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Yahoo requires IMAP which is me (*user*@frontier.com)

Thunderbird instructions direct me to server settings where 'leave a copy of messages on server, and for how many days' does not appear.

I am unable to set up Thunderbird to use bellsouth.net email. I get username, password, or configuration no good, or something like that, which is basically no help at all. I enter username, email address, and password. It's all good until I press DONE, at which point it "checks password" until the no go message comes up. Win11, new Dell desktop. I can't fix this. If you can, please tell me how. Thanks -- Paul.

After updating to latest Thunderbird, when I display a received message, the "From:" address has my email account and not who it is from; along with a YELLOW Notation band at the bottom of the message that says "A unique identity matching the from address was not found. The message will be sent using the current From field and settings from identity John Kirkpatrick <jpkirkpatrick@earthlink.net...." The email message is then displayed in what appears to be an email missing the Remote Detail. Why is this being done and how can I just get my Normal Email Display back? </p>

Going through every setting I found the hot-keys "CTRL=O" will open the message in a new tab with the normal Remote Information like it used to do before updating. How can I get that to be the default display of the emails in their list table? Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide. John Kirkpatrick [ jpkirkpatrick@earthlink.net ]

Is there any way to sort or change the order of Calendars? I had to re-add Google Calendars and they’re in an even stupider order than last time.

Is the only way to add them one by one?

A new problem since July 1, 2024 Thunderbird keeps crashing on start-up when checking for new mail. HELP!! Crash ID: bp-e8be7291-7fe9-41c0-bd21-45d860240702

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Current OS is Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon, and until October 2024 I've successfully used Thunderbird for years without issue.

I can reliably receive and view messages, but after carefully checking all IMAP & STMP server settings, remain unable to send any outgoing messages for past couple of weeks.

I do not own a mobile phone to be able to receive temporary codes or do any type of two-step authentication.

When attempting to send messages, here are the repeated error messages leading to endless loop that eventually times out:

Login to account "Microsoft" failed Login to server smtp.office365.com with username xxxx@outlook.com failed.

Send Message Error Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.office365.com timed out. Try again.

Send Message Error Sending of the message failed. Unable to authenticate to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.office365.com. Please check the password and verify the 'Authentication method' in 'Account Settings | Outgoing server (SMTP)'.

Current Server Settings:

IMAP Mail Server outlook.office365.com Port 993 xxxx@outlook.com SSL/TLS OAuth2

Default Outgoing Server (Microsoft) smtp.office365.com Port 587 xxxx@outlook.com STARTTLS OAuth2

No so-called 'solutions' that are currently online have any effect. What do you suggest? Thanks!

The curse of the behemoth yet again? I refer to the ‘new’ imposition imposed by Microsoft with their ‘new’ authorisation and authentification nonsense when attempting to log in to account/s via Thunderbird. Why this is necessary when it is possible to log in via the usual manner direct is any body’s guess. My personal opinion is that it is a sordid and underhannd way of forcing us to subscribe to Outlook 365? Cynical me? For numerous reasons I need and use 6 e-mail accounts, sadly all Microsoft (outlook.com, hotmail.com. .co.uk and last but not least live.com). No need to explain why the excellent Thunderbird is used and has been for nigh on 15 years+. Over the past couple of months I have tried every conceivable configuration supplied by the support team and other poor users in the same position as me. None have solved my problem. I surely cannot be alone? I do not object to change if it is of benefit but this is madness. For the time being Thunderbird is redundant and the daily grind of signing in individually via Microsoft faces me everyday. Both time consuming and arguably pointless. If someone has a definitive solution please let me know. There must be one?

Hi, I messed up my first email account creation with Thunderbird where I can't see any local emails and my server inbox is now empty (had +200 emails in there). I am in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Here is what I did: 1- went into my server mail and moved every folder emails into my inbox

2- created my Thunderbird POP3 using the automatic process

   - said to delete emails after being downloaded

3- once created I wanted to create a personnalized folder this account (I have another email to do the same thing). I was pointing to a specific folder before I created a new one: ~/snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird/b*.default I pointed it to ~/snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird/f*

• • • can't remember if these were called profile location or something else. Please explain the purpose of it and when should we need to change it.

4- I went into my mail window and noticed Thunderebird Inbox being empty. I went back to my server inbox and it was also empty. I did not know why nothing was downloaded. I tried using the Get Mail a few times but nothing was happening. Tried to look for Synch something option but could not find any

5- I checked both folders above and saw the default one had tons of stuff why the second one had almost nothing. So I figured that before I had chosen the 2nd folder location, my inbox must have been downloaded into the default one.

6- tried in the console to copy the whole content of the first folder to the second one. I think I restarted at that point, not sure. But in the email list window there was "history.sqlite" listed instead of inbox and "minidumps" below it.

7- I added an import addon, imported the b*.default folder into a 3 one I created, had chosen Offline and restarted. Now in the email window nothing was showing up. I tried Get Mail but it said I needed to get off the Offline mode. I unchecked Working Offline in the File menu but still nothing.

