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I'm a retired IT Tech and supported MS Outlook with Exchange for years. Lately I've tired of the constant bickering between Google and MS that just seem to make using Outlook at home difficult. I've been working on Migrating from MS Outlook to Thunderbird v147.0.1. I had a large PST file with Saved Items and it's been a struggle to process all that but finally got connected to Gmail, converted/imported the PST items and then began working on Calendar. Finally got all that working and I'm now having trouble getting Google Tasks connected to Thunderbird. Google doesn't seem to be exposing the Tasks feed via CalDAV. Has anyone run into this before and does anyone have any suggestions to resolve? Thanks.

bjbenger@btopenworld.com

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I really have given up on Thunderbird, even though I have been a loyal supporter of the product for many years.

For the last year I have had to bypass Thunderbird and read my emails either on my mobile or directly from the BT server, which is how I am writing this mail.

My problem is , although I can view my mail perfectly on my mobile and of course on the BT server, Thunderbird seems totally incapable of transferring the mail to the Thunderbird inbox.

Thunderbird is not able to show the text and any images, all I get is a mail with a number of boxes, no pictures or anything of any use.

Is this since a Thunderbird 'update' or what, I don't know.

A little while ago I posted this problem and only got one reply from an 'expert'/community which failed to solve problem in any way.

I have also lost many of my earlier mail

Is it time to abandon Thunderbird and change to the dreaded Microsoft email package?

Yours faithfully in great expectations that someone somewhere most know how to fix Thunderbird

I have been using Mozilla Thunderbird for decades and they have even contributed a small amount of money to Thunderbird periodically. Just within the last two or three days all of a sudden I have been unable to send emails with my phone. I receive emails, but I do not send them. So I opened up a laptop where I did not have Thunderbird and set it up properly through Spectrum using the incoming and outgoing servers as mail.twc.com. and yes, just like on my phone. I continue to receive new emails, but even with the laptop I was unable to send an email. I received the message"send message error sending a message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to outgoing server smtp mail.twc.com was lost in the middle of the transaction. Try again."I contacted Spectrum twice and both times they had me try to send a message through their Web server spectrum.net and that message did go through. Of course then their response is that this has to be a problem with the third-party app meaning Mozilla Thunderbird, and they can’t help with that at all. I sure would appreciate some help because I hate to walk away from Thunderbird as well as change my email address after all of these decades.

I have been dealing with this issue for the last several thunderbird versions. I am currently running 115.18.0

Everytime I try to configure an existing gmail account for thunderbird via File -> New -> Existing email account

I specify my Name and gmail email address, then password for the gmail account.

The google authentication pop up launches " Mozilla Thunderbird wants to access you Gmail" and I click "Allow"

As soon as I click "Allow" I am asked to download a file.

Google gemini says this file is a sign that Oauth is not being accepted by thunderbird.

What I have tried. I verified Thunderbird is set to accept cookies I have verified there are no previously stored gmail passwords (as this has never worked) I have changed my default browser from Firefox to Brave and verified the same behavior

please help, Thunderbird has never been able to connect to gmail when running on this Ubtuntu install.

Hi there,

I currently have three email accounts set up in my Thunderbird client. I’d like to disable the automatic marking of messages as read—but only for one specific account (mainly for my colleagues’ convenience, as it’s a shared inbox).

In Settings > General, I see the option to turn off "Automatically mark messages as read", but this would apply to all my accounts, which isn’t what I want. I’ve checked the Account Settings for the relevant account and couldn’t find a per-account option. I also looked for an add-on that might help, but so far, no luck.

Has anyone found a workaround or solution for this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated !

Thanks in advance, Cheers.

I keep getting a large box saying sign into your gmail account using Mozilla Thunderbird, but another box comes up saying error 400 unable to do anything; and the first box keeps reappearing on the screen. My password hasn't changed and I am unable to access gmail. It seems like a corruption between Gmail and Mozilla Thunderbird

Many months ago I reported this error/bug but it remains unresolved, even though it was supposedly progressed to Mozilla.

I have a desktop PC & a laptop. The problem only occurs on the laptop. I am running T/bird on ESR channel on both machines.

On the laptop, even though the settings are not to update automatically it does, reverting to the release channel. This displays the following bug!

