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Hello, I have a new installation of Thunderbird (128.2.2esr (64-bit)) and am unable to discover how to set it to spell check in French. I've installed Grammalecte as suggested and then restarted the programme. However the only language option is English US.

Can you help please.

Good morning, I am a cave man when it comes to all things computer so please bear with this simple question. Opened up T-bird e-mail and got a message that the monthly releases are not considered to be stable for general use and to download the latest stable version of T-Bird as it looks like something new was released in the last week? Would it be as simple as downloading the latest version/update? Will it be safe to do this or alter anything else on my computer besides going from the beta version to the latest stable version? Sorry for the trouble, but a little anxious downloading something that I'm not sure of. Thanks very much for the help.

Tony

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

Dear Sir or Madam,

I need your help.

My Thunderbird shortcut no longer opens. The shortcut C:/Online/Thunderbird is empty. The folder no longer exists and my Thunderbird can no longer be found after an update on November 1.

I can still find Thunderbird version 128.4.0 260MB from 1.11.24 and my old profile from 7.11. under Windows Programe.

What can I do to get my Thunderbird back? Reinstall Thunderbird and integrate the profile?

I haven't actively deleted the program and can't remember updating it.

I was just able to save the profile to a USB stick.

Many thanks in advance for your efforts

German Kann die Verknüpfung von Thunderbird nicht mehr öffnen. Diese ist nicht mehr auffindbar.. Mein Thunderbird ist wohl nach einem Update am 1.11. nicht mehr auffindbar. Finde unter Programe Thunderbird Version 128.4.0 260MB vom 1.11.24 und mein alten Profil vom 7.11. noch. Was kann ich tun um mein Thunderbird wieder zu erhalten? Neu installieren und das Profil einbinden? Habe aktiv das das Programm nicht gelöscht und kann mich an ein Update auch nicht erinnern.. Konnte das Profil gerade auf einen USB-Stick sichern

I'm trying to link a Gmail calendar. It started to work initially, then something went wrong and I had to start again. This time, in the Create New Calendar window, it says "The credentials you have entered were not accepted. Please check your settings."

I know the credentials are correct. I've tested them separately. The failed attempt may have left some junk behind. Is there some way to clear it? Thunderbird is up to date, version 1284.0esr (64 bit) on Win 10.

Thanks, Bill

I have a profile on a disk from a Windows 10 machine that recently died. I have a Windows 11 laptop that I just installed Thunderbird on, and I tried a profile import from the tools. It was able to successfully import my address book as well as my local folders, but did not import my calendar events or my sub folders under my inbox. Is there any way for me to get this data imported? Thanks, Gary

I am not sure this is really about Installation and updates, but none of the others seemed to apply.

This is the second major issue I have had since upgrading to 128esr. I am really inclined to go back to 115.

The only way to get my Calendar to display properly is to leave that tab on top when I quit, so it's on top when I launch Thunderbird. If I don't do that, I cannot get my appointments to display and I get no notifications. The Calendar is blank and stays blank, even though it claims my Home calendar is not hidden. I did try hiding it and unhiding it again, but that didn't help. I do not have any Calendar-related add-ons.

It's severely annoying. It means that if I forget to leave the Calendar on top, I have quit, re-launch, and re-log into all my e-mail accounts (I've got a bunch). Could someone please find a better solution for this?

I am using Thunderbird for Mac on a MacBook Pro, 13 inch, mid 2012 running 10.15.7 (Catalina), which is the best the thing can do. Only tell me to upgrade my hardware if you are offering to pay for it yourself.

Thank you.

Hello,

About a decade ago, I zipped my local Thunderbird email folders to archive for future use. Recently I installed Thunderbird again so I could access those emails and attachments. Doubtless I missed a step or instruction.

I copied the folders to the location recommended by one of the pages on this site (as I understood it at any rate). Namely: appdata/roaming/Thunderbird/profiles/8i4zk81v.default-release/Mail/Local Folders.

The folders and emails all show up in the folder and message list panes, but no text or attachments show up in the message pane when a message is selected. Not even the email header appears if I double-click to open an email. I can still read the message text using notepad one of two ways, either: 1) the entire sub-folder (e.g., "Personal") by selecting the file with no extension (i.e., "Personal" rather than "Personal.msf") from the list in Local Folders, or; 2) an individual message in a corresponding folder called "Personal.mozmsgs". Of course, I have no idea which message I read until I open it.

Just in case it helps to know, the IMAP connection with one of my gmail addresses works just fine.

Thanks in advance, Russell

For the past 3 days, I've been locked out of using Thunderbird email. When I try to open it, I get a "Your computer must be restarted to complete a previous upgrade of Thunderbird. Do you want to restart now ?" "Yes/No" option pop-up.

This is infuriating. After several hours, I'm still no closer to being able to use Thunderbird again.

If I choose to restart, nothing changes and I just get the doom loop pop-up again.

If I install uninstall (via Windows Control Panel), again I get stuck with the "Your computer must be restarted to complete a previous upgrade of Thunderbird. Do you want to restart now ?" message.

I can find no useful advice in the Thunderbird help and forums. It's recorded as a known issue. But no viable solutions found.

Using Windows 10. Looks like Thunderbird tried to update to 115.16.2 on 28-Oct-24 (not something I requested).

