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Is it possible to copy just the Mail folder from a Thunderbird Profile backup in Time Machine on Mac? I have deleted an email account from Thunderbird and I did not tick Delete Data so the emails are still there in my Profile but they no longer show up in the tree in Thunderbird on my Mac ( OS 14.8 Sonoma). I had a lot of subfolders into which I had put incoming and sent emails on particular topics. For example I had a folder called Family, and inside that I had a subfolder called Birthdays as well as many other family related topics. My last Time Machine back up is about a month ago but that would be good enough to restore from. I tried ‘Import’ in Thunderbird but it only imported the main folders and the emails within but not the subfolders. I have another email address besides the deleted one and if I overwrite the whole Profile with the older one from Time Machine it will lose a lot of new stuff accumulated since that backup. Any help most appreciated

Hi Support, The last Thunderbird Version crash on Mac OS Sequoia 15.7.3 Mac Apple M2 Pro, 16 Gocot RAM The crash occurs after login to install a utility. => Therefore, I cant't use Thunderbird (I am a small Thunderbird doner). NB: I cant't find the command for starting Thunderbird in maintenance mode. Thanks for help

I decided to try the Send Later feature in Thunderbird. I am using T140esr and the About box says it'sup-to-date although I do see references in the forum to later versions.

I couldn't get it to work at first, but got there in the end. I would like to suggest to the developers that the buttons labeled "SEND NOW" and "PUT IN OUTBOX" be removed. These confused me. If I had wanted to send the message now or put it in the outbox, I would not have clicked the "Send Later" button in the first place. The "Send at ...", "In 15 mins", etc. buttons should be the only ones presented to the user.

It's a useful feature and I can see myself using it on a regular basis to send daily and weekly logs as attachments.

Regards Peter M

Hallo Profis. In Thunderbird sind die Einstellungen nicht zentral erreichbar, sondern zum Teil in verschachtelten Untermenüs zu finden. Das ist extrem unübersichtlich, verwirrend und zeitraubend bei allen Einstellungsversuchen. Mein Vorschlag lautet deshalb:

Bitte kreieren Sie ein Einstellungsmenü, in dem ALLE Einstellungsmöglichkeiten zusammen gelistet und gebündelt sind. Und zwar so: 1. Das Hauptmenü heisst "Einstellungen", der Button ist das bekannte Zahnrad. 2. Die Untermenüs heissen "Email-Einstellungen", "Kalender-Einstellungen" usw. 3. Im Untermenü "Email-Einstellungen" sind jetzt ALLE möglichen Einstellungsoptionen gelistet. Im Untermenü "Kalender-Einstellungen" sind jetzt ALLE möglichen Einstellungsoptionen gelistet.

Das wäre eine sinnvolle Verbesserung des UI für alle User. Vielen Dank im Voraus. Peter

Hi,

I cannot see any formatting bar in my "new message" window. I cannot change my text format, I tried to change a lot of settings but nothing seem to work.

I also cannot customize my signature - the html just shows weird and not as expected

Thunderbird refuses colored text on new Lenovo 17" Idealpad and adds asterisks not written by the author. Example message test: bbbbbbbbbbbbsssssssss ggggggggggggg***234*5678,56 *<==============* The written numbers and the arrow were colored red. No asterisks were written in the message sent. When writing, colors appeared correctly in messages with no asterisks on screen. However, no colors appear and asterisks are added in recorded messages sent and received on the PC. The Lenovo PC works OK in general, so it must be a Thunderbird configuration/function problem on my PC as the message is correctly received with colors without asterisks on my mobile phone. Can you help me correct this PC anomaly? Many thanks

I spent hours today with Rogers/Shaw support with nothing but a waste of my time. At the end they blame Tbird and were totally useless in helping. Thunderbird was fully working two days ago and I made no changes to anything. I am using the latest Tbird version. Today I uninstalled it and reinstalled with no change. I hate Rogers/Shaw but want to keep my email ID that I have used for many years.

I suspect this is password issue caused by Rogers but I can't identify it and as I said ROgers support was a waste of time. On the support chat the previous day they said they had a "back end" issue but now say that was fixed.

