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Thunderbird is not saving IMAP message bodies to my home computer.

My settings: - Keep messages in all folders on this computer is checked. Under "Advanced" all the folders are checked for download. - Synchronize all messages locally regardless of age is on.

If a message has some significant graphics there is a fairly long delay before the body is shown. I know that this is a characteristic of IMAP. But if I close Thuderbird and return to it later, the same message will again have the download delay. Clearly it is not being stored on my computer.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you, Paul

After getting fed up with the Outlook app on windows. I decided to switch to TB. Now i can recieve my mails but can't send. I don't Use VPN and also checked if Windows Firewall is screwing things up. But those are allowed

Without the following. Unable to login to server (SMTP) smtp.office365.com with username *****@hotmail.com has failed (Translated from dutch)

These are my Settings incoming IMAP server: outlook.office365.com, 993, SSL/TLS, OAuth2 authentication, User Name = *****@hotmail.com outgoing SMTP server: smtp.office365.com, 587, STARTTLS, OAuth2 authentication, User Name = *****@hotmail.com

I'm dealing with a properly updated 'bird: 140.5.0 (32-bit) running on an equally updated Windows 10 desktop. First thing this morning, out of nowhere, I started getting an "unable to write the email to the mailbox..." message when sending, thus I could send but not save. And then I realized I wasn't receiving either, on all three accounts in my Thunderbird. I stopped everything and focused on trying to fix this. It's been an all-day, losing effort. So far.

I tried the various quick checks and fixes recommended here and there: I'm running the program as an administrator. I restarted the program. I rebooted the computer. I think I have enough disk space, but to be sure I deleted some bloat from possibly overly large files. I compacted, even though the program is configured to do that regularly. I temporarily disabled my antivirus program. I went into my webmail and deleted all messages that have arrived since my Thunderbird stopped receiving, in case one of them was corrupted. And probably some other attempts as well. Nothing has helped.

And now a second, even worse issue has fallen from the sky. Thunderbird opens. The folder list is where it always has been. The number of unopened messages in each folder is there in boldface, as always, but...the folders are all blank and I get the dreaded popup: "unable to open the summary file...." Have I lost my years' worth of carefully curated emails?

I've tried folder repair. I've deleted parent.lock. Etc. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.

I will be super-grateful for any wisdom sent my way.

Facebook require a selfie to log in. I have one in my video camera but Facebook say I must provide access to my camera through my browser settings. I have searched browser settings but cant find anything that will satisfy Facebook. What can I do?

I have lost my profile in firefox, i have an account sync but after restarting my pc i lost everything and seems the profile is not existing and when i re log with my account i did not recover anything.

Please help me it is a big problem.

Thank you

I've been extensively relying on the `Ctrl+Alt+X` shortcut to spin up the selected chatbot in the sidebar, but ever since I reset my pc (complete reset, cloud download of windows, clear all apps and files) and re-installed firefox, the keyboard shortcut isn't working for me anymore.

I installed firefox with chocolatey, upon noticing that the shortcut had stopped working, I tried to downgrade to v145, which didn't help either. So an uninstall and re-install later (this time manually downloading the installer exe), `Ctrl+Alt+X` still doesn't work. Although hovering over the chatbot's icon in the sidebar shows the shortcut in the tooltip.

More info: `choco uninstall firefox` created a backup of "Old Firefox Data" or something similar, could that have somehow persisted the malfunction across installs?

Any help would be appreciated! System: Windows 10 Pro Firefox: 146

My last email received was Dec.28 ,11:PM ,today Dec.29,8:30 AM with nothing to update my e-mails as of this writing .I usually have many emails every morning ??????????

As of this morning, I cannot get or send email via thunderbird. I spent over an hour with aol, who determined that all of the settings are correct. I can read and send email on aol's website, but not via thunderbird. Instead, I get a pop up window that reads:

Login to server pop.verizon.net with username rsmedelg failed.

I have three options: retry, enter new password, and cancel

This has happened in the past but I do not remember how they fixed it.

I am at my wit's end.

My old memory is that years ago they had changed the password without telling me.

For some time the feature to use color in text has not worked. I deleted and re-installed Thunderbird but no change. I cannot change the font color when typing an email, and making changes in the settings has no effect, either.

I have my "signature" saved as an HTML in color, and it also will only display in black.

Any articles and solutions posted seem to be for people using Macs or some other kind of computer. I have Windows 11 for a Lenovo Idea Pad 5. Thank you in advance for any and all guidance you can offer.

Would like to see these enhancements made to Thunderbird:

1. Add recipient email address to view. This could be added next to the sender email address, separated by something like a pipe character "|" and identified by "From: ", "F: ", "Sender: ", or "S: " in front of the sender address and "To: ", "T: ", "Recipient: ", or "R: " in front of the recipient address
2. Add search filter terms to search capability. Some example filter terms would be 1) "mailed-to:" or "recipient" to search for emails sent to a specific email address or domain (using wildcard), 2) "mailed-from" or "sender" to search for emails sent from a specific email address or domain (using wildcard).

I have recently installed version 146.0.1 on a new computer, was using 115.10 before. I regularly put about 50 emails in my outbox using the mail merge add on and then send them in one go. I have done this very successfully for a long time using my Fastmail email account. Now after sending about 10 of the emails, Thunderbird hangs and I have to restart it to send the next 10. If I send them via my Gmail account it still works fine. I am trying to understand if this is a Fastmail or Thunderbird issue. I would have liked to try it on my new computer but with version 115.10 but cannot do this as it seems that the Profile is different.

Any advice gratefully received.

Thanks Bob

I moved my email from Eclipse webmail to Thunderbird. I cannot import all my old email messages into Thunderbird. Thunderbird is only showing email messages from the day I signed up. My Eclipse Webmail is still accessible and the old emails are still there (it's IMAP). I went onto Chat GPT and was given various options to get the emails to sync but no luck. Now run put of options. Any suggestions?

Eclipse webmail being withdrawn but always used Thunderbird to open it on PC. Archive from 2007 saved in Local Folders in Thunderbird on PC. Once Eclipse is gone can I still open old e-mails in local folders ?