Thunderbird Support Forum

duplicate of /questions/1445549 thread.

Buonasera, stamattina non funzionando le mail in arrivo in Thundebird, ho riparato la cartella a seguito di un messaggio arrivato dal vostro portale dove mi diceva: spazio archiviazione terminato. Effettuata la procedura i messaggi in entrata hanno iniziato a funzionare regolarmente ma mi sono accorto che tutte le mail nella cartella posta in arrivo erano prive di testo. Cosa può esser successo e se è possibile ripristinare, grazie mille per un vostra risposta. Vi lascio in allegato un'immagine come campione. Cordiali saluti, Gianfranco

I've been getting SPAM'd to death and have been on a hunt to stop as much as possible. The Junk filters:

   some months back:
  I've reset Junk "Reset training data"
  I've enabled "adaptive junk controls"
  I've enable "Enable Adaptive Junk filter logging"
  I've checked the "Do Not automatically mark mail as junk if the sender is in:"

  Some people in my address book are marked junk (when I highlight that specific email)
     I say "Not Junk" and seems not to work for multiple mails sent from same party

 Also,
  Several of the same emails are NOT marked as junk when I Manually mark them as so.
  I've looked though the forum, and found several entries similar to this, but no real solution is posted

Hello! I wanted to merge two local folders. Used drag and drop from one local folder to another. Now I realize it was mistake to do it with 5000+ emails. Anyway Thunderbird functions OK, but I have problem accessing these folders, since they don't show messages. The one from which I draged messages is still showing them, but the other to which I dropped messages not... and that is the more important one.

Before moving I renamed destination folder, but now I see that Thunderbird also created another (new local folder) because my action of moving large number of emails... Anyway these folders look empty.

Is there any easy way to stop the action or undo it somehow... cause i really don't wanna loose those emails. Please help, if it is possible! Thanks in advance! Marko

Thunderbird changed over night, and is VERY jacked up... none of my inboxes have anything in them, and one of my Email addresses and folder don't exist!!! I received a response from my earlier rant

Try the following:

Set this setting:

   'View' > 'Folders' > 'All' 

Then do this:

   Menu icon > Help > More Troubleshooting Information
   Under 'Application Basics' - half way is Profile Folders - click on 'Open Folder' 

window opens showing contents of your profile name folder

   Exit Thunderbird now - this is important 

Scroll down and delete the following files:

   folderCache.json
   folderTree.json
   virtualFolders.dat
   session.json
   xulstore.json 

Click on 'Mail' folder

   delete 'smart mailboxes' folder 

(do not worry if it does not exist - it just means you have never used Unified)

Start Thunderbird.

Please Report back on results.

BUT IM ON A MAC....SO I NEED HELP IN MY SYSTEM TO GET THIS STRAIGHTENED OUT....OR I PREFER TO GO BACK TO THE OLD PLATFORM....THAT WASN'T BROKE!!!

I have just updated the latest Thunderbird but every time I open it, it just crashes? Is this just a me or a general problem. I am running Ubuntu 22.04. How can I go back to previous version? Hope you can help? Chris

Using Macbook Air M1 with Monterey.

I've spent most of the night trying to find a solution to the blank, unresponsive screen since TB updated. No folders, accounts, messages, etc. *(see attached image). I'm not the only one with this problem, but in all the "solved" discussions of this problem, none of the solutions have worked for me.

I've toggled between themes, uninstalled/reinstalled TB, checked all settings and configs, run in troubleshoot mode, cleared the caches... Nothing has worked.

I'm able to create and send new messages from this blank page, and I receive them on my other devices. So, it would seem my configs are fine. Kind of lost at this point. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

RR

Is there any way to achieve the above? Maybe with a plugin of some sort? Thanks!

Explanation (if you had any questions why this feature would be needed at all): This is a great way of sorting/viewing your emails by people rather than individual emails, while also maintaining the sorting of emails by date:

- it shows whom you received an email last, thereby allowing it to be your default view,
- keeps your inbox clean and neat, automatically, 
- makes it easy to see what is important and what is not,
- implements better threading (because threads based on subject lines fall apart very quickly),
- separates commercial emails from emails from friends and family without filters, and
- allows for very quick cleaning and organizing of emails, if you wanted to put them in folders or delete them. 

Some email clients implemented such feature in the past, sadly they are no longer available, not available for Linux, or no longer supported (Poco Mail for Windows, or Unibox for Mac, for example).

Thunderbird is the most full-featured email client today, with many plugins available, and I was hoping there was a way to do this, but if it exists, I did not find it myself.

Thunderbird is reported as being up to date here, but it keeps trying to update the same version every day. I asked before and it was suggested I make the update sites exceptions in AVG, made no difference.

I recently submitted a support request where I attached two files. One of them were incorrect. Submitting correct file now. Sorry for confusion. Outgoing server: smpt. centurylink.net (default) Since last request, I managed to send from centurylink.net web page.......an email addressed to highermark@outlook.com, but still can't send by using Thunderbird. So Password reset isn't necessary. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Firewall, antivirus software or your Internet service provider.  ??? How can I do this?

I can receive email from " centurylink.net " but I can't send messages. I believe I was autumnally upgraded to T-bird 78, as I've used T-bird for years without problems. At first I was " locked out " of using my two accounts with T-bird & outlook ..... but after consulting with centurylink support, plus.......outlook.....I resolved problems except for sending emails from centurylink.net. I've included upon request from T-bird support two attachments hopefully, showing " error message" and' T-birds outgoing server info.' I've changed my centurylink.net PassWord , and that enabled messages to arrive in T-bird. I have filled in new password in window for password , but I still can't send! I also have correct port...following are error messages I receive: "sending of username did not succeed. Mail server pop.embarqmail.com responder: highermark is not an invalid mailbox. Account should be fully qualified email address."...." Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMPT) smtp.embarqmail.com timed out . Try again" I tried again.....and again several times but message still isn't sent. i will contact centurylink support again, as password may need to be changed again............but I receive messages now, at least. I DON"T want that to lock me out again. mj

Hello, Messages do not show in the 'Inbox' at the top of the page. The Headings do not show there either.

If I click on a line, I can see them.
I can then drag them to a heading on the the hand list. I can then see and use them 

Please see attached image. Thanks. Glenn

I am still trying to recover lost emails from my inbox. I contacted Avast as it was suggested the anti virus program might be responsible but they insist it has nothing to do with them. I can not find a contact telephone number for Thunderbird support in Australia so am trying this forum again in the hope someone can tell me if I can recover these lost emails. I tried instructions from one website but after finding the Local folder in Account settings the options described in the instructions did not match what was available to me so I was not able to go any further. I am considering trying 'Easeus' which is a free download that claims to fix this kind of problem and gets quite good reviews, I am just concerned that I'll hit a brick wall again if the tabs or options in a particular file don't match the instructions as that leaves me nowhere to go. I even allowed a local computure guru remote access to my laptop but he couldn't work out where the missing emails were which is very concerning as I had hoped he had seen this kind of problem before as there are so many articles on line about missing emails with Thunderbird. I hope someone can offer some suggestions. Cheers Alex

My Thunderbird is completely updated. Since July I have found it impossible to consistently send emails. I checked my outgoing settings and they are fine. I have no anti-virus (I'm using a Mac). When I turn off the firewall, I can send one email out, sometimes two, then they will no longer go out. I tried deleting Thunderbird from the firewall, then adding it again. Nothing doing. This occurs with both email addresses I use.

Should I remove Thunderbird from my computer and start over? Or is it a lost cause?