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Does Earthlink webmail still support anonymous email addresses? If so, is there an article / thread that covers how to use them in EARTHLINK and THUNDERBIRD? They are still called protection packages =mypacks_net

Hello, I have read various post saying the profiles folder is %APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles\ but on my side I have many folder, and it can explain why when I use a backup tool, I loose all my e-mail. I have - C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Thunderbird\Profiles - C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles - C:\Users\Me\Administrateur\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles

And how to have only one ? I have tried to edit setting to use only C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles but the application refuse it.

Tbird ver 91.13.1 Desktop Win 11 Pro ver 23H2, upgraded from Win 10.

Scrollbar disappeared for no apparent reason about five days ago when composing emails.

I'm also working an older draft and it's still functional, as it is on replies to received messages that have scrollbars.

I have gone to Troubleshooting Mode and restarted, disabled add-ons and restarted, no effect.

I also verified that scrollbars were enabled, to no effect. On second thought, I went into the registry and found that the Dynamic Scrollbars actually DID have an incorrect value of (0). Changing it to (1), closing out, and restarting also had no effect. Are there other scrollbar values that should be adjusted?? I hate that nearly-invisible Windows scrollbar that has to be pulled out when needed. Could that possibly be related, or is there a patch for that?

How do I save all my emails, drafts, and sent messages if it's necessary to delete and reinstall the same version? I have one active yahoo account and one hotmail that's no longer active, but I want to save the contents.

I don't want to upgrade to 102, which comments seem to imply may have undesired changes. It seems that every upgrade requires research to disable unwanted features or glitches.

I need that scrollbar to navigate messages as I revise them, not having it is just Not Acceptable.

Thx in advance, J_

Copied Thunderbird Profile from Windows 10 PC, pasted to Windows 11 PC - No email history or address book

I followed the steps to copy the profile from the old PC and paste it into the folder on the old PC.

Thunderbird is using that profile, but there are no email history or address book.

When retrieving/syncing mail from my imap account, the counter for incoming mail is always wrong, it says it is retrieving 4 out of 2 or 8 out of 1. Already tried the repair function, but that didn't help. Any ideas?

Thunderbird v. 115.14.0.

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

I have a new laptop and I'm trying to set up my Thunderbird account. I have it all set up on my old laptop which I cannot not turn on. I can't access some passwords from the old laptop, etc. I use OPTIMUM as my email.

I am in need of "transferring" my T-Bird acct from my old to new laptop. Is it possible to bring over all the folder I have already created?

BTW, I tried to enter a new password on my new laptop but I get a 'failed' msg each time. It's all going in circles.

I hope my question makes sense.

Thank you! viggy1121

When I try to print a message with a long paragraph, the font size is reduced so the longest paragraph fits on one line - long lkines are not folded. Often the font is tiny and the printout is useless - is very hard to read. How do I fix this?

I have the problem that Thunderbird leaves the "Status" of a newly created event as "Not specified". This causes events to automatically be marked as "Tentative" when I edit them on another device/app, to which in turn they will be displayed darker in Thunderbird.

Since the process of changing the status of an event is not exactly fast and easy in Thunderbird (Double click > Edit > Options > Status > Confirmed > Save and Close), I am looking for a way to automatically mark events I create as "Confirmed". I don't use attendees or anything. I just want to organize my reminders.

I can't find anything about this on the forum or the internet in general, so any help or different solutions would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hello I'm trying to transfer and open a thunderbird email-account that belongs in its origin to 1und1 in Germany. After i installed thunderbird on my notebook the assistant finds my account at 1und1 but it fails opening an email-account on this device

Hello, Since this morning Thunderbird asks for my password everytime I click on my email logo to look at my emails. When I enter the password I can have access to my emails which semm to come in normally. If I close Thunderbird down and come back two minutes later it asks for the password again and so on. Can someone tell me how I can stop this ? Thank You. P.B.

Search in Thunderbird. If I search for a word such as "availability" it returns results for "available" with or without double quotes. It's a bit unhelpful that there isn't a way to force search only for what I am looking for, so I end up getting search results for the wrong thing.

Would be nice to have a wildcard search such as "availab*" which would be more intuitive.

How do I ensure it searches exactly for what I want, and not interpret my search keywords?

Cheers, Tom

Hello I can't synchronize my agenda with my adress on "laposte.net" I am now synchronised with my adresse "gmail" but I want to quit. I don't find any aid in the FAQ Somebody can help ?

Thank you

Robert Crémieux

Hi, I use Dark Mode in TB. The Unread messages in the Inbox show bolded in White (not that easy to identify) and I would like to have them show a different bolded color .... until they are read.

Any ideas welcome ........... & thank you for your help ............. Joe

Two months ago I tried to send an email on Thunderbird (not using email address logged in here) and I received the popup message below. I did not access the site as given, but just uninstalled and reinstalled Thunderbird and all worked OK until now, The same thing just happened. My IP said they had not heard of Abusix and that it might be a problem with Thunderbird, hence the reason for de/re installing. Is this threat real or is it a hoax or scam or what. Searching for Abusix all I get are results pointing me to their website.

When I right-click on an Event in a calendar, it "Edit" option in the context menu is grayed out (disabled). The only way I can find to get to edit the Event is to right-click on the Event and select "Open" in the context menu and when the dialog opens, click "Edit" at the bottom right corner of the dialog. I can ever get the "Edit" in the Event context menu to enable. It would be nice if this worked right so that I don't have to open an intermediary context menu just to edit an Event.

Does anyone know who to get this working? If not, how do I report it? (Sorry, but I'm new to Thunderbird.)

Hi Folks,

nightmare scenario: backed up entire Ubuntu 22.04 system (but failed to copy Thunderbird profile separately): upgraded Ubuntu to 24.04; upgrade failed because Thunderbird Snap upgrade failed. Apparently this is very common, and many other people have had similar problems.

So now I'm working in Recovery mode, root prompt command line.

There is still a /home/username/.thunderbird/profile.default directory. It contains lots of files and directories, including a 5Mb Mail directory. So it looks as though my original mail data still exists. Fingers crossed, prayers etc.

And here's the question: is the directory structure under the new Snap profile the same as the old Thunderbird structure? In other words, can I copy the existing profile, scrap Thunderbird, finish the Ubuntu upgrade, and copy the files back under the new Snap profile?

Thank you for reading this far, and I hope someone can help...

Cheers

John M.

Bonjour, I have used TB fore more than 20 years without major problems but today I am stuck. The TB version I run on is: 128.6.0esr (64 bits) on Windows 10 I use three accounts with Orange, one has the problem, not the two others. Originally the settings were the same on all three/

pop.orange.fr Port 110, default 110 SMTP France Telecom / Orange Port 587, default 587

Having sought help from the French (my mother tong) TB forum, one suggested to replace those settings for: pop.orange.fr Port 995, default 110 SMTP France Telecom / Orange Port 465, default 587 As a result I no longer received the ERROR message asking me for a password, instead a small blue segment showed on the bottom right of my screen and, after a while...nothing: no mail IN no mail OUT. I tried these new settings on the two other accounts with just the same result: no mail IN no mail OUT. So I went back to the original ones.

Has anyone a clue?

Christian