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Hi,

I would like to integrate the user's address book (or more specifically the contact details of the current user) into my own (c++) desktop (Windows/MacOS/Linux) application for the user's convenience.

Is this possible at all? If so, where can I start reading to find out how to do this?

(If it's not possible through an API, is the address book file format documented somewhere, so I can read it directly?)

I don't need write access. I just need to be able to read the user's contacts.

Cheers, James

I have been using Thunderbird since it was Netscape. (that's how old I am)

In all that time, I have NEVER had a password for Thunderbird. I have never even seen an option to set up a password for Thunderbird.

I thought that maybe if there were a subscription option available now, then I would be able to subscribe, get a proper personal account, make a password for it, and once again be able to use Thunderbird for email management.

I WISH! If anyone knows the URL for a Thunderbird subscription page, please send the URL, because after much searching, I still haven't found one.

I have a problem with my primary email. I cannot send out or receive. I'm working with my provider but no resolution as of yet. They did check my settings at the provider level but said everything looks good. I've thoroughly checked and rechecked all my email settings and am unable to see a problem. I'm thinking that since I am not signed into my browser (Mozilla Firefox) with it telling me my account is disconnected that I need to Sync my account, but I cannot do that.

So, I have been trying to Sync my Mozilla account but being I have a problem with email I am unable to receive your email code to completely sign into my Mozilla account. What I am wanting to do is to sign into my account and add a secondary email address so to receive your sign in code so that I am able to finish syncing my account.

I am lost to know what to do from here! You will be unable to reply to me using my regular primary email address because as I say, I cannot send or receive, so how can you even help me? Please help me somehow! I'm sure you have my phone number being I would think it's on my account. Can you phone me? Hopefully! Not sure whether I should put a phone number or the added secondary email address in here so you can add it for me. I can't sign into Mozilla to do anything. I went through my Google account to get this far so to hopefully send this to you. Your help would surely be appreciated! I'm desperate- here it is - Email hidden for privacy - you can contact me through that. Please help!!! Thank you!

I have a Gmail account that I use for a volunteer organization that I am leaving. I need to turn over this email address to my successor. I have Thunderbird installed and use that to view my Gmail account. All my messages in Gmail "All Mail" folder have been "archived" or selected as archived. I like to have all my email messages saved to my laptop.

How do I do this?

In order to upgrade to Win 11, unfortunately I must do a clean install.

I very much need to know what I need to do pre disk wipe to preserve my settings, do the right kind of backup of my various accounts, and be able to access my previous settings and account data once I install Tbird on my new system. It is very important for me to be able to access my old account data for legal reasons.

Thank very much in advance.

Doc

Hiya! The email I used to make this account is my work email, since I only use this account when I'm at my job so I can have my necessary bookmarks at all times. We recently updated our emails at work to have a different address, so its now it's different. I can't change this manually, so here I am. The current email this account is listed under now will be deleted in about two years time, so I'd like to get ahead of that.

Thank you!

Hello,

I recently closed a Gmail account and removed it from Thunderbird however it continues to periodically attempt to connect to Google with the deleted account's identity.

Under Account Settings, the account has been removed and the Outgoing Server entry has been deleted. All Saved Logins for the deleted account have been removed. There are no calendars configured for the removed account. There are no extensions installed other than LookOut 6.3 which does not appear to be account-sensitive.

If it makes a difference, I am experiencing this with Thunderbird 128.5.2esr (64-bit) on Slackware Linux 15.0.

Short of burning the profile and creating a new one, I'm out of ideas. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Cheers,

-d.

Hallo,

mein Gmail-Konto lässt sich nicht mehr mit Thunderbird verknüpfen. Ich habe das Konto bereits gelöscht und neu hinzugefügt. Es ist immer derselbe Fehler. Das Passwort ist nicht mit dem Server-Ausgang (SMTP) abgestimmt.

Im Anhang befinden sich zwei Screenshots, auf denen Sie den angesprochenen Fehler noch einmal erkennen können.

Viele Grüße Christopher

My live.com accounts are no longer syncing as of 10/01/24. I tried changing the authenication method to 0auth2 as suggested and restarted my computer. Now instead of getting the notice that my password for my live accounts in incorrect, I get a message from thunderbird saying "The IMAP server imap-mail.outlook.com does not support the selected authentication method. How can I fix this? I tried changing my passwords to these 2 accounts and reentereing into thunderbird but to no avail.

I have made a backup of my Thunderbird profile using this method:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer

If my computer crashes I can restore my messages and settings from this backup, or if I buy a new PC I can copy the data over from a backup made the same day.

The backup contains settings and local folders, but my concern is that the backup also contains the contents of my regular inbox at the time of copying.

The contents in my inbox changes over time, so naturally it will differ from the saved inbox contents in the backup.

So what happens when I paste an older backup into the Thunderbird folder? Will this data overwrite all the contents in my inbox and basically revert the inbox to an older state? Or will my inbox be crammed with doubles?

Since I use IMAP, any changes to the messages in Thunderbird will sync to the mail server, so I really don't want to do anything that deletes things or makes a mess on the mail server.

Of course, it can be good to have a copy of my messages if the mail server crashes, but if I only need to transfer data to a new PC or restore my data after a computer crash, I would rather just download the up-to-date inbox contents from the server. At the same time, it's important to me to make this backup since I want to be able to transfer my settings and local folders.

In this case, should I remove some files in the backed up profile folder before the transfer? If so, which files? The folder structure and content of the subfolders "Mail" and "ImapMail" aren't very intuitive, with various subfolders and multiple files named "Inbox" of various sizes.

Appreciating any clarifications on the matter and help to avoid conflicts between copied/backed up profiles and my current inbox.

I have 5 Gmail accounts that I have been using in Thunderbird for years. One of them was glitching a lot, so I removed it, then tried to add it back with no luck. I uninstalled and reinstalled Thunderbird, which automatically populated with my other four accounts, but still can't reinstall the fifth account. When I enter my account and password, it says "Configuration found in Mozilla ISP database" with a green checkmark. Then it takes me to Google, and shows my correct email address. When I hit Next, I get a 400 error message every time. "The server cannot process the error because it is malformed. It should not be retried. That's all we know." Can anyone help?

How do i keep my work browser seperate from my home browser account. This week they got mixed up and now i only have my work firefox. I lost all my bookmarks on my home firfox.

I've tried to confirgure my Gmail account to Thunderbird multiple times recently, but not successfully getting it figured out. I'm always given a 400 error message and I can't figure out the root cause. I've updated and redownloaded TB and reset my Gmail password.

I've included screenshots to verify what I've got currently setup in TB and my Gmail settings. Anyone have this problem or have the solution? I have 3 other mail accounts that are not hosted by Google that work fine.

I'm down to the last few days before Outlook will not be usable on Thunderbird unless I jump through some hoops.

I've seen posts about deleting the Outlook account, then reinstalling it in Thunderbird and Thunderbird will create the necessary security steps to make it usable again. This seems to be the method that works rather than just going into the settings and changing the necessary security settings.

MY QUESTION IS: I have lots of emails (sent and received from past months and years) that I keep in folders within Thunderbird.

How can I keep those folders/emails in the format I have if it's necessary to delete the account on Thunderbird then reestablish it? My understanding is that deleting it in Thunderbird will also delete all local folders and email saved within that account.

Thanks B