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For security reasons my computer has had to be re formated. When I have reinstalled Thunderbird I have got all sent emails going back 5 years, deleted emails from the begining of this month and some, but not all, inbox emails from this week. As all my sent emails are listed is it possible to recover my received emails over the same time period.

'Hello, I had to change my Google password. Immediately after the change, I was and am still unable to sed or receive mails, receiving the message : "Authentication failed when connecting to imap.gmail.com server". I am asked repetitively to allow Mozilla to access my Google account, because giving my consent is useless. Do you have a solution ?

I've been a Thunderbird user for years. I have no idea what they changed recently, but it's incredibly, incredibly SLOW, almost to the point of unusability. Even something as simple as deleting emails.

I usually do these in chunks -- select multiples and delete. We're not talking about hundreds of emails at at time here, just maybe 5-15. Select them all, hit delete, and it should take just a couple of seconds to delete the messages. It did, in the past. But lately, it's taking so long that I could leave and make a sandwich, and when I come back, maybe it will be done. Maybe it will still be working, though, or maybe it will have locked up because it was taking so long.

It's pretty difficult to get work done at this rate.

I run Thunderbird on a PC, and, to free up space on Drive C:, I have moved the contents of the folder Thunderbird in Appdata to Drive D:. I then changed my Server Settings, in Thunderbird, from C: to D:, and note that any new mail is indeed now appearing there along with those already transferred. This move could save me a valuable 6 gig of space, and more in the future, however, I am unable to remove that original Thunderbird folder entirely, notably I am unable to remove the contents of the Profiles folder, as it is still linked to the application. Notably with cookies.sqlite, cookies.sqlite-shm, store.json, mozlz4, aborted-session-ping and many others, which I note some have continued to be updated. I have been unable to find any other settings in Thunderbird referring to Drive C:, other than those in Server Settings.

I could presume that if I installed another version of Thunderbird on Drive D: and maybe moved those existing contents of the Thunderbird folder on C: onto Drive D:, and made those numerous settings changes to the App it could work. But I ask is there an easier way to complete this move? How can I complete this transition of Thunderbird from Drive C: to Drive D:?

Warum werden einige Nachrichten unter Windows wie folgt angezeigt:

--Apple-Mail-41CFE2C3-DF4F-4DF4-9143-8C96C467382B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Von meinem iPhone gesendet --Apple-Mail-41CFE2C3-DF4F-4DF4-9143-8C96C467382B--

Unter Android ist die Nachricht korrekt.

My Thunderbird recently updated itself to 128.2.0esr (32-bit). Right after that, my Gmail account in Thunderbird started a process of downloading messages into the Important Mail folder or All Mail and other folders. Thousands of them. It creeps along pausing occasionally, freezing my mail app, and can't do anything until it does whatever, then continues for a minute or two normally before freezing up again. It's possible most of the time to do something while it's downloading-- it halts then catches up and halts again in only a few seconds. Almost impossible to compose a message or read messages while it's downloading. Sometimes, if you click on something when it halts, it says "Thunderbird not responding" turns faded and crashes or have to go into task manager and end the process to get out of it. Right now, my mail is downloading with a total Important Mail quantity of (it reports now) 5787 messages. That quantity changes each time. I've left the mailer open just sitting there hoping it might finish whatever it needs to do, and then I can go about business without the freezing. But then it starts downloading mail again. Now it's switched over and doing it in All Mail-- 20,000 of those, and flipping between Sent Mail and then back to Important... The only workaround I've found is when it starts that activity, close the mailer and reopen it and then I have at least a few minutes to read or compose mail before it starts up and bollixes activity, and I have to close down and reopen to continue. I can find NO setting to adjust or turn this "feature" off. I have to go use the actual Gmail in a browser, which I hate, to get anything done. I've used Thunderbird since it first came out, even back to when it was Netscape mail before going independent as Mozilla and prefer to use it but can't with this downloading madness.

I want a dynamic quote of the day automatically added to my email signature in Thunderbird.

Is there a way for Thunderbird to insert a quote of the day from a website using Google Sheets or another tool? How about inserting a quote of the day from a local file?

The goal is to have the day's quote automatically change each day.

