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I am getting the infamous "Unable to write to disk" message on all of my pop accounts.

I have plenty of disk space and the hard drive does not have errors. I changed all of the attribute bytes to write (not ready only) I created a new account with no imports. It also gets this error. I have one IMAP account that allows me to at least read my email, but I can't organize it. If I copy my pop account folders to that IMAP account they upload. Uh, no thanks. If I copy my pop account folders to the local folders area, same error (Unable to write to disk) I uninstalled and re-installed, and the profiles were all still there. I would even settle for incoming on an IMAP and moving incoming email to my pop folder, but you can't do that either.

I fear that the profiles are somehow corrupted. I have ALL of my email backed up and restore-able. There are some messages on the server that need to stay there for now.

Please help. I've spent 10+ hours on this and none of the existing help seems to apply here. I'm on the brink of giving up and switching to another tool.

When I forward a message to someone, I have the problem, that since ca. 2024 (a new version), at the beginning of my message are included (reproduced) all the informations from the original sender. It includes half a page or more of dates, which nobody needs. How can I reduce it?

This is an example of a mail, which I get from Thunderbird and would forward it (please answer me by mail):

X-Mozilla-Status: X-Mozilla-Status2: Received: Received: Received: from mbug29.uni-graz.at (143.50.5.29) by ex19ms01.pers.ad.uni-graz.at (143.50.14.11) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 15.1.2507.39 via Frontend Transport; Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:17:05 +0100 X-AuditID: 8f32051d-9e40170000002df2-60-67348aaf956b Received: from a9-91.smtp-out.amazonses.com (a9-91.smtp-out.amazonses.com [54.240.9.91]) (using TLS with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mbug29.uni-graz.at (Symantec Mail Security) with SMTP id D2.1C.11762.0BA84376; Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:17:04 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/simple; s=fun-adgjgyan; d=thunderbird.net; t=1731496622; h=Content-Type:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Date:MIME-Version; bh=00UpzIyQkcU6NwmPzQglLOzoCHSbA+6bJ57/HnvKpp4=; b=WImXYrFXyidbcdPxwgEkDRYuSEN4snkgaLZO1DoIRjbbKHsJnPkpYWaUS3uVKwIt mrdmCiKu3vMRoa57H91wz6JuWwCsgiIC9CJhosKYnOCDZ9lvQ6E0mHlsSyLt8Hf9Qk1 aonrC2ajXy/d0OYYbm3+5c26ZpvA99a1ip6wBXDo= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/simple; s=ug7nbtf4gccmlpwj322ax3p6ow6yfsug; d=amazonses.com; t=1731496622; h=Content-Type:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Date:MIME-Version:Feedback-ID; bh=00UpzIyQkcU6NwmPzQglLOzoCHSbA+6bJ57/HnvKpp4=; b=H5BNlO4X5E5kzc1JIvEqoZfnSWGXpd4im9iC/vqJtbhBBKyy/C2nhAGFC9ceZQiB MJsVe6bYTG18MJoj+saYIAuJAXOI/94eda8uxwNciDhHuXYI0W+3MvP/HXkJEsyzoMJ 16CzAQBI+rW+E/jnMdqCa+ObPIuQH/NFXUNmcmiE= Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 X-Fru-Message-ID: 67348aad7398421aff189162 From: Thunderbird <give@thunderbird.net> To: Heinrich Pfandl <heinrich.pfandl@uni-graz.at> Subject: Vielen Dank im Namen des Thunderbird-Teams! Message-ID: <01000193253db860-e30d89f1-9669-4669-9442-ba4c989f5191-000000@email.amazonses.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 11:17:02 +0000 Feedback-ID: ::1.us-east-1.3qZgQS6JbhaRekdH0veuN/TJTqZGJH71BXY3A/x+zqg=:AmazonSES X-SES-Outgoing: 2024.11.13-54.240.9.91 X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFjrJIsWRWlGSWpSXmKPExsVi9oEzWndjl0m6wf21PBa9l+8wOjB6TFn6 lTGAMYrLJiU1J7MstUjfLoErY+rDw8wF/xZyVKw/28bUwPjsPXsXIyeHhICJxKT9l4BsLg4h gT1MEo3f/rOCJFgEtjJLzLjgDZJgEbjMLLFy7322LkYODmYBNYllrUoQzVoSP3d+BRvEJqAh cfLqcUYQW0TAUGLxmvMsILYw0IK+eX3MIDavQJzEhn/XweYzC2hLLFv4mhlil6rE4sc7oWoE JU7OfMICMTNQ4lFnPyPELjWJljvTWSYw8s9CuGIWkkmzkHQvYGRexSiUm1SabmSpV5qXqZte lFill1iyiREYZv1GrLI7GDumWR5iZOJgPMQowcGsJMJ7ytk4XYg3JbGyKrUoP76oNCe1+BCj NAeLkjjves0HaUIC6YklqdmpqQWpRTBZJg52EMF5ijFRSoa3qMAkXUi0uCAxN6M0DxhD8cWl SbmZxcWZ+XlS4rxCnUBZASRZsBlSCrw1U43ShSRRtBUXZCZn5pcWx5cWwSP5EqOslDAvIwMD gxAP0Am5mSUQE2Dyt4BuPcAkxJGWWFxSkFhcLMSSl5+XKgWVfcQoyPGKXYiNiyklVcBGCiLX wNi8hfdqlkbbzF793a+X979h1ulaVM8vcTj1/axjf794z9u0zZPFTc15ttOzVLGQHcHSDM7s JSqBbtnOlx7zPvVZ5VgxU9HCQCFqW+zjtm/6ctOWTTXyrFlwQZpP+H+gUJFmupTkPa21og9s Jh44F3y1a/r/5oK8WZZXGxqqrn9kSyreLLYyTYmlOCPRUIu5qDgRAFi7BpjcAgAA Return-Path: 01000193253db860-e30d89f1-9669-4669-9442-ba4c989f5191-000000@amazonses.com X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Network-Message-Id: 139eaec3-24bc-48a6-cc66-08dd03d4b489 X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthSource: ex19ms01.pers.ad.uni-graz.at X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthAs: Anonymous X-MS-Exchange-Transport-EndToEndLatency: 00:00:00.0309880 X-MS-Exchange-Processed-By-BccFoldering: 15.01.2507.039 MIME-Version: 1.0

