages disappeared.

An error message was displayed after updating to the new version. Thunderbird restart chashed and I started the program again, just to noticed that the messages were not anymore in the folders.

How can I recover my messages?

Andy

I've used TBird for years as my program for email. Monday, Oct. 24th, a window popped up, saying my "user name" was not valid. Another window said to "retry, change Pword" BUT I can go to the Centurylink.net web site for email, sign in, using my user name, and 'old' password and get in. It seems that the problem is with TBird or Centurylink. Century link is in progress of selling to Brighthouse. Note: on their email site, I've lost a lot of emails, but it seems to work. At least, I can receive and send emails thru their site! I've checked my TBird account for SMPT settings. (another window that pops up saying "check smtp settings") They are correct for highermark@embarqmail.com. the default setting reads:" Outgoing server-smpt.embarqmail.com(default). I just want someone to enable me to use my user name so I use TBird (with all my emails and info)......or tell me what to do.....or fix the problem.

 I may have to eliminate TBird program and try to start over, with importing? IF so, how can I delete the TBird program? I'm using Win. 10. Settings? mjm