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I can receive messages but when I try and send, I get this messaage:

"Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because connecting to Outgoing server (SMTP) failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections. Please verify that your Outgoing server (SMTP) settings are correct and try again."

I checked the settings and nothing has changed that I can see. I used the standard template for setting up Thunderbird on Gmail and It just suddenly stopped working. When I go directly to gamil there is no problem with sending or receiving a test message to myself. I tried running a virus check with McAfee and it couldn't find anything to fix. I tried restarting the router the fiber cable is hooked to and it worked for a day or less and now back to the same issue. I don't know how to flush that router.

I recently spent some time in Australia where the time is 10 hours ahead of the UK. When I returned home I set the PC timezone back to UK and all appears well. Messages in my inbox and sent items have the correct timestamp. However, if I forward an email from my inbox that has a timestamp of 18 April 16:26, the embedded header appears like this:

Subject: WokinghamMay Fayre - Booking Confirmation Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 01:26:33 +1000 From: Alan Rouse <mayfayre@wokinghamlions.org.uk> To: spike.phillips@kingschurch.org.uk

This implies that it thinks the time zone is Australia, namely UK + 10 hours (UK time is UTC + 1:00). I have checked Thunderbird settings and they appear correct, saying the Date and Time Formatting is Regional settings locale: English (United Kingdom) and Date Text Format is Use system timezone

A jpg atttachment no longer opens with right click. I have looked at settings, in files and attachments and have tried, open with photoshop elements, open with firefox, always ask, and save file. None make any difference. I can right click on the attachment and the menu says open, save etc. click on open and nothing happens.

Hi, I recently changed the password of my Google account, and now I am facing this issue where I can't add my account in Thunderbird. I removed saved passwords and also cleared all cookies. I tried to add the account in troubleshoot mode, but the result is still the same. I don't know, but Thunderbird says my configuration was found in the Mozilla ISP database. I am guessing that is the root cause of this problem. Please someone help me with this. I have a lot of emails and uninstalling Thunderbird and setting it up again is not an option here.

I subscribe to a number of RSS news feeds. In one of them, the notifications have a read more indicator so the whole post doesn't appear in Thunderbird. However, since the 7th April update to Thunderbird, this is being ignored and the whole post is appearing in Thunderbird. As the posts include answers to crossword puzzles still to be solved, this is annoying.

I was trying to do a search through my e-mails in Thunderbird for a specific, single word term. Thunderbird gave me a response of 284 items with my search term. When I looked through them NONE of them had the search term I was asking for. They all had portions of the search term but none of them had the full word. As I said it was a search for a single word. Is it possible to get Thunderbird to search for what I actually asked for?

By all, I mean images, json files that appear to be configuration for TB, not just remote http(s) links. This makes reading mails with inline images annoying at best, impossible at worst. The browser quickly fills up with rubbish.

I go to the inbox and one of the boxes says i have 5 messages but none of them are displayed. I'm afraid I have hit one box too many or screwed up some other way. I'm 90 years old. Looking for help

After almost three weeks of hacking I finally solved my [are not working] problem. (It was very difficult, including creating a new `https` setting and hand-editing the profile's `handlers.json` file.) So now I can finally open links in emails like I could in TB 102 before upgrading to 128. Since I have "Always ask" set, I get a dialog with a choice of which web browser to use. All good.

Problem is that the browser dialog pops up a minimum of once per hour whether TB is open (not minimized/iconified) or not. (I leave TB running at all times, often for months at a time.) This is annoying, particularly because the URLs are to internal TB infrastructure, usually but not always https://notifications.thunderbird.net/2.0/notifications.json.

What should I do with these JSON links? Many don't even have a filename in the URL, so I can't save them in my profile folder even if I wanted to. If TB wants them as updates shouldn't it know where/what to do with them, and do it? I suppose I could turn off "Always ask", which I don't want to do -- would TB handle the URLs correctly then? Or would it just open the link in the default browser and I'd be worse off than I am now? (I usually just "Cancel" the dialog and don't go to the URL.)

It would be even better if I could completely turn off all notifications, period. I always have "Check for new messages every ... minutes" turned off and manually check my POP/IMAP messages when I want to. I'll update TB when my Linux distro has a new version. In fact I've always noticed that TB runs continuously as a background process, adding a small percentage to a CPU core's usage. Is there any way to turn this off, too, so that TB is completely quiescent until un-mininized and "Get Messages" or "New Message", etc. is clicked?

Any help appreciated. I've used Thunderbird exclusively as my email client for over 20 years, and IMO these kinds of new features and the breakages they cause have made things continuously worse since the days when I used TB 68 and 78. BTW, I've tried all the above in 115 and 137 with the same problems.

I would like to know if there will be the monthly releases available as .deb package. I use the mozillateam's PPA, but I just get the latest ESR version there, and I would like to get the latest monthly releases, like we get with Firefox. Maybe create an official apt repository, similar to the one we have for Firefox? Thanks.

I created a 2nd account years ago and it has worked since then. Now when I create a third account, it works well but when I disconnect I loose the account and have to recreate it again. How come?

I have filters set up to file emails to a second IMAP server email account. The filters are set up to copy then delete the email as the source is Gmail. When I get two emails in a row that match the same filter, the first email copies and then deletes as the filter specifies. The second email does not copy but does delete. The filter logs show that both copy and then delete.

Since a while my maila ddresses are no longer autocompleted. Browsing through this forum I ried different approaches but nothing helped. How did this happen and how can I get back to what I had? Thanks in advance, Silke