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What to do about colleagues' "reactions" when using Outlook

Unfortunately, we're a Microsoft shop and I use Thunderbird with DavMail. I'm wondering what to do with these annoying "reactions." I'd simply trash them but I'm not sure… (read more)

Unfortunately, we're a Microsoft shop and I use Thunderbird with DavMail. I'm wondering what to do with these annoying "reactions." I'd simply trash them but I'm not sure what to filter on.

Asked by Joseph Reagle 2 days ago

The folder 'xxx' cannot be compacted because another operation is in progress. Please try again later.

I keep getting this error message as a popup window that needs to be closed out. It happens over and over again and it can pertain to Inbox, Junk, Sent, etc. It's just an… (read more)

I keep getting this error message as a popup window that needs to be closed out. It happens over and over again and it can pertain to Inbox, Junk, Sent, etc. It's just annoying but doesn't seem to matter. How can I get rid of it?

Asked by Divedoggy 2 days ago

Installed Thunderbird 115.8.1 on newer computer and did not save Thunderbird profile to move to newer computer. Still need to move previously saved folders of email from older computer as those emails are not on Comcast server.

I have seen articles about migrating to new computers, but they want you to replace your thunderbird profile and don't account for adding folders not saved online. Please… (read more)

I have seen articles about migrating to new computers, but they want you to replace your thunderbird profile and don't account for adding folders not saved online. Please advise.

Asked by Susan Miller 1 week ago

Last reply by Susan Miller 2 days ago

unwanted deletion of e-mails

When I select an e-mail and click delete in the top panel sometimes not only the selected item is deleted, but also the one under the selected item. It means, that import… (read more)

When I select an e-mail and click delete in the top panel sometimes not only the selected item is deleted, but also the one under the selected item. It means, that important mails dissappear. I have no idea how to prevent this neither how or what I did. It seems that somehow Thunderbird selects more than the selected item. I enclose two screenprints:

  • Selected item to delete in inbox with the to delete item in the inbox
  • deleted items in the map deleted, wheree you can see that also the mail beneath the selected item is deleted

This really bad, since I lose from time to time important e-mails

Asked by Raymond 2 days ago

emails

I haven't been getting new emails for several days, and my sent mail is not going out. I'm on a MacBook Pro running Sonoma 14.4.1. and Thunderbird 115.9.0 (64-bit). My i… (read more)

I haven't been getting new emails for several days, and my sent mail is not going out. I'm on a MacBook Pro running Sonoma 14.4.1. and Thunderbird 115.9.0 (64-bit). My isp provider is FRII and I've been able to read my mail on their program call SOGo.

Asked by jerry133 1 day ago

Multiple email folders

1. I have automatic updates set for Thunderbird. Recently, it updated to 115.9.0. After this update, all but one of my multiple email folders disappeared. I have sear… (read more)

1. I have automatic updates set for Thunderbird. Recently, it updated to 115.9.0. After this update, all but one of my multiple email folders disappeared. I have searched for days trying to find a solution. I added in two of my email folder names and manually entered the incoming and outgoing information. I now open my Thunderbird application today and all the folders are listed, including the 2 duplicates. The 2 duplicates have a different number of messages than the other 2. 2. I can not find where to be able to view the header and the message underneath. I have to click on each message to see if I want to keep it or not; then close; then delete. 2. how can I sort the email folders? This is a nightmare for me as I have more than 10 email folders to manage.

Asked by Jenny P 1 day ago

Cannot Copy Text from Thunderbird 115.9.0 (64-bit)

I am using Thunderbird 115.9.0 (64-bit) on Windows 11. I am finding that I cannot copy text out of a Thunderbird window (e.g., an incoming message or a message-compositi… (read more)

I am using Thunderbird 115.9.0 (64-bit) on Windows 11.

I am finding that I cannot copy text out of a Thunderbird window (e.g., an incoming message or a message-composition pane).

If I select text and "copy" (e.g., by context menu with right click or Edit-Copy ordinary menu), my clipboard is cleared.