Please let me know how I can fix it.

And do something to fix this bug (which is a shocker).

Installed latest version of TB and want to migrate account settings and messages from Postbox to Thunderbird. I used the TB import tool and selected the active Postbox profile to import. All three accounts were imported. All the emails in one account were imported. In the case of the other two accounts, one of which is active and one is inactive, TB only imported the message headers only, not the contents.

I then found a migration app from a software company that was supposedly designed specifically to migrate Postbox accounts and messages to TB. When I ran the app, I got the exact same results as when I did it manually.

Any ideas on why the message content is missing on all emails in the two other accounts? The account settings are unchanged from Postbox.

Thanks!

I have a Mircosoft live.com email account, using Thunderbird 128.2.3esr as my email app on a home computer running Win10. Got emails from MS about updating to OAuth2 authentification. After changing to Oauth2 in Server Setting Oauth2 would not show up in SMTP server (could receive but not send mail). Following MS instructions I deleted my account and added it back (apparently a big mistake). After a lot of hassle I now have Oauth2 set up on both Server and SMTP & can receive & send email, but I can not see my folders, only the default Inbox, Sent, Trash and Local Folders - Trash & Outbox. View/Folders has "All Folders" checked (& it is grayed out). I had dozens of folders with probably thousands of emails. If I go into my TB profile I can drill down and see the names of folders that were added in the last couple of months, so I think the folders are still in my profile where they should be. Any ideas on how to see my folders?

New to Thunderbird and to macOS. I need to create 3 separate profiles. I have successfully created one account, but I need two more, and I must not mingle the email accounts in a single profile. I have followed instructions to open ProfileManager but Terminal reports that the path does not exist. It doesn't seem to matter whether I quit Thunderbird, because the Terminal Response is the same (I have tried the command both ways, and restarted the computer after installation). The Thunderbird Help files point to Thunderbird 115 with macOS, but my installation download created version 128.2.0esr. Troubleshooting Information in Thunderbird Help shows the Application Binary as "/Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird" and that is what's indicated in the instructions to open the ProfileManager except it cannot find the -bin -P.

As additional background on my plight: I have only set up one user on the computer, and I am logged in as that user so Terminal opens in my user directory. I was pretty comfortable in a Windows (up to 8.1) environment, and am struggling with my move to the Mac, so it may be that I don't have permissions or some other setting set correctly to do this, but I don't know what to look for.

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!

Up to now Thunderbird was installed on C:, while the profiles directory was on D: (including the local files). As C: was getting saturated, I installed the latest version of Thunderbird on D:, and used the Profile Manager to tell it to load the existing profile. Upon launching Thunderbird, it did find all the connected accounts and connect to them, yet didn't display any local files. However, when I look at the location of the local folders in the new installation, it points to the "old" local folders, D:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\Mail\Local Folders, and all the local files I used to see in the previous installation are there. Yet they don't display in the "new" Thunderbid. How come? What should I do? Thanks for any help.

I Updated to Your Latest Thunderbird (Default) Update: And Now I Can't Open Addresses in A-Separate Window.... So I went Back to Previous Installation: And Now It Can't Find my Original Histrionic Emails on my D:Drive... I'm Trying to Reinstall my Original Version: And It's now Looking for mt Emails (which Don't Exist) On my C:Drive... It's Now Midnight Here and I'm Going To-Bed: I have Other Actives Saturday and Sunday Morning.... Can You Help Me Via my Email???? Lawrence W Emark X@verizon,net> Thank You!!!!

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Dear All,

I think that is a compability problem of Citadel with Thunderbird email client.

After several steps to try to solve the problem I found that Citadel is not compatible with the last version of Thunderbird.

I tried Linux (Centos 9) and Windows Thunderbird. I tried my affiliation network and with my mobile hotspot.

I can send emails with my Android email client.

I am thinking to make a downgrade of Thunderbird. I have there all my emails from always.

But first I have to backup everything of Thunderbird. Time consuming task.

Some help is needed.

Luis Gonçalves

Dear support/community, I'm a little confused on the support of 115 version of thunderbird. It has been kind of treated as a "esr" version, like below 115.16.0esr indicates.

https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/115.16.0esr/

I know firefox is stopping update until end of 1Q 2025, and my assumption that applies to all Mac, Windows and Linux and till then firefox will get high/medium CVE patches if impacted --- is this the right assumption?

I'm not sure about the situation of thunderbird. while I intend to believe similar to firefox, also told that 115.16 is the last 115 version.

Thanks.

Hi, folgendes Problem: plötzlich hatte ich keinen Zugang mehr zu TB, hab alles mögliche versucht, nix ging. Hab dann Update versucht, nix, dann neue Version runtergeladen, Meldung: A newer version of TB may have made changes to your profile.... etc. wie krieg ich das wieder hin ????

Last week my TB stopped working all of a sudden, wasn't doing anything, no errors messages at all. I reinstalled it and it picked right up where it left off. Now today, I come in and again it won't work, but now it says it is because of my profile being for an older version.

How did my profile get updated to a newer version and since I just updated my TB to the latest version, why isn't it working now?? I tried to go back to the version from last week and it still doesn't work, but it also doesn't work with the newest version. I really need my profile to work and I'm really upset about this. Can anyone help?