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I have used Thunderbird for decades and never had this kind of problem before. It seems to be stuck in a continual loop of downloading messages and compacting folders. This creates a problem because it dominates my internet connection. How do I alleviate the situation in version 78.10.0? It also seems like it always asked if I wanted to compact before just doing it.

I just downloaded Thunderbird on my new computer (HATE Windows Mail). I use gmail for my email. My mail DOES get sent out, but DOES NOT save to my SENT ITEMS folder. It starts the process, but cannot finish. It seems to get bogged down and can't complete.. How can I fix this?

Since recent updates (I'm on 91.2.1 32 bit) the gesture-scrolling (two finger drag) with my Windows 10 laptop's touchpad is much faster than before, and I'm finding it too fast to control. If this is an intentional change, can it be toggled off?

Hello, The scrolling speed of the different toolboxes in the software became much too fast with the pad on my computer (Zenbook 14"). It didn't do that before the last update. Am I the only one? I lose a lot of time every day with this bug.

Thanks :-)

Lately, I noticed that TB is quite slow at loading messages so I looked up for a solution and found that compacting folders could help a bit. The problem is that when I tried to compact some folders TB started to write hundred of GBs to disk completely filling my ssd and ultimately failing with a 'not enough disk space error'.

I don't think this is supposed to happen. Can I fix my inbox or should I start from scratch?

Compact Now keeps popping up when I am trying to get other things done. I more often than not just cancel out of it, but it's annoying and distracting and interrupts my flow. At times, I do click on it to perform the compacting task, but them everything comes to a standstill. I can't delete messages, can't move them to other folders, can't answer emails. Nothing. I have large folders full of emails that I have kept from years ago, so it takes it a long time to finish compacting. Meanwhile, I am left stranded, unable to complete the tasks that need to be seen to. Is there any way that I can opt out of getting these compact now pop-ups? I am running Windows 7 Ultimate sp1, with Thunderbird 91.4.0 Thank you!

I have 3 accounts that are all IMAP accounts to smtp.office365.com. They have worked without issue for years.

Recently, immediately after hitting send, I get:

The message was sent successfully, but could not be copied to your Sent Folder. The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.office365.com timed out. Try again? Would you like to return to the compose window.

It does not have a delay that would be long enough to have timed out. If I then wait on the message without responding at all, the message goes away as does the compose window.

I also increased the timeout but that did not address the issue.

What might I explore to further troubleshoot/correct?

Sometimes, I have seen these kinds of issues come up with updates of the software and then later resolve, but this one has been persistent and I would like to figure it out.

The emails have worked fine for years and all that are related to office365 from multiple companies and multiple email accounts are having this issue.

I am on the latest TB 32 bit version 91.4.1 running on Windows 10.

Thank you for your guidance.

I temporarily logged into customer email account in order to download the mail in it and transfer it to their email at a different webhost.

And in fact subsequent to that the email account was closed at the prior host by its owner. They actually deleted the email account at the old host "Bluehost" which admittedly is a garbage host and hence why they moved.

So I removed it from my email accounts in my Thunderbird.

For some reason since then I have been receiving constant popups from Thunderbird "Authentication Required - Mozilla Thunderbird - https://box2164.bluehost.com:2080 is requesting your username and password. The site says: “Horde DAV Server”"

and the username field has the email address in it. The password field is blank.

And I checked the outgoing mail servers in Thunderbird to confirm I have no connection to the email acct stored in Thunderbird.

Any thoughts on how to alleviate this issue?

Thank you all for your time and attention to this request.

Thunderbird asked to compact folders saying it would save hundreds of MBs of disk space, I accidently clicked "compact now" instead of just ignoring it as I usually do. As a result, Thunderbird deleted all mail on my Inbox folder - after restarting Thunderbird, my inbox was empty, I also checked the mail folder on my file explorer and the "Inbox" file (no extension) was just a few KBs, whereas previously to Thunderbird deleting it was several MBs. There were no errors reported during the "compact" process.

I don't think I can recover the mail that Thunderbird deleted because the mail server does not seem to keep mail older than 12 months. One of the reasons I used Thunderbird was to be able to keep a local copy of older emails.

The pop-up I received was the one shown in this article by Mozilla: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compacting-folders

The article explicitly says "compact" does not delete mail, but then explains that it actually does (by not moving mail "moved or marked as deleted" to the a new file, and deleting the old file). I had no such "marked as deleted" mail. It was just plain read mail on my Inbox folder.

This is an Office 365 POP account. Thunderbird's retention policy for the Inbox folder was to use my (Thunderbird) account's policy, which was to never delete any mail. Alas, when I hit "compact now", Thunderbird deleted all my mail. I was running Thunderbird 91.6.1 on Windows 10.

I tried making a backup of all Thunderbird related folders and deleting the "popstate" file to download all mail from the server again. Mail got downloaded, but not all - as I mentioned, the mail server only returns 12 month worth of email, whereas I had years of mail stored locally. I don't see any way of recovering it... Why would Thunderbird just delete all mail calling it "compact"? Makes no sense...

