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Thunderbird - cannot view contents of inbox or sent messages older than a day

I either can't view contents of any of my older emails in Thunderbird at all (see accompanying picture), or in some cases, they just show html text code. (Both the inbox … (read more)

I either can't view contents of any of my older emails in Thunderbird at all (see accompanying picture), or in some cases, they just show html text code. (Both the inbox and sent directories are affected.) I have followed the Thunderbird troubleshooting suggestions (e.g. disabling add-ons), and clearing the cache, but the problem remains.

My Thunderbird mail directory on the PC is D:\All Users\Thunderbird\Profiles\Macdonald\Mail\pop.broadband.rogers.com\inbox.sbd

FYI - The inbox contains ~7600 messages, while Sent has ~2180 messages.

Hope you can help me out with this issue. Thanks!

... Paul Macdonald

Asked by bovine.moosic 2 days ago

Answered by bovine.moosic 1 day ago

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After search, how to retrieve original content of email thread?

When I search for all email from a particular sender, I get conversations with what looks like the items I want, but upon opening many entries look something like this: … (read more)

When I search for all email from a particular sender, I get conversations with what looks like the items I want, but upon opening many entries look something like this:


AG0BviJBCtBSm6J2n25iDA9e--
xc0dGTByxxOwgOt0n0CmdaYX--

The actual content of the message can not be opened. How do I fix this? Thanks.

Asked by apesbrain 3 days ago

Answered by christ1 1 day ago

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incoming emails not possible to read

It often happens that i get incoming emails that i can not read. it are strings of letters and code and no text. After some time it is again normal until it happens again… (read more)

It often happens that i get incoming emails that i can not read. it are strings of letters and code and no text. After some time it is again normal until it happens again. When I open these emails in my provider webmail application I can read them. What happens here?

Asked by H.Compernolle 1 day ago

Answered by H.Compernolle 1 day ago

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When opening Mozilla Thunderbird on my grandpas computer (Lenovo, with Windows 10) the app is "not responding".

The app can be opened and used, but it has to load for about 2 minuter between each input. The error first appeared after the 7th August update. When I try and click on t… (read more)

The app can be opened and used, but it has to load for about 2 minuter between each input. The error first appeared after the 7th August update. When I try and click on the app, it starts using about 125 MB of RAM memory and the "Not responding" text appears.

Asked by henry.bjurman 1 day ago

Answered by christ1 1 day ago

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SMTP/Sending Emails just stopped working

Hi there - been using Thunderbird for donkeys (since it was Eudora!). A few weeks back I started to get messages from Microsoft that I needed to change security settings… (read more)

Hi there - been using Thunderbird for donkeys (since it was Eudora!). A few weeks back I started to get messages from Microsoft that I needed to change security settings as they were no longer supported on 3rd party email handlers like Thunderbird. So I re-created the three accounts I had there and it seemed to be OK, though SMTP did not have the OAUTH2 option available ... and when I tried to use the new SMTPs they wouldn't work. So I reverted to the old settings there and it worked again.

But this morning, with the big update to Thunderbird Nebula, I can no longer send emails from the MS accounts. My Gmail one is still OK ... but whatever I try, I cannot get the MS ones to send emails - I get a failure connecting.

Login to server smtp-mail.outlook.com with username xxxxx@hotmail.com failed.

I checked on MS and the details shown there:

SMTP server name smtp-mail.outlook.com SMTP port 587 SMTP encryption STARTTLS Authentication Method OAuth2/Modern Auth

Are what I have (I did have a different SMTP Server name came up - smtp.office365.com - but that doesn't work either)

So ... where is the issue? Is this a bug in the new Thunderbird setup? Something else? I don't know where to go ...

David

Asked by david854 1 month ago

Answered by Toad-Hall 1 week ago

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Email Body only contains numbers since update

Since the latest update a lot of my emails are coming in to my inbox with only numbers in the body of the message ie. =_Part_4227871_1899405150.1549487886647-- Also wi… (read more)

Since the latest update a lot of my emails are coming in to my inbox with only numbers in the body of the message ie.


=_Part_4227871_1899405150.1549487886647--

Also with: No from No subject

This particular message is from news .com . au

I tried closing and opening the program but messages like this remain the same

Help!

TIA

Asked by campbellclan 7 5 days ago

Answered by Ed 5 days ago

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Lost folders in Thunderbird

duplicate of /questions/1471321 thread Hello! A very important email folder in my Thunderbird just vanished. I didn't touch anything! My email was downloading very slow… (read more)

duplicate of /questions/1471321 thread

Hello!

A very important email folder in my Thunderbird just vanished. I didn't touch anything! My email was downloading very slowly and so I closed the entire Thunderbird application. When I re-opened it, the folder was gone. Everything else is there as before - all other folders, my inbox etc.

