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My Get Messages is grayed out, how do I fix? Not downloading messages I searched the answers for this and tried what was suggested and now the Mail Toolbar is completely … (read more)

My Get Messages is grayed out, how do I fix? Not downloading messages I searched the answers for this and tried what was suggested and now the Mail Toolbar is completely gone, the suggestion was to Restore Default setting and I did and now my Toolbar is completely gone

Asked by quiltjunkie2002 3 months ago

Last reply by quiltjunkie2002 16 hours ago

Backing up profiles in 157.7.0 and restore o another computer

Made a mistake and installed 157.7.0 on Linux Now cannot backup/restore to another computer so cannot use that computer. Old Profile used to be in .thunderbird folder … (read more)

Made a mistake and installed 157.7.0 on Linux

Now cannot backup/restore to another computer so cannot use that computer.

Old Profile used to be in .thunderbird folder - easy!

Now profile seems to be in /home/oem/snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird/26pphmrb.default

This does not contain all emails especially for pop3 and anything after Nov 23. It does not work

Q's

Best way to fix? Can I force it TBird to read the .thunderbird in home directory? Can I install an older version of TBird easily? Is there some other way to restore the profile and clone another computer?

Asked by marksmail2 3 weeks ago

Last reply by marksmail2 2 days ago

Thunderbird mail account fails to log into Outlook.com sometimes.

I am running 4 email addresses (3 hotmail.com and 1 live.com) on TB 102.15.1 (64 bit) - Windows 10. About a month ago I upgraded TB was unable to send anything no matter … (read more)

I am running 4 email addresses (3 hotmail.com and 1 live.com) on TB 102.15.1 (64 bit) - Windows 10. About a month ago I upgraded TB was unable to send anything no matter what Server settings I used - tried every combination - so I downgraded back to Version 102 and everything went back to normal. About a week ago, one of my hotmail accounts started giving me a "fail to log in" message. The other accounts work fine. The "fail to log in" will go from 2 or 3 times to 15 to 20 times in about an hour or so but every time, sooner or later will work and then it will be fine for a few hours and then start again. I have had these accounts running on TB for well over 10 years with no problem and I have not changed anything in the Server settings or anywhere else. The account I am having the issue with has been running on TB since TB started with no problems until now. I assume that TB may be having some issues with the Outlook platform but I have not changed anything there either and I have no problem logging into hotmail.com directly. I have spent many hours combing the internet for hints to no avail - everything I have tried has either had no effect or screwed things up so I had to back track to where I started. Any ideas???

Asked by Ron 1 month ago

Last reply by Ron 17 hours ago

Thunderbird sending problem, in connection with outlook.live.com

I have a hotmail.com address. Until recently, it worked well as webmail, plus also from TB on laptop, via IMAP and SMTP. A few days ago, the sending function via SMTP s… (read more)

I have a hotmail.com address. Until recently, it worked well as webmail, plus also from TB on laptop, via IMAP and SMTP.

A few days ago, the sending function via SMTP stopped working (not IMAP); and webmail is still fine. I've tried a lot to solve it, but to no avail.

My guess is that MS is to blame, but don't know how to reach someone better-than-hotline there.

Details see annex; OS is Win10, TB is 115.9

Would someone be familiar with this kind of problem? According to my traditional european quality idea, best should be to get in touch with an MS technician with access to the syslog, to hear what the system's response to connection attempts is - but this seems to be precluded? I wonder what alternatives there might be?

Asked by don.mitchel 1 week ago

Last reply by don.mitchel 4 days ago

Why Thunderbird is updating to SUPERNOVA itself, ignoring disabled updates!

Hello all! Me and my colleagues are using Thunderbird already 5-6 years. We are very happy with it! Until Supernova ... It was like a jam full of "flavors" ... however … (read more)

Hello all!

Me and my colleagues are using Thunderbird already 5-6 years. We are very happy with it!

Until Supernova ... It was like a jam full of "flavors" ... however ... All my colleagues use it ( I don't know how?, in my opinion they just don't give a ****, or exist on other planet ) ... except me and one other person.

ON QUESTION !

So on 1st PC updates are disabled in Registry via "DisableAppUpdate" and there are no signs of this Supernova! On 2nd PC is just like this, but on 22.03 thunderbird updated itself! Steps that I made are these :

1. Deleted compatibility.ini 2. Downgraded to 102.15 3. Created distribution folder with policies.json (will copy text below the post) got them from : https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/ 4. Renamed updater.exe 5. Created more registry entries /// "AppAutoUpdate"- 0, ExtentionUpdate - 0 6. Uninstalled maintenance.exe

After all this thunderbird is working just fine. I restarted PC several times, made a shutdown - all OK. Until the next morning. And every morning I just added more settings I founded in internet until I ended here. Today is day 4. And same again ...

