Thunderbird has saved the password for IMAP on my email account, but not the password for SMTP, so I have to enter the password manually each time I send an email.

Is there any way I can save the password for SMTP as I am unable to find one in Thunderbird.

Thanks

i want to disable my spamblocker/ junk mail detector in firefox ..... it keeps sending legit emails to the spam file no matter how i adjust the junkmail settings....is there a way to just turn the spam/junk detector off altogether?

i already have spam detector through my cPanel at my webhost and another junkmail detector in antivirus/malware program on my desktop

i don't need firefox diverting legit emails that get through the earlier detectors.

I have Thunderbird 115.8.0 installed on my MacBook Pro with two email accounts, Yahoo and Gmail. I have set up the Tools/Message Filters/Block Filters as well. When I first launch Thunderbird all the spam shows up in my inbox, and just sits there. What I have to do is go to Tools/Message Filters at which point I'm asked to select an account. I select Yahoo (my primary account) and then "Run Filters" before anything actually happens. Then if I go back to my inbox, the spam emails start disappearing. It seems that Thunderbird does not remember the "Yahoo" selection in filters in between launches. Is there a setting I am missing, or is this just the product of having two different email accounts? Thank you.

Hello! I'm having problems with setting up my yandex account in Thunderbird. App password is absolutely correct. The most curious thing is I was able to setup another yandex account, but now I can't setup the second. I asked yandex for support, but they told me to ask you for help. Could you help me please?

When I try to send an e-mail I get a message that says that the client host rejected it and tells me to enable SSL in my client. This just began today (June 30). However my Thunderbird settings indicate that my connection security is SSL/TLS. What more do I need to do to enable SSL and be able again to send e-mails? My e-mail provider is frontier.com

I recently installed Thunderbird on a Windows 10 desktop and setup a brand new profile from scratch with multiple email accounts.

It worked fine for 24hrs, with all passwords saved. Following an install of some other software (CorelDraw and Adobe Suite) the computer was rebooted. On starting Thunderbird it asked for all the account passwords again. Having entered them all, and ticked the box for password manager to remember them, none of them were saved.

I tried deleting parent.lock (which I didn't think should be present once the program has been shut down), key4.db, cert9.db and pkcs.11.txt from the profile and restarted Thunderbird. It requested all of the passwords again and again none were saved.

If anyone has any further ideas as to what could be causing the problem I would be grateful.

as of Jan 2 2024 all mail goes to spam/junk. windows 10, TB version 115.6.0 (64bit) using IMAP. as long as my laptop is not on the network mail is in the in box (looking at it on my phone through K-9) No filtering is done at the server. reset training data as soon as my laptop comes on thunderbird moves mail to spam. Junk, move messages in not checked, set as read is not marked at the account level enable adaptive is not checked.

-=-

system was restared. This did stop the mail being marked as junk, but it still moves the messages.

Not sure where else to look!!! now I have to view all new messages in the spam folder.

Hello,

I have been experimenting with OpenPGP and S/MIME to see what fits best for my use case and decided to go with my S/MIME certificate. It works fine, I de-selected the PGP settings and removed the key, but for new emails, it still defaults to selecting PGP for digital signing, etc. Because no key is present it just does nothing. I need to manually click that button and choose S/MIME every time. `

Is there no way to have S/MIME as the default for new messages?

I have attached how the new email window looks by default and my end-to-end encryption settings. I would greatly appreciate any helpful directions on where to change the default. I searched through settings and online but found nothing about this.

Thanks! Paul

I am trying to set up the calendar in Thunderbird for my mother. She uses a google calendar and it is working fine on the old computer.

However, on the new one, it lets me get as far as trying to select a calendar to subscribe to be the list is blank.

In trying to troubleshoot, I tried setting up my own calendar on a different computer and the same is happening.

Mother's is a Windows 11 and mine is a Windows 10.

In troubleshooting I came across a post that suggested that I open the dev console and by golly there is an error there.

