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I've been searching for a few days for a solution to Yahoo Mail not downloading to Thunderbird, I've seen other people with the same problem, I've tried different solutions, but at this point I've given up. My Gmail is still downloading but I have to check my Yahoo Mail via a browser. What gives? Why did this happen in the first place?

I have Windows 11, I've updated Thunderbird.

Just what it says. Using the latest version of Thunderbird on Windows 11 Pro.

I have had my usa.net account use the same IMAP settings forever; I double-checked my settings and they are correct.

Now, I get a LOT of email on that account -- I typically download it when I hit 10K messages. This usually isn't a problem.

I tried moving all of my current Inbox (already in TBird) to my archives. I was then able to download about 1K messages and then it stalled downloading. Said I either didn't have write access to the disk or had a file permission. I'm not seeing anything on the web interface for usa.net on this.

Now, I have 3 other IMAP accounts on T-bird -- 1 is never used (default from my ISP), a 2nd is very light traffic (mostly I stick with that email provider because they are small and still have private shell accounts) and the 3rd is my business vanity domain--high traffic but not the same as usa.net (where I get ALL my receipts for any online purchases, daily newsletters, help forums, etc).

Any idea what may be going on? Please be kind; I am not a programmer, just a more tech-savvy than the average bear (as in if IT is busy at work people ask me for regular stuff).

If any more info/filedump stuff is needed to see what's going on, please do let me know and I will tag it up asap.

Thanks again, community!

Hello,

let me tell you that I have a few hundred email filters defined, and they (almost all) work fine.

There are three filters that cause problems, and it looks like the problem sticks to the sender.

Let me expand: FAZ, REWE, and Campact cause problems. Two out of three emails from these senders can't be moved to the target folders. I get a pop-up messeage telling me that I have to repair the folder. I do so, and a few days later the same problem comes up. Just for these three senders.

I searched all folders for filters for these three and removed all filters I could find.

Then I created a new folder as a child to the inbox folder, and a new folder inside of this folder to hold emails from FAZ. I defined a new filter rule, as the old ones were removed. Worked for a few emails, and, voila, the message pop-up came again, telling me there are problems moving the email over to the (new) target folder.

Let me repeat: all other filters work fine, just emails from these three senders cause problems.

Any idea where I could have a look, a switch to check?

One last information/idea: all three have different email addresses they send from, I will check the ones that do not work, maybe there is a clue.

I am using POP3/SMTP, not IMAP.

Hoping for a tipp, a clue, an idea -

Georg

I have an email from "Wells Fargo" that would auto forward to another email. I removed the forwarding to that other email but Thunderbird keeps forwarding that email each time WF sends an update. Do I need to delete the WF filters and restart Thunderbird or is there something deeper that needs to be done? Thanks for your help kenb

When I try to download messages from Proton’s inbox, I get this message: “Thunderbird. The current operation on ‘Inbox’ did not succeed. The mail server for account loiscodling@proton.me responded: no such mailbox.. .”

If I access the account directly through Firefox, the inbox is visible with a large number of files in it. Mail in all the other folders on Proton has downloaded correctly to Thunderbird, but not the inbox.

Six emails I received on 11/3 had their body content totally replaced by a photo contained in an unrelated year old email I had received. Both immediately before and after, all is working normally. I don't know what caused this, nor could I find any way to recover the missing content.

since Oct 31 Thunderbird has not been able to connect to AOL / verizon email server to receive emails. I made no changes. I am able to send email so the connection is good that way.

Message is "login to server pop.verizon.net with user name xxxx failed

Send and receving on phone works ok

Thunderbird 140.4.0 / Win11Home 24H2

For many years now I have had several email accounts 'share' Thunderbird's Global Inbox (Local Folders) and this has worked fine (by the way I'm using POP throughout).

For a long time I have also had a separate email account (call this account A) using its own Inbox. Again, all has been working fine.

Very recently I created a new account (Account B) and directed this to use Account A's Thunderbird inbox (via Account B's Server Settings, Advanced...) and selected the "Include this server when getting new mail" option. All looked fine at that stage (I did not think to go back and check Account A's Server Settings, Advanced...). Under Account B's Copies and Folders I also directed Account B to use Account A's folders.

As I expected, Account B did not have any of its own folders created.

