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Thunderbird is taking several minutes to start up initially

When I start Thunderbird 128.5.2esr (32-bit) on my Windows 10 Home PC Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045, it has become increasingly slower recently. I have been using it for… (read more)

When I start Thunderbird 128.5.2esr (32-bit) on my Windows 10 Home PC Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045, it has become increasingly slower recently. I have been using it for many years now and up until this year it would typically start in ~30 seconds.

I am accessing three separate POP email accounts and each of them has a number of subfolders with important stored messages. I thought that perhaps I had just too many folders and messages, so I removed hundreds of the stored messages and some of the sub folders. I routinely compact all accounts.

Today, it took over 8 minutes for Thunderbird to open. Incidentally, once it opens initially it seems to perform normally thereafter.

Is there something that I can do to speed things up?

Thanks in advance, Rich Green

Asked by Rich Green 6 months ago

Last reply by frisée 6 months ago

Email message body contrast

Hello I noticed the email's message body section, there is a noticeable contrast against the app's theme background. Please see attached screenshot. I digged through the … (read more)

Hello I noticed the email's message body section, there is a noticeable contrast against the app's theme background. Please see attached screenshot. I digged through the settings and can't quite the right option to fix this.

Essentially the message body's background is pure white and the app's background is a light color but not white. This is observed on both thunder bird android and k9 mail

Asked by mhp3jv 2 months ago

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Missing an archived mailbox

Please do you have an answer to my problem : many archiced gone folders ? I would very deeply like to recover all the folders lost since my action, his morning.… (read more)

Please do you have an answer to my problem : many archiced gone folders ? I would very deeply like to recover all the folders lost since my action, his morning. Thank you very much Bernard bernard.zamora@free.fr

Asked by 26zw9wvy4h 6 months ago

Last reply by Mapenzi 6 months ago

NO INBOX EMAIL

When I allowed the last update on Thunderbird, it removed all of my incoming emails. I cannot get email through Thunderbird. Secondly, in the settings for deleted email… (read more)

When I allowed the last update on Thunderbird, it removed all of my incoming emails. I cannot get email through Thunderbird. Secondly, in the settings for deleted emails, it puts them back into all of my files. NOT GOOD! Why can't I have my emails show up in my inbox?

Asked by silvereagle63 1 month ago

Yahoo Email download on Mac

I have uploaded my Yahoo email to Thunderbird and have now downloaded that to my desktop as POP. I see various folders as both "Mail" and Imap in my Profile on the Mac,… (read more)

I have uploaded my Yahoo email to Thunderbird and have now downloaded that to my desktop as POP. I see various folders as both "Mail" and Imap in my Profile on the Mac, with various subfolders as per my Yahoo email. When I open the various files, which are in detailed folders in the Imap folder, they are only visible as complex Text files. Is there I can open them with Outlook or Word, or something else easier to understand? Many thanks, Charles

Asked by charles.d.dilworth 5 months ago

Last reply by Mapenzi 5 months ago

I only want to know if there is a Firefox - setting called "DNS over HTTPS

One of my favorit websites recomends the Firefox setting "DNS over HTTPS" and I dont know how to make this 'cause I cannot find this setting, please can someone explain m… (read more)

One of my favorit websites recomends the Firefox setting "DNS over HTTPS" and I dont know how to make this 'cause I cannot find this setting, please can someone explain me a solution?

Thanx in advance

"The Herminator" from Germany

Asked by hermann 9 hours ago

火狐的拖拽搜索功能以及拖拽链接打开新网页功能怎么没有了?

使用火狐十几年了,这是我最喜欢的功能,其他浏览器均未默认这个功能,现在火狐怎么也没有这个功能了?

搜索各种问答说要启用“进入扩展附加组件管理器的选项设置,勾选“启用拖拽手势””,但附加组件管理器没有“选项”了,是火狐把这个功能取消了吗?

Asked by leochu90 3 months ago

Last reply by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 3 months ago

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Right click acting strange

When i right click then i see a huge list of options i never had before, and open in next tab, copy and paste are no longer working. Added a screenshot of half the list … (read more)

When i right click then i see a huge list of options i never had before, and open in next tab, copy and paste are no longer working. Added a screenshot of half the list of options i see when right clicking. It includes copy and mut and full screen options for video that i never had before.

135.0.1 (64-bit) on Win11

Asked by audiom8tes 4 months ago

Answered by audiom8tes 4 months ago

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possible bug in Thunderbird for Android

I just installed Thunderbird for Android on my Pixel phone for the first time. I have used Thunderbird on my desktop PC for many years, so I am very familiar with Thunde… (read more)

I just installed Thunderbird for Android on my Pixel phone for the first time. I have used Thunderbird on my desktop PC for many years, so I am very familiar with Thunderbird in general. I used the "Export for Mobile" feature on my desktop installation, to import my account settings into the Android installation.