Instead of a "Junk" and a "Spam" fold I get 2 "Spam" folders, but a closer look shows the paths as being correct, what you would expect. The folder will not rename.

Reinstalling the ESR version restores the correct folder names - UNTIL THE NEXT TIME THE PROGRAM AUTO-UPDATES when it shouldn't!

I have Thunderbird 142-esr on a Windows 11 computer with two users in separate Windows users account. The second user (my wife) suddenly had her gmail login stop working on TB, even though it continued working on all other devices. The symptom was that the inbox would hang trying to log on to gmail, although no error messages appeared.

My account worked normally throughout this time.

After trying less destructive fixes such as closing the application, logging off, and restarting Windows, I guessed there was an issue with her account, possibly a corrupted file. So I deleted her gmail account. When I tried to create a new account, TB accepted her credentials and the Google login came up. I successfully authenticated to Google, but installation failed when I returned to the TB new account screen. After a long wait, TB issued an error message saying the password or user name was bad.

I did two tests to isolate the problem. First, I attempted to install my wife's gmail account in my Windows TB instance. That failed in the same way. Second, I attempted to install my gmail account on her Windows instance. That worked. I concluded there was nothing wrong with her instance of TB. I thought it might be an issue with her password, although Google has never asked her to change it, and there haven't been issues logging on outside of TB. Her password did not meet Google's current requirements, so I changed it to 12 characters, mixture of upper/lower case, numerals, and special characters. That worked.

Unfortunately, during the process, I lost her settings, and it took a while to recover them from backup media.

I'm posting this more to ask if others have experienced such a problem than as a request for help, as I think the underlying issue is now resolved. Because it may be some kind of malignant interaction between TB and gmail, I thought it might be worth reporting as well.

I am so annoyed, MS clearly sabotage this to push people back to their horrific software! I am so against that idea I lost an entire full work day today trying to do something SO simple, to install Thunderbird (for a friend) and connect it to MS365 email address.

It's IMAP, it should have taken SECONDS! It did create it, pulled in tons of email, but refuses to SEND any! I tried every single suggestion I could find online, going back years. NOTHING works! All i get every time whne sending email is : "Login to server smtp.office365.com failed. "

Does anyone have a magic cure, 6 solid hours of this and I still refuse to give up hopes of making Thunderbird the active mail client! Thanks

docx and xlsx attached files don't open with I click on them. I want them to open in Word and Excel. Nothing happens. I have to save them to my Desktop and then I can open them.

doc and xls attached files open when I click on them.

I can't find any associations in "files and attachments". 

I'm using version 140.7.0esr (64-bit)

In Advanced Preferences there are multiple mail servers listed such as "mail.server.server18.hostname". There are at least 18. I have not been able to download messages for 3 weeks and can't figure out why. I have used Thunderbird for many years. Sending email works. Email provider is Shaw/Rogers

Why did retrieving messages suddenly stop. It was working yesterday and I made no changes to anything. I can send successfully. I am using Shaw/Rogers Pop server.

Why does "test connection to server" fail?

Given Thunderbird version 140.7.1 esr (32 Bit)

Since 27.01.26, no emails have been downloaded from my ISP Server and I don't know how to fix.

Note in the version above, it says (32 Bit) but Windows 11 is exclusively 64 bit ????

When I reconcile my checking account each month, it's handy to be able to search my e-mail for the amounts of transactions that I can't identify by name alone. Gmail allowed me to do this. Thunderbird, for some reason, doesn't. Anytime I search for a numerical value (e.g., "36" or "9.58"), Thunderbird returns no results. Why are numeric strings not searchable? Is anyone working on this deficiency?

Just updated to latest Thunderbird version and now I can't send my email. I keep getting the message "Login to server smtp.broadband.rogers.com with username [my email address] failed."

Then when I exit this notification, the following shows up "Sending of the message failed. Unable to authenticate to Outgoing server (SMTP) . Please check the password and verify the 'Authentication method' in 'Account Settings | Outgoing server (SMTP)'."

I made not changes afer in upgrade of Thunderbird to latest version.

Any help you provide would be appreciated.

Bob Gmeindl bob.gmeindl@gmail.com (btw, this is not the email address I use with Thunderbird - that one is bgmeindl@rogers.com)