Thunderbird Support Forum

I have several email accounts and would like to order them based on their importance, but I cannot figure out if this is even possible aside from deleting and then reinstalling (which I'd really prefer not to do). I'm not asking about folders within an email account, but the accounts themselves. Thank you.

Hello everybody, I am using Thunderbird to access e-mail. I have all my accounts configured as IMAP. In each of the accounts I had checked in the Synchronization and storage section, keep all messages for that account on this computer. When I ran out of disk space, I deselected this option. But the INBOX files remained as large as before. How can I clean them?

I want to attach a file ( pdf, image, etc) that I received from another email ID ( say from contact A) to the email Id ( say contact B) without using the forwarding. One way I know is to save the attachment from A and then attach it to the email to B. But this quite cumbursome ,for one you have to remeber the file name and the location you saved it to . Is there another way/short way . I swicthed from Outlook to Tbird and this functionality I could no find in Tbird.

Over the years my wife & I have generated seven email addresses that we use for an assortment of purposes. With Outlook (which we are trying to move from) we had a single address book that was common to all the emails. As we started from the other end this time (opening the 7 existing email accounts first); we see that each email has the option to establish its own address book. Our question is this: Can we establish a single address book that will be the default for all 7 emails? The individual address books for each email identity may have their place later, but we would prefer to migrate existing contacts to a destination that will be a common source for all 7 email addresses; as this is how we've operated in the past. Thank you all in advance for your assistance!

How do I change the prefix/name that was ask during original setup, that now shows up before every email address sent out? EXAMPLE: ((Prefix))<emailaddress@email.com> ?? I can't change it from my email setup within the program. Version 78.10.2 (32-bit)

Sent folder does not appear in gmail account. "Place a copy of the sent messages in the sent folder" is checked. A sent folder is listed under gmail profile but does not appear when Thunderbird is started.

For about the 3rd time in my history of using Thunderbird I have just deleted pretty much my entire in box by fat fingering the delete key when cleaning out junk emails using shift/delete. If you fat finger the End key in the process all emails are selected to the end of the in box and then deleted with no prompt. This is an open man hole cover that needs to be closed. What program allows huge amounts of critical information to be deleted with no are you sure prompt? Some kind of prompt should appear if more than x number of emails are to be deleted, it would be nice if this was a configuration setting, it should default to 1, if more than 1 email is to be deleted the user is prompted, the user can set this to something higher if they want. Thunderbird is updated constantly which is great, please get this into an update soon!

Je ne reçois plus de messages depuis le 17 05 21 sur mon PC, le logiciel mouline en permanence en recherche! Que faire? J'ai essayé de supprimer thunderbird puis de réinstaller, c'est pareil. Je suis sous windows défender. mes identifiants sont bons, je reçois les messages sur webmail et mon téléphone. Merci de votre aide.

My mail from Time Warner/Spectrum has stopped on Thunderbird. When I try to retrieve my e-mails, I "time out". Have the settings changed and/or how do I fix the problem? I can send e-mails from Thunderbird and retrieve them via internet just not on Thunderbird.

Hi,

Could someone inform me about how to insert a non-breaking space (necessary for a bankaccount number) in Thunderbird? I am on Windows 10 and tried several options, like Ctrl+Shift+Space, or use   or with the Windows option to insert 'special signs', but nothing worked.

Thanks!

I use Thunderbird with 4 email accounts. All use IMAP. I have three usernames, let us use name1 and name2 and name3, and 3 providers, let us use prov1 and prov2 and prov3. My email accounts, therefore, are name1@prov1.com, name2@prov1.com, name1@prov2.com, and name3@prov3.com. Provider 3 is hosted at gmail.com. Accounts name1@prov1.com, name2@prov1.com, and name1@prov2.com all work as expected. Each of these accounts sends and copies outbound mail to their respective sent folder and receives inbound mail to their respective inbox. While name3@prov3.com sends and copies outbound mail to its sent folder, inbound mail is inexplicably directed to the inbox of name1@prov1.com! Mail does not even briefly flicker in Gmail. I can manually move an email to the proper account in Thunderbird but that is incomplete. The mail disappears from the account in Thunderbird but the IMAP server at prov1 retains a copy that no longer replicates to Thunderbird. The mail, when moved in Thunderbird to the correct account, places the mail in the correct account in Thunderbird and places the mail on the IMAP server of Gmail. How do I get Thunderbird to receive mail for name3@prov3.com in the correct inbox?

There appears to be no way to do this -- unless anyone has figured it out.

That is, Thunderbird operates its own junk folder.

But my service provider has a spam folder. I would like to create a spam folder and map it to that folder, preserving the POP3 settings I use -- the same as I map my inbox to the server.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thank you.

I am hesitant to allow the new version of Thunderbird to compact the files (something I did easily in previous versions). The message indicates it will delete files marked for deletion (moved to the trash container?) and I would like be able to recall files I accidently delete. I use to allow file compaction and the trash folder would not be emptied, is this still the case? I would go through the trash folder every 30 to 60 days and delete the 30 to 45 days worth knowing I they were no longer needed. I have read many of the threads pertaining to compaction and I still cannot find an answer to this question.

Thank You for your time and effort in this issue. -Mark-

Hello... I regularly need to insert bullet points into my emails. I do not use paragraph spacing but whenever I put in bullet points into my email, all the text after the bullet point section is double space/paragraph spacing and I cannot change it back to 'Body Text'

I have tried the 'uncheck the checkbox 'Use paragraph format instead of Body Text by default' - it does not work.

Please advise, thank you.

For many years, I've used Thunderbird (now 78.11.0) to email just under 400 clients every weekday morning. Starting June 1, 2021, it refused to send unless I sent to under 100 addresses at a time. How do I get back to sending one email to the 400? I'm not spamming. My clients pay me for my information.