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Entsprechend der Einstellungen sollte erkannte Junk Mail aus dem Junk Ordner nach einem Tag gelöscht werden (wie es auch in der Thunderbird-Anleitung beschrieben ist und wie es in der Vergangenheit auch war). Aber die Junk Mail wird seit einem der letzten Updates (z.Zt. 138.0.2) nur in den Papierkorb verschoben, statt daß sie gelöscht wird ... - was aus meiner Sicht keinen Sinn macht. Wie kann man diesen Makel beheben? Danke im voraus für jeden Hinweis.

According my settings the junk mails in junk folder should be deleted after one day. But - instead of deleting these junk mails - the junk mails just move to trash folder (which then must be cleared manually) - absolutely nonsense !! My thunderbird version 138.0.2 - before update to this current version, the junk mails have been DELETED (!!) according my settings and NOT moved to trash

Hallo,

ich bekomme beim Starten von Thunderbird (bzw. beim Anklicken der Taskleisten-Verknüpfung) folgende Fehlermeldung:

„Diese Anwendung konnte nicht gestartet werden, da die Side-by-Side-Konfiguration ungültig ist. Weitere Informationen finden Sie im Anwendungsereignisprotokoll. Weitere Details können auch mit dem Befehlszeilentool sxstrace.exe angezeigt werden.“

Ich nutze Windows 10. Thunderbird wurde möglicherweise gelöscht oder ist beschädigt. Wie kann ich den Fehler beheben?

Danke für eure Hilfe!

I have visual issues and cannot read thin text. I am trying to set up a Windows machine where it defaults to thin text. Yes, both Windows and Thunderbird allow users to increase font size and scaling, but I don't have enough screen size. It's much more helpful to increase font weight, and only somewhat increase some font sizes.

I already have /* Global UI font */

• { font-family: Andika !important; }
• { font-size: 12pt !important; }
• {font-weight: bolder !important;}

Which makes the message list good and bold, and

1. threadTree tr[data-properties~="unread"] {

color: red !important; }

Which distinguishes unread messages.

But for whatever reason, the fix doesn't extend to the messages or the settings page.

I have looked in the support section and find the suggested articles confusing so this is what I am trying to accomplish.

I wish all messages stored and deleted on Thunderbird to be reflected on the gmail server. So ... if I delete a message in Thunderbird that will be automatically deleted on the gmail server. Easy. I guess this is settings. But the challenge is which settings to play with.

If it is relevant ... I have many folders set up on the Thunderbird client which are not on the gmail server.

Any help really welcome.

Running Thunderbird 140.0.1esr (64bit) on Windows 11 Dell desktop.

Have had two active mail profiles running for years, one for each of us in the family. Some weird things are taking place now.

This afternoon when initiating Thunderbird by selecting Thunderbird icon on the task bar as always do, Thunderbird began going directly to my profile, not bringing up the 'Thunderbird - Choose User Profile' window. This has happened previously and I got instruction on the forum how to resolve, so I did that resolution again.

I ran Thunderbird.exe -p in the RUN box .

It bought up the 'choose user profile' window so I UNCHECKED the box 'use the selected profile without asking at startup.' I guess somehow it got inadvertently checked. I expected this to resolve the problem. Note: When the box came up the first time I did NOT notice the names of the profiles offered, ours or the default ones mentioned below.

Now, when I initiate Thunderbird by selecting the icon in the task bar or selecting the icon on the desktop or selecting Thunderbird in the START list of apps -- it still goes directly to my profile not bringing up the 'Choose User Profile' window. HOWEVER, when I enter in the RUN box either thunderbird.exe or thunderbird.exe -p it brings up the 'Choose User Profile' window.

BUT -- the profiles offered are default and default.esr. They are not our two profiles we have been running for years. Our two profiles are still in the Thunderbird Profiles directory as seen with File Explorer. Hovering over default and default.esr shows their respective paths to the Thunderbird Profiles directory. (Cannot edit these paths.) But using File Explorer, these two profiles (default and default.esr) are NOT seen in the Profiles directory at all.

Question: 1. How do I get Thunderbird to function correctly. That is, when selecting the Thunderbird icon it brings up the 'Choose User Profile' showing our two profiles, and when I RUN Thunderbird.exe in the RUN window it ALSO shows our two profiles in the 'Choose User Profile' window, and NOT that default and default.esr profiles which I don't even see in the Profiles directory.

One more thing -- I have been thinking of switching over and installing the Thunderbird Release Channel -- If I installed it, would these problems carryover or would they be resolved? Thank you.