For the most part, Thunderbird for Android works great, as I would have expected. However I am seeing a problem which appears (to me) to be a bug. When I compose and send an email on my phone, and then look in the "Sent" folder on the phone, the email that I just sent shows up there. But only on the phone. If I open Thunderbird on my desktop PC and look at the Sent folder there, the email that I sent from the phone is not there. Apparently, it only gets placed in the phone's Sent folder, but it does not get copied to the email server.

A few other details: -- I use Thunderbird on 2 different desktop systems, a PC and a Mac. When I send email from either of those, that email DOES show up in the Sent folder on the other system. Emails that are sent from either desktop system also show up in my phone's Sent folder. So I know that the Thunderbird desktop application does upload the message to the email server's Sent folder correctly. But Thunderbird for Android does not upload its sent emails.

-- I don't know if it matters, but my email server is Microsoft 365, hosted by GoDaddy.

-- As far as I can tell, the most obvious setting for this is the "Upload sent messages" checkbox, which can be found in the "Sending mail" section of "Account settings" in the Thunderbird Android settings. This checkbox IS IN FACT turned on. I could not find any other settings which could possibly affect the copying of sent messages up to the email server's folders.

Is this a bug? Any ideas what might be causing this? Thanks for any help.

Asked by Bruce H 5 months ago

Answered by Bruce H 5 months ago

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Your Thunderbird profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.

I have a new HD and installed Linux Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS. I installed Thunderbird version 2:1 snap 1-Oubuntu3. The program will not open Just get "Your Thunderbird profile … (read more)

I have a new HD and installed Linux Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS. I installed Thunderbird version 2:1 snap 1-Oubuntu3. The program will not open Just get "Your Thunderbird profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible."

Asked by Claude Chmielewski 4 months ago

Answered by Claude Chmielewski 4 months ago

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Import Outlook Calendar into Thunderbird

Hello and THANK YOU for Thunderbird and I am looking so forward to getting off Outlook! I am about 4/5 way through setting it up on my desktop. I currently keep my ca… (read more)

Hello and THANK YOU for Thunderbird and I am looking so forward to getting off Outlook! I am about 4/5 way through setting it up on my desktop.

I currently keep my calendar on Outlook. I have been able to import my folders, contacts and mail, but when I go to import the Calendar, the box on import cannot be selected. Is there something else that I need to do to bring over my calendar? Did I miss step when I did the initial set up?

Asked by Rade 4 months ago

Answered by Rade 4 months ago

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Can't get other dictionaries working

I am (again) running into trouble with spelling. I got this offered to me: https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu-sn&channel=fs&q=how+to+set+dictionary+in+f… (read more)

I am (again) running into trouble with spelling.

I got this offered to me: https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu-sn&channel=fs&q=how+to+set+dictionary+in+firefox

Doesn't quite work. Wrong things declared, etc.

I see a "badly spelt" word. Double click, go to add dictionary.

To the best of my knowledge, it is installed. Others point me to about:config spellcheck.dictionary

But that is not really offered to me when I am typing the name. So probably doesn't exist.

I'm trying ITMT, but would like some help please.

Asked by shykitten55 5 months ago

Answered by James (On Leave) 5 months ago

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How to avoid dark mode ?

I love Thunderbird. It is fast, robust and efficient. But now, every time I launch the app, it is in dark mode and it is difficult for me to use it because of my terrible… (read more)

I love Thunderbird. It is fast, robust and efficient. But now, every time I launch the app, it is in dark mode and it is difficult for me to use it because of my terrible eyes. How can I turn off dark mode ?

I use Thunderbird on Fedora 41 Gnome. Thanks in advance for your help.

Asked by kidcreole38 6 months ago

Answered by kidcreole38 6 months ago

How do I change the sidebar toggle shortcut key combo to something already in use?

I'd like to use CTRL+S instead of CTRL+ALT+X to toggle the sidebar visibility as it's quick, easy, and memorable. I don't save webpages so that functionality wouldn't hav… (read more)

I'd like to use CTRL+S instead of CTRL+ALT+X to toggle the sidebar visibility as it's quick, easy, and memorable. I don't save webpages so that functionality wouldn't have a shortcut key anymore (and i'm fine with that). I know i'd have to edit an autoconfig file but i'm not sure how i'm supposed to go about that. That is to say, where are the autoconfig files saved? how do i edit them to achieve my goals?

Asked by Yseult 2 months ago

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Export a specific account

I have TBird version: 128.6.1 esr (64 bit). I have several accounts and I want to back up just one of them. However, they all use the same folder (.../.thunderbird/<n… (read more)

I have TBird version: 128.6.1 esr (64 bit).

I have several accounts and I want to back up just one of them. However, they all use the same folder (.../.thunderbird/<name>.default) for storage so Export only wants to store this folder. Drilling down using "Browse", I see that below that are all the folders stored as ".../.thunderbird/<name>.default/Mail/<My account>". If I just copy this folder, can I restore this account in the future if I copy it back to this location? I want to retain the contents as the account is going to be closed and removed from its server. Thank you.

Asked by FoxJT 4 months ago

Answered by FoxJT 4 months ago