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I am De-Googling. My Gmail is still active but I turned off Thunderbird access via Google settings. I then proceeded to make vast changes to Gmail folder structure, labels, etc. because I mistakenly thought it was a good idea to start cleaning before I thought it all through. I went to Thunderbird to check for an email I deleted and realized it's going to prompt me to log in every time I open the app. I went looking for a solution and found out Thunderbird isn't set up for me to archive in this way. But can I?

I still have the Gmail account and will for some time as it was my main account for decades. I can connect it back to Thunderbird but I do not want any changes to folders or labels email location when I link it back up?

Is this possible?

If not, how do I move the account as it exists on Thunderbird so I have a usable offline account that will represent what I had before my mistakes? Thanks for your help

Today suddenly of my two email accounts, only one was opening when Firefox opened. All my folders were not visible, and the only thing I could see was the inbox for one email account. In the course of my "fixes" it's now even worse. I can only see one old archive folder (I think that's what it is). I tried reading in the forums and questions but nothing helps. I use Norton which some seem to say is a problem with updates, though it never used to be. I know where my stored emails and folders are for both accounts but Thunderbird does not seem to recognize them.

suddenly the Thunderbird cannot distinguish between info@zelec.se and info@stiernbrandt.com. It thinks they are the dsame and if I write the email address in the "Edit SMTP server" as info@zelec.se the same name appears in the account info@stiernbrandt.com. This is a very recent error. I saw todfay that this happen and then TH forbids me to send email from info@stierbrandt.com since it wrongly copies the into the info@zelec.

die automatisvhe Suche braucht stunden um die Server-Settings zu finden, wenn ich einenen Mail-Account hinzufüge. Kann ich die Serversettings manuell eingeben, In Thunderbird von vor zwei Jahren ging das noch.

Hello,

I am in the process of linking my mail account via Thunderbird on my computer. However, I can no longer see my normal folder structure. However, if I link my account via my Android phone using the Thunderbird app, I have the option of selecting so-called special folders (see attachment screenshot 1). If I then select INBOX, my usual folder structure can be accessed again in the linked mail account on my phone (screenshot 2). Why don't I have this option in Thunderbird on my computer? Perhaps I thought I was using an outdated version of Thunderbird on my computer, but I cannot see the version number and cannot check whether I can update Thunderbird or not.

Best regards, Dr. Jan-Christian Raabe

When I open my Thunderbird I obtain information: "free link provider, Account is not properly configured".. The problem is I am not able to find a mistake, I have not changed anything in my configuration in recent months. What to do?

Did ask forum for help on 12/9/2025, and though there was some info on line to solve my problem, I was unable to understand it, or proposed solutions did not work.Tried now to log into mozilla account, but cannot find any section about any replies. As problem driving me crazy, will try again.

1 When emails come in, instead of the sender being shown in the from box, it gves me at pethen.riseup.net as the sender. 2 If i click on any link in the text of the email which I need to access, this function does not work. All that appears is the link text I click on gets surrounded by a text edit box (ie a thin square line with small boxes you can put an arrow on to change shape of box for editing 3 a yellow banner appears at the base of any email reading " a unique identity matching the from address was not found. + "the messagewill be sent using the current from field and settings from identity peter hendry<pethen@riseup.net> 4 My other emailaddress linked to my mozilla thunderbird client has no problems. This has to be such a simple problem relating to the account set up which for some reason my PC has taken into itself to change, either text in my address books do not match, or I have ticked a wrong bos in the setup, or not ticked one at all,

Please can any help this struggling man! Peter

Hi All, no matter what I try, seems for my POP3 accounts I am unable to see all my folders. I am unable to find a way to a way to configure the account as IMAP. Seems there is manual override to set up account as IMAP?

In Outlook, this all works well these accounts are setup as IMAP.

Hi,

My computer crashed, and when it came back up I'm unable to locater any of my folders in Thunderbird. THis is a HUGE problem for me, as I have SO MUCH stored in the folders there. When I close and restart Thunderbird, it asks me to "Set Up Your Exising Email Address" Blow that it says, "To use your current email address fill in your credentials. Thunderbird will automatically search for a working and recommended server configuration."

So, I think it's treating me like I don't have an account, but I can see my address book with like 4,200 contacts in there.

Please help! Thanks so much in advance.

Danny

You keep changing things so much it is getting more a little aggravating to have to dismiss each. Today I had to figure out what was wrong with my login. I still don't know why it was no longer good and set up a new account which seems to be working.

I don't want to have to keep re-learning everything and having to reestablish all my information just be able to check my mail. I continue to get more and spam in my inbox because people trick you online into sigining up for daily posts etc. I especially don't like having to change my password so often because your system wants it. I don't. I just want a program that shows my email, not advertising from every idiot on the internet.

Please, keep the changes to a minimum. I seldom see any great difference from one version to another anyway. Wouldn't it be helpful not to have recreate Thunderbird all over again?

Sincerely Michael Miller

TBird keeps asking permission to connect to a gmail account I no longer use and is supposed to be deleted by Google. I keep selecting Deny but it continues. I have a new gmail account I've been using for over a month and this just started. I deleted every reference I can find to the old account but all to no avail. Suggestions welcomed.

As my subject states, I am a long-time TBird user - not a wizard or expert, but technically savvy. Now ... with version 140.0.1esr (64-bit), I cannot create a new account as easily as I once did on prior versions.

To be clear, my policy has always been to create new accounts for "A, B, C, and D" for each new year like what you see, left to right, in "Image-1." That has made it the easiest for any research about prior received or sent messages.

Attempting to do that now doesn't work. I put info in every panel; I setup for POP3 and enter a new password; then click Continue and get the message you see, left to right, in "Image-2."  :-(

I could really use some specific, successful advice ... PLEASE!  :-)

I realize this is a lousy day for advice!!  :-(

Would love if someone could please help me with this. It worked perfectly fine adding one Outlook account but this one for some reason just isn't working. It'll bring me to the Outlook sign in to give permissions then throws the error (attached image)

My profile did previously work with news.eternal-september.org, although I very rarely used NNTP. The last active use might have been as long as July or August 2023.

A few days ago I added news.gmane.io, it did not appear in the sidebar.

news.eternal-september.org:

• was originally in the sidebar, and responsive
• is not in the sidebar after removing then re-adding the account.

Can anyone reproduce this issue?

Environment

Thunderbird 140.0.1 (64-bit) on Kubuntu 25.10. Neither Flatpak nor Snap; my configured software sources include packages.mozilla.org/apt/ for deb.

/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/packages.mozilla.org.asc exists.

The profile was previously used on FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT, if that's relevant.