On selecting Account A in the folder pane and checking for emails (via the Get messages icon at the top of the folder pane), only Account B was checked (as evidenced by the status bar messages scrolling through at the bottom of the window). This was most perplexing - had I somehow lost a whole bunch of messages that I knew should be sitting in the inbox at the mail server?

However, I soon found the culprit. Account A's Server Settings, Advanced.... were completely greyed out (and so effectively disabled) - see image attached.

So setting up a 2nd email account to download to 1st email account's inbox disables downloading of 1st email account's inbox messages. No warning of this is given - it just happens behind the scenes.

Is this all a conscious design decision (and, if so, why?)? Or is it simply a bug? Is there a solution / workaround?

Regards, Bazzaman

Just to be clear, selecting or not selecting "Include this server when getting new mail" option has no impact on this one way or the other - it is the attempted sharing of the inbox that gives rise to the issue.

Hello,

I manage several emails through Thunderbird, the default account is my own, this is the one I am having trouble with.

1) I can send and receive emails. (this is an imap server) 2) When I added the account to Thunderbird in account settings it created the following folders/icons: Inbox Drafts Sent Mail All Mail Junk Spam Trash (with the traditional trash icon) Then the following folders: Drafts Important Starred Trash (Which looks like a windows folder) - If I have a trash can, why do I need a trash folder, I didn't create it.

I cannot delete emails from "All Mail", every time I delete one it reappears and at this point it has well over 8,000 going back to 2022. Most of which I don't need to keep any more.

If I go to google's website and log into my account I cannot delete them either! They come right back.

It's as if Google and Thunderbird are not talking to each other.

3) I've already uninstalled Thunderbird and deleted all the files from /users/myname/appdata/roaming/ Thunderbird/Profiles, ran Ccleaner, rebooted, reinstalled Thunderbird and added my mailboxes and still have the problem..

4) I've also tried to run Thunderbird without addons to no avail.

5) My other emails do not display this kind of behavior, just the on that is set as default.

If anyone has come across this please tell me what I need to do.

Thanks very much in advance.

I was out of town for a week, away from my desktop. While traveling I was looking at my email on my Android phone, and all seemed OK. When I returned to my office this morning, my one week's worth of email did not download into Thunderbird. I noticed that there was an update to the program while I was gone. Not sure how to recapture my week of lost email?

In the list of e-mails in my INBOX, there are some e-mails that will not respond to any action: they won't open, delete, move, ... The rest of them respond as they have since I began using Thunderbird in 2001! What happened?

After years of using TB I suddenly lost ability to send messages though could still receive. At suggestion of outgoing message server PlusNet I changed various settings. Now my TB will neither send or receive. I wish to keep my care4free email address. How can I reinstall or recover TB? At present can only send or receive using webmail but do not find this equal to TB

I use to click on the links in my emails to go to the sender's website. Now they are no longer working. Are there any ideas on how to get the links working again?

Thunderbird is able to receive email but unable to send email. I have confirmed with my provider that I can send email through their web portal. Mail provider is Comcast. ISP is T-Mobile Virus is Bitdefender build 27.0.55.279 Windows 11 Thunderbird version 144.0.1 64bit SMTP settings attached

Hi, As I mentioned above [edited from public] @telus.net which is a gmail account has been acting strangely. "Recently my [edited from public] @telus.net account has stopped saving my sent messages. Also when I open an email it then disappears." I have checked the All and Important files but they are gone and I can't figure out what is happening. Any help in discovering why messages that I read disappear would be helpful. Thanks

I have several problems with Thunderbird:

- When I first open TB, my Inbox shows "No message found". I have 9654 E-mails in the Inbox. If I click on a different folder and then click on Inbox again, I can see the E-mails in the Inbox. - About once a week when I first open TB, the program begins downloading 10000 E-mails (sometimes more). All these E-mails, with the exception of a few received the previous night, have already been downloaded. This download takes as long as 45 minutes. - TB marks many E-mails as Spam even though I have previously marked these E-mail addresses as not Spam.

Any help with these problems appreciated.

M. Campbell

Thunderbird is not receiving incoming emails. I get a window that says " Login to server pop.centurylink.net with username nonnox15@centurylink.net failed. See image below. This occurs frequently but usually will download after a while. But today I can't get the messages to come in. I Can go to my firefox browser and get my messages from the centurylink website, but I prefer to use Thunderbird. Any help would be appreciated.

I can put the password in the window that pops up, but I still can't get the messages to download.