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A week or so ago I patched Thunderbird (115.8.0 (64-bit)). Everything seemed fine and I proceeded to empty the TRASH. It took an unusually long time to delete the roughly 175 messages in the TRASH. Then the screen "blinked" and when Thunderbird reappeared the SENT fold, while present, showed that it contained NO emails. I have sent about 50 emails since this occurred and the counter on the SENT folder continues to show the the folder contains no emails.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get things to work again?

Hello,

i have an issue with my email, i have made no changes but from today, my thunderbird takes very long time to open. In bottom taskbar it says building summary file for the inbox.. and it takes about 5minute to load inbox list, "26000 letters." Also i can send but cannot receive any letters and i am missing last 3 months inbox mail.

How can i try to solve this issue without causing more damage or loss.

Thank you.

The first problem is that my filters are not running to a schedule. They are set to run every ten minutes. The second problem is that if I use the menu options to run the filter, they will run / work. But if I open the filters and click run now, it does not do anything.

I have a bunch of content in my Local Folders: Junk mailbox but none of it is showing up in Thunderbird. The Properties for the folder shows "Number of messages: 0", "Size on disk: 3.4 MB". I've tried the "Repair Folder" button but it makes no difference. The folder views as empty in Thunderbird.

Not sure when this started happening because I don't recall having this problem in the past. The folder permissions are the same as all the other mailboxes:

ls -l Junk* -rwx------@ 1 uid staff 3578520 23 Feb 08:51 Junk* -rw-r--r--@ 1 uid staff 3289 24 Feb 12:39 Junk.msf

Suggestions welcome.

Many months ago, I created another context for the file explorer drop down to “Send To” Thunderbird, vs the Windows mail client.

Recently, this function stopped working, meaning TB does not open a new message and of course nothing is “attached”.

I detected the addition to the context drop down and then added it (again).

No luck.

My Thunderbird Version = 115.8.0

When I click on a file and open the File Explorer Send To drop down, Windows “shows Thunderbird in the context (my addition) but as noted I don’t have a new message with the file attached.

Correct I’m not using the Mail Client.

Yes, in APPS, Thunderbird is listed as the email client.

Thoughts?

I don't know why this is happening or how to stop it. Today, for the second time in about 4 months, I opened Thunderbird to find that I'd been flooded with new copies of old emails. They were all marked unread, and I did a random sampling to see that all the ones I checked I already have a copy that has been marked as read, and for some of the older ones, has been archived. Today's influx consisted of 78 messages (it was about 150 messages the first time it happened) ranging in age from last week to June of 2022. I do not believe I have changed any account settings in the last 9 months, either within Thunderbird or at Gmail, where the account is hosted. In each case all the messages were confined to one specific folder--the first time it was the Inbox folder. This time it was a sub-folder named "Receipts". If I have someohow accidentally triggered this, I'd like to know what to change in order to prevent it from happening again.

Several emails in my Earthlink Webmail inbox online received between 6:03 am and 9:21 am PST 2/21/2022 did not download to Thunderbird when I clicked on "Get Messages." They came from 2 different sources from which I have received and downloaded email many times before with no difficulty. Since then I have received and downloaded emails from these same sources, so there appears to be no ongoing problem. Earthlink tech support said there was nothing wrong on their end and my version of Thunderbird is current. This has never happened before in many years of both Earthlink service and using Thunderbird. ??? (No jargon, please, as my tech knowledge is seat of my pants.)

I'm a new Thunderbird user with v115.7.0 on Windows 11, using a mailbox.org account.

Under Account Settings/Copies and Folders/Message Archives/Keep message archives in: I am using the Other setting to point to Local Folders/mailbox.org Archive. Under Archive Options I am using Single Folder and "Keep existing folder structure of archived messages". The example in the options window shows an Archives folder with an Inbox subfolder. However, this doesn't happen.

Messages archived from my Inbox go to Local Folders/mailbox.org Archive/ Messages archived from Inbox/Subfolder go to Local Folders/mailbox.org Archive/Subfolder Messages archived from my Sent items go to Local Folders/mailbox.org Archive/Sent

So of the above, only Sent items go to the correct folder. For anything from the Inbox, the Inbox folder itself is not replicated as per the example on the options page. Can this be corrected?

Thunderbird is often asking again to log into Gmail and Outlook accounts.

A few days ago the accounts I have were "disconnected" and a few days later, randomly some accounts ask me again to log in and allow access to email.

I have about 20 emails managed with Thunderbird and after a few versions (about 3-4 months) this problem started to happen.

Has anyone else reported something similar?

An observation is that I use MozBackup to make complete backups of emails (including login and password) and restore them after formatting the computer.

Good Morning, when I click on the inbox folder or any of the sub folders, no emails show up. I can click on the get messages button and it will show that new messages are downloading

Ever since the latest 115.8.0 update local links to .pdf file stopped working eg: below. When I would click on that link it would open the invoice.pdf in my PDF client.

file:///D:/%20Internet%20Services/%20Feb%20invoice.pdf

Hoping whatever was broken will be fixed soon Thank You

When I have moved a message from Inbox to a folder, sometimes it disappears. It is not in Trash or any other folder. I am on Windows 11 and TBird Version Version 115.8.0 (64-bit)

My Thunderbird(115.8.0) and Windows 11 just don't get along. My Thunderbird has a Menu button in the top right that's just there for it does nothing when I click or right click so I guess no add-ons, calendar, etc. If I hover over it I see "Display the Thunderbird Menu" and that's it. When I open the program it doesn't go to my inbox, it goes to a page that I have to click on "Read Messages" to get to my inbox and in prior versions and I had Windows 10 this never happened. When I go to buttons on the left and click on "Help" and then "About Thunderbird" to check on updates I always get "Unable to check for updates due to internal error" and oh yeah now in Thunderbird I can't copy and paste, I can highlight but when I right click....nothing.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and even tried removing hidden folders, but as of now nothing has worked. I don't know what to think and I'm truly at a loss and it sure looks like I have to find another email program because right now Thunderbird just ain't working. I've been using this program I believe for over 20 years with really zero problems but my luck has apparently run out. Sorry for the mini series. lol

Hi,

When I sent an email, I use this addon "#tbkeys" to add the file name of the attachment in the body email. Is there a way to automatically add the name of the attachment, without using a shortcut ?

and this is the code for shortcut key...

1. tbkeys

{"ctrl+3": "(function () { var bucket = window.document.getElementById('attachmentBucket'); var names = []; for (var i = 0; i < bucket.getRowCount(); i++) names.push('• '+bucket.getItemAtIndex(i).getAttribute('name')); window.goDoCommandParams('cmd_smiley','This is Attachement name :

'+ names.join('
')); })();"}