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Hi folks.

I have a situation where I need to access an email but it seems to be invisible.

It's supposed to be in the Inbox, and when I do a search the results show it is there, yet it doesn't display or is otherwise accessible. The email dates from 2020.

Thanks.

Impossible sending e-mails regularly from a few days ago.

A message "Too many sending failures" appears though failures are a very few ones and this block increases every day.

How can be it solved?

reply messages are not being saved to the DRAFT folder when trying to save them. I set up a new DRAFT folder under Local and can save them to that folder. However, I can not open the saved reply and need to move it to my inboix to get at it to send.

Wife and I have two separate desktops on a MS Win 11 PC (desktop). I have T-Bird ver 136.0 (64 bit) running on my side working perfectly. We just tried installing her old T-Bird account on her side, and after a while, we got it installed and are able to RECEIVE mail--also on ver 136.0 (64 bit), but can't SEND. However, there are two problems:

1. Our two versions look quite different on our individual sides of the computer. Why?
2. As best we can determine, all our settings are the same; however, she can only receive--can't send emails. She gets an instant constant error msg: Unable to send, outgoing mail server xxxxxxxxx has timed out. It's the same server I'm using! We have triple-checked all settings between our two accounts, but still no luck. We have checked with our email service provider (WOW!/Knology), and they have shown us how to set up their internet email account to use at a hotel when traveling, but not at our home PC. Any help here would be GREATLY appreciated!

Many thanks, Jay

Just spent a couple of frustrating hours on what should be a 2-minute task, and hoping someone can point me the right way. I manage a bunch of mailing lists for a small non-profit. Just got a group of new email addresses. I need to add them to a new mailing list, then after I've verified that they're valid and that the people do in fact want to get these emails, merge them into at least two of the existing mailing lists. I have them in a CSV file. First problem was finding where "create a mailing list" had moved - no longer on File - New in Address Book (why, by the way? That's the logical spot for it.). Then found that there's no way to import a file of addresses into a mailing list - they can only be imported into an address book. Ok, I'll import into a new address book, then create a mailing list, then drag and drop the contacts from the new address book into the new mailing list (which is both what I'd have expected to work, and what a support article I found said). Not what I wanted, because the new mailing list will be under the new address book, which is not where it needs to be, but I'll deal with that later. Nope - doesn't work. I can select any of or all the contacts, I can drag them, but everywhere on the panel has the "not permitted" symbol *except* another address book, which does me no good at all. Ok, try creating a new mailing list where I actually want it to be, then cutting and pasting the names and addresses from another file. Nope, can't find any way to cut and paste 2 fields into a mailing list in edit mode and have the data go where it needs to be, even a single contact, much less a bunch of them. It seems bizarre that something as fundamental as mailing lists would be as difficult to use as it seems, so I'm hoping I've missed something obvious. Currently on 128.7.0, BTW - I usually let TB update whenever it asks. Windows 10 on that box, but also pretty up to date.

Hello helpful community, Yesterday after first updating my mac ios, I updated Thunderbird (as directed) on my macbook pro and discovered that my local folders are gone. I now have version 128.7.0esr. I have read other conversations here about this problem but they are WAY over my head, and seem to do with PCs. Can you help me restore my local folders with instructions I can hopefully understand? Thank you!

When I compose a text message in TBird to send, it starts a new line after __ characters. I want it to occupy the entire screen width, and set it to show me a larger font. I recall there is a way, but searching has not turned it up. Would appreciate pointers to both settings.

I have a hostgator and I have multiple emails, I have no problem receiving email from Gmail but sending to Gmail doesn't work. (android) But it works with Gmail app and outlook app. It just doesn't work with thunderbird. This is a normal issue with hostgator customers.

Can you help me,

Something changed such that copies were no longer sent to my sent file under Inbox. My email is run through web.com and they said it was not their issue and then the next web.com guy said it was their issue. At present messages do get copied if I set "copy to Sent on local folder" but then I don't have access to them away from the office. I am not tech savvy so I don't know what the issue actually is other than an email I sent on February 24, 2025 at 12:50 was the least copied to that file since I started using TB years ago. Any help is appreciated.

Hi - I am having a problem with where Thuderbird is sending attachment files. I have "Save files to" set to C:\C Drive Documents\Attachments2 but the attachments are showing up in C:\Users\laroc\AppData\Local\Temp\pid-3656. This just started happening about a week ago and I just noticed today when I looked in "Attachments2" for a file but could not find it.

I restarted the computer. Did not help.

I re-installed Thunderbird and that did not help either.

Any thoughts?

When composing a message, as soon as I hit the space bar a blue border appears around the message pane and instead of inserting a space the cursor jumps to the end of the message. When I try to go back to insert the space where I want it the curser jumps to the end again. So basically I can't insert any spaces in the message. This has only just started happening, been using TBird without any problems for a long time. Any advice would be much appreciated Thanks Geoff

My husband is not here to help and I need to get into our emails. On the pop.gmail.com it states "Invalid credential. What does that mean . I have accounts on my Thunderbird account that are also not loading , it states "Failed to connect to server" or " Connection refused". I know nothing about this Thunderbird emails system and I am computer illiterate. Can I get some help please.

Hello, I want to put a table in a Thunderbird message. The table will have no borders except for the leftmost column, which I want to have a black 5px border on its left side only. I can’t figure out how to do this with the tools available, any assistance would be gratefully received. Alan.

'I received an email from Drheath82@frontier.com saying I ask to delete my email account and to click the link if "I DID NOT REQUEST THAT". Is this legit?'bold text

I use TB via MailWasherPro to receive emails. Some of the emails which arrive at MWP do not transfer to TB. I have looked in the spam etc boxes and they are not there. I have contacted MWP and they say the emails are only previewed in MWP and have no part in the transfer.

Maybe some settings in TB are not correct?

Usunelam konto w Thunderbirdzie i dodałam je ponownie, ale nie weszly z powrotem stare wiadomosci od roku 2021 do marca 2025. Przychodza tylko najnowsze wiadomosci. Poprzez strone www gmail działa normalnie, tylko w Thunderbirdzie mam ten problem.