The same error appears on both accounts/computers. [Exception... " �invalid_request��� You can't sign in to this app because it doesn't comply with Google's OAuth 2.0 policy for keeping apps secure.

You can let the app developer know that this app doesn't comply with one or more Google validation rules.

 �3https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12379384 ��*.

�redirect_uri��urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob:auto2�������The out-of-band (OOB) flow has been blocked in order to keep users secure. Follow the Out-of-Band (OOB) flow Migration Guide linked in the developer docs below to migrate your app to an alternative method.�Ohttps://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2/resources/oob-migration" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: resource://gdata-provider/legacy/modules/gdataSession.jsm :: login/authFailed< :: line 311" data: no] 2 gdataSession.jsm:311:25

   authFailed resource://gdata-provider/legacy/modules/gdataSession.jsm:311
   <anonymous> self-hosted:1115
   onPromptAuthAvailable resource://gdata-provider/legacy/modules/gdataSession.jsm:330
   onAuthorizationFailed resource://gdata-provider/legacy/modules/OAuth2.jsm:226
   _checkForRedirect resource://gdata-provider/legacy/modules/OAuth2.jsm:145
   onLocationChange resource://gdata-provider/legacy/modules/OAuth2.jsm:187

Where is/how do you set the calendar to use OAuth 2.0?

Email works fine is already set to OAuth 2. The calendar on the old computer works fine. Before the "choose account" window opens, it does seem that google trys to open a pop-up to enter the password, but the window closes and the "choose calendar" window that is blank open. Is this a bug? Can it be fixed?

I have installed latest version of Thunderbird and all works as it should but 2 things seem wrong and not sure if bug, incorrect setting or just not allowed:

1 When I send encrypted email to myself it is automatically unencrypted and readable. I would prefer that any encrypted email I receive forces me to enter my private password every time. Can I configure this? 2 I would like to set Tbird to automatically encrypt all emails to an address I have the public key for. however It looks as if I can only set 'encrypt all' or 'don't encrypt' which means I need to manually select for each email or have to set as 'encrypt all' and then get message for almost all recipients that they don't have public key etc.

Advice appreciated.

After a Windows 10 update, I find my pop3 server password has disappeared and I can no longer download e-mail to Thunderbird. I can't see any way to restore it. I can still send mail as the smtp password is present. All other settings seem OK. I can access my mail through the browser, but I want Thunderbird to download the messages.

I have TB, Windows 10 64x and I only use Firefox as browser. I keep all up to date.

I use several email accounts from different domains and mail service providers, and I digitally signed for two of them with PgP. Up to two months ago, I was doing so with no problem -with Enigmail originally, and then with the integrated system in TB.

About two months ago, I installed one official -Goverment- certificate in Firefox (not in TB) but -coincidence or not, but I wanted to mention it just in case.

A few days after one TB update, I was unable to sign any mail digitally, and since then I get the following message The configured key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX cannot be found on your keyring.

I erased previous keys and created/generated new ones, and I tagged them as personal keys, but it still does not work. I erased all of them again, set one of the email addresses as preferred account in TB, generated the new keys, and I still get the same problem.

Furthermore. When I generate a new key, if I try to refresh it in TB keymanager menu, it responds "We could not find any usable key with matching criteria", in spite that the key that has just been generated, still appears in the key manager.

Thus, I cannot encrypt or digitally sign any mails.

The Console shows the following:

GenericSendMessage FAILED: [Exception... "compose-send-message prevented" nsresult: "0x80004004 (NS_ERROR_ABORT)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://messenger/content/messengercompose/MsgComposeCommands.js :: CompleteGenericSendMessage :: line 5943" data: no] MsgComposeCommands.js:5995 [Exception... "compose-send-message prevented" nsresult: "0x80004004 (NS_ERROR_ABORT)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://messenger/content/messengercompose/MsgComposeCommands.js :: CompleteGenericSendMessage :: line 5943" data: no]

Any input will be more than welcome

Al

I must admit that I was very upset when I discovered some time ago that permissions for my files and folders in .thunderbird were messed up in a way that had given all files permission to run as programs. Now I have been living with it for a while without disaster, and I found out the reason for it is that I used ntfs format instead of ext4 on my backup disk. However it still feels bad, and I still don't know how to fix it correctly.

