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Hi!

I often send an email to 140 recipients via SMTP. Until recently it took 2-3 seconds. Now it takes about 2 minutes. My web-hosting company Simply.com is very insistent that their server is not the problem. I use TB 91.7.0 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS. I am not sure whether TB updated itself when the problem started. Any help would be appreciated.

I 've used Thunderbird for several years without any issues - thank you for that - but suddenly, over the last two or three weeks when sending a message, I have been getting an authentication error message from my ISP and the e-mail is rejected. This occurs every time I try to send an e-mail after rebooting my PC.

A password change made no difference.

Incoming messages are not affected.

Clearly my ISP is blocking the messages because it is not receiving the correct password or account name - but why?

The workaround I have discovered is to enter troubleshoot mode, then send the e-mail (successfully). Then I can exit troubleshoot mode and any later e-mails are also sent successfully - until I reboot the PC and then I have to repeat the procedure again.

I am using v91.7.0 (32 bit) on a 64 bit PC and running two e-mail addresses, both of which exhibit the same behaviour.

I do not have any add-ons and I use default preferences.

Any help would be appreciated.

v91.7.0 on OS X 10.14.6 Used TB for many many years. Have a Charter IMAP email account set up. All of a sudden a good number of months ago, all my emails in my Inbox have a banner that says "This is a draft message" when just clicking on them in the email list.

> https://i.imgur.com/joLqACp.png

Opening any of those mail (which for some reason always opens as Write: mode, whatever that is, not view or reply; not sure what's going on there either) will show a yellow banner at the bottom of the email with the following: "A unique identity matching the From address was not found. The message will be sent using the current From field and settings from identity <IDENTITY> <MY EMAIL>."

> https://i.imgur.com/svBSvqi.png

Any other folders, like Sent or Saved folders don't show or have this issue. I am not and don't use Unified View. I also have two GMail accounts and neither of them are doing that with their Inboxes.

EDIT: It displays some similarities as the bug here, but not all of them (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508153). For example I don't get a double window.

hi, I follow some suggestions as

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1309622

and I try to delete mimeTypes.rdf and handlers.json but Thunrderbid continues to use chromium to open https links.

Can you help me?

I am running TB 91.7 in Win 10, with Bitdefender AV and firewall. When attempting to send an email, I received a popup indicating an issue with the SMTP outgoing server. (original message attached) (also original in and outgoing server settings attached). Upon checking the ISP's recommended settings, I discovered some updates (settings attached) and made those to TB (settings attached); I had to do some interpretation here, hopefully correctly. Attempted resend of message, still error messages (two popups attached). The webmail version works fine. Thanks.

This issue shows up randomly, affecting a random number of messages. Issue is that one message will take over other messages following. Message notification will look normal in the inbox, but click on the message following X message, and the X message is what will appear. The subject line at the very top of the page will be from Y, but the rest of the information following will be from X. Two, three or more messages may be affected. Deleting X will make no difference. This time, four messages were affected.

I have Thunderbird set up with several different email accounts. In December 2021, one of the email accounts suddenly stopped working. It won't receive or send emails. I didn't change anything.

I'm not knowledgeable about figuring this stuff out, so I'd be very grateful for some help. The email that's not working is a gmail account. At first I was getting an error message about the password not working. I'm positive I'm using the correct password, because I tried it on https://mail.google.com/ and it worked fine.

I have Windows 10. I updated Thunderbird to 91.8.0 (32-bit) and it didn't make any difference -- I still can't receive or send email from the problem account. I didn't change any server settings (they are the same as my other gmail accounts, except for the specific account names).

When I try to get messages, it says says Connected to pop.gmail.com...

then

connection to pop.gmail.com server timed out

I have no idea what this means or what to do. If you need more information about my settings, just let me know what you need and I'll get it.

Thanks for any help you can offer. At this point I'm desperate.

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?

Hi everyone,

My costumer has a problem with Thundebird. She has a email address with Aruba Business, after 3-4 days Thunderbird change email settings and email address with an address never existed, i leave attached some screenshots. In this PC i restore and reinstalled Windows 10 to avoid this problem, but after 3 days after reinstallation the problem returns.

Thanks and have a good day.

Struggling with TB constantly "downloading" x 10s of thousands of 10s of thousands of emails (all of which are downloaded), and the programme grinding to a halt. Have set the inboxes to a retention policy of 2500 total. So shouldn't even be trying to DL more than that. Seems to mainly manifest when I compose an email (exactly the time that the sluggishness is a problem). Have done the usual compacting/deleting * files.

This is getting to be a real issue now. I wonder if there's any paid support channels that can deal with this?

I have Thunderbird 91.8.1 (64-bit) installed on my macbook pro mid 2012. I am having issues with folder compacting. It takes a long time no matter how often I do it, and makes the whole computer unusable until it's finished.

I have 3 accounts, 2 pop accounts and 1 gmail account that I don't use. I have tried removing the gmail account, and get to the confirmation screen saying "removal successful" - I then close thunderbird, and reload - and the account is back again.

I did ask this question in August last year, and then got distracted with life -(sorry День сумо for your assistance at the time) Since then the problem is the same. I just ignore the compacting requests. One new change now is that Gmail is asking for a sign in everytime I open thunderbird. I go through the sign in, and then that works, but if I close TB, and reopen I am asked for log in details again. My authentication method is set to 0Auth2.

Thank you in advance for any help with this.