I was sorry to see that the 128 Nebula release did not fix the longstanding problem that Thunderbird is very slow to load in Sonoma, and has been since the Sonoma release. This is with 128.0.1esr (64-bit) on an Apple M1 Mac Mini with Sonoma 14.6. I have the same problem on a 2018 Mac Book Pro running Sonoma with an Intel chip. The problem is NOT manifest on a 2013 Mac Book Pro running the last release of Big Sur. In all 3 cases the same email accounts are loaded, so it is some interaction with the OS. (I previously reported this for Tbird 115 under Sonoma, with no resolution.)

Specifically, when I start Tbird 128 on the Sonoma M1 the window comes up in about 2 seconds but contents are blank. The contents don't fill until about 30 seconds. This makes it painful to quickly hop into email to do something, so I am resorting to Apple Mail when in a hurry. If I do the same on my 2013 Big Sur machine, it's 2 seconds for the window to come up and 8 seconds for the content to fill. Upgrading from 115 to 128 did not change this on any of the machines.

None of the enhancements of recent releases are of sufficient value to compensate for this, so I wish the team would focus on ensuring speed on all platforms. Is there any clue what is going on?

Good afternoon,

Each time I load Thunderbird, I am prompted to enter the password for two email accounts, namely: 'president@crcc.com.au', 'secretary@crcc.com.au'. How do I fix this, please?

Lance Haslewood Australia lanceh49@bigpond.com lanceh22749@gmail,com

I am currently on Ver 115.12.2 (32-bit), but I've had this problem over several versions. I recently downgraded from the 64bit version (for a different reason), it had the same issue.

Old messages in the Inbox are listed twice, including those that have been read. New incoming messages are not duplicated, messages where I've deleted the duplicates are not again duped. Messages that get filtered to or moved to folders are not duped. Old messages that are in folders are not duped.

I have several email accounts in TB, and I only see this on my most active- of course! I have compacted all folders many times and rebuilt the Global Database with no effect. I tried opening in Troubleshooting mode and they are still duplicated. It is a POP account.

I hope I’ve chosen the correct category. I believe this qualifies as a bug following the recent update.

When I opened Thunderbird today, it notified me about the update. While Thunderbird successfully fetches new emails, it fails to display them correctly.

As shown in the screenshot, the area where the email content should appear is completely white. Additionally, it incorrectly displays an attachment from an old email that has nothing to do with today’s email (10:13), aside from the fact that both were sent to me.

When I click on other emails in the same inbox, the content area doesn’t change—it remains blank. However, if I switch to a different inbox, everything works fine.

I’ve also double-checked using my phone’s mail app, and I’m able to open the email in that inbox without any issues.

I’m unsure how to fix this. Could someone more knowledgeable help me out?

I have update to 128.2.0esr (64-bit) ever since i have done so my emails show as a code like below

The From, Subject also do not show

To see my emails i am dragging them to a folder, clicking on properties and then repair.

Can someone assist please.

Hiya, I want to add my work account to thunderbird but it requires me to sign in via SSO (had to add the Microsoft SSO extension to chrome to make it work there).

The thunderbird browser cannot do this and cannot see any way to use chrome instead. It looks like setting up an 'app password' as some suggested online has been disabled as the option does not exist for me.

What options are there?

Please help me. I've been with Thunderbird for many years and now I have nothing but problems. I've attempted to change settings and I'm thinking that possibly I've screwed it all up. I've changed the passwords through Comcast a few times but it seems to also be screwed up. I've been with Thunderbird for a long time and donated 3 times this past year. Now I have constant problems signing in with the same old password so I've contacted Comcast to change the passwords. Is there anywhere on Thunderbird where I can check to see what passwords are still listed for me? I have 4 email addresses. SillySam, LatonHigh, Kissincousin and TahoeDocTom all with Comcast.net I'm desperate to get back online with my emails.

At first, the messages in the inbox were blank in the lower pane of the classic view in Thunderbird and when I clicked on them they were blank when they opened up. I tried the "Repair Folder" suggestion and ALL of my email messages in the inbox went away.

I don't know what I did but when I restarted my computer all of the messages started downloading into the inbox. I thought my problem was solved but now every received message has a long, drawn-out message of a bunch of letters and numbers before you get to the bottom of it to read the message (See screenshot below).

I have no idea what has caused this and I don't know how to get rid of them.

Any suggestions?

