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How do I restore emails from an email backup (that is NOT a backed-up profile zip file) that has been saved using ImportExportToolsNG? I used ImportExportTools NG to create an email backup. The backup is in the forms of files in a set of folders (calendar-data, crashes, datareporting, extensions etc.). It is not in the form of a zip file.

I keep getting the error "Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox." when I try to get my messages, or delete them.

I have tried: Restarting TB Shutting off my anitvirus and restarting TB Rebooting the computer

This started sometime yesterday (7/6) morning, at a time when I was not doing anything on my computer. Or at least that is the last mail that downloaded successfully I am using release 140esr (64 bit) supposedly released this morning.

Hello {Mozilla} World! I want to transfer my emails, with attachments, from g-mail into TB Local Folder. I thought doing this first would be my best bet before migrating to a personalised email address.

Brief History: I installed TB, with the Default Profile using a g-mail address. The g-mail Server is set to never delete Emails. The Default Profile is set to synchronise so that all data is, supposedly, downloaded onto my computer.

Email Attachments have not, fully, downloaded even though individual Email Sizes appear to include Attachments. I have to open an Email and then open an Attachment before the Attachment will even begin to download.

Current Situation: I do not want to have to open 8K+ emails, even after culling junk etcetera, on a case by case basis. I do not want to have to go all Anakin Skywalker on the sandpeople @ g-mail.

I know how to get info from Settings and Account Settings. Please tell me what you require me to go fetch.

Thank you! Brian.

bold textI bought new Mac Air, asked Apple Store to transfer all data. I know all the data is indeed transferred but I can't access it. Previous Mac was 2017 so Intel chips, so I did activate Rosetta but still can't access data

I have tried to add this address to my address book. Normally, one clicks on the icon and a pop-up appears to modify information and confirm entry into address book. This address always shows up as "not in book," clicking has no apparent effect, until one checks the address book and now duplicates exist.

First image you can see that Freeman is in the address book Second image you can see that Tbird thinks the address is not in the book Third image after I've clicked and no apparent action is taken, a duplicate appears.

When this bug first appeared I had clicked on the icon multiple times, and multiple entries appeared in address book. I deleted them all, tried again, bug still happens.

139.0.2

Hello: I need help importing or fixing a Thunderbird Profile in that I want to import it so I can see the folder listing of messages.

For the Profile Path am I correct: C:\Users\DonB\AppData\Roaming\Betterbird\Profiles\t70e12zz.default\Mail\outlook.office365.com

as I have outlook.office365.com as my email provider.

Thanks for helping me! Reply to: <redacted>@mail.com [[Donald BockMail|https://1drv.ms/u/c/f1c69e25e0d2390a/EQo50uAlnsYggPENLQEAAAABjMckcPhUnd39tO-xLTsM-w?e=Dsm63a]]

Dzień dobry, mam problem z wyszukiwaniem wiadomości odebranych. Gdy wchodzę w wyszukiwarkę CITR+K i wpisuję jakieś wątek lub maila osoby korespondującej thunderbird wyszukuje mi tylko wiadomości wysłane, a niestety nie mam podglądu na odpowie. Wcześniej funkcja działała i miałem zbiorcze wyszukiwanie wiadomości odebranych i wysłanych. Prośba o pomoc.

Pozdrawiam, Sebastian Burski <redacted>

Good day,

I have a problem with searching for received messages. When I enter the CITR+K search engine and enter a thread or the e-mail of a correspondent, Thunderbird only searches for sent messages, and unfortunately I do not have a preview of the replies.

Previously, the function worked and I had a collective search for received and sent messages.

Request for help.

Best regards, Sebastian Burski

On 7/5, I noticed that my archive folder and all it's sub-folders were empty. I am in those folders every 2-3 days. So, not sure when they went missing. Looking for any assistance with recovering over 20 years worth of information.

My ISP has a spam filter. It's not perfect, so I don't just have it delete spam, I set it to put messages they determine to be spam in the spam folder. Then I can go through them and catch those that aren't really spam and use them to train the ISPs spam filter by marking them "NOT SPAM" on the server. All good.

But there are a few that send literally HUNDREDS of different spam messages over say a year's time. And I'd like to mark these to DELETE by FROM address or even just domain. So I set them up as manual message filters, with a DELETE action. But since the ISP moves these to the SPAM filter befure Thunderbird even sees them, the Thunderbird message filters miss them. And they'r there in my Spam folder. This isn't critical, just annoying.

So, is there a way to mark messages to DELETE in the SPAM folder? It appears that the message filters can't see them because they're already i the spam folder.