I have over 200,000 emails on a gmail account I'm hoping to sync with Thunderbird. My goal is to have them all downloaded onto a local server on my computer so I can refer to them all offline. I've been periodically pressings "get messages" which used to download messages 1000 at a time (I'm not sure why it doesn't continually sync with my inbox!) Though, sometimes it would download 2-3 at a time which was frustrating and fairly futile. Now, it's stopped downloading entirely. How do I keep syncing my inbox?

I successfully sent my last email on 26Oct21. Ever since,I cannot send email. I get the following message when I try to send: Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because connecting to Outgoing server (SMTP) mail.shaw.ca failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections. Please verify that your Outgoing server (SMTP) settings are correct and try again.

I have tried everything suggested on this forum and other online help sites. One source suggested trying to ping my email server,and that failed as well. I tried temporarily reducing the TLS to 1.1,but that didn't help. I tried temporarily disabling my Windows antivirus and firewall,but that didn't work. I am at a loss on how to proceed,and am planning to take my desktop to a local computer repair shop to see if they can figure it out. Can you suggest anything that might help? Thanks very much!

A specific set of 57 emails from the time period 3/1 to 3/2 keeps coming back into my Inbox after deleting them or moving them to another folder. Any suggestions as to how to fix this problem? Thanks.

1) Login into your Gmail account with a web browser like Firefox. 2) once logged into Gmail and on the home page, click the settings cog wheel and then click the link that says "view all settings" 3) once on setting screen then click "labels" tab 4) once on liable tab screen go to the far right where it says "show in IMAP" click the empty check box so that it has an [x] in it for it to be included as a folder with syncing with Thunderbird 5) on label tab screen move left look for "show on label list" and look under this and click "show" for each folder you want to show in Thinderbird 6) solution complete

Thanks to anyone who can help.

Recently, a weird problem developed on my Thunderbird. I can delete maybe 7 or 8 emails, and suddenly nothing else will delete. I can press the delete button and nothing happens. The only resolution is closing Thunderbird and reopening.

I have followed these steps: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cannot-delete-messages#:~:text=Close%20Thunderbird.,Select%20the%20Trash%20and%20Trash.

And it did not resolve the problem.

Any other ideas?

I am getting consistent crashes on start up in safe mode on Windows 10. TB: 91.7.0 Crash ID: bp-97be5c5b-8de3-4e5d-b37a-5e7671220331 I'm hoping someone can help; I've been using TB for many years with no problems until yesterday.

Hello, My PGP key for one of my accounts stopped working while I was trying to draft a message. At first, the message said that my PGP key couldn't be located and thus my draft could not be saved (I believe I have all my drafts mandated to save as encrypted). I decided to delete the key from Thunderbird and try re-importing it. At first, it said the key had been imported successfully. However, when trying to select the key from my account page, nothing comes up. It's just blank. I quit Thunderbird several times and re-opened, only to get the same result. Now, after my most recent app restart, Thunderbird simply won't import my PGP key at all. Other accounts still have their PGP keys active, but not this one. I'm at a loss. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Is this a new bug? I'm running the latest version of Thunderbird (91.8.0 (64-bit)) on macos. I've attached images. Please help! Thanks!!

I have 2 installs of Thunderbird on 2 different desktops accessing the same IMAP account.

On one machine I have:

  Automatically delete junk mail older than 3 days

On the other it is:

  Automatically delete junk mail is unselected.

Which has priority?

I am seeing junk mail from over 30 days in there so I'm guessing that if one installation does not automatically delete junk mail, then none of them do. Does the longest duration take precedence?

Thanks

Hello, i am trying to import a public key. on the OpenPGP Key Manager, i select file->Import Public keys from file but i get the message: "Importing the keys failed"

I use Thunderbird 91.8.0 on windows 10.

my OpenPGP log is this: 2022-04-15 14:31:28.690 [DEBUG] armor.jsm: Enigmail.locateArmoredBlock: 0, 2022-04-15 14:31:28.691 [DEBUG] armor.jsm: Enigmail.locateArmoredBlock: blockType=PUBLIC KEY BLOCK 2022-04-15 14:31:28.691 [DEBUG] key.jsm: getKeyListFromKeyBlock

and nothing else.

The public key is this:

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Can you please help?

I used the settings from here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/how-to-set-up-thunderbird-to-sync-your-outlookcom/266ddd8f-250c-4e8a-9799-009d992be8e3

" 8. Set the Incoming settings as follows:

         a.       Server hostname: imap-mail.outlook.com.

         b.      Port: 993.

         c.       SSL: SSL/TLS.

         d.      Authentication: Normal password.

9. Set the Outgoing settings as follows:

         a.       Server hostname: smtp-mail.outlook.com.

         b.      Port: 587.

         c.       SSL: STARTTLS.

         d.      Authentication: Normal password.

"

It worked fine until March 2022, but now every time I restart, Thunderbird keeps asking me to re-enter outlook passwords. Please help me fix it!

I was receiving the "Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox". I uninstalled AVG Anti Virus which resolved the problem but now my inbox is empty. Can I retrieve them?