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That is the actual email that is has been sent, received, and saved. I don't want to lose it for legal reasons. Also will the address book sync with my Google contacts?

Suddenly getting must issue a STARTLS command first when sending emai to gmail.com account.

It does not happen on two other gmail accounts.

I removed and added the imap gmail account … still happens.

It works fine on inbound … only problematic on outbound email.

When change the imap setting to STARTTLS, inbound won't work.

Don't see any setting for outbound only setting.

In another question I received an answer to how to revert from beta to current version.

I realized I had another question somewhat related. When a problem occurs in beta, I know crash reports go in. Or are they going somewhere else?

I also know a report can be filed on bugzilla. I’ve done that and Felt like a spectator while everybody else fixed the problem.

Ought a person using beta not use this venue for such things?

Aggravations are fairly short lived with beta, I don’t mind if I am being helpful.

If I misunderstand and beta version is for “bug busters then I’m in wrong place.

And I need to revert.

AFter the most recent update (102.2.1), emails no longer show in my collapsed Inbox. I have to expand it and click on each individual email in order to see messages. Local folders display properly. This seems to have been the second update in a very short time. In the previous one, the list of emails displayed but the emails did not show up on the right side when clicked on.

I have been using Thunderbird with multiple POP accounts for about 15 years with few problems.

Since upgrading to the latest version, with was about a week ago, emails are downloaded again and again, for as long as they remain on the server, which is for most accounts 7 days.

I can see the emails are marked as read on the server (my host is X-10 Infinity and been using them for 4 years), but every time Thunderbird connects to the server, it downloads all the messages again.

My mailboxes are filling up with duplicate messages, sometimes 10+ copies of each one. I haven't changed any settings on the server or in Thunderbird, so not sure what is causing this.

If I click to Get Messages manually, Thunderbird only downloads 1 or 2 messages, if anything. But for some reason when the scheduled connect runs (for example: every 30 minutes) it seems to pull down all messages in the POP mailbox again and again.

Is there anything I can set or change to fix this please, or is this a bug you are working on?

I really don't want to change so I download messages from the server and delete them immediately rather than in 7 days as this allows me to have a backup in case my computer needs to have a re-install.

Thanks for any help. I'm sure I'm not alone with this problem.

Tony Payne

Hello, is there any way to sync settings/accounts etc with another computers? Have 2x work computers, 2x home computers and if I change something in thunderbird, it's really annoying to make changes in other computers too.

Any way to sync that please? Using latest thunderbird version.

Hi, really thank you for your great work.

1. My question

I observe that in other editors like VSCode, Sublime Text

If nothing is selected, and I press Ctrl+C, and Ctrl+X the current line would be copied/cut

meaning while in Thunderbird nothing is copied/cut.

※I write only text mail

1. My suggestion

Is it possible to implement this feature? Would be very convenient.

Lately I'm having trouble with my connection with outlook. I use a free outlook email address. Sometimes (not always) when starting Thunderbird, I get the "user authenticated but not connected" warning. After a while it's working again.

I have tried several settings but can't figure out what solves this issue.

I'm using port 993 / SSL/TLS and authentication method is set to normal password.

Most of the times this works.

When I switch to OAuth2, I get the Microsoft screen to login to my work / school account which I do not have.

I've search the web to find a solution for this but I can't find it. Hopefully someone can help me out because it drives me "nuts" ;)

I am unable to install add-ons for Thunderbird for my Chromebook that I have installed via the embedded Linux OS that's in Chromebook. Inside the app(Thunderbird), I go to addons.thunderbird.net and attempt to install an add-on and this box with this button inside it pops up and I have to click on that button to confirm installation of that add-on. Well, I try clicking on that button and nothing happens and that box doesn't go away. I enclosed a screenshot to give you an idea of what I'm talking about.

Changed my gmail password for security refresh on one of my gmail accounts, have been accessing gmail account in TBird for last couple of years with no probs, now I can't get TBird to connect to my gmail account. Have gone through all the posts, screenshots, videos; settings are all correct for Outgoing & Incoming servers, OAuth2, SSL/TLS, password, etc. Keep getting a pop up Google window asking for email address & p/w, the info is entered, but then keep getting a "Secure connection failed" error message. Note, I have 2 gmail accounts in TBird, but only changed the password on one of the accounts. Both gmail accounts have their own separate credentials. Now both gmail accounts are exhibiting the same prob, cannot access my gmail accounts using TBird, getting the "Secure connection failed" error. I even disabled my vpn, Microsoft Defender AV & Firewall, still failed. I removed one of the gmail accounts & then tried adding it back into TBird, all went well except get same connection to gmail error. I shut down TBird & restarted it, same prob. I cannot find the prob, this one has me, probably something simple, assistance needed, thank you.

I think at some point I was able to send a private message. Or maybe it was just a reply to a private message that was sent to me. I remember something about clicking on a person's picture.

Thanks is advance for yoiur help. SweetTasha

I am using TB version 102.7.2 on Win10 latest update. I use the preview function in Thunderbird to that I can read an email without opening it. I can't forward or reply to a message without opening the message. Instead, TB tries to forward or reply to the last opened message. This appears to have changed in one of the latest TB updates. I can't find a Tools option to change this. Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I don't care about synchronizing with Google or other email clients, just across my devices that have Thunderbird. IE, I want all of my address book entries to automatically synch when I add/delete/modify entries across all of my devices where I have Thunderbird installed.

Thanks! Mark

Ever since the message display pane has changed, I have had intermittent issues with knowing if there are attachments to an email, both incoming and ensuring that an outgoing email included attachments. In the classic view, these show up in a pane at the bottom, while in the current "new" display pane, if a message is attached, one has to scroll all the way to the bottom, and sometimes even then it is not present until after I have opened the message in classic view. Likewise, the paper clip icon sometimes does not show an attachment until after I have opened the email in classic view or I have scrolled to the bottom in the "new" view and observed there is an attachment. Is there any way to restore the classic view as my default? I am currently using TB 102.7.2.

V111.0b2

I can't find my other mailboxes. When I open it, one of my mailboxes opens in a tab and the left pane where all of my mailboxes used to be visible only shows this one mailbox and all of its folders.

TB 102.8.0 has stopped showing headings for all read emails that were there before TB 102.8.0 was installed. How do I see the headings again? Doing a search shows that the emails are still there.

I always had notification of unread emails on the Dock of my Mac, but this does not work anymore. I am running 102.9.0 (64 bit). I have seen other posts on this, but no credible answers as to why it has ceased to function and what is being done to fix it?

Everything on my Mac used to have System Preferences for Apps and now even Thunderbird seems to be 'Settings' which is not as easily usable or as well organised as, System Preferences used to be.

It strikes me that more and more computer Apps are suffering from more work all the time in order to use an App by virtue of having to click on more and more menus all the time and using up more and more time, which is not particularly creative.