Thunderbird Support Forum

Previously one could tap view, and see exactly all the transmission details of emails, especially spam or phishing, and I could highlight, copy and paste to send to SpamCop or phishing.gov.uk so the sender could be traced and blocked. This feature seems to have gone with the new update. Sorry if thick but am 79 yo Geri. Cheers and thanks

I updated my comcast password recently. Now when I try to send an email I get error about password - dialog comes up one option being reset password. When I click this I expect a dialog to open allowing me to enter the correct password but nothing happens.

I went to saved password dialog and removed the entries there hoping that would force Thunderbird to ask me for password - no joy.

In the Beta version how do I update SMTP password? I do not want to recreate the profile because then I lose lots of stuff - I JUST want to update the SMTP password. None of the pages I find are helping me.

When I send an email to a gmail.com address Mozilla sends it back to me with all the information you can see on the screen shot. I have tried writing googlemail. com but that comes back, at times, as well or it goes into the Spam folder of the recipient. Many do not check this so the email is not 'received'. I have tried 'Add-ons' and can find nothing in there to remove this from my Mozzilla. Please help me to get rid of the nuisance. I have had to start using gmail itself in order to write to people and I would prefer to have all my emails with Mozilla.

In my thunderbird "Unified Folders" inbox I have a folder "Mail for". I have no idea how this ended up here, but I can't find any account for it in my account settings and it keeps trying to connect to `test.imap.com` (notification shows up) - please, how do I remove this? (See images attached - as you can see, it lists 5 accounts but there is a 6th folder)

Hello, have any of you encountered such a problem as different email content than it should be? On the main server the content is correct, only through the thunderbird application I encountered such a problem. Is there any solution to this problem ?

When I try to create a filter there is no "OK" button, so obviously filter can't be created. I tried the command % sudo rm ~Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/vwybotat.default % session.json Got the response zsh: no such user or named directory: Library

Hi Guys,

I have one email account in TB, called 'Mail'. A few days ago an account appeared in the folder list. It has the name of my email provider and 2 folders called Inbox and Deleted. New mail arrives in this new inbox. I've attached a screenshot.

As far as I know, I didn't do anything to create this new account. Does anyone know how to remove this account (Posteo) and get my mail in my original account (Mail)?

Thanks, Richard

Updating to version 38.1.0 Start Thunderbird, Starts up OK. Can view messages and write new emails etc OK. If I select "get messages" OR messages are accessed automatically every 5min. then the whole PC crashes. Three finger salute does not bring up task manager. Only way out is to power cycle.

Thanks in advance for your help Cheers Pete

Follows is the Help Troubleshooting info.

 Application Basics

   Name: Thunderbird
   Version: 38.1.0
   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0
   Profile Folder: Show Folder

             (Local drive)
   Application Build ID: 20150707103124
   Enabled Plugins: about:plugins
   Build Configuration: about:buildconfig
   Memory Use: about:memory

 Mail and News Accounts
   account1:
     INCOMING: account1, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext

   account3:
     INCOMING: account3, , (pop3) pop3.talktalk.net:110, plain, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: smtp.talktalk.net:587, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext, true

 Crash Reports

 Extensions
   Lightning, 4.0.1, true, {e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}

 Important Modified Preferences

   Name: Value

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     browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
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     extensions.lastAppVersion: 38.1.0
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     mailnews.database.global.datastore.id: 268c1c45-39c9-4fb8-af58-00e0c832e32
     network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true
     network.predictor.cleaned-up: true
     places.database.lastMaintenance: 1436862237
     places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 104858
     plugin.importedState: true

 Graphics

     Adapter Description: Intel(R) G41 Express Chipset
     Vendor ID: 0x8086
     Device ID: 0x2e32
     Adapter RAM: Unknown
     Adapter Drivers: igdumd64 igd10umd64 igdumdx32 igd10umd32
     Driver Version: 8.15.10.2302
     Driver Date: 2-11-2011
     Direct2D Enabled: false
     DirectWrite Enabled: false (6.2.9200.17292)
     ClearType Parameters: Gamma: 2200 Pixel Structure: R ClearType Level: 100 Enhanced Contrast: 50
     WebGL Renderer: false
     GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1 Direct3D 11 WARP

     AzureCanvasBackend: skia
     AzureSkiaAccelerated: 0
     AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: cairo
     AzureContentBackend: cairo

 JavaScript

 Incremental GC: 1

 Accessibility

   Activated: 0
   Prevent Accessibility: 0

 Library Versions

     Expected minimum version
     Version in use

     NSPR
     4.10.8
     4.10.8

     NSS
     3.19.2 Basic ECC
     3.19.2 Basic ECC

     NSS Util
     3.19.2
     3.19.2

     NSS SSL
     3.19.2 Basic ECC
     3.19.2 Basic ECC

     NSS S/MIME
     3.19.2 Basic ECC
     3.19.2 Basic ECC

We work with Thunderbird on local PC's but for roaming support we have the Thunderbird profiles on a network drive. Lately we noticed that on occasion the network drive is slow or disconnects for a second at which point Thunderbird looses it's lock or the connection to the profile. This results in then giving a popup to reenter the credentials for the mailbox. Is there some setting in Thunderbird where we can tell it to try again for a few times before giving the error?

