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The following is a simplified representation of my Thunderbird (128.6.0esr (64-bit)) setup for controlling emails in my gmail account. Each account contains many emails and my plan was to transfer many of them to "Local Folders"

Local Folders (on external USB with over 16TB free space)

  Drafts        
  Junk               (empty)
  Trash
  Outbox           (empty)
  All Mail
     > Companies

... ...

     > ZEBRA-2
     Spam	  

abcxxx@gmail.com (on PC with limited free space)

  Inbox	  
     > Acquisitions

... ...

     > ZEBRA-1
     Drafts
     Sent Mail
     All Mail
     Spam
     Trash
     Important
     Starred 	  

I created filters for "Local Folders" and another set of filters for "abcxxx@gmail.com". These filters indeed send emails to the proper location. However, "All Mail" recovers the emails that are transfered and thus is unchanged (after some delay for the recovery process).

How can I setup Thunderbird such that the emails that are successfully filtered to the different accounts will be deleted from their "All Mail" folders?

Since I joined Mozilla Thunderbird, I have been inundated with hundreds of unwanted emails. I cannot unsubscribe from this company. The company that is sending all the unwanted emails has a web address as follows: www.neptunemarkwater.com

How can I stop these unwanted emails? They are ruining the enjoyment I thought I would enjoy by joining your email site.

In the past I was able to create a list, give it a name (Current Events). To address my group I put "Current in the "To" box and all my group emails would be addressed. It doesn't work any more. What happened?

I have bought a new PC, and after installing the app, I cannot create the account.

My account bente@medusa.dk is running on my iPhone.

I have tried a lot to create a new password - but to no avail so far.

Can you please help?

You can contact me on bente@medusa.dk or jh@medusa.dk as I can read mails on both.

Kind regards Bente

I couldn't find this in any forum (other than some very old threads that are no longer applicable or relevant), and I couldn't find an extension/add-on that does that either (or rather, I did find one, but it's discontinued and not compatible with current Thunderbird), but I want to store only the plain-text part of multipart messages (text + HTML) that I receive, deleting the HTML part.

The reason for this is that I need to save disk space. I'm a digital hoarder, and I archive every relevant email message I receive (I only don't store spam that escapes through the cracks and reaches me, and such disposable messages as 2FA login codes and the like). I have several sound reasons to do that, but old messages have been useful to me as reference countless times. I have about 86,000 emails stored, sorted into a variety of message folders by topic, correspondent, etc. Some date as far back as 1996, having survived lots of account, email client, and hardware migrations through diligent backups and restores.

This results in a very large disk usage, and I must minimize it, for both space itself and backup time reasons. And the difference in size can be dramatic. Just one newsletter that I'm subscribed to sends me 3-4 messages a day, of which I'll probably keep two, but each full message is about 120–150 kB. Stripped of the HTML (and still totally readable and functional), that drops to just 10–12 kB. Now multiply that difference by the volume in one year.

I'm testing and evaluating Thunderbird to replace my current email client, which is excellent and designed for power users, but also very buggy, they're slow to fix the bugs, and this is getting on my nerves. That's why I'm looking for an alternative, and so far, Thunderbird is doing an excellent job in ticking off the list of features I need (and passed my message import tests from the old mailer with flying colors), except for this one feature, which can be a dealbreaker.

Any suggestions? Thank you very much in advance.

I have 3 calendars in my Lightning calendar interface. Two are stored locally, one is labeled "Home", the other is "Recurring". I also have a Google calendar named "Shared". I can create and save events into any of these calendars and I can move events between calendars using the context-click "Edit". But if I receive an invite in email, when I accept it I am offered only the choice of "Home" and "Recurring". I cannot save it to "Shared". When I open the event, I am not offered a choice of calendar. I believe in the past I could accept invites into the "Shared" google calendar, but I might be wrong about that.

128.6.0esr (64bit) on Win11

We had 3 e-mail accounts in Thunderbird with the domain name sbcglobal.net. We've had these for years. They stopped working about a month ago. We can't install these in Thunderbird. It hangs up when in comes to check the password. The password is exactly the same as the one at AT&T. We love using Thunderbird because all e-mails are in one place. Hope you can help.

Jim

I am receiving the following error message on a Win 11 desktop running Thunderbird 128.6.0.esr (64 bit): "The folder '[Gmail]/Trash on my.fr33.email@gmail.com' could not be compacted because writing to the folder failed. Verify that you have enough disk space, and that you have write privileges to the file system, then try again." I do not have a folder [Gmail]/Trash on the gmail server. I also do not get this error on other Thunderbird clients running Win 10 or Win 11. I also do NOT get the error when I manually compact the my.fr33.email account, either at the account level or at the Gmail folder level. Once I acknowledge the error the system seems to run normally until is wants to automatically compact folders. Any suggestions will be appreciated. -- John Randle Knoxville, TN

Thunderbird 128.6.0esr (64 bit) can obtain access to my Google Calendar and Contacts but not to email. This is a clean installation on a brand new Windows 11 computer. I have reinstalled Thunderbird three times, deleted saved passwords, deleted only the SMTP and IMAP saved passwords (preserving OAuth2 passwords), deleted Thunderbird's access in Gmail security settings to force it to re-request access, followed every instruction on every forum and help page I can find, but Thunderbird refuses to send and receive mail. Thunderbird finds the correct configuration and sets it up (correct ports, IMAP, SMTP, correct servers, OAuth2, etc.) I used my Gmail address and the same password as I use for webmail.

I am presently using Outlook for Gmail because it connected immediately using the same credentials as I am trying with Thunderbird. When I delete access permission in Gmail security settings, then add Gmail to Thunderbird again, it prompts for access to Contacts and Calendar but not to mail (one time it flashed a screen saying it could not because Java is not enabled in my web browser--but Java is enabled on both my default browser, Edge, and on Chrome; the page that came up appears to be some internal browser in Thunderbird).

The attached images show the configurations for IMAP server, the SMTP server, and that the saved passwords contain two OAuth2 URLs, one for contacts and the other for the calendar, but nothing for mail.

I have been using Thunderbird for years, and have a massive archive of emails in it, would really like to use it as my email client rather than Outlook. Installation and configuration has never been this difficult. Does anybody have any thoughts on what to do next?

error message Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges, and yu have enough disk space to copy the mailbox.

I HAVE PLENTY OF SPACE. Can't find the instructions to make sure I have privileges, not sure why I need to change anything since it is my account??? Please help me!