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I was informed in the last text from a TB agent to ... "Be sure to do periodic backups." Could someone please--be specific!--tell me how to do this? And how frequently is a good idea? Thank you!

Hello,

I just copied my whole profile folder from a Debian 12 (Thundebird 115.7) to a Ubuntu 22.04 (Thunderbird 115.8). I expected when running it, to find it in the exact same state because, as what I'm aware of, everything is stored in the profile and nowhere else on the filesystem.

But, I found that: - my favorite folders (around 10) weren't there (well, only 1 of them) - A lot of mails were in "unseen" state (not the unread/read marker, but that star that appears the first time you open a folder for mails that has just been downloaded), where they were already seen

So my concern is about where/how are those values supposed to be stored, and why they don't seem to "migrate" as well? And, may there be some other things that didn't come too?

I added a new email account to my existing Thunderbird running other email accounts and it only loaded the Inbox from the newly added account and none of the other folders and sub-folders. What did I do wrong or not do? Grateful for any help please. Full disclosure - I had had the newly added account on this Thunderbird before but it had a load of ghost folders and was missing many others, so I removed the account (under Account settings) and then re-Added it.

I have Thunderbird 115.6.1 SUPERNOVA on a Pop_OS installation.

I want to import an Outlook 2016/2019 .pst-file so I was following this article: https://support.mozilla.org/sv/kb/thunderbird-import

Using the import tool I should be able to select Import from Outlook, but that alternative doesnt even show up in my Thunderbird. I only have import from TB, SeaMonkey and address book from file...

What am I missing?

Thnx in advance.

I had to reinstall Windows 10 home , a clean install (all data on discs are lost) I used the windows backup settings and revoverd that majority of my files but how can I recover the emails from Thunderbird ?

I'm using Thunderbird on Linux Mint. The installation is the same one I've had for awhile, with two email accounts in it, one being GMail.

Today I changed my Google password. I expected Thunderbird to prompt me when the old password failed; and it did, except the window it showed me was entirely blank, except for a URL bar at the top which was to Google's domain.

I tried it several times, same result. I closed Thunderbird and restarted. This time the window prompting me about the GMail connection had stuff in it, but it showed a Thunderbird logo and seemed to want me to "log into Thunderbird" or something (not Google). I think I clicked a button to advance through that screen and something else went wrong, IIRC.

I decided to just delete the GMail account and rebuild it from scratch. In "create account"; it succeeds at finding a configuration for GMail, where IMAP is selected over POP3. I press the "Done" button, but a yellow bar becomes displayed:

Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsiMsgAccountManager.createIncomingServer]

And it also says "Checking password..." with a spinning hourglass that never resolves.

Any thoughts?

i have 2 computers running the latest thunderbird 115.10.1 (64-bit) one is in perfect layout exactly the way i want it the other has more layout issues than i have time to fix to make it back the way i want ( a fresh install ) i just want to copy the lay out not the accounts , not anything else is there a file or 2 i can just copy and put on the new computer ? and make thunderbird look normal

When I try to set up Thunderbird on a new computer, it won't connect. And Thunderbird changes the port settings that the provider uses to something else. So I can't use thunderbird with my email address: sheilah@got.net

I had to replace my hard drive and now have Win 11. I still have my Thunderbird account, but I cannot access the 3000+ emails in my folders. My Thunderbird started from scratch, no history, no files. How do I access and download my saved emails and folders from before the hard drive replacement? The Geek Squad couldn't help. Keep it simple, I'm not a techie.

Hi Just currently reinstalling windows and trying to import my old thunderbird files. i've exported the whole profile into a 12Gb zip but for some reason i cant extract it without errors. I've tried the latest winzip 28, beezip and 7zip and can only extract 4gb. 7zip listed these errors. screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/y4YjtYi

Are there any other apps i can use to extract this? thanks Z

HOW TO GET EMAILS FROM THUNDERBIRD ON MY IPHONE.

I'VE READ THERE IS NO APP AS YET BUT THERE ARE POTENTIAL MIGRATION TOOLS THAT MIGHT WORK WITH THE iOS MAIL ACCOUNT? FEEDBACK AND GUIDANCE WELCOMED. THANK YOU.

I had a huge problem with M Outlook. In addition it has locked me out of my Office 365 package and I'm not getting help or support. Luckily I had backup completed before the problem. I changed to Thunderbird (using pop3), which I find very good. The back up is approx 8 GB but with many duplicates which I need to clean up. When I click import it seems to limit the file size to 2 GB. How can I import this backup file into Thunderbird to enable me to access the emails, clean up the many many duplicates and reduce the size? I await help, Thanks in advance

I have Thunderbird installed on 3 separate computers in 3 separate locations. When will it be possible that the 3 installations are all completely identical, i.e. they're clones of each other? I would like the folders, filters and address books, for example, alterable by one one installation to update the other two. (Working like, say LastPass)? At the the moment, any filter or folder not present on one of the installations causes emails to end up al over the place!

I transferred my Thunderbird profile from a windows 10 machine to a Zorin linux machine. everything works but I'm missing almost all of my 12 local folders. I can see them in the mail directory, but they don't show up in Thunderbird. How do I recover them?

Without warning, I had to log back into my Thunderbird account today - same email and password. When I did, I lost all old emails and folders (not addresses).

Any solutions would be appreciated. Thanks!

サンダーバードを起動したときに、２回に１回ぐらいの頻度で、 左下に「**@gmail.comの全てのメールにメッセージをダウンロードしています」と表示され 今は2/13000のように、13,000通のメールがダウンロードされているように出ます。 2か月前から症状が出て、そのダウンロードが終わるまで、ゼロになるまで待機したことがあるのですが、 数日後にはまた同じように、１万通ほどのメッセージをダウンロードし始め、挙動が遅くなる状態です。 設定を色々触ってみました。自動削除をオンにしたり、自動受信ではなく手動の受信に変えたり。 gmail以外のアカウントも取得していますがそちらは特に変わったことはないです。 gmail自体が重い、メールが届きすげているのかと思い、googleアカウントから全てメールを削除したりも試みてみましたが状況は変わりません。 10年ほど使っていますが今までこのようなことはありませんでした…どこに問題があるのでしょう。

Hi

I recently did a fresh install on my computer and had backed up my Thunderbird profile folder however after reinstalling and placing the backed up profile files into the profiles directory I cant see any of my folders or saved emails.