Added this note: In the past when the box 'use the selected profile without asking at startup' got inadvertently check and I resolved the problem by running thunderbird.exe -p, I was not running the Thunderbird version I am running now. It was back on 9/22/24 and I forgot what version it was but I don't think it was the ESR version back then. Maybe that is why running this command worked back on 9/22/24, but getting weird results now with the current esr version running. Thank you again.

Can I use Thunderbird to build an incremental local backup/archive of all messages transiting (incoming/outgoing) a webmail account ?

Any idea how to achieve this ?

My problem is:

• A POP3 account will miss all folders except the Inbox. (It's a pity that POP4 has not gained traction yet.)
• An IMAP account creates a mirror, not a backup. Remote deletions in the webmail account must not delete messages from my backup and vice versa.

detailed requirements:

• one-way sync only, since a local backup/archive must be built, not a mirror (two-way synchronization):
• Remote deletions must not cause local deletions (otherwise it would be a mirror, not an archive/backup).
• Local move/delete operations must not be reflected back to the mail server.
• Read‐only access to the mail server: no moves, deletes or flags remotely.
• All messages in all folders must be included in the backup: Inbox, Sent, custom folders, etc. Since POP3 can only back up the Inbox, I will probably have to settle for IMAP to include all folders.
• No duplicates: Messages must not be stored locally more than once.
• Messages must be stored as full offline copies locally (not just headers).

I am converting my 32-bit TBird v115.18 to the latest 64-bit version that runs on Windows 7. I know how to do the update but I want to make sure that my 32-bit data will open properly after the conversion. I know that if I download emails from my 64-bit PC and try to open them in the 32-bit PC, some of them get corrupted. I would like to make that does not happen from 32 to 64 bit.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

TC

Hello. Since calendar category colorization is not very visible ...

... I created separate calendars for every category. This is semantically wrong but has a nice look – events are fully colored by category:

I now regret this choice and want to correct it:

I need to move >1000 calendar events from calendar "medical" to my "home" calendar and (at one go) assign the category "medical":

from [calendar: "medical" / category: none] --> to [calendar: "home" / category: "medical"]

How can I do this ?

At one time my Thunderbird account had a button at the top that said Tools. I could go in there and hit something like "delete all emails marked as spam" and all emails with a red mark would be deleted. That button is no longer there. I have over 4000 emails, most of which are tagged to delete, but I can't figure out how to delete them all at once, and I don't have time to delete them individually. Help please!

Hi:

C:\Users\DonB\AppData\Roaming\Betterbird\Profiles\yssi9i86.default\Mail\outlook.office365.com

Above is my account (new since MS changed the server name. I use Help->Tools->Import to import my account data from Account: pop.outlook.com, all I get is an Inbox loading messages from the newer server name.

HELP!! Thanks, Don

I was forced to erase my PC because it was infected with malware. I saved my Tbird profile to my HDD before erasing. I pasted the saved profile to %Appdata% >Thunderbird, copying 1,777 items. When I brought up Tbird, I got the Account Setup window, so I don't think the profile was actually there. What did I do wrong?

Hi Everybody,

I am trying to move some eMails from the inbox to one specific Storage Folder. I seem to be able to move messages to any Storage Folder I want, except for this one, single Storage Folder.

There must be something in that Storage Folder settings that deny a move. What could it be?

How is this supposed to work? I am hoping to have a couple of folders from my IMAP configured email account automatically synchronized to LOCAL FOLDERS. But under the 'Synchronization' tab there are not a lot of options, and really only a 'download' button. But does that really synchronize? prevent duplicates? Someone smarter than me, please advise? Thanks in advance John

Hi, Can't understand what's happening with "search" I find in "account" a "none" with 2 old mails I thought effaced, but on clicking "can't have a value" the titles and first lines are shown, however on clicking on title I get "no message found" same with "show as a list" These 2 mails are also in a folder with same problem. How can I clear up and try to understand "search"

I'm using version 140.0.1esr on macOS Sequoia 15.3.2. The problem is very simple. When I compose an email, hitting return puts me at the center of the next blank line. If I type, the text is all centered from this point on. Thunderbird didn't do this in the past, so I either inadvertently changed a setting, or the behavior of Thunderbird has recently changed.

I really have no desire to spend time getting to know Thunderbird better. Like most people, I want to compose completely unstructured text-based email. (If I ever wished to add structures, which I doubt I ever will, I'd prefer markdown to HTML, like everyone else in the known universe ...)

Ideally: there is an easy fix by changing a setting. Second best: There is an alternative email program to Thunderbird, perhaps text based, that can read Thunderbird mail archives. Third option: There is an early version of Thunderbird that still runs on current versions of Mac, before Thunderbird began including text formatting in email composition (along with all of the other distractions that have be degrading the quality of Thunderbird for a very, very long time).