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I am unable to connect Thunderbird to my “Personal” Outlook.com mail account. I installed Thunderbird on a new laptop with Win11-home. I connected to yahoo and icloud without issue. In the past I used an app-specific password to connect Thunderbird to Outlook. But Microsoft no longer allows me to make app-specific passwords on a personal account. I have two factor authentication on the MS account. I have tried turning off virus and firewall protection, without success.

When I create a new email account in Thunderbird I get the following error. “Authentication failed. Please check the username and password - Exchange auth error”

If I put my personal name in the Your Logon field, rather than my email address, I get a Microsoft screen pop that shows “oauth2” in the URL. But if I click the personal account they present it quickly fails.

Is there a workaround, to fix this, since I can’t get a app-specific password and have two-factor authentication on my Microsoft account?

Thank You for any help you can provide. I have spent a day researching this without success.

Kurt

I must have changed something because T'Bird no longer starts. I was trying to copy TB file from Win 10 to a Win 11 PC. That failed because some files could not be copied. But now TB is not starting up. I checked the Start folder and it is in there.

Suggestions please.

Yesterday I opened Thunderbird to find that it was trying to download 8205 emails. 15 emails actually downloaded, there were no messages in SPAM folder. The notification at the lower right showed 300 more had 'downloaded' before I shut off the internet, went into Safe Mode, ran a virus check to find no threats found. No SPAM was recorded in Thunderbird when I went back online. There were, however, several files with large attachments so I don't know if this is a glitch regarding data vs. actual number emails because when I checked for updates (see attachment)

I discovered that since Version 115.4.2 I HAVE NEVER BEEN NOTIFIED OF UPDATES OR *FAILURE* TO UPDATE. AUTOMATIC UPDATES have been turned off and will remain turned off due to nearly dialup speed lack of bandwidth. I will abandon Thunderbird for having a fatal programming defect before turning on automatic updates.

My actual email provider did not show 8205 additional emails so I am concerned about a possible malware backdoor. Today 15 emails downloaded while the little notice at lower right said it was trying to download 113 ghost emails. I shut off Thunderbird and came here to post the problem. I will update Thunderbird, but need to know if there is a temporary file cache or some other hideyhole that the ghosts (or some attacker) might be storing godnosewhat so that I can either quarantine or delete them?

my email, shepherd@gilanet, stopped coming through at 12 noon. I called the server, gilanet.com and he had me delete the shepherd@gilanet.com account and then readd it. It won't let me add the account. It says it can't find the server. They put in a trouble ticket but don't know when they will get back to me.. Any help would be appreciated

thunderbird doesn't recognise (I'm australian we don't use z's anymore) my password and keeps on wanting me to enter a new one I enter every password I have had in the last 32 years at least and still no then all of a sudden it sends a message. I reuse that password and it won't accept it.

I had to install Windows 11 fresh because of multiple issues with my PC (I upgraded from 10 to 11 6 months ago). I installed Thunderbird fresh, and am trying to get it to see my existing data with is on my D drive. I browsed to the folder in Account Settings, but it's not showing up. I have years of mail and don't want to lose it.

There are too many options in the help for me to know which are actually related to my situation. I thought I was ready to do this, but am surprised at how difficult it is compared to the last time I did something similar.

Any help, even just pointing me to the right place to look for help, is appreciated!

Thanks!

"Login to server pop.verizon.net with username druckerm failed." I can't get my email anymore. I've tried entering in a new password, but that also fails. Thanks for your help, Marilyn

For no apparent reason, my Thunderbird email account which I have had for years without any issues has stopped downloading emails. I can still send emails, but the download bar just keeps going eventually giving me the message below.

My internet provider is Verizon and the email I am linked to is AOL mail.

Any help would be apprecaited.

hi

i have 2 pc's using tb , one can sign in to my outlook.com acct, but the desktop pc can not. have checked all setting etc

the working installation is on esr update channel, other on is not [so i have 2 difference tb versions]. both are updated

if anyone sees in a forum that i had email trouble recently pls note that i now have an old backup of win10 in service on the desktop pc. haven't yest found my way back to that forum to post the results of using peoples advice but they were very helpful

thanks if anyone can assist

Two nights ago I uninstalled ExpressVPN from my system at the instruction of one of their "support" people. My computer immediately lost the ability to access half of the websites I tried to visit and Thunderbird wouldn't send or receive email. I rebooted and that fixed every issue, but since then, Thunderbird no longer checks for new messages for any of my accounts. If I manually instruct it to check, it downloads the messages with no problem. I don't use any add-ons, and I'm using the latest version on a Windows 11 PC. I have already tried deleting global-messages-db.sqlite, repairing each mail folder from within Thunderbird, clearing the cache, and running an install of the latest version. I have also tried changing the setting for each mail folder to alter the interval for message checks by a minute just to see if that would jog it, but no luck. I've looked at various other help threads for this and am out of ideas. Thanks in advance for any help.

Thunderbird stopped getting incoming email. I can log into my email via a browser to my email provider and get current emails that way, but not through Thunderbird.

I AM able to send emails, and they are received at the other account. However, they don't show up in my Thunderbird "sent" folder.

My provider tech support was unable to help me correct this, but all settings appear normal.

I restarted Tbird, and rebooted the computer. Nothing changed. I'm running windows 11.

Thunderbird randomly archives a significant percentage of my emails. I would like to stop that and control which email is archived. Is there a way to accomplish this? Thanks.