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This month I downloaded the current version of Tbird on a new computer running windows 11. Tbird receives all my email but can not send mail. I have an old computer running on windows 7 which has Tbird that was loaded at least 5 years ago. It receives and sends email without problems. The two versions of Tbird are using the same SMTP settings: server: mail.twc.com Port: 587. My email account for Tbird is slengyel@triad.rr.com

I also have a gmail account which receives and sends on both computers without problems. My gmail account is steve.lengyel9@gmail.com.

Both computers run through the same internet network.

Hello! After like 20+ years I wanted to return to Thunderbird and right after the start i stumbled upon a massive showstopper... The need to exclude every single address "variation" of a website and/or email address is not only annoying, but will also make Thunderbird slower and slower with time.

Why does the exception list for remote content not support wildcards? Why do I have to separately allow content from e.g. "invitations@linkedin.com", "messages-noreply@linkedin.com" and "messaging-digest-noreply@linkedin.com", instead of just allowing all content from a domain "*linkedin.com"?

Regards, Black Seraph.

I have downloaded Thunderbird on to my desktop but it won't open. Please help me to open and use Thunderbird.

email: [edited] @phonecoop.coop #Tel: [edited email and phone# from public community support forum]

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I tried to use both robertipp@gmail.com and robertippolito6@gmail.com for my system (along with others until I retired).

I've tried to work with Mozilla, but I cannot get an early system and another laptop (two I've been working). I've tried to work with Mozilla process, but I just cannot to get it to work. I tried to work your process, but I seem your process as asking me to read data that I seem coming close, but working with us. The last information was data, but a little error (?, mine or yours) popped up. My data that I wrote up, then I changed my data for robertippolito6@gmail.com very carefully, but the error this time had to be your error or an blend of data because many of your team and mine are just mine.

I give up. I cancel my contract. I've had to take my laptop for many trips to help with my older brother and who suddenly died. I was spanning around for quite some time to work.

January 31, 2026 is effective canceled. Please refund to me as said.

Robert Ippolito

I have lost my SEND button. I have read several previous responses to this question, but following the solutions offered does not get the purported result. I don't get a Menu Bar after Toolbars. At age 96 I'm too old for this malarkey. Call me on my cell phone if you wish. [edited phone# from community support forum] FWN

Thunderbird won't let me login and doesn't deliver my emails. I have reset my password and still can't get my emails. How do I get some assistance on this issue?

I'm trying to set up my thunderbird client (Version 147.0) to work with my Google Workspace. I understand that I should choose OAuth as the login method. The problem is that the option is not available when I try to create the account. There are only "normal password", "Encrypted password", "Kerberos/GSSAIP", "NTML" and "TLS certificate". What am I doing wrong?

When using Thunderbird 140 I am able to setup the background color of the message pane for individual messages. However when the messages are threaded, the message pane shows a preview of all of the threaded messages together in the message pane with a different background color than individual messages.

I posted this question some time back but didn't receive any helpful answers and don't know where my post is. In the upper right-hand corner there is suppose to be 3 symbols. One to lower the app, one to make the app full screen or partial and one with an X. I have jumbled symbols where the 3 good ones are. It does it in trouble shoot mode. I tried disabling addons but I can't get the normal symbols back. Here's what it looks like... Thank you for any help.

Is it possible to change the account name in "Account Settings" without any issues and will this make the mail folders accounts panel on left of the screen show the newly entered name for folders and sub-folders under sent, archive, etc?

The reason I ask is because I think it is ok to initially name the account as whatever I want, as I think the account name is for my own use only, but I'm not sure if changing an existing account name may cause issues or if TB uses the account name for anything.

I tried unticking enable and it did NOT work. Help! I want the stupid filter gone. I have struggled for two years with the junk filter which does not work right. I have done shift J. The filter does NOT learn. A week aog, I saw that I could uncheck enable and that was supposed to stop the filter. That also did NOT work.

Today, an email I forwarded to myself from another platform went in junk. I never wanted any junk filter. It has been nothing but trouble and now I can't even disable it.

In the upper right hand corner there should be a minus sign, restore/down sign and an X. Instead of these I have what looks like an X in a box. It appears to be fixed when I run in Trouble mode. Even the default theme shows it wrong. This just began happening. Thanks to anyone who can help me out.

the problem is that when I receive an email it goes straight to delete folder there is no where I can set the filters to filter of my choosing, I have lost losing all in coming mails I am talking with telstra as one page said it is an IMAP problem in that it just removes emails for no reason but in your problems page it says I can change the filter settings but in the settings there is no place to change filter rules

I am getting very frustrated  after 6 hours and not getting anywhere  I have uninstall Thunderbird and reinstalled  but nothing changed 
running win 11os  on desktop 

what do you suggest

Hello,

I am using Thunderbird version 144.0.1 (build 20251016001905) on Windows 11 version 25H2. I want everything I use to be in dark mode, and I have managed to configure almost everything to work as I wish except for the Compose window.

I attach a capture of an email I received opened in the Compose window for reference. If I view this email in the 'Message pane', it displays as I want in its entirety : white text on a dark grey background, all the way down the reply chain.

However, if I click 'Reply' or 'Forward', the Compose window opens and the formatting of the message becomes skewed :

• The part where I write is fine, and takes into account my preferences as configured in the settings.
• However, the part where the previous message is included becomes a mess of formattings. Some parts are black text on my background colour, some parts are black text on a white background. It changed mid-lines sometimes. When the formatting is applied to a paragraph, I get a big white box that stretches accross the window.

I want the text to display as white text on a dark grey background. I also want the recipients to be able to open the mails I send in whatever formatting they want : my colleagues who use Outlook reported having skewed formatting from my emails (forced black background with varying text colour), which corrupted entire email chains afterwards.

I have tried the following : - In the 'Settings -> Composition' panel, I have tried all combinations of :

   - 'Use reader's default colors'
   - 'Use Paragraph format instead of Body Text by default'
   - All 4 'Sending formats'

- In the 'Add-ons Manager' panel :

   - All 3 default theme options : 'Dark', 'Light' and 'System theme - auto'.

- In the 'Advanced Preferences' :

   - Changing the 'editor.background_color' and 'editor.text_color' registers to what I want.
   - Changing the 'msgcompose.background_color' and 'msgcompose.text_color' to what I want (these seem to follow the 'Settings -> Composition' parameters anyway).

- Running Thunderbird in 'Troubleshooting mode' did not remove the issue.

I have included a screenshot of my 'Windows Settings -> Personalization -> Color' panel for reference. I have not touched these, as they affect the rest of my system and I do want the rest of my apps to keep behaving as they currently do.

I also find interesting that before 'upgrading' to Windows 11, I also used Thunderbird and had no such issue whatsoever. Unfortunately I do not have access to my previous Thunderbird configuration and information, as I installed Windows 11 from scratch instead of using the 'upgrade' process.

Since the 'Message pane' displays as I want, I assume it is possible to do what I want. I even tried to send myself the email with the skewed formatting, to check if it displayed correctly in the 'Message pane', and it did. However, I am at a loss for which parameters I need to check / uncheck for it to work. Please help !

Thanks, best regards, Aurelien