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Recently I have been unable to send mail from one of two accounts which are both aol. One of them is netscape. They both use the same outgoing server "smpt.aol.com" I tried the suggestion of deleting the password for the netscape account (the one from which I cannot send). Now I get a 5.7.1 sender address rejected. I'm sure it is a settings problem and probably one dealing with passwords, but I cannot resolve it. Help!!

For the last several days, TB quits responding for 9-30 seconds. This happens when I try to delete an e-mail or open it. If I hit delete 2 times when it;s not responding, it will eventually delete 2 emails. I have tried top disable all the add-ons-no change; 1 deleted and re-indexed the global-df etc-no change. Help Doxmail

For some reason, thunderbird (windows 8) has essentially stopped working. Over a minute to open an email--all other functions have similar delays. I tried to archive, but I keep getting a message that says that a script has stopped working. It does the same in thunderbird safe mode. My old computer (XP) works fine. I can't find my profiles on windows 8 to rebuild the global database.

Hello,

I just installed the latest release of Mozilla Thunderbird (24.4.0) and I'm trying to create a "Vacation Response". I read on the Mozilla Support site:

Another option is to create a Message Filter and respond to all incoming messages with a template.

(see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/vacation-response?esab=a&s=out+of+the+office&r=3&as=s )

I've created a template and saved it and then I tried to create a message filter. However there is not an option to "Reply with Template" in the list of choices for the action to perform. I see action choices, for "Copy Message To", "Move Message To" and "Forward Message To", but not "Reply with Template".

Why is it missing and how to I get it to appear?

Thank you for helping.

I run Win7. Very frequently in TB's lower left corner, it shows that messages are downloading. Recently the download time has lengthened appreciably, even when the message does not contain attachments. Also moving from one message to the other takes considerable time. Since this started three days ago, I have uninstalled any programs added in that period. MalwareBytes' scan run daily has no malware. Also have uninstalled the anti-spam on my McAfee a/v.

Any other suggestions on why this might occur?

When "Real-Time Scanning" is running, Thunderbird goes to "not responding" for a minute or so and CPU usage often goes to 100 %. If I turn off "Real-Time Scanning" TB seems to work okay, but I expect I am vulnerable to viruses. This problem has been going on for a couple of weeks.

I used to use "Avira" with no problems but McAfee is provided "free" to subscribers.

I am using 24.4 Windows 7. My online account only has one copy of each email. All my other devices with Thunderbird on them work fine. This has been happening since April 3. I use avasti. I am so tired of deleting and would appreciate help. It is discouraging that I cannot contact Mozilla Thunderbird directly.

Thanks for any suggestions Susan

I use a vpn to mask my IP address. When I am connected through my VPN I cannot send emails from my gmail or yahoo accounts through thunderbird If i disconect vpn they go through fine

Dear Friends,

I can Email my wife at [elainefraser43@hotmail.co.uk] from my Gmail account:

I can Email myself [ralphfraser1@talktalk.net], which is on "Thunderbird", from her Hotmail account:

BUT, when I attempt to Email HER via "Thunderbird" my Emails are rejected, and I get the above-mentioned Unknown address error 550-"SC-002 [COLO-MC3-F42] failure message!!

This is all WELL above my head!!

Please can you explain what needs to be done here???

Regards,

Ralph Fraser

I am on Thunderbird 29.0 - got upgraded to a beta version unintentionally.

Now, when I start typing in an address when writing an email no names pop up, even though the beginning letters clearly refer to an address or name in my address book. Every email address has to be typed in from scratch. only red letters appear. Problem.

Win8.1 using Tbird 24.5.0. Download of emails became intermittent in mid-May. As of 6/4, none can be downloaded. No problem sending emails. I have a POP3 account with Earthlink. I started Tbird in safe mode via Help > Restart with ad-ons disabled.

The status bar at the bottom stated that I was connected to pop.earthlink.net. Then it stated that is was 'Downloading message 1 of 116'. After a while with no messages coming in, it stated 'No messages to download'. It never said downloading message 2, so I don't think the messages went somewhere unknown.

This is the situation with my Windows firewall disabled and with my G Data antivirus disabled. I've tried various other things after reading that others are having a similar problem. Earthlink support verifies that I have the right setup. I uninstalled Tbird and reinstalled. I removed the account and added a new one -- and lost my saved emails until I went to my backup. Someone mentioned a ad blocker. I have one on Chrome from Adblock Plus; I don't see how that would affect Thunderbird.

What now? Thanks, Bruce

It used to be a rare occurence, but now every single time I close TB and shortly thereafter, during the same session, I try to re-launch tb I have to call up Task Mgr and kill thunderbird.exe. It is an annoyance which I would like to get rid of. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Thunderbird frequently goes 'not responding' when autosaving as a draft. I'll be merrily typing away, then as it autosaves to draft, then words stop being processed, then Thunderbird goes to 'not responding' for a short while. It then responds, and part of what I was typing when it seized up appears, but not all of it (I assume, but can't say for certain, that the text that I type before it goes 'not responding' appears, but none after that).

I've looked online, but I can't find this problem elsewhere.

I've got a high spec laptop, so that's not the issue. (i7 Processor, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, 2GB dedicated graphics RAM, etc - Windows 8.1.)

Any advice would be most appreciated! :)

Thanks! Sam

Hi, I installed Thunderbird recently and added my Hotmail and Gmail account (both using IMAP). With Gmail everything works fine but for my Hotmail account only the Inbox is synchronized properly. The sent folder contains mails I sent from Thunderbird and those mails are also in the webmail sent-folder. But older sent mails and mails sent from another device do not appear in the Thunderbird Sent-folder. "Drafts" and "Sent" are checked in the folder subscriptions menu. Thanks for help in advance. Steffi

Using Thunderbird for over a decade on different computers. Like it very much. (sorry, english is not my native language)

The mail account is on an imapserver. When I create in (provider)webmail a new submap under the inbox it doesn't appear on the desktop client. When I create a submap in Thunderbird all works fine, Even in webmail, mail shifted into the submap created in tb is visible in tb.

Thanks in advance,

bjorri.

I tried searching the FAQs and did a google search first. This did not work, all I discovered is F9 turns the contacts sidepane on and off, but doesn't fix the problem with the pane being wrong.

Until a very recent update (last week or two at most) when I hit write, the contacts pane in the write window showed my address book. Now it shows some type of search I can't use as I have to see all the entries to see which ones I want to send an email to. In some cases I have multiple entries for a person based on them having multiple email addresses for different types of email. Trying to remember which ones I want DOES NOT WORK for me. I can only get this behavior back by running in safe mode. As an alternative I need Thunderbird to save my safe mode setting so I don't have to reconfigure safe mode every time I have to reboot windows or restart Thunderbird. I currently have it coming up in safe mode by default

I tried to remove and then install an older version of Thunderbird and the bad contact pane on the left was there. I can't find any setting to change the pane from the wrong one to the old one I need. I'd rather not try reinstalling win7 pro from scratch to fix this, assuming that would fix it.

I'm running windows7 pro 64 bit

delivery format auto-detect does not auto-change to HTML when an image/picture is pasted into email body

problem was present in an early version of TB (sry don't remember which) then was fixed but has reoccurred on 38.4.0 (dunno if it begun at this version, just realized 38.4.0 has this issue again)

if delivery format option set to HTLM then it works (pasted image is sent)

see attached screen shots