I have no idea what happened or where the folder went. I can't find anything online that addresses the problem or how to solve it. I'm very much a tech novice. I need a solution that a 5 year old could navigate lol

S.O.S. Cara

Asked by a.sabinal 2 days ago

Last reply by markwarner22 2 days ago

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Recipient auto complete going haywire, the list seems almost random

This must have been posted about before but I couldn't find anything. And in fact I asked here over a year ago and no one replied. Odd if I'm the only one with this issue… (read more)

This must have been posted about before but I couldn't find anything. And in fact I asked here over a year ago and no one replied. Odd if I'm the only one with this issue.

For a year and few months now, I think since the recipient dropdown started showing grey on some listed entries and white for others, thunderbird seems to be often selecting contacts based on some weird criteria that doesn't work well at all.

For example if I type in Julie, yes I see Julie down the suggested list at position 3 or 4, but positions 1 2 3 seem to be completely random selections from my contacts. Since this change happened I've been trying to be super careful with trusting the position 1 offering, which used to almost always be what I was after, but yesterday I sent and email to the wrong person because I didn't check.

If this is supposed to be some great new feature of tbird (which in itself is great), can someone tell me how to turn if off?

Asked by sparrowtwo 2 weeks ago

Answered by Toad-Hall 2 days ago

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Tiny Font Problem Returns

I have dealt with this tiny font problem before but did not retain the fix because I actually thought I had solved the problem once and for all. BUT, I wake up this morn… (read more)

I have dealt with this tiny font problem before but did not retain the fix because I actually thought I had solved the problem once and for all.

BUT, I wake up this morning, having made no changes to this laptop overnight, only to discover that the fonts on my Firefox browser controls are tiny tiny tiny.

I expect Firefox/Mozilla to resolve this LONG-STANDING problem once and for all. I have made no changes to this browser in the last 24 hours. There were two MS updates that occurred overnight, but I doubt this affected the fonts on the Firefox application.

If there is a straightforward FF/Mozilla doc that addresses this problem (since it is recurring and well documented by others over the years), I would appreciate a link to this document. And if there is a known problem with certain MS updates I would appreciate knowing about this as well.

TIA

Asked by eb25390119 2 weeks ago

Answered by eb25390119 2 days ago

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How to make the Context Menu of Firefox 131.0.3 look like Ver. 100.0.1 ?

Is it possible to remove the border/frame lines around the Menu Bar and the Context Menu in Ver. 131.0.3 to make it look like Ver. 100.0.1.? Experimenting with userChrom… (read more)

Is it possible to remove the border/frame lines around the Menu Bar and the Context Menu in Ver. 131.0.3 to make it look like Ver. 100.0.1.?

Experimenting with userChrome.css only seemed to change some things such as background color and padding size of the context menu, but as a css noob it’s no surprise it didn't work when trying to remove borders, remove margins.

Attached is a screenshot of Ver. 131.0.3 (upper) and which parts of the menus I'm looking to customize or revert back to the style of Ver. 100.0.1 (lower).

Tysm for you time. bteg

Asked by bteg 2 days ago

Answered by ThePillenwerfer 2 days ago

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Firefox update issue

Went into Firefox and got the error message: Platform version 131.03 is not compatible with min version>=131.02 & max version>=131.02 So I'm thinking that the l… (read more)

Went into Firefox and got the error message: Platform version 131.03 is not compatible with min version>=131.02 & max version>=131.02 So I'm thinking that the last update caused the error. I did a system restore to a week earlier, and after 5 hours, the computer rebooted to that date. Upon opening Firefox, I found the the notice that the next time Firefox opens, it will update. After closing, and reopening, Firefox updated and displayed the same error message. Nor quite sure what to do, I downloaded Firefox again, and was going to uninstall and reinstall. But as soon as the download finished, it loaded. So now I have the new Firefox without all of my saved bookmarks and passwords. I thought I'd read someplace that that wouldn't happen, and all of my password and bookmark history would transfer to the new Firefox. As if that wasn't enough to ruin my day, I found that the new Firefox isn't working in my wife's account on the same computer. She gets the same error message as I did before the new install. I know, my fault for not backing up the bookmark and password files, but what's my option now?

Asked by pennypincher 1 week ago

Answered by pennypincher 1 week ago

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Emails don't review

Periodically, groups of emails preview this same message. Why? --Apple-Mail- Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <meta http-eq… (read more)

Periodically, groups of emails preview this same message. Why?

--Apple-Mail- Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">

--Apple-Mail---

--Apple-Mail---

Asked by Bobs Firefox Acct 2 days ago

Answered by Bobs Firefox Acct 2 days ago