If my clipboard is not clear (text copied from another application), I can paste that into a Thunderbird message-composition pane. But if I then select that same text in the Thunderbird window and then do "copy" (above), the clipboard is cleared. Pasting (into a Thunderbird window or something else, like Notepad) pastes nothing.

I have noticed this problem only in the last week or so.

Asked by gil-ffx 1 day ago

Last reply by gil-ffx 1 day ago

Thunderbird mail account fails to log into Outlook.com sometimes.

I am running 4 email addresses (3 hotmail.com and 1 live.com) on TB 102.15.1 (64 bit) - Windows 10. About a month ago I upgraded TB was unable to send anything no matter … (read more)

I am running 4 email addresses (3 hotmail.com and 1 live.com) on TB 102.15.1 (64 bit) - Windows 10. About a month ago I upgraded TB was unable to send anything no matter what Server settings I used - tried every combination - so I downgraded back to Version 102 and everything went back to normal. About a week ago, one of my hotmail accounts started giving me a "fail to log in" message. The other accounts work fine. The "fail to log in" will go from 2 or 3 times to 15 to 20 times in about an hour or so but every time, sooner or later will work and then it will be fine for a few hours and then start again. I have had these accounts running on TB for well over 10 years with no problem and I have not changed anything in the Server settings or anywhere else. The account I am having the issue with has been running on TB since TB started with no problems until now. I assume that TB may be having some issues with the Outlook platform but I have not changed anything there either and I have no problem logging into hotmail.com directly. I have spent many hours combing the internet for hints to no avail - everything I have tried has either had no effect or screwed things up so I had to back track to where I started. Any ideas???

Asked by Ron 1 month ago

Last reply by Ron 1 day ago

existing mail account creation

Hello dear Thunderbird members. Please, I would like your assistance to the following issue. It's about when creating an existing account on Thunderbird application. Cr… (read more)

Hello dear Thunderbird members.

Please, I would like your assistance to the following issue.

It's about when creating an existing account on Thunderbird application. Creating a Google mail account, or Yahoo! account (IMAP setting up). Or creating on POP3 module my mail account that I have on my internet provider.

So, the question/problem is, when I create account, all settings are being created (settings I mean incoming mail server, ports, etc), the authentication of username and password is passed, and finally account is created, with inbox folder, and immediately automatic getting messages begins. And, all other folders under inbox are being created/loaded. What I want to ask is if there is a technique, after account creation, only the inbox folder to be created empty, then not starting an automatic getting messages, and only if I click on inbox folder or press the get messages button, just then, the getting messages and folders begin. Just something like say disable automatic getting messages when creating existing account.

Is there any way to make this?

Thank you for your time!

Asked by netad98 1 day ago

Last reply by netad98 20 hours ago

Get Messgaes

My Get Messages is grayed out, how do I fix? Not downloading messages I searched the answers for this and tried what was suggested and now the Mail Toolbar is completely … (read more)

My Get Messages is grayed out, how do I fix? Not downloading messages I searched the answers for this and tried what was suggested and now the Mail Toolbar is completely gone, the suggestion was to Restore Default setting and I did and now my Toolbar is completely gone

Asked by quiltjunkie2002 3 months ago

Last reply by quiltjunkie2002 16 hours ago

thunderbird scrollbar bug

It's a very minor point, still, I'd say that the scrollbar should top-out at the top of the inbox contents box, not include the 'Subject / Correspondents / Date ...' bar … (read more)

It's a very minor point, still, I'd say that the scrollbar should top-out at the top of the inbox contents box, not include the 'Subject / Correspondents / Date ...' bar as well, no?

Asked by rayandrews 1 week ago

Last reply by rayandrews 12 hours ago

Thunderbird sending problem, in connection with outlook.live.com

I have a hotmail.com address. Until recently, it worked well as webmail, plus also from TB on laptop, via IMAP and SMTP. A few days ago, the sending function via SMTP s… (read more)

I have a hotmail.com address. Until recently, it worked well as webmail, plus also from TB on laptop, via IMAP and SMTP.

