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I feel like this has been asked a million times, but yet I cant find a current answer that resolves it from all the posts on google. And some are conflicting.

I added my gmail account. Imap. I dont want it downloading and saving thousands of emails. How do I stop that?

Is the only way to do that, by limiting the sync settings to like 7 days? Is this screenshot, the correct area?

I also tried Unsubscribing all the inboxes, Save, close. Then check the Subscribe pop up again, and it just re-checks them all! I cant uncheck them, it just rechecks them.

I would like to change the authentication method to OAuth2, but it doesn't appear in the drop-down menu.

My Thunderbird version is 140.4.0esr (64-bit). I have all cookies set to allow.

How do I change it to OAuth2?

I just added a new email server to handle my mail. It is a local hosting company that I use. I already have another email address with them. When I added the new account I noticed that the Sent and Drafts folders were missing under the 'Inbox'. Image 1 shows how the existing email account is setup with the drafts, sent and Junk folders under Inbox. The image 2 shows how the new account is showing up, no drafts or sent folders.

I am subscribed to them all.

How to get the Drafts and Sent folders under Inbox?

I was using Thunderbird Portable 136.0.1, from Portableapps.com . I then upgraded it to Thunderbird 146.0.1, by following Portableapp's instruction of installing the Portableapp 146 version to the same path of the old installation.

I then I added an Office365 Business email account to Thunderbird, but there was a problem with the SMTP configuration. I tried to change it, but then I found out that there's something wrong with my Account Settings for all accounts; they don't save the changes.

Let me explain: if I right click an account and choose "Settings", a new tab opens [image 1]. Whatever changes I make there, to "Account Name", "Your name", "Color", etc. don't get saved; as soon as I switch to another account and come back they are gone.

This also applies for "Edit outgoing server..." at the bottom. It always reverts to "Default server" and then every time I want to send an email I must change the default SMTP settings to the right settings of that specific account.

The "Delete" button for deleting the account also doesn't work, if I click it nothing happens.

Interestingly, if I switch to "Server settings" or "Copies and folders" the changes there do get saved and are displayed correctly for the different accounts.

What can I do to solve this? I already tried Troubleshooting Mode to no avail. I am currently trying to install Thunderbird Portableapp to a different folder, how can I then import all local folders and accounts to this new install?

i have pop3 account and unchecked leave on server - but greyed and checked out is a 'leave for a maximum' which i have as 1 day, there doesnt seem to be an option to uncheck this? I dont want them on the server which is why i chose pop account. yet when i open web account, the emails already downloaded using the pop account are still there even thoug they were downloaded days ago. Why is this and how do stop this? is there a 'leave copy on server' box to uncheck that I am missing? i want to use pop to remove from server and just use locally but its not doing what i thought it would, which is remove from setver. Also it keeps repeating downloading from years ago so I was hoping that when the server synced it would stop downloading the ones it has already (mulitple times) I made an imap account to try to sort emails that way but it also shows old emails still on server. Should i delet this imap account as I already have a pop account running? Very confused. Help figuring out what to do appreciated.

Have 3 machines with Tbird, and 3 email accounts. During a password change for one account, TBird hammered the server enough times to get my IP blocked. I removed all 3 acco8nts and started over. In the middle of this, Bird updated and the new version makes it very difficult to stay in manual config, as the auto config continues to hammer the server. Have been unable to complete the 3 setups without the ip getting blocked, have contacted the server support 4 times for unblocking. Why has Tbird made this so difficult? Used to be very easy! I want to do setup manually, and limit the number of times the setup tests the config.

Wanting to take one of my several email accounts offline. It's a club chairman account and someone else is taking over. I don't (yet) want to lose the history of past emails.

The online manual says to use 'Advanced Settings', but I can't find anything that looks like the images or that has similar tabs or sections. Where is it on Thunderbird under Ubuntu?

Hello everybody, I have 5 accounts managed with Thunderbird. They are named provider, provider-1 up to provider-4. I don't know, which Thunderbird-Account belongs to which Provider-Account. Is there any possibility to find out, which Thunderbird-Account belongs to which Provider-Account and to save one of these 5 Thunderbird-Accounts on disk?

I have two gmail accounts in Thunderbird- sending from Gmail 2 results a reply that goes to Gmail 1. It seems two separate outgoing server settings need to be used, with the same details but different names. I tried just renaming one, but the other one then adopts that name. Thank you for the help.

I have TB 145.0 on a Mac.

When my trash gets pretty full, I empty the trash then restart TB just to have a fresh start. Been doing this for years. Well, I did it just now and when TB restarted I got a warning that said Thunderbird is an app I downloaded from the internet, do I trust it? First time that has happened.d I clicked on the button that said to go ahead and open it.

When TB opened, it wasn't aware of any of my email accounts. It's almost like I was opening it for the first time – except for 187 random old emails in an inbox.

Is there a way to recover from this? I had a lot of emails stored in inboxes and outboxes that would be disastrous for me to lose. They aren't there right now.

I keep getting an alert saying I need to update my email account. How do I do that? (BOTH of my email accounts work fine on my home computer, but neither works on my classroom computer. I'm a teacher).

I am trying to get away from GMAIL and I already contribute to Mozilla as I use Firefox for all of my browsing. I purchased access to Mailfence thinking I would be able to use start using Thunderbird with it, but but I get an error indicationg that my password or configuration may be wrong when trying to complete "Setup Using Your Existing Email Address".

Help please!

Jeff

My email provider is terminating the existing email domain name, and replacing it with a new domain name. I want to retain all existing Thunderbird folders and emails for use with the new email. Example: username@q.com becomes username@myclk.com. (Yep, it's Centurylink.)

Can I change my existing Thunderbird account name and email and retain all existing folders and emails in the account? Some server settings would also be changed.

Or, do I need to set up a new account?

Thanks

Hi,

I recently removed an email account from Thunderbird. However, every time I start Thunderbird, a popup still appears asking me to sign in with the credentials of the account I already deleted (screenshot attached).

Steps I took:

Removed the email account via Account Settings → Remove Account.

Restarted Thunderbird.

The Google login prompt for the deleted account keeps coming back.

It seems Thunderbird is still trying to connect to this account in the background.

Could anyone advise how I can completely remove this account so Thunderbird will stop prompting me for the login?

Thanks in advance!

I use the same e-mail address on my desktop and my Samsung android phone. I was told to change my desktop e-mail from POP3 to IMAP which I did and then told by the Thunderbird desktop forum to change also my phone settings from POP3 to IMAP. I was told in order to do that I needed to create a new account first and then delete the old account.

However, when I go into server settings and I put in my e-mail address from my desktop, it states "e-mail address already in use". Clearly I do not want to create a new e-mail address - just use the same e-mail address that is on my desktop so that I can access e-mails on my phone that appear on my desktop. Help please!

I use Thunderbird to handle my two email addresses. I recently added my wife's address to use temporarily while we fixed a problem with her laptop. Now she is using her laptop again and I want to stop the retrieval of her emails. I could just delete her account information but I would like to just switch it off, in case it is needed at a later date.

Is there an easy way to do this?

My account has not been updated since 2023?? Is there something you can do about this? Also there were links I clicked, the questions, and those haven't been updated.

I have a google account with a non-profit domain I administer. We used to use Microsoft as our email provider, and we switched about two years ago to Google. So, I go to google.com to login to my email address info@MYDOMAIN.org. I am trying to add this account to Thunderbird in Linux Mint. It keeps popping up a Microsoft login window when I input my login credentials. I've spent time looking around at typical Thunderbird problems, but I am stumped. I cannot see how to set this up manually or prevent it from redirecting to a microsoft account login page?