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Later this week I'll need to copy a bunch of old emails to someone (some of them received by me and some sent by me). Does Thunderbird have such a feature or is the easiest way to print them on paper and resort to snail mail?

Please / Thanks -

How does one add additional fonts to Thunderbird for use in composing email messages?

Appreciate.

OTHER: Someone needs to revise and update this form! "Thunderbird version" (below) now prohibits inputting the complete length of Thunderbird's version; limits to "18 characters"; version is now 20 characters. Website input forms that have unrealistic character limitations really irritate me.

I've had a POP3 account for years, with no problem. On a second computer I had a second TB installation that used to get its emails from a folder on the main computer. This suited our purposes very well. The second user could access all my e-mails, and her sent messages also appeared on my computer.

Alas I updated TB, and have lost this capability. Ideally I'd go back to it, but the only way forward seems to be to set up an IMAP account. I have tried this, following the instructions on the Mozilla web site. It's all very easy, but I end up with a message: "Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email server".

I have of course checked that the settings are correct, but I can't get past this point. I have tried disabling my Internet Security (Bitdefender) but to no avail.

What should I do next, please? I'd go back to an earlier version of TB if that would enable my older method of working.

I have an old(er) Thunderbird file - we were not able to get the system running so we just plugged in the hard drive and zipped it (not with Thunderbird, just zipped the raw files - see attached) and I have tried all three methods that Gemini spit out to me (#3 looks like what I have seen on the forums here) and the bext I can do is get the first message to pop up (out of about 500+) and can't see the others. Using Thunderbird on the new machine and also tried the ImportNG tool as well. I can't loose this collection, very important. Although the old machine does not work, I still have access to the hard drive if I need more "stuff" off of it. Not sure what the old version of Thunderbird was but the box was last used in Jan 2019 and setup originally around 2008. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Hello, in my version of Thunderbird (140.11.1esr (64-bit)) on Windows, attachments appear at the bottom of the message. However, I would like the attachment bar to appear at the top of the email: how can I do this?

Kind regards, Inès

I've been using Thunderbird for years but suddenly as of yesterday it's stopped receiving messages. First it told me my password was incorrect. Ever since then when I try to click "Get Messages," it simply has no response at all. Nothing happens. I went into my Thunderbird password settings, and upon seeing that the incoming-message password had for some reason reverted to an old, obsolete password, I corrected it and saved the correct one. I've checked several times and the passwords are correctly saved now. But this did not fix the problem. When I click "Get Messages," nothing happens. My Thunderbird is connected to my Earthlink account, which is working fine. When I go into Earthlink, I am able to send and receive messages as normal. So the problem is not with Earthlink but with Thunderbird.

Couple months back had to restore computer. Wouldn't let me add my POP gmail account, said had to use IMAP. POP was no longer accepted or something to that effect. So I got IMAP set up. (Of course, I did save my old POP folder with some messages in it.) Ever since setting up the IMAP folder I only get maybe 30 messages each morning. Never more. Which is no way right. I've googled and tweeked the synchronization/storage settings and the server settings. Nothing works. I'll spend hours googling suggestions and trying them, then get frustrated and move on. Then a week or so later I go thru it all again. Nothing changes!! Still only get the very few emails each morning. About 30 or so minutes after the initial download of messages, I'll get a pop up saying imap connection lost. This is SO frustrating. I have no idea what to try next. I never had this kind of issue with any of my POP accounts. Any suggestions? I've probably already tried them but will certainly give it another try. Thanks! Lynn

[I was sure I submitted this but I can't find it. Sorry if it's a dupe.} Thunderbird v. 151.0 (64-bit) Windows 10

When I reply to or forward a message, I get raw code like:

> ad that says: Mary gets us <https://click.ngpvan.com/

> k/132163625/623609951/778722144?refcode=LOC_EM_FR_2026.05.27_peltola-

> split_B1_F1_S1_C1_60DO90DC120DD_N-

> T0&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9OR1AvTkdQMTkvMS83MjcyMiIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZCI6ICJlYTIyODEwZS1kYzU5LWYxMTEtOGZjYi0wMDBkM2ExODkwNWMiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXNzIjogImhvb2V5Z29vQGdtYWlsLmNvbSINCn0%3D&hmac=FH6VuhfY9AcHmAdMj2RHECp0IpRhxQHb41JBnp34fM0=>

>

How can I get just the normal readable text quoted (Gmail-style)?

