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Is it possible to sync Firefox/Thunderbird/Lightning (28.0/24.4.0/?) between a desktop (Windows 8.1) and a laptop (Windows 7)? I want to be able to make an email change on one computer and the change is applied to the other computer within a second or two. What do I do next to achieve my goal?

Thank you.

I've lost all my email contacts and messages before, what is the easiest way to create a backup and how do I restore them to Thunderbird. P.S. I'm not too computer literate. sorry.

Thunderbird 38.0.1 Windows 7.1 Click on "Write". Contacts side bar opens with "All Address Books" as default. It used to default to the LAST USED Address Book. [I've only noticed this new behavior in the last few days.] No matter which address book I select, Write now always opens with "All Address Books". ["All Address Books" displays a combined list of ALL the contacts in ALL the address books]. How do it get it to default to the 'last used' address book please?

For sending emails, I want to be able to save the font size I choose (14), so that I don't have to re-set it each time I am writing. I know how to change the font size, but can't save it. How do I keep the font size?

I would like to create a group that I can name that will contain several email addresses instead of having to type the individual email addresses every time I send an email to this particular group of people. Is that possible with Thunderbird?

For the past week I cannot send email. I receive email fine but when I try to send I get this message: An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.7.1 Authentication Required. Please verify that your email address is correct in your Mail preferences and try again."

I do not know where Mail Preferences is--I have looked for it. Please help or I will need to get another email platform since being able to send is as important as receiving.

Thank you.

when I receive an email with an attachment, I cannot forward it to someone else without first saving the attachment to disk then recovering it and attaching to the new email.

All of the read messages in my inbox suddenly disappeared. I didn't do anything to purposely do this. I searched for a recent read message and it was located showing the location of inbox. I changed the status to unread and it then appeared in the inbox. When I read new messages they change to read messages and stay displayed in the inbox as read but no old messages are displayed. So all of those old read messages are still available, so how do I get them displayed? Thanks Jerry

Have installed "remove duplicates" but I would actually like to stop getting them. I am removing emails off the server on downloading but still keep getting duplicates including after the first one has been deleted.

This may sound stupid but I am unable to reverse my accidental "ignore thread" on a number of my emails. It doesn't allow me to undo it and now all my emails from clients have disappeared and I'm incapable of finding them. All I want is for every email that comes in, to be at the top of the list, is there another way of reversing the process?

My current email system no longer allows me to click on a bunch of emails - and their attachments, then 'print' them to pdf on my hard drive.

My business must save emails for at least 10 years.

Someone suggested Mozilla's email, Thunderbird, but I'm not gonna switch until I know that I can batch-archive.

Thoughts?

I have been trying to install the lightning 3.3 add on for thunderbird 31.0. I get an error message that says "lightning 3.3 cannot be installed because firefox 31.0 is not compatible". I Use Linux Mint as my os.

I have received an email from a friend who has a written signature, phone numbers, email details, and a couple of icons including (yuck!) a Collingwood logo. How can I do similarly but with a Saints logo?

i wnet to -Tools -options --passwords -saved passwords

clicked remove all (thinking it would remove the password) NOT!! Thank Goodness I saved that password!! HELP