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I just pressed Enter and the whole topic disappeared. Why? Why do you do this? This is my whole subject: Why do you do your things automatically, when I try to do manually? You have a great EMAiL-software: Thunderbird. Why do you want to screw it and the user? Computer usage should be reliable. I have lost so many EMAiLs since you broke the EMAiL paths logic with threads. Why? Why did you want to make it complicated? I had a good filing system with Thurnerbird for years. Why did you have to break it? Why didn't you even make it optional, but mandatory?

How can I get the old EMAiL-filing back without the Thread-Paths? Please help!

I didn't ask this immediately, but during the years, I have lost so many important EMAiLs (again today), that now I ask.

I get this message .. and therefore no emails are downloaded, and no email can be sent ..

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Secure connection failed

Error connecting to updates.thunderbird.net. PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR

Error code: PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR

The page you are trying to view cannot be displayed because the authenticity of the data received could not be verified. Contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

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does anybody have an idea what to do ?

thanks beforehand, and best regards, alex

Good day! I'm using version 137. How do I sort messages from fresh to old (from top to bottom), and not the other way around? My correspondence can be very long, and it takes a long time to find what I need. Previously, this could be fixed with plugins, but now they don't work.

In the Thunderbird windows menu list, below minimize and zoom, the message subject line is lost (says "Mozilla Thunderbird" only) for incoming messages, but not for replies. Where can I fix this? --- Using Thunderbird Desktop Version 128.8.1esr on MacBook Air M2 with MacOS Monterey 12.5

I've been using Thunderbird for many years (since Eudora) and now I unloaded Beta version. My surprise has been that I loosed my Address Book. Beta version did not copy the non Beta one. How can I transfer my old addresses book to the Beta version without doing it manually?

If I check both For at most X days and Until I delete them does it simply indicate the latter supersedes the former up until X days, at which time, messages will be positively removed server side?

Thanks!

I have added Gmail and another account successfully to Thunderbird, but when attempting to add Icloud Mail it fails and says to check passwords, etc. Using the same credentials I can log into the icloud website successfully, so it is not my userid or password.

I tried the method discussed here for the gmail issues but that made no difference.

Adding Icloud mail is the last account I need.

Any ideas or anyone else with same issue? Platform is Linux.

My email host Claranet has said to gain access to my account I have to change my security settings to TLS/STARTLS or SSL/TLS. I have tried this but Thunderbird won't connect.

My email host requires changes to connection settings (this is for an existing account), specifically to increase security but also specifying new incoming and outgoing server names.

I have meticulously copied the settings provided by the host for this purpose but Thunderbird will not (cannot?) connect to the server.

Thunderbird is not asking for my password, nor does the password appear in TB's 'Saved Passwords'.

So I tried 'Add Mail Account', entered all the new settings manually, but TB responds 'Incoming server already exists' (presumably because I had already changed the existing account settings?) - see screenshot.

Should I remove the existing account before trying 'Add Mail Account'? Although that would seem unlikely to work, since the existing account with the new settings does not connect.

Support from my email (and broadband) host has been practically useless, so I thought I would ask the wonderful brains on TB forum if they can give me any clue as to where things are going wrong?

I am running Thunderbird 115.18.0 (64-bit) on Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia (base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy). My goal is to create an offline copy of a 13 GB gmail account in local folders and then delete all the custom IMAP folders to regain some free space in gmail storage.

I am achieving this by: 1) Setting up an IMAP account in Thunderbird for the gmail account. 2) Enabling local storage of all folders (in Settings and set config flag, etc). Changed gmail settings to unlimit the number of IMAP downloads. Set Thunderbird account concurrent connections to 15 (gmail max). a) Edit/Preferences/Advanced/General/Config Editor: mail.server.default.check_all_folders_for_new = true 3) Click on each IMAP folder in Thunderbird to initiate download of that folder. I don't see this documented anywhere but it doesn't seem to download the messages in each folder until I do this. 4) Turn Thunderbird offline and ask it to download all emails before going offline. 5) Copy all folders from the gmail account in thunderbird to local storage. 6) Turn Thunderbird back online. 6) Delete custom IMAP folders in Thunderbird gmail account to clean up gmail online storage.

In my mind, step 2 should be enough to force a download of all emails in all IMAP folders. I added steps 3 and 4 because it's unclear when this process is complete. Especially given gmail IMAP bandwidth limits: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1071518?hl=en

My questions relates to step 3 and 4. In step 3, I don't really have any way to know when Thunderbird has finished downloading all emails from all the gmail IMAP folders. I'm experiencing the typical gmail login issues and throttling due to too many concurrent connections and given this it could take days if Thunderbird can even keep track of which messages downloaded and which got errors back from gmail.

How do I know when Thunderbird has finished downloading messages prior to going offline? Does it notify me with a dialog or do I just have to keep hovering over the Offline toggle periodically until it actually says offline?

Any constructive tips on how to confirm everything is downloaded or process improvements, etc.

Thanks, pi

Opened Thunderbird today April 7, 2025 and the oldest email was from 2:58 PM April 6 2025. All my extensive collection of folders and old email have disappeared. New messages arrive in my inbox just fine. I suspect that there is a folder still on my hard drive somewhere with all the info in it. It appears that Thunderbird just can't find it for some reason. How can I help Thunderbird get back to using that file?

I have turned off the junk mail/spam settings, both globally and for each account. I have rebooted several times. Each time, while the settings all say junk screening is turned off, each account has junk mail moved to the junk folder after IMAP sync. I run my own mail server. It is not doing this, Thunderbird is. Does anyone have any idea how to get the program to follow what I actually want? Why have the settings if they don't actually do anything? Getting very frustrated here.

I open a reply box to an email and the background changes from white to black, so all the text disappears. Or, It opens in white and my response comes out in white and it all disappears. It's annoying to have to change the font color for every reply. Anythings easier? And why is this problem even there?

hello. I have thunderbird mail on my windows 11 computer and android phone and for the last month I have had difficulty receiving and sending mail. Sending attached files is not possible at all. best regards håkan magnusson xxxx@bahnhof.se