Two questions. My mail icon now has a 3 in the upper right corner and I cannot figure out why it is there nor how to address it.

Some of my email, when sent, is not being save to my send folder and instead a new send folder is created for me to save that sent message. Does not always happen. Could this be related to my first issue?

Thanks, I am a previous Outlook user and new to Thunderbird.

My name is Frank Wiggins. I tried to donate to Thunderbird using by credit card but it didn't go through because the information that you have on file doesn't match the information that I gave you. How can I correct this? I need your help. Thanks, Frank.

When I delete an email from my phone it is also deleted from my PC. This is not the way that I would like it to work. I would like to delete from my PC which would then delete it from other devices. I have not been able to find an answer to this question in the forum. Please can anyone help. Thank you.

When receiving a message containing remote images, by default the images are not displayed for security reasons. When opening the email, there is an option to display or reject the remote images. After I have selected not to view the images (perhaps by mistake), how can I subsequently display them?

I tried to Download Thunderbird onto my new laptop, gave a donation of £15, came to a page suggesting that I finish the Download, but found no way or indication at on how to do that. So I'm £15 down and not feeling well disposed towards Thunderbird. (I had it for about 5 years on my old laptop)

A few days ago my Thunderbird client was downloading messages. I could not see the email that was to be downloaded next. However, a notice appeared, apparently from a hacker that was ending the next email. It was asking me to let it override some information that allowed me to get messages. Then a popup from Thunderbird displayed. It said no decent public site would ask to override anything. So I clicked CANCEL. This happened repeatedly. I kept clicking CANCEL. But no emails downloaded, only the message. Then I got help from the Dell tech support that I paid for when buying the computer. It has always been very effective fixing problems, even if they were not with the computer itself. They could not fix the problem. I can see and answer my emails on Primus webmail. Now. no more emails download in the Thunderbird client after. So apparently some setting has been overridden. I got in touch with Primus, and they told me what to reset the port to, but nothing has been downloaded. I am able to send emails from the Thunderbird client. They told me that the server connection (IMAP) was the same port for send and receive. When I click Get Messages in the Thunderbird client, it says something like Checking server availability. But no new emails download. I have read this from Thunderbird:

"To manually configure an account, you will need to have the following details which can be supplied by your email provider. incoming mail server and port (for example, "pop.example.com" and port 110 or "imap.example.com" and port 143) outgoing mail server and port (for example, "smtp.example.com" and port 25) security setting for the connection with the server (for example, "STARTTLS" or "SSL/TLS" and whether or not to use secure authentication) First, open the Account Settings: In the Thunderbird menu bar, click the ToolsEdit menu and select Account Settings, or click the Application menu button and select OptionsPreferences and Account Settings from the sub-menu." I have tried all this to no avail.

What can I do to get email to download to the Thunderbird client? Can I uninstall the Thunderbird and reinstall without disturbing my Webmail? I would be happy for any help you can give me! Thanks!

I was not able to use the "transfer profiles" feature when I upgraded from a Windows 10 to Windows 11 machine. I think I might have made a mistake..... On the old machine, it seemed like the email was always there when I opened the program. On the new machine, it looks like it downloads all the email every time I open the program. I can't find the setting I might have set up wrong.

I'm experiencing a recurring issue with Thunderbird. After running for a few minutes, it freezes and displays "Not Responding." The only way to fix it is to close the program and restart it, but the issue happens again after a short while.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

   Updated to the latest version.
   Tested in Safe Mode (issue persists).
   Disabled antivirus (Bitdefender) to rule out interference.
   Cleared startup cache.
   Reinstalled Thunderbird and restored profiles manually.

Reinstalling solved the issue temporarily, and Thunderbird stopped freezing. However, the problem returned after I imported all my email accounts!!!

I’d appreciate any guidance on how to resolve this!

Thanks in advance!

trying to pass existing thunderbird data from old to new pc (win11 pro) - thunderbird last version 128.6.0.esr (32-bit) - our profile data ia over 30 GB - so we copied the whole directory as shown in the export funktion - after starting the import funktion on new pc it starts and ends after some seconds with error code :

Uncaught (in promise) NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND: Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]

   _recursivelyCopyMsgFolder resource:///modules/ThunderbirdProfileImporter.sys.mjs:652
   _importMailMessages resource:///modules/ThunderbirdProfileImporter.sys.mjs:581
   _importServersAndAccounts resource:///modules/ThunderbirdProfileImporter.sys.mjs:241

what can I do if I don´t want to loose my full profile ??? thank you christian