A few days ago, the sending function via SMTP stopped working (not IMAP); and webmail is still fine. I've tried a lot to solve it, but to no avail.

My guess is that MS is to blame, but don't know how to reach someone better-than-hotline there.

Details see annex; OS is Win10, TB is 115.9

Would someone be familiar with this kind of problem? According to my traditional european quality idea, best should be to get in touch with an MS technician with access to the syslog, to hear what the system's response to connection attempts is - but this seems to be precluded? I wonder what alternatives there might be?

Asked by don.mitchel 1 week ago

Last reply by don.mitchel 1 hour ago

how can i replace thunderbird profile with an older profile that has all that i need

bold text4 or 5 years ago i simply synced TB and Firefox straight to my laptop from my desktop. Today it does not seem to work that way. Why has it gotten more complicate… (read more)

bold text4 or 5 years ago i simply synced TB and Firefox straight to my laptop from my desktop. Today it does not seem to work that way. Why has it gotten more complicated? I have all of my emails, address's and etc.saved profile and cannot seem to replace it. I tried the thunderbird.exe -p and it gets confusing there. Apparently it does not give one the option to replace profile like mine, but one can create one. I tried creating by entering my old Profile and it did not work. It says to use the Browse button which should bring you to the actual spot to add your profile. I do not see a 'Browser" button, but do see 2 separate folders buttons, but i do not know which to choose, if any. I have donated in the past when things were working smoothly, but discourged to add to it now with all these upgrade mess's. Like they say, "if it ain't broken, leave it alone..." s amd

Asked by Anthony 3 days ago

Last reply by Anthony 55 minutes ago

Thunderbird IMAP rescan all mails

Good afternoon. Tell me how to solve the problem that Thunderbird starts downloading all letters from the mailbox again every time after startup? After downloading all ma… (read more)

Good afternoon. Tell me how to solve the problem that Thunderbird starts downloading all letters from the mailbox again every time after startup? After downloading all mail it works fine, but after closing and reopening Thunderbird, all mail starts reloading repeatedly. I use IMAP, all settings are default and only new messages should be downloaded.

Asked by adreamtheme 33 minutes ago

Thunderbird 115.9.0 - all emails from all folders missing

After overnight automatic update to Thunderbird 115.9.0, all my emails are missing... inbox & local folders are visible, but all are empty... I'm running Windows 10..… (read more)

After overnight automatic update to Thunderbird 115.9.0, all my emails are missing... inbox & local folders are visible, but all are empty... I'm running Windows 10... with POP server... since the update, I received a couple of new emails in my inbox... I moved one of them to a local folder, where it also disappeared... Help please!

Asked by kbgoodtogo313 6 days ago

Last reply by kbgoodtogo313 6 days ago

Synchronize TB 'Sent' with outlook 'Sent items'

Dear all, I have set-up an outlook account on thunderbird, and I have troubles synchronizing the sent messages. I have: on outlook, a 'Sent Items' folder on TB, a… (read more)

Dear all,

I have set-up an outlook account on thunderbird, and I have troubles synchronizing the sent messages.

I have:

  • on outlook, a 'Sent Items' folder
  • on TB, a 'sent' folder, whose remote address point to imap://mailaddress@outlook.office365.com/Sent (which I can't change it seems)

So far:

  • when I send an email with TB, I obtain a 'save message error', but the message is sent and a copy is placed in outlook 'sent items'. And nothing shows up in TB 'sent folder'
  • when I send an email with outlook, it does not show up in TB 'Sent' folder

Hence, I have everything right on outlook, but all sent messages are missing in TB. How can I solve this, having 'Sent items' from outlook sync with 'Sent' of TB ?

Note: in TB 'account settings/copies and folders/, in place copy in, the sent items of outlook does not show up.

Thanks !

Asked by cyril.gadal 17 minutes ago