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Mac sequoia 15.7.2 Thunderbird 147.0

Older updates had same results.

Many of the "solutions" I have read are out of date, so they are irrelevant. So I'm here.

When I compose an email, when I select "bold" the fonts become bold. Same with other selections. however, when I select a color for fonts, when I type a character, the selection and character change to black again. Help?

Hello,

I failed to install Thunderbird 147.0.dmg on my Mac operating under High Sierrra version 10.13.6. I am getting an error message that the file is damaged when I try to execute it.

I am interested to switch to Thunderbird as an alternative to Mail. Would anybody has a solution ? Which older version of Thunderbird would work with my OS ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Hello,

I cannot access my email account in Thunderbird. I am unable to log in because I do not remember my login details or password.

The email address is: [edited from public] @transspeedeuropa.pl

Please help me recover access to this account or advise what I should do next.

Thank you very much for your assistance.

Kind regards Anastasiia

I didn't know I had a Mozilla account. Should I create one? Download Firefox? I've relied on my Thunderbird e-mail program for decades. When my Google password changes it is always tricky to get Thunderbird to talk to Gmail. But I don't ever remember being asked for a primary password again. Looking through the "articles", I'm not sure they are talking about e-mail or web browsers. "The imap server imap.gmail.com does not support the selected authentication method. Please change the authentication method." I am using OAuth2 as my authentication method. I tried entering my Google password early Saturday and it started receiving mail again. I was ecstatic. But it didn't last! It broke down again. Please help. I've donated a lot of money to Thunderbird.

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

Hello! I want to set up TBird to: 1) Get all my messages and attachments stored locally, and... 2) Remove *most* of the above from gmail's server to avoid the data limit, but... 3) Keep, perhaps some months or a year of activity on gmail's server so I can access recent items from wherever.

Questions: 1) I have 10s of thousands (more?) of msgs, many with attachments. Is it better to just set up TBIrd and let it grab all the messages, or start by using Google TakeOut? 2) I presume I use IMAP vs. POP? 3) To preserve messages on my harddrive, I could archive to a local folder. Then I could safely delete those same messages on the gmail web interface? 4) If this turns into a disaster, can I just remove the entire account from TBird without suffering a loss of my entire email history? 5) Any insurance maneuvers to prevent the disaster of accidentally losing my entire email history while attempting to set this up? (Obviously will need to be religious about backing up my own system, though keeping a year of email on the gmail server offers a bit of insurance once the set up is successful.)

I am really hoping to avoid creating a unholy mess of my email/spending a week trying to fix it. (Indeed, I have avoided this project for years for this reason, but I really, really want to do this.)

On doing a search for mail ... it returns a number of mails ..... but many of them when I click on the entry it comes up with 'no message found'

Is there some index I need to rebuild or similar ?

On January 1 my desktop version stopped downloading my GMAIL but my other non gmail are still downloading

I use Windows 10 and the version of Thunderbird is 147.0 64 bit

What can I do to fix this?

Is there a faster way to allow images in incoming messages? Manually copying email addresses to Tools/Settings/Exceptions is a chore when processing a lot of mail every day. If there's maybe an extension/add-on that would be great, though I can't find one.

Many thanks

I have a domain so any email I use comprises of name@mydomain.co.uk

In the past I have given an email address to some dodgy enterprises such as Abbey National plc, and so I get loads of spam to abbey@mydomain.co.uk

It is an utter pain that many spammers use a throw away or random To: address but because the envelope email is abbey@mydomain.co.uk I get to receive it and there is no easy way of searching a folder to find matches to "envelope to".

Similarly it seems impossible to construct filters for an "envelope to" address.

Any ideas?

Dear Customer Service,

I forward many emails to my wife or our friends and end my comments at the beginning of the actual message with a signature switch and an underline. Unfortunately, the signature is not inserted in front of the message to be sent, but at the very end. If the message to be sent is several pages long, you cannot see the signature text at all, and it took me several attempts to find it at the end of the many pages. I find this very annoying!

Kind regards

Ulf D. Meyer

I have a new issue with Event invitations.

Previously if I received an invite, the email would display a button to accept, and if I accepted it would - send an email response - add it to my Thunderbird calendar.

Now if I receive an invite, there is simply a blue banner at the top saying "This message contains an invitation to an event".

It usually does not show the event details at all, and there is no integration with calendar. No button to accept no way to interact with it.

Until the latest ESR update of Thunderbird, invitations worked perfectly. I switched to Release update (v147) and still seeing the same issue on Macos.

Lately, when I try to click on a different mailbox or message , nothing happens. repeating clicks sometimes works, and sometimes i have to first click on what I was previous viewing to get what I want to highlight, or click on different areas of a message or mailbox to get it to work. I am on mac tahoe 26.2. Did not have this problem before. What can I do to fix this problem?

Thanks Dan

Since about five days, Thunderbird keeps crashing without any notice. Once started again, it crashes after a few minutes -and so on...! What can be done? Thnaks for your help, Manfred

There are certain emails that I receive that are *absolutely known* spam. I want these (but ONLY these) deleted as they come in.

I understand that one need to tick the "delete" box in Settings, but this seems to giver Thunderbird the right to delete anything that 𝒊𝒕 determines is spam. I don't want that. I want ONLY my own predetermined spam to be deleted.

And by deleted, I mean just that. Thunderbird just piles them up in the Trash folder, and this gets to be a big pile. Because Thunderbird makes mistakes, cannot just let it delete everything it determines to be spam, and so I have to go through this long list of junk in the Trash folder, which is annoying (because there's surely a better way that no one has implemented yet) and time-consuming.

I've made my own "delete" filter. It runs first (it's the first filter in the list), "before Junk Classification" and "Getting New Mail". Anything on this list should be deleted, because that's the ONLY action I have in this filter. If you're in here, you're gone.

Except your not. The filter is (for some reason) NOT run when new mail arrives. Instead, I have to open the filter, and choose "run on Trash folder". Then it works. But is THAT the design?!? Why is it not deleting arriving mail that meets the criteria?

There is also the problem now (as spammers have gotten more proficient) of the random character string preceding the @, followed by a domain name that you dare not mark as spam (for example, yahoo.com). These random characters are indeed random, and constantly changing, so you cannot filter on the address. But it seems to me some bright person might come up with something like "if 'known domain' is NOT preceded by 'known sender', delete". (This would require a user [me] to be very careful, or I could lose a new respondent who is not spamming me.)

But the point here is this: Over time, I have a great "delete" filter. Mail that this filter catches makes NO mistake. I want these messages (but ONLY these messages) to be gone when mail is retrieved. I don't want them in the Trash. And I don't want to have to take the time to run that filter on the Trash, because no one has created an extension that allows me to do this with a single click.

I would pay/donate, for this capability. But I can't bring myself to donate, or pay, when I have to go through a big Trash pile full of mail that, according to my filter, I should NEVER even see.

Other suggestions entertained of course.

But I'm spending too much of my life dealing with things that should be automated.

Regards,