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Having a problem with an ATT POP account. TB stopped getting mail. After a minute and a half or so (wish it would time-out faster), I get a pop-up box in the top right of the screen that states: "Connection to server inbound.att.net timed out" and then quickly goes away.

Deleted passwords and cannot see where to create them again, as it never prompts me for new ones.

Thanks.

As the image attachment shows, the 2024 Local Folders item has a different icon and is not in order with the other years. I'm running 147.0.1 on a Windows 11 system. Selecting Reset Folder Order had no effect. Is there a way to better integrate the 2024 local folder with the other years?

I tutor a number of students in math which necessitates using Greek letters. Easy enough in WordPerfect etc but I can find no usable info on how to do it in Thunderbird.

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I have logged in on my mobile and a secondary laptop - however the folders on the primary device are not reflected; how can I get them to sync?

Thank you

I want to move my TB data store to a different drive but am unsure whether just to move the profile folder or all the other stuff like installs.ini as well. I have changed the datastore entry in settings, but do I need to modify the profiles.ini file as well, and if so what should it be changed to? At present it is in c:\users\mike\app data\roaming\thunderbird and I want it to go to D:\mail profiles. I'd be grateful for advice please. Thanks Mike Phillips

There are emails after the blanks and I am not sure if any are missing. Also some blank email have been marked as favorite. Even after setting the body display to plain text it is blank. And the metadata containt

I had previously logged into my Yahoo Mail account. Still, now that I've deleted it, I'm having trouble logging in again. I don't have any extensions installed on Thunderbird, and I can't find any ad blockers or JavaScript settings. I've also cleared all Yahoo cookies from Thunderbird. Does anyone have any suggestions to help resolve this issue?

Changed my BT mail password. I can receive mail but when trying to send I am asked to enter password which is not recognised. The SMTP server does not reccognise this. I have checked other questions and all seems well in my settings, i.e. changed stored passwords, but I must have missed something.Any advice most welcome Don

bold textI recently had my computer get stuck in the "automatic repair" loop making it impossible to boot up. I restored a several months old back up onto a different hard drive. I can boot on the new hard drive, but Thunderbird is missing several months of e-mails. I have tried importing from the old hard disk, but IT DOES NOT WORK. Alll it does is create a new "Local Folders" with nothing in it. I have tried exporting the old profile to a zip file, but it is 14 GB, more than Thunderbird can handle. How can I import the old e-mails into the working version of Thunderbird on the new hard drive. Please, do not say "use the import function" as i have already found it does not work.

Hi,

Since updating to Thunderbird 140.7.1esr (64-bit) on Windows 11, moving messages from Inbox to any folder takes about 7 seconds.

Details:

Account type: IMAP (Cogeco)

Happens in all folders

Inbox has ~600 messages (not large)

Was working normally before the recent update

Delay occurs every time moving a message from Inbox to another folder

No freezing — just a delay before the move completes

No antivirus changes

Issue started immediately after update

This appears to be related to IMAP sync behavior introduced in 140.x.

Has anyone else reported this, or is there a known regression?

Thank you.

Is the feature supposed to behave this way? I find this rather tedious. Am I missing something here?

Current behavior:

My installation does not seem to automatically execute spam filtering for unified folders or saved searches. As soon as I manually select one of the included folders within - e.g. an individual mail acccount's inbox - the algorithm triggers and everything works as expected, but only for the one folder I clicked. This leaves me with having to click through all my mail accounts manually to make use of the adaptive junk mail controls function.

Expected behavior:

Selecting a unified folder triggers junk mail controls for all the included folders and moves messages to the respective junk folders automatically.

Hallo, ich habe meine E-Mail-Konten in Thunderbird umgestellt von POP zu IMAP. Meine Filter-Einstellungen waren bisher gültig für "Lokale Ordner" (die Filter musste ich manuell starten) Wie kann ich die Filter-Einstellungen auf den Posteingang meiner IMAP-Konten kopieren/migrieren? Danke, und Grüße aus Berlin

I have added a new outlook email account to thunderbird. I have checked and have the most recent update 147.0.1.(64 bit). It added the email, I can test connection to server and passes. When I try to get or send email I get either authenticated but not conected OR Command 12 error. I have IMap setting turned on in outlook and added thunderbird as an app.

1 How can the list "recent folders" in the icon "store in" be sorted alphabetically? (sorry, my version of Thunderbird speaks German) It used to be alphabetically, but now is sorted chronologically.

2 I cordially suggest to add a function exactly like this one, but with item at my own disposal (maybe the favorite folders).

Thanks, Martin

Good afternoon, Since yesterday, I have been having a problem where new messages can no longer be previewed or opened. Emails can be sent, but they do not appear in the sent items folder. Everything works fine on my Samsung smartphone with the Samsung app.

Kind regards and many thanks, Marcel

I can't login to one of my email addresses. It says login to server with username failed. I tried all of the suggestions (using a pop server for example) and none of them seem to work. Please help.

My Thunderbird crash whenever I tried to "save as" an email, save the attachment of an email, attach a file to an outgoing email.

Every time I did the mentioned, Thunderbird prompts the normal window of my laptop's folders, but it disappear in a second with the Thunderbird crash and quit.

This situation happened after I installed MS365 on my laptop.

I did try the below: 1. Reset attachment directory - mail.compose.attach.dir 2. Run in trouble shooting mode 3. Repair folder index 4. Clear cache

Anyone can help please?

Does TBird support plus addressing?

Scenario: I want to reply to email sent "To: markfilipak+joe@...". To do that successfully, in the "Write" dialog, I have to click on "From", scroll down to "Customize From Address...", click it, and add "+joe". (There is a menu alternative: "Options","Customize From Address...".)

If I forget to do that, then my reply does not have "+joe"; it goes out "From: markfilipak@...".

The Issue: When Joe replies to _that_ message, it does not have "+joe", so Joe's reply is trashed. (It's trashed because a filter I wrote automatically deletes messages that do not have "To: markfilipak+<something>@..." in the header.

The sensible way to handle plus addressing is for TBird to recognize plus addressing and to automatically make my "From" header from Joe's "To" header. That way, "+joe" will always be there.

Is there a way to do that?

Thanks Folks! -- Mark.