Greetings

After updating to 140 (release update channel), IMAP folders keep downloading all emails in a folder, even though the vast majority of them are already local. I get the message "Downloading message x of y in folder" and it goes folder by folder, some of these folders have a lot of mail so this can take ages.

I do have a lot of folders and emails, I have tried compacting and searched for weeks, and only very old and not exactly this issue, any ideas?

Daveed

Hello,

I work in a dental clinic and my colleague and I no longer have access to our email inbox.

What can we do?

Please answer at this email mej@<redacted>.com.

Thank you

I have an intermittent problem deleting email. This is a recent problem that has never occurred before, so it may be a problem with a recent update. Usually deletion works fine, but occasionally when I try to delete a single email, nothing happens. If I shut down and restart Thunderbird, the email can be deleted with no problem. This seems to happen right after I "Get Messages", or after I try to delete while new messages are or have just finished loading. Any suggestions?

I'm trying to send an OpenPGP-encrypted email from a Linux Mint machine using msmtp, relaying through the smtp server, to another Linux machine, to myself, running Thunderbird (with the sender's (my) imported private key already loaded and working in Thunderbird).

The encrypted test message is composed manually as a file (email.eml) and sent using msmtp from the command line. The email successfully passes through the SMTP relay, is received and decrypted by Thunderbird (so the OpenPGP decryption part works that much I know ... ), but the plain text content is not rendered properly and the email is displayed blank, no plain text as expected. Thunderbird has decrypted the message, but it’s not being displayed or rendered.

This makes me think the issue lies in the structure or MIME headers/parts of the .eml file itself — specifically how the encrypted message body is wrapped. This is not something I'm entirely familiar with, and even less so with what Thunderbird expects for a PGP encrypted message...

I suspect the issue is due to incorrect MIME formatting or missing headers (Content-Type, Content-Transfer-Encoding, Charset, or boundaries etc.) needed for Thunderbird to correctly render the decrypted body into plain text once it receives it. Since I’m assembling the .eml manually (and eventually by a script whej I get to it), I may be overlooking certain structural requirements that typical mail clients (say Thunderbird or similar) or gpg front-ends (like mutt, mailx ...) would handle automatically.

My questions are: Is there a correct MIME structure or format expected by Thunderbird for OpenPGP-encrypted emails ? Is this documented anywhere specifically for Thunderbird ? Or, are there publicly available examples or specs that describe how such an email should be structured (e.g., RFCs or working .eml templates)?

Is there a known way to validate or "lint" .eml files for OpenPGP compatibility ? That would be nice ;-)

As I said the internals or MIME formatting is not my thing usually. Any pointers to Th.B. documentation, sample files, or tools that help with .eml structure validation would be grately appreciated.

Thanks in advance, cheers MM

We have 3 different laptops on the work thunderbird email and the one that has been on it the longest now says that it cannot verify the identity of our work server.

When we go to verify the certificate, it says that the certificate name does not match the report. How does one go about fixing this?

Would it make a difference that the laptop has been out of the country for a few weeks as well?

Hi,

I'm experiencing issues with threaded view in Thunderbird (version 139.0.2 on Windows). Some threads do not display all messages -only a few emails are shown (e.g. 2 out of 8), and others are missing from the thread view even though they are present on the server. Rightclicking a message and selecting "Open message in new tab" sometimes works (but still doesn't show all messages), and sometimes it doesn't open a new tab at all. the missing messages do exist on the server, and I can find them using Ctrl + Shift + F , but they do not show up in the thread, nor do they appear via Global Search, even though the global index has finished building.

I have tried the following: -Right-click folder > Properties > Repair folder -Deleted and rebuilt global-messages-db.sqlite (global search database) -Reduced IMAP mailbox size from 140GB to 110GB -Waited for reindexing to complete

But the problem persists. It seems that Thunderbird either doesn’t associate all related messages with the same thread, or skips them entirely in display and search.

What can i do to fix it? Thanks in advance

Recently, after upgrading to 140, I noticed that text replacement on MacOS (Sequoia, here) seems to be functioning differently within Thunderbird; differently than in other apps I use.

What's happening is when I type a known shortcut, say "pr", the modal for the replacement pops up; if I continue typing my preferred word, the text replacement is simply inserted. I now otherwise have to press ESC to stop this. Before, I could ignore the pop-up modal and just keep typing -- that is what we expect in other apps, and this seems to be the case in Firefox (which I'm using now, and it works fine). This suggests there may be some change or difference in TB that is causing this unwanted behavior.

I do not see that there are any settings to change this -- but before I dig too deeply, I want to understand why this change was made and whether I have a choice or setting I can fix this -- or if it's a bug.

Thanks!