I found the option 'network.protocol-handler.external.disks' but I cannot find any description on what this setting actually does, is this setting relevant to this issue?

I would appreciate any help you can give us.

Thunderbird can't get emails off gmail. Says- "400. That’s an error. The server cannot process the request because it is malformed. It should not be retried. That’s all we know." Now what do I do? I would prefer to keep using T'bird for the convenience but.....

Hi,

I use a siteground server and whenever I add a new account, TB recognizes the settings but when I click "Next" to finalize the process, it never completes.

If I try to configure it manually, I get an error saying "incoming server already exists."

To fix the problem, I have to exit TB and manually edit the profile file.

I end up adding:

user_pref("mail.account.accountXX.identities", "idXX"); user_pref("mail.account.accountXX.server", "serverXX");

Then I make a copy of another account's

user_pref("mail.identity.idXX.XXX"

settings and make them fit the new account.

As you can guess, it's pretty tedious and annoying but I don't understand why this happens.

Any ideas?

L

I was recently alerted by Tbird that I had been spoofed (I think it had been in 2021 but was certainly some time ago). I had problems with my BT email a short while ago due to a problem with SMTP which was successfully resolved and a new password applied. Since this was some time after the recorded pwning I assumed that the necessary change had been made. However, after months of no spoofing I am now receiving regular spoofs. Can the spoofers have been alerted by the pwning notice?

Everything worked before the new year. now my mouse will not move b/w the screens very easily. and one screen is so large it is worthless. my other screen is normal. Graphics:

 Device-1: AMD Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M] vendor: Tul driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie:
   speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-2,DP-3 bus-ID: 03:00.0
   chip-ID: 1002:73ff
 Device-2: AMD vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0d:00.0
   chip-ID: 1002:164e
 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,ati
   unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3200x1440 s-dpi: 96
 Monitor-1: DisplayPort-0 mapped: DP-1 pos: primary,left model: VG27AQL1A res: 640x480 dpi: 27
   diag: 685mm (27")
 Monitor-2: HDMI-A-0 mapped: HDMI-A-1 pos: right model: VG27AQL1A res: 2560x1440 dpi: 109
   diag: 685mm (27")
 OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6600 (navi23 LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.42 5.15.0-91-generic)
   v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 direct render: Yes

I am also on linux 21.2 and thunderbird 115.5 the resolution on monitor 1 should be 2560x1440 like the other monitor.......do you need anything else from me????? I am not aware that i did anything to make these problems.....

Hi. I have been using Thunderbird successfully with my email account for years. Recently a new problem has appeared. Generally, if I create a subfolder in Thunderbird I see it in the Comcast webmail, and vice versa. Sometimes, however, it doesn't carry through. I have some that are visible in webmail but don't show up in Thunderbird. I have removed and re-added the account to Thunderbird. Still they don't show up. I have checked with Comcast Support and they say that the account is fine. Is there something I can do to fix this? Thanks for any help you can offer.

Jeff

Thunderbird 102.7.0, 64-bit, Windows 10.

I just fell over this today but it may have been around for a while.

I have lots of email accounts. It was great when TB starting properly supporting a per-account (outbound) SMTP server, however, this seems to have newly broken. I fell over it today, but I don't reboot things for ages so I cannot pinpoint the start.

Here's the issue.

I have accounts on many mail servers, many on the same (mainly att.net, and gmail.com, as it happens).

Each one of them, to send mail, wants me to log in with an individual sending address. Fair enough. This used to work just fine.

However, suddenly, just the att.net addresses are broken. What *seems* to be happening is that the same, single login address is being used for all N accounts. Naturally, this breaks when the login address doesn't match the one on the From: line. So I have to futz around, fiddle around, and so on, and then things work. (I.E. I change the TB settings so that the outbound SMTP auth login matches the From: line, have to re-enter the password, and only then will the message be sent.) So if I have two accounts, x@att.net and y@att.net, only one of them (at a time) "works" with att.net - it's whatever I successfully used last. If I sent mail from x@, this address is being used (and it's in the account settings field. over-riding what was there before), even if I send mail from y@. Or z@. Etc. If I change the SMTP auth address to y@, then that account works perfectly, but x@ doesn't. And so on.

Now the weird part is this: my Gmail addresses still work perfectly. I can send from all of them without changing a thing.

The only thing I can see is that Gmail is set up to use oAuth, and att.net is set up to use 'normal password' (via SSL, so I'm not that bothered about security).

Did I unknowingly manage to break something? Is there a new tweak? Help!

Jonathan