Please for some help.

Best Regards,

Asked by Radoslav Borisov 1 day ago

Last reply by Radoslav Borisov 2 hours ago

In 115.8.0, the plain text Write window text area ignores the Colors shown everywhere else?

In 115.8.0 (and earlier versions), the plain text Write window text area ignores the Colors shown everywhere else. Even if I choose Edit->Settings or Tools->Setting… (read more)

In 115.8.0 (and earlier versions), the plain text Write window text area ignores the Colors shown everywhere else. Even if I choose Edit->Settings or Tools->Settings from the Write window toolbar, and select Composition in the Settings window, I get color choices that affect all other windows, and even the Write window header line and the dropdown menus from the Write toolbar, but NOT the Write window toolbar itself, nor the content I'm composing!

The text of the content I'm writing is decently visible, but the background behind it is medium gray, and the quoted text I'm replying to is a pale green almost indistinguishable from the pale gray background. Miserable for my lousy vision...

Is there some trick to getting that text area to follow the colors seen everywhere else in Thunderbird?

Asked by LorenAmelang 3 days ago

Last reply by LorenAmelang 17 hours ago

existing mail account creation

Hello dear Thunderbird members. Please, I would like your assistance to the following issue. It's about when creating an existing account on Thunderbird application. Cr… (read more)

Hello dear Thunderbird members.

Please, I would like your assistance to the following issue.

It's about when creating an existing account on Thunderbird application. Creating a Google mail account, or Yahoo! account (IMAP setting up). Or creating on POP3 module my mail account that I have on my internet provider.

So, the question/problem is, when I create account, all settings are being created (settings I mean incoming mail server, ports, etc), the authentication of username and password is passed, and finally account is created, with inbox folder, and immediately automatic getting messages begins. And, all other folders under inbox are being created/loaded. What I want to ask is if there is a technique, after account creation, only the inbox folder to be created empty, then not starting an automatic getting messages, and only if I click on inbox folder or press the get messages button, just then, the getting messages and folders begin. Just something like say disable automatic getting messages when creating existing account.

Is there any way to make this?

Thank you for your time!

Asked by netad98 7 hours ago

Last reply by netad98 1 hour ago

Installed Thunderbird 115.8.1 on newer computer and did not save Thunderbird profile to move to newer computer. Still need to move previously saved folders of email from older computer as those emails are not on Comcast server.

I have seen articles about migrating to new computers, but they want you to replace your thunderbird profile and don't account for adding folders not saved online. Please… (read more)

I have seen articles about migrating to new computers, but they want you to replace your thunderbird profile and don't account for adding folders not saved online. Please advise.

Asked by Susan Miller 1 week ago

Last reply by Susan Miller 1 day ago

Tried several times to install Thunderbird, no succes

Tried to install Thunderbird, after installing see by surprise that my 30 years old emailadres (simonroos@zeepost.nl) is already registered and that Thunderbird is trying… (read more)

Tried to install Thunderbird, after installing see by surprise that my 30 years old emailadres (simonroos@zeepost.nl) is already registered and that Thunderbird is trying to make contact with it, tried to delete it, without succes, that was yesterday. Today I deleted all, installed Thunderbird again, using my main gmail address and when it did not work also another gmail address and get same warning: Login to server not possible, probably wrong configuration, wrong username or password. Checking and checking again, no errors found. Thank you! Best regards, Simon Roos

Asked by Simon Roos 4 days ago

Last reply by Simon Roos 3 days ago

'account setup from existing' gives error

To address the 'write auth' error, I followed the instructions given to re-create the email 'from existing' and set the config as POP3. When I clicked Done I got an "erro… (read more)

To address the 'write auth' error, I followed the instructions given to re-create the email 'from existing' and set the config as POP3. When I clicked Done I got an "error Creating Account" stating that "incoming server already exists." what do I need to do next to get past this?? Please advise. thx

Asked by ibdashnn 6 days ago

Last reply by ibdashnn 1 day ago

Some e-mail that I receive in Thunderbird are in HTML code instead of in regular format

Would you please tell me what I should do to get all e-mails that I receive in regular language instead of in HTML code. Most e-mails that I receive are OK, but some are … (read more)

Would you please tell me what I should do to get all e-mails that I receive in regular language instead of in HTML code. Most e-mails that I receive are OK, but some are shown in HTML format. This problem started a few months ago.

Asked by l.wachters 4 months ago

Last reply by l.wachters 2 hours ago

Thunderbird 115.9.0 - all emails from all folders missing

After overnight automatic update to Thunderbird 115.9.0, all my emails are missing... inbox & local folders are visible, but all are empty... I'm running Windows 10..… (read more)

After overnight automatic update to Thunderbird 115.9.0, all my emails are missing... inbox & local folders are visible, but all are empty... I'm running Windows 10... with POP server... since the update, I received a couple of new emails in my inbox... I moved one of them to a local folder, where it also disappeared... Help please!

