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Windows 10, Thunderbird 102.9.0. I have a local folder for "Clients". There are subfolders for the individual clients. Within these there are annual subfolders. I move emails to the local client folder, then at the end of the year I move them to the new annual subfolder. I’m looking for a recent email in a local client folder, but all I see are the star and “read” icons – no entries for the various headers. The annual subfolders are fine, location correct etc. The local client folder “Properties” shows no location for the file index, no size, unknown number of messages. The “Repair Folder” option is unavailable (greyed out). Looking in File Explorer (Windows 10) I don’t see any file or .msf file for the local client folder, although there are files and .msf files for the annual subfolders. If I move a new email to the local client folder, it vanishes into the abyss. I ran a surface check on the SSD which showed no problems. HELP, please.

I've been happily using the feed from https://feeds.feedburner.com/LICD for quite a while, but in the last few days, suddenly Thunderbird 91.10.0 (64-bit) gives me the feed "is not authorized" error. Previous solution https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1166672 isn't working for me - Lightning is no longer an extension, so I can't deactivate it. I'd remove the calendar function entirely if I could - I don't use it.

Going to advanced preferences and pulling up calendar.useragent.extra gives me radio buttons to select Boolean, Number, or String with a plus sign to add it. Adding one doesn't fix it. Setting to false doesn't fix it. Deleting the one I added doesn't fix it. Right click only gives me Select All, which highlights all text on screen and does nothing.

Most of my other feeds are fine, and checking the website shows the RSS URL has not changed. I have read a couple of other complaints about this same issue, and, apparently there is a bug concerning this issue at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1694001 but it has been stalled for over two years.

Is anyone going to do something about this?

I used to be able to use my arrow keys to scroll through email folders (in/out, etc), reading the previews rather than actually opening up the emails themselves. For some reason this no longer works? Instead of remaining in preview, the email open up. Is there a setting I'm missing? Peter

This past Sunday, when I opened my email program, my mail would not open. It was asking for a password. I did not sey it up with a password. After a couple of tries, I got the message that my email had been shut down but it is now re-opened. I logged on my my internet carrier & they said they had not closed my email but if I was using a different email program that might be the problem. Once I signed into my internet carrier, I did start receiving some emails but I am not receiving all the emails that I was receiving before the message that my email has been closed but was now being re-open. Did something happen on your end that can possibly be straightened out?

Thank You, Geraldine Pollard

My last update Thunderbird (111/112) changed layout UI to "Supernova" (I think, it's changed now), which uses 2 lines per message (with no more detail Tabs)

I HATE IT

I want my compact 1 message 1 line back

How do I do that? Is that even possible?

The emails display OK (without markup.jpg). This is an example of what the markup looks like (with markup.jpg). If I enter "Bell Pepper" in search, nothing appears except from Safeway emails from before 2021 (when they switched to html). All emails are included in the "regular" search (right click -> Search Messages). So the problem is (apparently) that the words are not included in the global search database.

Windows 10, Thunderbird 102.9.0. I have rebuilt all of the .msf's, rebuilt the global database (several times). I have compacted all of the folders. I have run in Troubleshooting mode. To no avail.

Using Thunderbird 102.9.0 (64-bit), Windows 10

To clarify what I mean in my title: I've set up a message filter that is supposed to search in the body that contains a word. I know the word is in the body, but yet the filter is not being triggered.

I have tried a different word that has spaces before and after and it seems to work, so I guess that's the problem, but how can I allow thunderbird to work when there's different characters before or after the word also?

Bonjour, THUNDERBIRD m'a suggéré de compacter ma messagerie et j'ai cru devoir le faire. A la suite, j'ai constaté que Thunderbird a "dédoublé » cette messagerie (qui contient plusieurs comptes) pour créer séparément un second compte Thunderbird et y recopier -pour partie de son contenu- l'un des comptes existant,, ( certains messages s'affichant tantôt sur les deux comptes, tantôt sur un seul) ; ce qui devenait peu praticable, d'autant que je ne pouvais plus, depuis mon compte habituel, répondre aux messages que je recevais, il fallait que j'initie une réponse sur le compte nouveau dont je me suis alors aperçue qu'il s'agissait d'un compte « bêta ». et, Depuis 48 heures, toutes mes autres messageries usuelles ont disparu de ma messagerie initiale, ; tandis que seule subsiste la messagerie THUNDERBIRD beta – Comment les rétablir ? – Comment supprimer le compte bêta sans rien effacer de mes autres comptes auquel je n'ai plus accès, sachant que j'ai constaté que le contenu de ces comptes existait toujours, puisque en ouvrant ce jour mon ordinateur portable lié à mon ordinateur de bureau par l'abonnement Microsoft 365, je les y ai retrouvés, et, je le suppose, à jour.

