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I get a reasonable number of TEAMS & Zoom invites by email into my Firefox account.

I have 2 questions ...

1. Can I add Google Calendar to FireFox Calendars ..... or vice versa ... so I can add an invite to FireFox calendar and have it show in Google Calendar.

2. Currently if the invite includes an .ics file I can import that into Google Calendar ..... clunky, but works. However many invites do not include an .ics file ..... as the invfite has arrived in FireFox .... can that generate an .ics file ?

I need to use Google Calendar as it provides cross platform support of multiple calendars.

Happened a few days ago - up till then no problems for years! Checked the net for advice. Did the Tools; Settings; Privacy and Security; Saved Passwords tab proceedure and displayed small window headed "Saved Logins"; then clicked on the "Show Passwords" tab to see if the password manager had the one I used still stored. Unfortunately then up pops a window asking for me to enter my username and PASSWORD - the latter I am trying to ascertain so am just going round in circles! Any ideas, please. Hope I have described things understandably. Maurice Johnson

Aloha, I have been using Thunderbird since decades. Since a few weeks (or even months) by now, it is hanging all the time. Meanwhile it is totally impossible to use it properly. Whenever I klick on something it hangs itself up and I have to wait at least a minute until I can click something else and then it hangs again.

I already tried reinstalling, but that didnt change anything. Of course I also rebooted the computer.

Why is that so and what can be done?

Mahalo, Stefanie

I have a folder on my desktop labelled "Local Folders", which contains the emails I have put into seperate folders. My Thunderbird start page does not show those folders in the Folder Pane on the left. It only shows folders like inbox, trash etc. Can anyone help?

To whom it may concern,

My manager is having issues with the drag-and-drop feature in her Thunderbird account. One of her most favoured features is being able to drag emails from the inbox section of her email account into a designated folder. However this feature seems to have been disabled or is unresponsive for her.

Additionally she is getting a notification which says "Not enough disk space' We have a team of administrators who assist with inbox management and clearing of spam and junk however due to the busy nature of her work she receives hundreds of emails on a daily basis. How would she go about increasing her disk space? And are these two issues related?

Look forward to your response and assistance. Kind regards Ines

Witajcie,

Proszę o pomoc z wyszukiwarką w programie Thunderbird 128.9.2esr (64 bity). Do tej pory wyszukiwarka działała poprawnie. Teraz gdy próbuje wyszukać jakieś hasło to wyszukiwarka pokazuje mi wyniki tylko od października 2024 do marca 2005 roku a wiadomości w folderach mam od 2020 roku. W ustawieniach pole Indeksowanie wiadomości i wyszukiwanie mam zaznaczone. Próbowałem odznaczyć i uruchomić program ponownie. Uruchamiałem też Thunderbird w trybie rozwiązywania problemów. Żadne z tych działań nie rozwiązało problemu. Jak wejdę w foldery na koncie to normalnie widzę wszystkie wiadomości od 2020 roku ale wyszukiwarka nie wyszukuje w wiadomościach przed 2024 rokiem. Co dokładnie powinienem zrobić aby to naprawić? Dziękuję za pomoc Pozdrawiam Marcin

Postbox having been sold to eM Client, I need to migrate to Thunderbird. Import worked pretty well using the protocol "migrating from a previous Thunderbird installation" however the filters did not import at all. It happens that I have 320 of them, so it would be a great help if some automatic procedure could be implemented. Is this possible? Thanks in advance. Regards, Gérald

In the past I've always been able to restore email subfolders and the emails in those folders to Local Folders by copying over the files from the profile directory of a previous installation under Mail/Local Folders

But I'm trying it now on v. 128.6.1esr (64-bit) and it no longer works.

e.g. I do the following with TB closed: $ cd [old_profile_dir]/Mail/Local\ Folders/ $ cp -r Archives* Sent* Templates* [new_profile_dir]/Mail/Local\ Folders/

When I reopen neither the emails nor their folders are there.

If I try creating all of the relevant folders from within thunderbird, then closing it and copying over in the same way, it similarly seems has no effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am trying to set up my sbcglobal.net account on Thunderbird.

I enter all of the inbound server settings, and i times out while checking them. What to do? I have similar issues setting up sbcglobal.net on other email clients.

Can the nesting of emails be turned off? I constantly have to search my emails to find a specific one. This was so easy before the nesting was implemented. Now everything is hidden. It's getting to be as bad as gmail.

With the new version of TB the address book has become unusable. It is not White Text on white background. I can't find any settings to reset or apply a theme or fix the colors of the text within the address book. There are many settings and themes that one could apply to the mailbox but if one can't see the address book that pretty much it useless to try to use the email.

How does one just set up the ENTIRE program to apply a theme? Or can we get a working White and Dark themes that address all Text and All backgrounds to make them legible so there are at least useful. TB has become very frustrating. Sorry to rant but before the big changes to use native Darkmode it was really good email client but like so many that try to embrace the darkmode trend (which isn't a bad idea) they are falling short of addressing the entire product.

Any help to address the color issues in the address book would be greatly appreciated.

Is there a way for fonts and color in replies to be default for replies only, and a different default font and color for new messages. It is kind of a pain to keep changing every time you do a reply.

Thank you, Rick

TB 137.0.1 (64-bit) Edition Windows 11 Pro Version 24H2 OS build 26100.3775 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.66.0

Was repeatedly encountering "Cannot read summary file" when opening TB. Some research indicated this issue goes back many years and can be intermittent. After much "repair folder" the issues seems to have abated. However, as part of my research I explored the user-local filesystem tree for TB for one of the larger email accounts I monitor, as in

C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\<8_chars_profile_id>.default\ImapMail\<mail_server_name>\email_top_level_folder_names_as_NTFS_directory_names.

From this I discovered that with a Message Store Type of File-per-folder, TB constructs a filesystem directory tree that replicates the email folder tree, including the naming, presented by the IMAP email server. Not an unreasonable design choice but one with a potential flaw. Given that a Windows user_name can be 20 characters, an FQDN hostname can be 253 characters, and the max IMAP folder name length can be uncertain but apparently good practice is no more than 250 characters,...

• What happens when TB goes to create a deep-in-tree directory having a pathname that exceeds the Windows maximum of 260 bytes?

• Suppose this deep-in-tree directory is not originated from the TB UI but rather from a TB update scan of an IMAP server?

The user could have created IMAP folders via a Web interface with longish names in a 3 or 4 deep hierarchy not understanding the total pathname length limit in how TB echos the IMAP folder tree with a directory tree. The user then points TB at this email account and oops. Does TB fall over?

The default leading part of the TB AppData pathname above could be 93 characters alone before we get to the email server FQDN. Windows 11 Pro does offer a Group Policy setting to enable long pathnames up to 32k for manifested apps but this policy is not configured OOB.

Regards.