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I was in the process of searching my files to attach one to an email when the attachment window suddenly expanded from approx 50% of the screen to almost full screen and I can find no way to reset it. I can see the sideand bottom edges of the window, and move the expand/contract arrow on the cursor to these sides and the bottom corners, but it does not operate, and there is no button to minimise or adjust it. I have just checked and it is operating perfectly fine on both Firefox and the main Thunderbird window, and email viewing windows. Is this a change to the program settings - it appears to only apply to the "Attach" setting - viewing attachments and emails are as they always were.

I dropped by to see if I replies to a query about Thunderbird. Sometimes the options to Login wouldn't let me in, it kept going to "Como colaborar" that went to a Page with mixed English and Portuguese, another page had mixed Spanish, Portuguese and English.

After a lot of translating, I made it my login. Wow! And my day has just begun. :) ~r

I transferred Win 7 Thunderbird Profile (TB)to a Windows machine. It left behind all the other settings, such as when picking up/sending email, passwords are required at the IP to login, get email/send email.

QUESTION: Is there another TB area where the passwords are stored so I can copy those over to the new computer.

I posted this about a week ago, and when I come back, it's gone. That's why I am repeating myself.

A long timer ago, I was told by a user that Thunderbird does not need passwords. It does if you what to get your email. They are setting for each email user. There are 34 under the one TB.

I hope there is a transferable file because changing all the passwords and preference for each account would be the hard way.

I appreciate your taking the time to read this,

~r

Hello, when I start Thunderird, it appears for a few seconds and then a window pops up saying that a crash has been detected. I've already tried reinstalling the program, creating new profiles, entering Safe Mode, etc. Restoring an older profile from a backup doesn't help, and the error remains the same.

I tried transferring data from the old profile to the new one (a new, clean profile doesn't cause the error), but unfortunately, the data isn't visible in the program, along with the pgp keys and everything else. Manually editing prefs.js using chatgpt didn't help.

What else can I do?

1 How can the list "recent folders" in the icon "store in" be sorted alphabetically? (sorry, my version of Thunderbird speaks German) It used to be alphabetically, but now is sorted chronologically.

2 I cordially suggest to add a function exactly like this one, but with item at my own disposal (maybe the favorite folders).

Thanks, Martin

Hello - When I logged into my email this moring a vast majority of my emails from previous days and in my filed emails are gone. Is there a way to get them back? Not sure what could have happened. Any assistance is appreciated!!! Thank you.

My Windows 11 laptop became corrupted and the os had to be reinstalled with Microsoft's help. In the midst of all this I did not think of backups sadly. After the restore I started to put my apps back on and without thinking, I installed Thunderbird. I realized immediately my mistake when I saw only new email and no local folders.

The Windows restore created a windows.old directory and I see my profile and configuration files in it. I want to use those old files but I don't know where to copy them exactly. There is some confusion on my part about where the startup is happening for Thunderbird. I really need to have access to all my old mail and local folders.

I'd appreciate any help in this matter. Thanks, Sue

Thunderbird 140.6.0esr (64-bit) does not highlight the open message in the list. There is no indication of which message in the list I'm currently viewing, the it used to be. I like to have that instant recognition.

Hey guys,

I am relatively new to Thunderbird but I love it so far but...

Second time this has happened and I figured this time its time to fix this correctly.

So emails just vanished in my inbox. Items still in sent and trash and other sub-folders.

I can't tell you exactly the last thing I was doing. But it was either message filtering or deleting unnecessary emails. Then I clicked on another folder and when I moved back to inbox everything was gone. Checked the filter and seems in order.

Everything is still on the host server. How to I recover the emails from the host back to my computer because as far as thunderbird is concerned its already downloaded those email.

Emails are run as POP.

certains titres de ma messagerie sont en anglais pourquoi corbeille= trash envoyé = send etc....comment tout mettre en francais

Some of my email subject lines are in English, why is "corbeille" = trash, "envoie" = send, etc.? How can I change everything to French?