TIA

Hi everyone!

I'm trying to log into my email account on the domain example.com via SMTP. The email account is with yandex.ru. When I try to authenticate, it says the SMTP password is incorrect. I decided to try through Outlook, and it worked. What could be the issue?

I am using Thunderbird email client for past 3 yrs and have been keeping it updated on regular basis. The present updated release is 151.0.1

Yesterday all 3 of my IMAP emails accounts stopped downloading emails. There was a red marked 97% IMAP quota used message in the right bottom about 3 days back which is not visible now.

Is this problem related to this issue? If yes, what's the solution to resolve and start using Thunderbird?

BRegs, Pankaj

I had to log in this morning, the first time as its automatic, and when i did all my folders and emails have gone. Where are they as there is important information in there which i need. The page layout is different too as i can't delete anything. HELP

I opened Thunderbird 140.9.1esr from flatpak on Debian 12 and today I noticed a message that says: "Flatpak ESR application ID change We're switching the Flatpak ESR application ID from org.mozilla.Thunderbird to org.mozilla.thunderbord_esr."

1. How does Thunderbird know it's flatpak name is changing? How do i turn off all auto updates including checking things like flatpak name changing?

I am new to Thunderbird, and attempting to use it as my email client. So far I have imported my main Gmail account, a second Gmail account, as well as three different Microsoft accounts. There is a duplicate Spam folder on one of the Exchange accounts, which I assume came with the import. There is, however, no way to delete the Spam folder from the original MS account. None of the other accounts has this issue, although when I had duplicate Trash folders on Gmail accounts earlier, I was able to delete them from the original account, which allowed them to disappear from TB. The Spam messages in TB actually only populate into one of the Spam folders. Any ideas what else I can do to get rid of this superfluous Spam folder, please? Many thx for any help!

I used to be able to drag and drop emails from my inbox into an archive folder. That no longer works. I now have to right click the email, select "move to", then select the account containing the archives, then select "archives", then select the destination archive I need to send it to. On the right click drop-down there's an option to "move to *** again" but if you're moving emails to different archive destinations, that's not very helpful. Is there a setting to reinstate drag and drop?

PRELUDE: I have several email accounts. All accounts display properly, except one. Yes, this is similar to my question about bottom of the far left [of emails] list of emails - but this is different.

On the far left of Thunderbird is a list of all my email accounts with "Inbox" etcetera. Each email account shows it's Inbox/Sent/Deleted/ except for 1 account. The problem email account only shows it's Title and Inbox northing else. Yes, I tested it and sent emails to it, and used the problem email account to send, create a draft, and they don't show..

The image explains it.

Thanks for reading this ~r

I have a client who has been using Thunderbird for years - in the last couple of weeks when doing his normal scan to email he is suddenly getting this error message, after filling in the email details and clicking send

"Sending of the message failed - there was an error attaching xyz.PDF. Please check that you have access to the file"

Process is... 1. do a Scan to Email via the Brother printer console panel 2. Scan completes and opens the TB new email message - File saves into the default folder \pictures\cc4\email 3. Fill in the recipient, subject and message body 4. Click send message in TB 5. Error above is presented

I can open the the attachment within Thunderbird to check it and it opens just fine - the scanned file is actually there... But click the send button and that error is presented.

I can fix it by removing the attachment and reattaching manually from the email folder where scan is saved.

When I try it myself (remote support), either via the brother CC4 app or getting client to trigger the scan to email, it often works, but invariably he calls back after his next scan to email and it is broken again...

Scans were saving to a Onedrive folder originally, moved the save location back to the standard user/pictures/cc4 folder assuming Onedrive may have been interfering, but it is still behaving the same.

Anyone have any clues what might be going on here? The brother software seems to be doing what it is supposed to. I have reinstalled both the Brother software and Thunderbird with no change... Windows updates maybe?

In the interim I have him doing scan to file and attaching manually, but would be nice to get this sorted for him...

its an Acer laptop running Windows 11 pro 25H2, TB version was 150.0.2 originally but still doing the same on the latest 151.0 that I installed two days ago

Thanks for reading... any help appreciated

I have marked it as Not Junk multiple times, reset my settings to NOT use adaptive Junk, added my address books to the exception list, removed junk history, and none of it has worked. Help!