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I recently archived locally about 10 years worth of emails successfully (the emails were removed from the my ISP's servers and I opted for a yearly format). I can easily find these in Thunderbird but of course they are not on the mail server anymore.

Settings info: I have Message Archives set to "Archives on Local Folder" followed by my email address (I set it up with this name so that I can find the archives specifically for backup by my Sinology server).

However, my Sent folder (shows a paper airplane icon) is missing, although I also downloaded it and thought it would be saving locally.

When I verified my Archive options in TB, I noticed that while I had selected "Yearly archived folders" I did not select "Keep existing folder structure of archived messages". I assume that this is a mistake on my part?

My questions are: Q1. Where are my Sent emails - would they be mixed in with received messages in each yearly archive? Q2. How do I access these sent emails within the TB search window?

Any advice and suggestions would be most appreciated and thank you. C.

Thunderbird v 115.5.0 running Windows 10 When editing an existing filter to add an additional conditions the edit web page fills the laptop screen to where the "submit" button is off the bottom of the screen and cannot be accessed. The page cannot be re-sized. Setting laptop screen to higher resolution has no effect

v115.7.0 I have been a user and contributor for years. OS is still Win7. I have had a IMAP connection to Comcast for years, now it will not connect. I have made sure I am using the correct password. When I start thunderbird, a secondary window pops up with the error message unable to connect. WEnt thru lots of posts but no results. One interesting said to disable IPV6 security option, but the way they described the fix was to access thry the EDIT menu then Preferences, but my system does not have Preferences under Edit.

Rich Dolan Richard.dolan@gmail.com

I set up a new computer, windows 11, and downloaded the latest version of Thunderbird. On the old computer the spam filter works normal, on the new computer Thunderbird puts a lot of normal mail in the spam folder. Is there a way to set the spam filter to not flag so many emails. I use gmail for my mail server. My iphone also uses the same gmail account and does not filter these messages

bold text All of a sudden today Saturday the 11th Thunderbird stopped sending email on COX but it can receive them. It was working fine then all of a sudden the sending of email stopped. At first I thought that is was Cox being down again, (I've had connection problems this week). But while I was trying to figure it out I received a number of emails. I tried sending a test email to myself usually they go right away but it did not go.

I called Cox. They tech connected to my computer, made some checks, (updated Thunderbird) and after about 20 minutes it started to send messages. 10 minutes later it stopped working AGAIN. This started a four hour telephone marathon with just about every level of service that Cox has. I ended up with Complete Care and while I was on the phone with him and he was connected to my computer the service tech from Cox who was here to check my signal and modem showed up. He tried to look at the problem and could not figure it out. Note I can send and receive mail from the COX email website but and only receive email in Thunderbird.

Cox tells me it is a Mozilla or Thunderbird problem I'm telling them it is not that it is a Cox problem because the server is SENDING me email to Thunderbird but the Cox INCOMING mail server it not connecting to Thunderbird to receive emails. They claim that because I can send and receive on the web page but can not send with Thunderbird. I'm telling them it is a Cox problem.

Anyone else have this issue? Anyone have a solution? I'm shutdown here with over a 25 year history of emails sitting in Thunderbird.

Al

How do I change the order of my email account folders in Thunderbird 115.6? I have multiple accounts and just added another, and I want to move it from the bottom of the sidebar to a higher location. I used to be able to click and move around accounts in the "account settings" mode. Now, that doesn't work. Is there a solution? The instructions provided in the video created by Thunderbird in 2022 doesn't work! Please help!

I turn off threading in my inbox. It turns itself back on.

There is a plentiful supply of discussion here about the inept enforced threading which happened on an update. There is a lot of info on turning it off with view ->sort-> etc etc.

But it turns itself back on.

Threading is ghastly, I don't ever want to see it, but accepting that someone somewhere likes it, at least make sure that when it is turned off it stays off.

Horrible.

when i open thinderbird to check my mail i dont see how mush new mail i have. but when i open de mailbox and close it again it shows how many new mails i have.

Is tehre a way to show new mails per mailbox automaticly when i open thinderbird without haveing to open the box manualy. it makes life so mush more efficient.

i switched over to thinderbird couse the new free outlook bloks this feture and dont show new mails in the mailbox at all.

For the last few weeks emails in my inbox disappear after 2 weeks. Just from sues@getwell.org.uk and not from my other address sue.saunders@myphone.coop This is happening on all devices where I view emails - laptop, tablet, iphone and even when I go to the webmail on 123-reg where my getwell.org.uk domain is registered. I have talked with 123-reg and they can't work it out - said it must be something to do with Mozilla. Can you help please - there's info in those emails I need!! Many thaks Sue

Hello I'm currently in need of configuring all of the clients with the Root CA certificate needed to use our new proxy server. I've seen that Thunderbird uses its own certificate repository, but there is yet a configuration option for reading Windows machine's own store, called security.enterprise_roots.enabled . This could be the best option since my users work on shared windows terminal servers. Is there a way to deploy this setting to all users? (I haven't found a GPO template for Thunderbird with this setting) I think I could create a logon script to copy a default user.js to every profile folder, but I don't know where the system could read the profiles path (multiple for most of the users).

thanks

I have a Windows 7 that has all my email accounts which still works fine.... the new Windows 11 machine has the same settings and worked for 2 months until 2 days after latest update - when incoming on all accounts stopped and sending apparently sends but hangs saying unable to copy to sent folder owing to network or other issues. My original 11yearold Dell still works fine on all accounts but it should be pensioned off by now!? Any clues about whether to go back to an earlier version or is there something else I am missing? There are many irritating issues with Thunderbird but unfortunately I am not aware of a anything better - having tried most of them in 30 years!

Hi, reset password in Thunderbird account and went to log back in and can now only access past 14 days of emails. One mail; folder has emails back to 2020, but no other folders have any emails available. How do we go about recovering these emails??? Cheers, Paul

Good evening, when I delete an email on Mozilla Thunderbird it is not deleted at the same time on the liberomail site. How should I set up my account? Thank you Best regards

I have two email accounts on Thunderbird. One, the gmail account still works perfectly, but the other, a cox.net, has started today to not move and messages to trash or junk as set by the settings. This problem is across all my devices, PC, ipad and Iphone.

Using multiple profiles. Checked work offline. Thunderbird opens to a page asking me to "Setup Your Existing Email Account" when I'm attempting to open an old email account.

The server settings have changed since this profile was used. Thunderbird is giving this error message: Unable to login at server. Probably wrong configuration, username or password.

Why is Thunderbird asking me to do this and trying to connect to the server when I requested to work offline?

Ever since upgrading to Thunderbird 115 forwarding email does not work consistently.

I get this error very often

Sending of the message failed. An error occurred while sending mail: Outgoing server (SMTP) error. The server responded: Timeout - closing connection.

Learn more at
https://support.google.com/a/answer/3221692 p8-20020a05620a22e800b0077d6470241asm1303304qki.61 - gsmtp.

Hi! under Thunderbird and IMAP if I read a message and keep it, my wife with another PC (Windows, Thunderbird) will not see it. I have to transfer it to her own address. Any tip? Thanks

The first address is sometimes clipped when entered in the "to" field. In the images below, abuse@cogentco.com was entered but the final m was not displayed until I clicked back on the entry. See the attached images...