If I do a Thunderbird restart, it asks me which of the 3 profiles I want to start Thunderbird with. If I chose the default one, it shows the history.sqlite and minidumps folders. If I chose the 2nd one I created, it has the same content. If I chose the 3rd one I created with the import, it brings me up to the step where I can create a Thunderbird email account.

Now I have no idea what to do. I still believe all my 200+ emails are in the b*.default folder but how to I switch back to it?

Please tell me I did not loose all those 200+ emails !!!

I have just contacted you and you have responded - that you will reply within 2 working days. I have had the problem for 21 days and I am desperate for a resolution!! Please can you help me quicker????

I'm running for quite a time Thunderbird on Windows up to Win11 without any problem. For about 3 years I'm using the same TB profile in dual boot environment with Linux Mint (v21 until last week and now version 22). I understood why I didn't get access from Linux side after the latest TB update in Windows as obviously the file structure and other things had changed to make it incompatible to elder versions.

However, as Linux is now my normal working environment, I've tried it again after upgraded my system to Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon 6.2.9 , kernel 6.8.0-44-generic and failed again, having the same error message when starting the profile: "Thunderbird is already running, but not responding. To use Thunderbird, you must first close the existing process, restart your device, ore use a different profile. "sudo killall Thunderbird" didn't find a running process.

I've tried importing everything in a new profile, which worked (more or less), but failed with all attempts getting access to my local profile. A local profile appears after importing but contains no data, trying to import its data separately doesn't trigger any error message when just ticking "E-Mail", but nothing is imported. When ticking "E-Mail" and "Settings", I'm getting a red alert that asks me to look into the error console which doesn't help either.

What can I do ????

I could add my google calendars to thunderbird. However I can't invite attendees to an appointment. After I send an invitation, nothing happens. In the invitation Window, the checkbock for notification is greyed. How can I fix this? I even used the provider for google calendar.

I would like to have my search bar in the all address book, and other address books, search for the city, state, zip code, or word that i have in the contact data. i can't put everything in the nickname space, which it will look up! Thank you

Thunderbird shows me a Google login box for an account (@sidly.org) that I don't have in Thunderbird. I had one, used it, but removed all its details from the incoming and outgoing mail server settings. Nowhere in Thunderbird is there any more information about this account (@sidly.org) and the window still appears. Uninstalling and reinstalling has not helped. I would be grateful if you could point out where I can EFFECTIVELY remove this account information and why it still appears.

I've never knowingly installed a non-mainline thunderbird, but earlier this week I started getting the following when I open Thunderbird:

This is an unsupported version of Thunderbird!! Thunderbird monthly releases are not considered stable for general use. Use at your own risk, this build is the same quality as Thunderbird Beta.

Checking the version of thunderbird.exe It says its v131, which happens to be the same as the copy of Firefox installed. When I remove and reinstall Thunderbird it starts off as 128 but quickly changes to 131, even after uninstalling Firefox. (Also annoyingly, this stomps on the version in the profile, which 128 claims is no longer compatible, because Thunderbird isn't clever enough to save a copy of files when it makes "breaking" changes to user files)

I wouldn't being on 131 if actually worked, but it gets stuck in the handshake with my IMAP server, and doesn't even show the local folder caches. (It also for some reason shows the window controls on left side of the window title bar, rather than the right).

How can I restore standard functionality?

Since yesterday I have Thunderbird nebula 128.2.3esr on my Windows 10. But I cannot find my calendar and the new left sidebar isn't available, but only a little button on the left upper corner with seven button without function. I've tried a lot, I cannot find any description about a same failure in the Internet.

Opening a message in Thunderbird i get this instead of the contents of the message --Apple-Mail-8B93079C-6931-440C-A880-44533077DD28-- The message comes in clearly in GMAIL. Why is this happening.

I just bought a new computer and installing all the programs, of which is Tbird. The old one shows my prefered view, which includes the columns: (Subject; Read; Correspondents; Junk; Date; Attachment; and starred.)

I just downloaded the newest version of Tbird and installed it on the new computer. I am almost done copying settings, but I cannot get the new computer to let me "view" the columns. I cannot find that setting - and BOTH of the computers show version 128.3.1esr(64-bit). I have searched all of the forums, and everything that is posted about displaying the columns - so up-to-date at 2017. UG! (SO annoying that information on the web is out of date and never updated or eliminated when software or procedures change, only to make the searcher - me - wasting tons of time looking at worthless information! No, this is not just you. It is everything on the web - so much out of date information.)

Thanks for your help. I really want my columns back. (It really helps in doing searches when you use them to quickly sort by clicking on the column).

Error message: Calendars currently disabled., Enable Calendar. Not intuitive or user friendly. How to enable calendar? Search help, support, no information? Would expect to find in settings, or tools, but not there. Where is the secret hidden?

Is there any way to restore the "bring to front" option? It's been gone for … maybe a year now, maybe longer. I still have muscle memory for it but all I get is an annoying 'plunk' sound.

Why did Thunderbird eliminate it, anyway?

thanks, Pete