I have for many years before used Fat32 for my backup, .thunderbird included. And it looks like Fat32 takes all those permissions away, so if I just do that again and restore, the illness in quest will be cured. There are some symbolic files I can't copy to Fat32 but Thunderbird doesn't seem to care. Could that be a good way to fix it.?

Or can I perhaps expect an automatic update eventually will fix it.?

Or how do I fix it correctly.?

Thank you in advance.

When I started TB 102.5.0 today it prompted me to enter a password for my newsgroup account. I had set up to access mozilla.news.org NNTP items a few years ago and this is the first time I've been prompted to enter a password. I thought they must have made a change requiring us to use the new Firefox account for this but I can't find any way in Account Settings to do this. The option to "Manage Newsgroups" no longer appears on the main TB page and clicking on Account Settings for my Mozilla News configuration does not show any option to specify a password. I see options setting up a new NEWSGROUP account. A search found a few folks talking about this but they mentioned clicking the now missing "manage newsgroups".

Is mozilla.news.org still supported?

It seems to me something changed recently in Thunderbird that results in my receiving this message instead of being able to download my email:

Sending of password for user dave@dianeanddave.net did not succeed. Mail server mail.dianeanddave.net responded: Authentication failed. My Thunderbird logins are in the first attached png file. My email server is Hostgator and my accounts are shown in the second attached png file.

I can still see my email on Hostgator webmail by logging in to CPanel and choosing the dave@dianeanddave.net account. Using Thunderbird's Troubleshoot Mode provides no further information.

I need the convenience of my Thunderbird access restored.

What should be my next step?

Dave Johnson

I deleted the password entries in Privacy and Security, Passwords as I needed to change the password and couldn't find where to do it as Saved Logins just gives Remove options and it wasn't obvious that you could Show Passwords and then change them (I can see this now on another account) I though deleting passwords I would be asked to re-add them! This hasn't happened and Thunderbird just says it can't login to my account to pickup the mail. So does anybody know how I can add the password to my account?

I have three accounts with sign/encrypt certificates. Prior to the update just now, they worked fine, and have for several years. Now after the update, when I try to send an email I get an error message: Sending of the message failed. Unable to sign message. Please check that the certificates specified in Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings for this mail account are valid and trusted for mail.

I get these messages in all three accounts with certificates. I checked the settings, and the certificates are correct.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Hello: Last time before today when I sent email was 23Oct 21! What fixed it was setting the outgoing server settings to "Authentication method: Password transmitted insecurely,and Connection security: none. I got a pop-up asking for my password,and my email was sent normally. My reason for posting this is to ask if this outgoing server setting is safe to use. I haven't tried this solution before,as I am very security conscious. I am attaching a pic of the settings. Thanks!

This is an ongoing problem and it has been around for years. I know it existed in 102 and also now in 115. That is that despite the Junk Settings being set to "Delete them" under the checked statement "When I mark messages as junk", they do not ever get deleted. I have to manually delete items marked as junk, which is mostly accurate. So in my inbox, I just see a multitude of items marked as junk each morning until I re-sort by junk status instead of date and then easily delete them and then go back to sort by date.

Google has disabled POP access in Thunderbird. Specifically they have removed the option to allow "Less Secure Apps" from downloading emails using POP access. They define "Less Secure" as apps requiring only a username and password. Currently (as of June 2022) Thunderbird can not download Gmail emails using POP.

Just FYI I will gladly give up Gmail and keep Thunderbird. I believe the only workaround is to have Gmail forward all emails to another, more friendly, email provider until I am able to convert all my contacts.

Thanks!