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I keep getting the error "Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox." when I try to get my messages, or delete them.

I have tried: Restarting TB Shutting off my anitvirus and restarting TB Rebooting the computer

This started sometime yesterday (7/6) morning, at a time when I was not doing anything on my computer. Or at least that is the last mail that downloaded successfully I am using release 140esr (64 bit) supposedly released this morning.

i made a donation last week to thunderbird , but the inbox folder is blocked asking for a donation and not letting me open the emails attached i show the page that appears on the inbox

Hello {Mozilla} World! I want to transfer my emails, with attachments, from g-mail into TB Local Folder. I thought doing this first would be my best bet before migrating to a personalised email address.

Brief History: I installed TB, with the Default Profile using a g-mail address. The g-mail Server is set to never delete Emails. The Default Profile is set to synchronise so that all data is, supposedly, downloaded onto my computer.

Email Attachments have not, fully, downloaded even though individual Email Sizes appear to include Attachments. I have to open an Email and then open an Attachment before the Attachment will even begin to download.

Current Situation: I do not want to have to open 8K+ emails, even after culling junk etcetera, on a case by case basis. I do not want to have to go all Anakin Skywalker on the sandpeople @ g-mail.

I know how to get info from Settings and Account Settings. Please tell me what you require me to go fetch.

Thank you! Brian.

When you install Thunderbird it gives you "Extra Folders" Such as "ALL MAIL" "IMPORTANT" and "STARED" my question is can I delete these and not delete the email messages they contain? They contain some very important email which are in my other folders and I do not want to lose them,, So if I delete them does it delete the emails that are in there and also in other folders?

Thank you very much

Dr Dennis M Knable dmknabke@gmail.com

The first problem cropped up immediately: Thunderbird has done a pretty good job for years of recognizing my email preferences for Inbox, Trash and Junk; now it no longer delivers email to my Inbox or Trash at startup. Almost all of my email goes to the Junk folder, including that from whitelisted senders. All of my individual spam filters and my whitelist are set to act when email is received, but I have to run the whitelist manually to get it to work (sometimes more than once). The only way I can get things into the Trash folder is to put them there manually, as TB apparently has forgotten everything it learned about my email preferences. I did take the opportunity to update my Whitelist (though to no avail), so I guess I'm sort of glad that I was goaded into doing so. But it hasn't helped.

As of tonight, I can't write or reply to an email or edit an email draft because TB locks up while it is "Copying messages to Drafts..." I've had to close TB ten or twelve times, and I've not been given the opportunity to make a bug comment during the closing routine.

I have emptied the TB cache in hopes that doing so would clear up these issues. Though that works well in Firefox, it didn't help with these problems.

I also am not too happy about the disappearance of the File Edit ... folder bar and its being replaced with a hamburger drop-down menu at the upper right, but at least it will suffice once I've unlearned almost thirty years of doing things a certain way.

I really don't want to stop using Thunderbird. I like the program, and I'd hate to have wasted the two solid weeks it took to get Yahoo! Mail to acknowledge its existence and let me connect to their service, which I did under duress. Not that I'm a masochist or anything.

Windows 11 Ver. 24H2 (OS Build 26.100.4351) Thunderbird Ver. 139.0.2 (64-bit) HP something-or-other tower computer, vintage 2021

bold textI bought new Mac Air, asked Apple Store to transfer all data. I know all the data is indeed transferred but I can't access it. Previous Mac was 2017 so Intel chips, so I did activate Rosetta but still can't access data

I have tried to add this address to my address book. Normally, one clicks on the icon and a pop-up appears to modify information and confirm entry into address book. This address always shows up as "not in book," clicking has no apparent effect, until one checks the address book and now duplicates exist.

First image you can see that Freeman is in the address book Second image you can see that Tbird thinks the address is not in the book Third image after I've clicked and no apparent action is taken, a duplicate appears.

When this bug first appeared I had clicked on the icon multiple times, and multiple entries appeared in address book. I deleted them all, tried again, bug still happens.

139.0.2

Hello: I need help importing or fixing a Thunderbird Profile in that I want to import it so I can see the folder listing of messages.

For the Profile Path am I correct: C:\Users\DonB\AppData\Roaming\Betterbird\Profiles\t70e12zz.default\Mail\outlook.office365.com

as I have outlook.office365.com as my email provider.

Thanks for helping me! Reply to: <redacted>@mail.com [[Donald BockMail|https://1drv.ms/u/c/f1c69e25e0d2390a/EQo50uAlnsYggPENLQEAAAABjMckcPhUnd39tO-xLTsM-w?e=Dsm63a]]

Dzień dobry, mam problem z wyszukiwaniem wiadomości odebranych. Gdy wchodzę w wyszukiwarkę CITR+K i wpisuję jakieś wątek lub maila osoby korespondującej thunderbird wyszukuje mi tylko wiadomości wysłane, a niestety nie mam podglądu na odpowie. Wcześniej funkcja działała i miałem zbiorcze wyszukiwanie wiadomości odebranych i wysłanych. Prośba o pomoc.

Pozdrawiam, Sebastian Burski <redacted>

Good day,

I have a problem with searching for received messages. When I enter the CITR+K search engine and enter a thread or the e-mail of a correspondent, Thunderbird only searches for sent messages, and unfortunately I do not have a preview of the replies.

Previously, the function worked and I had a collective search for received and sent messages.

Request for help.

Best regards, Sebastian Burski

On 7/5, I noticed that my archive folder and all it's sub-folders were empty. I am in those folders every 2-3 days. So, not sure when they went missing. Looking for any assistance with recovering over 20 years worth of information.

My ISP has a spam filter. It's not perfect, so I don't just have it delete spam, I set it to put messages they determine to be spam in the spam folder. Then I can go through them and catch those that aren't really spam and use them to train the ISPs spam filter by marking them "NOT SPAM" on the server. All good.

But there are a few that send literally HUNDREDS of different spam messages over say a year's time. And I'd like to mark these to DELETE by FROM address or even just domain. So I set them up as manual message filters, with a DELETE action. But since the ISP moves these to the SPAM filter befure Thunderbird even sees them, the Thunderbird message filters miss them. And they'r there in my Spam folder. This isn't critical, just annoying.

So, is there a way to mark messages to DELETE in the SPAM folder? It appears that the message filters can't see them because they're already i the spam folder.

Greetings

After updating to 140 (release update channel), IMAP folders keep downloading all emails in a folder, even though the vast majority of them are already local. I get the message "Downloading message x of y in folder" and it goes folder by folder, some of these folders have a lot of mail so this can take ages.

I do have a lot of folders and emails, I have tried compacting and searched for weeks, and only very old and not exactly this issue, any ideas?

Daveed

Hello,

I work in a dental clinic and my colleague and I no longer have access to our email inbox.

What can we do?

Please answer at this email mej@<redacted>.com.

Thank you

I have an intermittent problem deleting email. This is a recent problem that has never occurred before, so it may be a problem with a recent update. Usually deletion works fine, but occasionally when I try to delete a single email, nothing happens. If I shut down and restart Thunderbird, the email can be deleted with no problem. This seems to happen right after I "Get Messages", or after I try to delete while new messages are or have just finished loading. Any suggestions?