Asked by kbgoodtogo313 6 days ago

Last reply by kbgoodtogo313 5 days ago

emails have vanished from a folder

I really am getting fed-up with Thunderbird which is getting increasingly user unfriendly and more and more geekified, e.g. the enforced belief on users that every user w… (read more)

I really am getting fed-up with Thunderbird which is getting increasingly user unfriendly and more and more geekified, e.g. the enforced belief on users that every user wants threading. To add to the gneral irritation, half a dozen emails have suddenly vanished from the folder they had been moved to.

Here's what happened.

1. The emails were moved from the iinbox to the folder.

2. They were unthreaded.

3. They then disappeared.

A search has not found them and opening and checking all folders has not found them.

So, two questions:

1, Where are they?

2. How do I get them back?

Asked by Gordon Whitehead 1 month ago

Last reply by Gordon Whitehead 5 days ago

Apply filter only to specific Folder

Hey! Is there a way to apply Message Filters only to a specific folder of the mailbox? I have a filter that moves emails from my Gmail mailbox to a Local Folder. It wor… (read more)

Hey!

Is there a way to apply Message Filters only to a specific folder of the mailbox?

I have a filter that moves emails from my Gmail mailbox to a Local Folder. It works well.

However, if the same email gets downloaded to the "All Mail" folder of the same Gmail mailbox, it gets moved as a duplicate to the same Local Folder. (all Gmail mailboxes have this "All Mail" folder)

I have unsubscribed from the "All Mail" folder, as an attempt to resolve this issue.

However, if I go on the Gmail website, delete the email from "All Mail", it moves that email to the Trash. Then, once Thunderbird downloads that email in the Trash folder, the Message Filter applies, and the duplicate is moved again to the Local Folder.

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I believe the only way to resolve this is if I could select "Inbox" specifically, for the Message Filter.

So my question is whether it's possible (maybe with an addon) to select which folder I want a specific Message Filter to apply to.

Thank you!

Asked by NP 6 hours ago

Last reply by NP 4 hours ago

cox to yahoo instructions

With the moving of Cox emails to Yahoo would it be feasible for Thunderbird to put an instruction list(with screenshots) of how to get all our TB email accounts from Cox … (read more)

With the moving of Cox emails to Yahoo would it be feasible for Thunderbird to put an instruction list(with screenshots) of how to get all our TB email accounts from Cox to TB? Do we have to delete all our TB email accounts and re-enter them into TB under the new Yahoo or can we just change the server settings on the existing Cox settings? If just changing server settings what are the settings for the new yahoo? All my accounts are IMAP so if instructions could be made, maybe one for IMAP and one for POP for those who use either. Thank you

Asked by oldbob2 1 week ago

Last reply by oldbob2 4 days ago

Importing Emails imports 0 emails

I'm trying to import emails that I backed up from my wordpress website's hosted email on hostgator. I have downloaded a mail.zip file however when I try to import it usin… (read more)

I'm trying to import emails that I backed up from my wordpress website's hosted email on hostgator. I have downloaded a mail.zip file however when I try to import it using Thunderbird it shows 0 emails imported. How can I import the emails using the file I have?

Thanks in advance!

Asked by Amin Bihamta 3 hours ago

Last reply by Amin Bihamta 1 hour ago

Changing service to google workspace. Want to migrate emails from old mail in thunderbird (POP3) to google (IMAP) with the same address

I already migrate my email service to google workspace with the same email address and domain. The old mail still on the thunderbird (POP3). I want to migrate emails from… (read more)

I already migrate my email service to google workspace with the same email address and domain. The old mail still on the thunderbird (POP3). I want to migrate emails from there to google mail (IMAP). Is it okay to login the 2 same email address to thunderbird, just to move emails from old mail to new mail. And how to do it properly?

Asked by mridhor24 2 days ago

Last reply by mridhor24 1 day ago

What is this beta version?

I have been using Thunderbird for years, to complete satisfaction. Today, instead of using the taskbar, I used the desktop icon, and inadvertently (apparently) installed … (read more)

I have been using Thunderbird for years, to complete satisfaction. Today, instead of using the taskbar, I used the desktop icon, and inadvertently (apparently) installed a beta version. I had mails redirected to folders, but these no longer exist. However, I do require some of the mails in those folders. Only inbox is shown, and it includes recent mails but also some long-deleted. I can recreate these folders but can't see any way to auto-direct. There is no help available directly within Thunderbird.

Can I have the non-beta version back, please?

Asked by tom440 2 weeks ago

Last reply by tom440 2 days ago