Hi, I’m using Thunderbird with a Yahoo Mail account and I’m seeing two Draft folders in the left pane:

Drafts Draft

Their IMAP locations are different: imap://…/Drafts imap://…/Draft

Thunderbird only saves drafts into the Drafts folder (plural). The Draft folder stays empty, but it always shows up.

What I tried so far: • Account settings → Subscribe Unchecked “Draft” there, but it doesn’t save. After reopening Subscribe, it’s checked again and the folder is still visible. • Restarted Thunderbird multiple times. • Server Settings → disabled “Show only subscribed folders”. • Checked folder Properties, but there are no options to hide it or control visibility, so it looks hard locked by Yahoo.

Conclusion so far: Yahoo seems to force both system folders via IMAP and ignores unsubscribe, so Thunderbird can’t hide or remove “Draft”.

Is there any supported way in Thunderbird to permanently hide or ignore the extra Draft folder for Yahoo accounts, or is this a known Yahoo IMAP limitation?

Thanks

Hi I was using TB 142 without problems. When upgrading to 143 ou 144.B4 I have problems sending mails to all users after some times. Usually the first mails are sent immediatly but after around 10 mails, I have very slow response (varies from 5 sec to more than 1 minute and sometimes timeout). Usually quitting TB solves the problem but this is very annoying. I went back to 140LTS and sems to have no longer this problem. This was tested on many diffrent networks. I am running under Fedora release 42

Thanks

On new computer. I went to Add-ons and searched for Imogies/Emojies, etc., but nothing comes up. I hoped to have the set I had as an add-on on previous computer (which crashed - had to start from scratch).

If anyone knows how to get it, I'd appreciate knowing. I loved using it.

(I know about "Win." - but that doesn't have nearly as many emogies as the Add-on.)

Have: When quoting, "start my reply above quote" and place my signature "below my reply (above the quote)" but signature continues to show below the quote.

What have I missed in this setup?

My previous computer crashed and got a new one (Win 11 of course - new for me).

I downloaded Thunderbird. With the help of an Earthlink (my email) tech, all but one of my emails (gmail) were entered. Then I downloaded and began reading them.

The first thing I noticed was the Next and Previous buttons are missing (or placed where I don't see them).

The second thing I noticed is that when I click on one email to read, all the emails in the respective Inbox also open. This is very annoying.

I also hope someone can tell me the info I need to add a gmail account. (I rarely use it, but there two websites which require a gmail email to log on.)

And I had made a T-bird "backup" but haven't used it yet. I'd like to IF I can locate it.

P.S. Is it possible to shut off the AI "help" while writing this. I find it annoying, slows me down.

Hello everyone,

I am using Thunderbird with a work email account that is based on Gmail (IMAP).

My question is: How can I make sure that I will still have access to my emails in Thunderbird if my company deletes the Gmail account in the future?

Specifically: 1. Which Thunderbird settings ensure that emails are fully stored locally? 2. Is “offline use” of folders sufficient, or are there additional steps I should take? 3. Are there any caveats with Gmail/IMAP I should be aware of?

Thanks a lot for your help!

Hello,

I would like to report a problem I experience using Thunderbird on a Mac (see configuration below). In some circumstances (that I am not able to determine), when deleting one message in the inbox (unified Folders mode), the message list is not updated/refreshed i.e. the deleted message is still appearing but in fact the content is the next one. This is very annoying as we may remove messages wrongly: the messages we want to delete are not the one we see in the list.

I am using Thunderbird 140.7.0esr on a MacBook Air Sonoma 14.7.1

Are you aware of such a behavior? What can I do to overcome the problem?

Thank you for your help

Best regards

P. Clarysse

Thunderbird hasn't saved any of my Microsoft Emails for days and now it won't send. My other accounts (Gmail, AOL, etc.) work fine, however. How do I make the fix so I can send and also sync my Sent emails so they show up! I just get long hold ups and error messages.

Am having prblems authenticating oauth microsoft 365 from tbird ubuntu.. Everything was working fine but suddenly getting auth failures. Phone works fine, and all software is up to date.