Joe Morgan - Piedmont, OK _______________________________________________

X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-Path: <thejoecool@pldi.net> Received: from smtp02.nrtc.email-ash1.sync.lan (LHLO mail.nrtc.syn-alias.com) (10.219.135.16) by md47.nrtc.email-ash1.sync.lan with LMTP; Sat, 14 Sep 2024 11:33:20 -0400 (EDT) Return-Path: <thejoecool@pldi.net> X-SpamGroup: Medium X-User-Whitelist: YES X-User-Whitelist: YES X-Authed-Username: dGhlam9lY29vbEBpbmZvcm1uZXQuY29t Authentication-Results: smtp02.nrtc.email-ash1.sync.lan smtp.user=<hidden>; auth=pass (LOGIN) Received: from [38.131.57.196] ([38.131.57.196:3776] helo=[10.0.0.16]) by mail.informnet.com (envelope-from <thejoecool@pldi.net>) (ecelerity 4.4.1.20033 r(msys-ecelerity:tags/4.4.1.0^0)) with ESMTPA id 7E/43-27068-9BCA5E66; Sat, 14 Sep 2024 11:33:19 -0400 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------yU6UfSzPUmywIW2oTSv3dGjF" Message-ID: <99304002-7fb2-412b-8786-6f86444350d1@pldi.net> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 10:33:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: I Have Called You By Name, You Are Mine Content-Language: en-US References: <310daa68-ecd7-4657-953e-7426558c02c5@pldi.net> To: thejoecool@pldi.net From: Joe Cool <thejoecool@pldi.net> In-Reply-To: <310daa68-ecd7-4657-953e-7426558c02c5@pldi.net> X-Forwarded-Message-Id: <310daa68-ecd7-4657-953e-7426558c02c5@pldi.net> X-Vade-Verdict: clean X-Vade-Analysis-1: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeeftddrudektddgleduucetufdoteggodetrfdotffvucfrrhho X-Vade-Analysis-2: fhhilhgvmecuufgjpfetvefqtfdppfftvfevpdfgpfggqdfptffvvedpqfgfvfenuceurghilhhouhht X-Vade-Analysis-3: mecufedtudenucgoteeftdduqddtudculdduhedmnecujfgurheptgfkffggfgfufhfvhfgjsegrtder X-Vade-Analysis-4: redtvdejnecuhfhrohhmpeflohgvucevohholhcuoehthhgvjhhovggtohholhesphhlughirdhnvght X-Vade-Analysis-5: qeenucggtffrrghtthgvrhhnpeefvdetveetjeeiieegtdevgfetffeiueekgfdvhfevgefgleekgedu X-Vade-Analysis-6: hefftdffffenucfkphepfeekrddufedurdehjedrudelieenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecu X-Vade-Analysis-7: rfgrrhgrmhepihhnvghtpeefkedrudefuddrheejrdduleeipdhhvghloheplgdutddrtddrtddrudei X-Vade-Analysis-8: ngdpmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpehthhgvjhhovggtohholhesphhlughirdhnvghtpdhnsggprhgtphhtthho X-Vade-Analysis-9: peehkedpmhhtrghhohhsthepshhmthhptddvrdhnrhhttgdrvghmrghilhdqrghshhdurdhshihntgdr X-Vade-Analysis-10: lhgrnhdpihhspghnrgepthhruhgvpdgruhhthhgpuhhsvghrpehthhgvjhhovggtohholhesphhlughi X-Vade-Analysis-11: rdhnvghtpdhrtghpthhtohepthhhvghjohgvtghoohhlsehplhguihdrnhgvthdprhgtphhtthhopeft X-Vade-Analysis-12: vghnshhhrgifleeftdesghhmrghilhdrtghomhdprhgtphhtthhopeetmhihhfhorhhtuhhnvgeljedv X-Vade-Analysis-13: sehgmhgrihhlrdgtohhmpdhrtghpthhtohepnhgvvggurgekuddvheejsehgmhgrihhlrdgtohhmpdhr X-Vade-Analysis-14: tghpthhtohepsghosggshihhfehrugesghhmrghilhdrtghomh X-Vade-Client: NRTC X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240914-2, 9/14/2024), Inbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean

I am taking over a function from another person. We both use Thunderbird. He has all communication on this subject stored in a subfolder. Is there a way to transfer the subfolder to me? The alternative would be to Forward each of the messages to me but because of the number this is not a viable approach. We don't need to Share the subfolder, only transfer it.