I am using an email server that currently is using certificates that have expired. That problem is being worked on. In the meantime, whenever I access the server to open a folder, I get a pop-up notification telling me that the certificate has expired. I go ahead and confirm the security exception and check the box to permanently store the exception. Trouble is this ISN'T being persisted, when I open a different folder I have to go through this process again in order to access my emails in that folder.

Me thinks you got a bug in your software Kemosabe!

I think after an update one of my emails no longer received or would send. The webmail for the account still worked and no change on the account. I use Thunderbird because I can see and read multiple email accounts on one page in the one program. I decided to put into Thunderbird the same email account with the correct password. I removed connections for the old account but still left all the past emails in the inbox. The new account receives emails but I can not reply or send out. To reply I have to change email accounts which is confusing for the receiver and also replies are in the wrong sent box. It used to be easy to adjust the settings including passwords words (which one my need to do frequently). Can someone tell be how I can fix the settings for outgoing emails. I have at present 3 email accounts with the service provider Telstra and 3 gmail accounts (the latter are OK at present)

Thunderbird 140.6.0esr (64-bit) "On Linux LMDE 6" 64 bit, on an Intel platform. An HP small format desktop, using two screens.

I see this issue (below) when receiving digest mail from groups.io See the hopefully attached image. If that didnt come through, I can send you a whole screenshot if needed.

The issue is that the first line is correct. The "sender" is the group "linuxham" and is a mail digest message. The second line "Thunderbird 2025: A Year in Review" is correct.

However.. The third line from the UKMicrowaves group, another groups.io group configured to use "Digest Delivery" mode, is shown as coming from "[edited] @groups.io" Misleading at best! (It is always the linuxham group details that is used, regardless of which group has sent the digest.)

The last two lines are correct.

I see this on all groups.io group mail where what comes to me is in the form of a "Digest" (so as not to flood my inbox.) Does T'Bird handle "Digest" mails differently to one-to-one mails?

This odd labeling of the "Correspondents" started some time ago as a result of a past T'Bird update, but prior to that update, was not an issue. I have "Many" groups.io groups I'm a member of.

Sorry but it's taken me this long to find out how to submit this info and ask the question.

I'd love for this to be fixed, and am willing to test any trial version(s) that may be needed, and/or to provide any other needed system info that would help. I am contactable on [edited from public] @googlemail.com

Oh... I made "Many" attempts over the last year or three to setup a "Mozilla" account to report this, but I now know "Mozilla" has renamed to just "Moz". Sadly, "Moz account creds" are not accepted! to login here.

By accident I found that a Google ID works. Pity that was not sorted some time ago, else I could have reported this sooner. (Better presentation on the T'bird support initial web page would help with such confusion, or is this intentional to filter out lame questions? And lower support costs! I know of others who implement such! ;-)

Anyway, thanks for seemingly letting me in at last. Much appreciated from a long time Thunderbird user of "Many years".

Even with the above wrinkle, it's far the best mail client out there I find. True "Cross Platform" too. (Though I found the Android offering rather "clunky" at best.)

Thanks Again.

Yours...

Dave or G8KBV, yes a "Ham"...

Have TB on my laptop (146.0.1 (64-bit) on Win11) all set up the way I want it. Would like to "clone" those settings/profiles to my desktop. AI site said, "Copy profiles folder and profiles.ini to the new machine." Didn't work. Asking me to set up from scratch. Laptop is on "standard" edition, think desktop is on beta. Is that the problem? What do I need to do?

I don't know if something has changed since the last time I downloaded a .ics file into thunderbird or not.

I used to be able to load a .ics file directly into 'events' in my calendar. But something has changed. When I download the file now it gives it the name "Zul52mNeovl5. Which happens to be the name of the file I'm downloading from. So now I have 3 options of where to put the file - Events, Tasks or this filename. I can't find this file anywhere on my computer. How do I get rid of it?

Any Help would be appreciated.

Thanks