I had a folder that was its own folder. Now it's a sub-folder. I can only make it a sub-folder of another folder. How to fix this?? I have tried to drag the folder in between other folders, but that does not work...a circle with a line through it shows on the screen. Thanks. TomS Houston

Hi, I've just spoken with Apple Care and described to them my problem. When I want to share a Pages document, I have different options but none of them is via a Thunderbird email. In "extensions", the box "Thunderbird" is not even clickable (see picture attached). Two professionals tried to fix my problem but eventually said that the issue seems to come from Thunderbird and not from Apple. Hence my question: how can I be allowed to share a Pages document in a Thunderbird email smoothly, without having to go the other way around (new e-mail -> attach doc -> Pages doc)?

Thanks in advance for your support.

Best,

Flora

My daughter is currently using Yahoo Mail on her Android phone, but keeps/uses only her ATT email address. Her internet provider is Spectrum and her cell phone provider is Verizon.

We attempted to install Thunderbird on her Windows 7 PC (soon to be upgraded to Windows 10). The automatic setup process asks for her email address. We put in the ATT email address. The passwords don't work. We wonder if there is confusion between Thunderbird/Windows/Spectrum/Verizon/Yahoo caused by retaining the ATT email address.

This may just be a misunderstanding in how to set up the thunderbird email. We don't want to change the email address, if at all possible.

In Thunderbird (v. 102.9.0), I have all folders set to the same column structure. I have used the add-on XNote++ for a long time and it used to work fine. Now, however, when I open Thunderbird or even activate the window after coming out of "sleep" mode, either (1) the XNote++ column is moved from the extreme right of the window (where I want it) to the extreme left; or (2) the column disappears altogether. This happens only for the first folder that is active. If I switch to another folder, the columns are correct. So each time I have to go through the process of copying another folder's column structure to the corrupted folder.

I don't know whether this is a result of a new release of Thunderbird or some change in XNote++, but it didn't used to act this way. Any suggestions?

How can I import my intact profile that TB lost if the import dialog doesn't show the hidden /home/linux/.thunderbird folder ? My Nemo is set to & shows it, but I see no way to make that happen in TB running on Linux Mint 20.3 to do the import. Am I missing something ?

What does repair folder actually do?

A search online gets answers like 'it rebuilds the index', but that's not very explanatory. Does it recreate the index by looking at the folder contents or by going back to the server and downloading emails again?

After a couple of odd things happening (emails appearing in the web version of Gmail, but not in my Thunderbird Inbox), I decided to repair my Inbox. It's an IMAP account with Gmail, and has got over 700 messages in it (yes I know, time for a clear out...).

Thunderbird went slow for quite a long time (like half an hour at least), and messages kept flashing up in the status bar at the bottom saying stuff like "Downloading message 237 of 700". When clicking on messages with large attachments, while the repair was apparently still underway, the messages took some time to load, though they seem to be about normal now.

Was it really downloading emails? I ask, because I have some archive folders MUCH bigger than the Inbox, and would like to know what to expect if I have to repair other folders.

For info: Thunderbird 91.11.0 (64-bit) running under Linux Mint 19.1

Recently Thunderbird has had to compact INBOX every time I delete even one email. This is a real nuissance. I didn't used to do that and rarely did it tell me it needed to do that. Now I made the mistake of letting it compact without permission. A REAL NIGHTMARE!!! PLEASE HELP

I posted a few days ago that all but the essential IMAP folders shared with Thunderbird (via Apple IMAP) had disappeared.

No one responded, OK, I'll try some stuff.

So I created new folders in Thunderbird, then when the showed on Apple, copied from one folder to the new one.

But when Thunderbird shuts down and restarts, even the newly created folders disappear.

Something is very wrong with this new release!

David