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I have a friend whose G5 Mac Tower is running OS X 10.4 / System 9 and he needs to install ThunderBird.

ALL Of the System requirements for releases prior to 31 are missing. https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/31.1.0/system-requirements/ None earlier than THAT.

Which Version of Thunderbird runs under Mac OS 10.4 ?

I am having troubles with my signature formatting from particular recipients. I have attached pictures of what is is supposed to look like and when the spacing gets shrunk down to nothing.

This is an HTML signature, so that might have something to do with it but I don't know.

I want to make sure my signature looks the same every time but I don't want a plain text or image signature because I don't want the extra attachment with every email.

How can I get a mulit-formatted signature to look the same every time?

This issue shows up randomly, affecting a random number of messages. Issue is that one message will take over other messages following. Message notification will look normal in the inbox, but click on the message following X message, and the X message is what will appear. The subject line at the very top of the page will be from Y, but the rest of the information following will be from X. Two, three or more messages may be affected. Deleting X will make no difference. This time, four messages were affected.

I think my question sums it up. I have two active personal accounts, and one that's been inactive for two years: my former business email account. Each time I boot Thunderbird I get an error message saying that I can't log into the account (I broke the vital forwarding link that used to point to my local server), and I'd like to eliminate the need to close the two error windows that always pop up. But I'm afraid that if I delete the account or change something in its "Settings" that I'll lose my 10 years of collected and sorted emails.

After installing the latest update 91.0.9 (I think), TB starts, shows my 'folders' in the left column and 'event's in the right column, then, instead of showing the selected email folder, an hourglass appears for a few seconds and then nothing. I've sent multiple crash reports. I tried uninstalling and re-installing to no avail. I've used TB for 10+ years on both PC n MAC - first time it's left me high and dry. HELP !!

Is there an add-on for Thunderbird version 91 for importing emails from Windows Live Mail?

I tried "importexporttools-3.3.2" and it says it is has been corrupted, and besides it says it is for Thunderbird 14.0 - 60.

Thanks Murray

Steps to reproduce:

Nothing! I walk away from Mac at night. When I come back in the morning, all of my normal apps are available and running fine (including Firefox). However, Thunderbird is unresponsive. Clicks aren't recognize. However, I can quit it and relaunch with it normally operational.

Actual results:

Thunderbird was unresponsive.

Expected results:

This shouldn't happen at all.

I have two email accounts. On the first one I cannot send or receive emails. I get message "login in to server imap.telstra.com with username *******@bigpond.net.au failed."

On the second I am receiving and sending emails but it is not saving my sent emails.

Any suggestions?

Hallo, i've updated my Thunderbird to 91.8.1 on my Kubuntu 18.04 Lini9x machine. I have some *.ics files attached as calendars via ftp (ftp://192.168.1.1/Kalender/xxx.ics). After the update Thunderbird/Lightning tries to open them in firefox.

Every time Thunderbird/Lightning syncronises the calendars, different tabs occur in Firefox trying to open the files. Thanks a lot in advance, Gruß

Andreas K.

Steps to reproduce:

Nothing! I walk away from my Mac at night. When I come back in the morning, all of my normal apps are available and running fine (including Firefox). However, Thunderbird is unresponsive. Clicks made on the active mail area "Subject" aren't recognized. However, I can quit Thunderbird and relaunch it with it then normally opetational.

Actual results:

Thunderbird was unresponsive.

Expected results:

Click on Thunderbird and all functions are available.

I am having difficult connecting to mailboxes in Plesk Obsidian on a VPS. I can set up the mailboxes in Plesk and make a note of the password. I then go into TB and start the 'Add Mail Account' process. All goes well at first. I get a green message saying 'Configuration found by trying common server names' (automatic connection). When I click 'Done' TB whirrs for a bit and then comes back with a green message showing a tick and 'Checking Password' but an orange message saying 'Unable to log in at server. Probably wrong configuration, username or password'. If I try manual configuration I get a similar sequence (using ports 995 and 465, SSL/TLS and 'Normal password').

I do not have this problem when working with cPanel (on a different server, but very similar mailboxes and security settings). This suggests to me that there's something amiss in my Plesk settings, but what could it be?

I have searched around without success. Most articles that might help are for TB 31 (even the Plesk Obsidian on-line manual). Any suggestions, please?

When I reply to an e-mail using Thunderbird, quoted text appears (in Thunderbird) with a quote bar on the left as expected.

However, when the recipient gets the message in Outlook or GMail, the quote bars are missing. In GMail quoted text is indented and a slightly different color (though it's hard to see the difference). In Outlook the quoted text is just indented.

How do I get Thunderbird to include quote bars for quoted text in the sent message?

If I format the message (with quote bars) using markdown in a browser, and then cut/paste the formatted message into Thunderbird, then it appears as expected to recipients using Outlook and GMail. But that's a painful way to compose replies to Outlook and GMail users (IOW everybody I reply to).

I'm running 91.7.0 on Linux. Desktop new mail notifications always disappear after 5 seconds — regardless of the duration configured in TBird.

I've tested the desktop notification system with other applications, and desktop notification duration is working fine. It appears that Thunderbird is ignoring my configured notification duration and is either

1. Always sending a value of 5s no matter what I configure.
2. Not sending a duration to the desktop notification system at all (the default duration is 5s).

Again, other applications besides TBird don't have this problem: user configured notification durations work fine.

My Thunderbird email works perfectly when the PC is connected to a network by WiFi or cable. But when I connect the PC to the internet via the 'Personal Hotspot' (shared internet) function on my iPhone, I can only receive emails, not send emails. See attached screenshots of the error message and account settings. I use Thunderbird version 91.9.0 (64-bit), and Windows 11 Home version 21H2. Windows Security for antivirus and firewall. Mail provider is domeneshop.no.

Your site tells me that I have to go to the 'options' tab in order to change my password but there is NO options tab and no matter where I look I cannot find where password are stored or how they can be changed. I have windows 10. I've also tried using thunderbird on a different (windows 7) machine and can't get it to work at all. It's not exactly user friendly is it? I guess if you're a techie and love finding this stuff out then it's great but for a normal non-techie it's pretty hopeless trying to navigate around

Hi I have some questions on downloading Gmails to Thunderbird:

1. Can I simultaneously download 2 or more Gmails to Thunderbird? If yes, how would be the arrangement of emails will be? Will it be mixed together or separated?

2. Is there a limit as to how many Gmails can I download to Thunderbird?

Thanks!

Maria

I'm using Thunderbird for gmail in IMAP mode. In my IMAP folder, I have a Junk subfolder, and in my Gmail subfolder I have a Spam subfolder. What is the difference between these? Does Gmail determine Spam, and Thunderbird determine Junk? Are BOTH Spam and Junk used for the Thunderbird adaptive junk filter log?

hey all, I hope you can help! Thanks in advance.

Thunderbird crashes and hangs up many times every day. I am using a macbook pro, OS Monterey, 12.3.1 and Thunderbird 91.9.0 (64-bit).

When I try and submit the crash report I get an error page on submit that reads "Bad Request (400)". Trying this short thing in case the problem is how long that is ...

I would be grateful if there is an answer to exporting the Thunderbird address book not in the .csv format into my Win 10 downloads file. I have had a new PC and had a nightmare sorting out my address book. A CSV app restored them but all over the place and have spent hours sorting the name and email addresses. I have tried copy and paste, no luck. Tried all the five 'save as types' but again no real success. I want save them in a simpler fashion. The CS Charset, CS UTF-8, Tab D Charset,Tab UTF-8, V card and LDIF all failed Many thanks Kind regards Alan Jones