Kind regards Hugh

I've been using Thunderbird for many years and have continued using it successfully since my office changed its e-mail service from serverdata.net to Office 365 several months ago. (Server outlook.office365.com, connection security SSL/TTS, authentication method Normal password.) All was working well as of late on Sat Apr 23. When I next called up T-bird (on my Win 10 laptop) late on Sun Apr 24, I could no longer login to my account. Verified correct e-mail address and password, but multiple attempts to login were all rejected. I could still get in to my account via Outlook at portal.office.com as well as Outlook on my Android, but I can't get in via T-bird....but I hate Outlook and really would prefer to get T-bird working again. On returning to the office the morning of Mon Apr 25, I tried as well with the T-bird installation on my Win 10 desktop (which, again, had long been working fine) and immediately encountered the same problem. So it seems that either there was a silent update to T-bird on Sun Apr 24 which broke T-bird's ability to connect to IMAP on office365.com, or Microsoft did something to the IMAP service on office365.com on Sun Apr 24 which broke T-bird's ability to connect to that service. Yes, I know I could get the Exquilla extension for T-bird and try connecting via the Exchange protocols, but before I do that, it sure would be nice to know whether it's T-bird or office365.com that broke. Anybody else having the same experience? Any solutions figured out yet (other than Exquilla)? Thanks for any insights!

-- Larry Afrin

Every day I notice this message pop up on the status line of TB. It's always the exact same message, compacting saved 1.5GB. Now, I'm pretty sure that I don't actually get 1.5GB of space savings every day, so why does this keep popping up?

My TB is running the current version.

Ubuntu: 20.04 LTS Kernel: 5.13.0-40-generic Thunderbird: 91.7.0 (64 bit)

Since starting service with an new ISP, I have been having problems with Thunderbird outgoing mail (incoming works fine). I did not see this problem with my previous ISP.

In both plain text and HTML formats, if the body of the email is greater than approx. 930 characters, when I click <Send>, the progress window goes to 100% sent, then hangs and eventually times out with the message not being sent. It shows an error message:

"Sending of message failed The message could not be sent usin Outgoing server for an unknown reason. Pleas verify that your Outgoing server settings are correct and try again."

I have contacted the new ISP about this and they have no idea what is causing this except it is not a problem with their SMTP host. All email settings are as directed by the new ISP.

I have confirmed this on 2 computers, both running the same software by creating messages with known character counts of over 1000 characters, created in a basic text editor, and progressively deleting characters until it is successfully sent and recounting the characters.

EDIT: After reinstalling Windows 10 and Thunderbird, I attempted so send an email with a 78Kb attachment, which failed with the message:

Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.seaside.ns.ca was lost in the middle of the transaction. Try again.

Further searching on the Web has led me to looking at an old thread:

https://thunderbirdtweaks.blogspot.com/2010/10/i-cant-sent-mail-networktcpsendbuffer.html

but this had no effect.

I am at a loss, so any possible clues as to what is going on would be greatly appreciated.

I have two email accounts. On the first one I cannot send or receive emails. I get message "login in to server imap.telstra.com with username *******@bigpond.net.au failed."

On the second I am receiving and sending emails but it is not saving my sent emails.

Any suggestions?

My Thunderbird set-up has worked fine for years so I was surprised to discover two days ago I can no longer send emails. I have a Gmail SMTP account which I have never previously have a problem with.

Thunderbird updates automatically and I am on version 91.8.1 - it's possible the problem began when the new version was downloaded but I don't know when that was.

Whenever I try to send an email I get the error:

The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.googlemail.com timed out.

When switching on Thunderbird 91.8.1 (64bit) today, it immediately downloaded mail from my IMAP account followed by the message "Server not found - start.thunderbird.net could not be found. Please check the name and try again. Check typing errors / network connection / firewall / proxy etc." Selecting 'Try again' simply opened the 'Welcome' overlay leaving the client operating as before.

This is a first as far as I can remember. But in the midst of the other more problematical events that have been occurring, (see my previous question, recently updated discussing possible Settings errors retained in the Profile): 'Exporting folders with ImportExportTools NG' https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1373167

Can anyone suggest if there is any link between these events - and confirm a solution that would clean or replace the profile but leave (or restore) the messages and folders unchanged ?

thunderbird 91.9.1 in Win 10 Uninstall & reinstall I have a issue with in-coming emails, as they load they go from BOLD to marked as read. I have tried everything I can think of. If I delete Thunderbird (using windows "Uninstall") and install a fresh copy will my setting stay? Barry

Hello,

I use Thunderbird for all my email addresses, have for years. Never had an issue until today. I've been offline all weekend and have not received an email to any of my addresses since 04/29, 3 days ago. Is Thunderbird down? If not, how can I fix this?

Thank you

I have asked this question before with a different subject title, and I am surprised there is no move to fix it. It is an annoyance that I expect effects many. So I am trying again with a new title and more explanation.

I have attached 3 images, showing a) how I have my folders layed out, b) viewing a group of my folders including my local folders, and c) the change in view after I rename one of the observed folders called "Amick." Instead of the view staying the same, so that I can see the name-changed folder in the folder structure, it reverts to the top of the structure showing all the favorites followed by the local folders.

What I would like to have happen is for there to be NO CHANGE in the view after I change the name of a folder or delete a folder, so that I can see what I have accomplished and continue working. As it is now, it is a big nuisance the time waster. Am I missing something that I can do to solve this problem, like some advanced setting?

Thank you.