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Is it possible to install Tbird on different filesystem separate form the OS without having symlinks coming from the OS area i.e installing it like a portable?

I checked out a couple of Thunderbird-*.tar.xz packages from the [[Mozzilla Archive.|https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/]] Mozzilla archive. Unpacked them in the target area and discovered that the permissions of the executables were not suitable, not set to execute it was all read/write.

The official only gives you the option of the default, $HOME and no where else. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/installing-thunderbird-linux ' "Why do this: Putting Tbird and its profile together in a separate area allows me to keep a long term backup of an account before I delete it. It becomes a trivial matter of restoring and access the contents without relying upon an existing tbird installation. This is trivial in Windows with a portable Tbird, it only adds about 350MB to the backup.

Hi Thunderbird team,

I use Thunderbird on Linux Mint and would like to use it on my iPhone too.

Could you please prioritize the iOS app and share an updated timeline for a public beta or TestFlight access?

My email- [redacted email from public community support forum] @gmail.com

I would be interested in testing an early version and providing feedback.

Thank you,

Guneet

A couple weeks ago my TB V.159 crashed and I was prompted to create a new profile which I did, but I made the mistake to set the new profile as a POP account. This profile loaded and I found that a few archived subfolders were missing. Also, I'm not able even now to find a "sent" subdirectory that stores my newly sent messages and so I don't know what's happening to them. In other words, my TB V.159 is not usable.

My plan is to delete my current TB software, but before doing that, (in my Windows 11 computer), I'll change my AppData\[redacted]\Roaming\Thunderbird subfolder to AppData\[redacted]\Roaming\OLDTunderbirdOLD. This change will ensure that I don't lose any user profiles in the Thunderbird subdirectory by accident during uninstall and re-install.

I'll then download TB, and I'm inclined to download V.160 if the consensus here is favorable, and then build another user profile set as IMAP because under no circumstances do I ever want TB to delete data on my Network Solutions Internet Host server.

A final question, how do I find the password I'm currently using for TB to download my email from Network Solutions?

Many thanks for the help. Tom

Strangely, when I navigate to Thunderbird Help and ask my question it brings me to the instruction page which says to follow instructions below. And there are no instructions below!

I signed up for Thunderbird. Again. I've been a user for 20+ years. for the last month, I kept getting a message saying it needed a password from/for yahoo. I was stuck.....I didn't know the password and could not get rid of that message, and I couldn't open Thunderbird

So I uninstalled Thunderbird, and just minutes ago tried to reinstall. I got to the donation page, donated, but I never got Thunderbird. I cant get mail from Thunderbird. In fact, I'm not sure it's even installed. Can you help me?

Steve Tilton 847-902-5050 PS.....don't email me, as I don't have Thunderbird installed, thus no email. If you must email...please send it to : srt1002@gmail.com

Trying to install Thunderbird (the EN-GB) version on Linux using apt. I have found the package to install using the help and used apt-get install thunderbird-l10n-en-gb This command also pulls as a requisite the base thunderbird (the "en-US"/default version) which may or may not be reasonable? When I go into thunderbird help after the install finishes the "about" still shows "Mozilla Thunderbird Debian Package en-US" I know the difference is only subtle (small spellings etc) but I would like to have some confidence in what I am actually running, Is this a bug or was it just never checked? I have attached the help about image below.

Hello, I did a mistake, I installed 2 instances of Thunderbird, one pointing to the system disk and the other to the user data disk. How do I remove the instance that points to the system disk? Best regards

Trying to install an older vesion of Thunderbird, but keep getting this error: Could not get OAuth2 details for hostname =imap.comcast.net

I would like to uninstall my Thunderbird 32-bit and then install the 64-bit version. Or could I just install 64-bit on top of 32-bit? Are there any disadvanteges with going to 64-bit?

Why thunderbird needs a specific version ? Why the newest versions aren't compatible with windows 7 ?

I have more than 100 pc running mainly Mozilla tools on windows 7 which does the job perfectly. I don't want to pay $15000 fees for an unnecessary upgrade.

What new functionnalities windows 11 brings that prevent Mozilla to compile the same versions for all windows OS ? This forces people to abandon their windows 7 and to pay fees to Microsoft. I understand the later, he does his business. But why Mozilla helps it ?

I just bought a new Mac mini. My info/programs were transferred from old computer to new, but now my Thunderbird mail app shows as corrupted. Should I trash the old corrupted version before or after installing the new? I can't find version here because old version won't open for me to look.