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I tried to send something and Thunderbird blocked it with yellow box on the bottom i could not d find out where or how to remove or unblock t and i also get it in Drafts too but how do i remove in Thunderbird please tell me where and how to unblock attachment remove the yellow box to unlock something please

something about remote content  i think

Hello dear support team Some e-mails in the Inbox are of a huge size, like 32 MB and more, even without attachment. I already used repair function, but it stays the same. In Outlook, the same email is of normal size (80 kb). So, it is not the e-mail provider or the database at the provider. I have had this situation throughout several updates, so it is not specific to a certain update. The ones that have an attachment and the same problem (attachments of less than 1GB but show 42 GB) cannot be moved. The error dialog says: to big to move. Also, the attachments cannot be removed as they show 0 kb and the attachments name is crossed out. This is not true for all mails, but some have this problem. What do you recommend?

I receive emails from one source that's supposed to have a banner image at the top. In Thunderbird it shows the broken image icon and the image as an attachment. But in RoundCube it shows as expected.

The html shows:

The image part of the email shows: content-id: <piXdKIOofB>

I'm guessing that those angle brackets around `content-id` are breaking the display, such that it's calling that a mis-match.

Name Thunderbird Version 140.9.1esr Build ID 20260404050724

I received an email with several jpg images attached. I click on them to open in MS Office Picture Manager, and all I get is a tiny box with a red X. I have tried several online help resolutions, yet no resolve.

Hi everyone,

I’m new to Thunderbird. I’m using version 149.0.2 (aarch64), and I’ve noticed that when I receive one or more attachments, I only see a file called winmail.dat.

Is there a way to view the actual attachments, whether they are PDFs or other file types? Thank you!

Hi, The goal is download attachments from a RSS feed. I set a specific folder so i don't have to select path for every single file. Then clicking on the file link and it should start to download but it is very unreliable especially when used on many files in sequence it silently fails. Related big problem is absence on any useful file transfer indicator like Firefox has. There is a "download manager" tab but it is completely useless. It does not show any progress and the view has no scroll bar so nothing useful can actually be seen there. Downloading using "save as" button works. So you should either fix the direct link download or disable the feature completely until it does work, to avid missing files, because that is the worst outcome.

Не отправляются письма с вложениями с Thrunderbird с данных почт mng326@anepmetall.ru mng323@anepmetall.ru 209@anepmetall.ru 204@anepmetall.ru 201@anepmetall.ru 205@anepmetall.ru 220@anepmetall.ru 218@anepmetall.ru 206@anepmetall.ru 208@anepmetall.ru 217@anepmetall.ru 215@anepmetall.ru mng314@anepmetall.ru 211@anepmetall.ru 202@anepmetall.ru 210@anepmetall.ru 214@anepmetall.ru buh-krsk@anepmetall.ru 212@anepmetall.ru 207@anepmetall.ru проблема массовая. С других сервисов письма отправляются нормально. Подскажите в чем проблема?

In den Vorschaufenstern sind in Thunderbird seit Kurzem keine Anhänge mehr zu sehen. Habe ich unbewusst eine falsche Einstellung vorgenommen? Habe alles versucht, keine Lösung erhalten.

When I type the word "attachment" in version 149.0.2 I no longer get the warning bar across the bottom of the screen. I do have the "check for missing attachments" box checked in Settings.

I am working on a new laptop running Windows 11. Thunderbird was successfully installed a week ago and was running fine until I made a change related to OneDrive - attempting to remove OneDrive as a default location for files. later, I attempted to open an MS Word attachment to an email and got this message from Microsoft Word: "Unable to open the existing file: (C:\Users\..(myname)..\AppData..\Normal.dotm)".

I think my OneDrive action - removing a OneDrive folder from my C:/Users/..(name)../ location on my laptop - per Windows support directions, caused this. Maybe a disconnect between Thunderbird and MS Word? I can open other file types that are attachments.

Can you help explain and correct this problem?

Thanks

Knowing that an email message should be kept below the size of 25MB, I was trying to make my attachments smaller than that. Yet when I was sending a message with no text and 1 attachment the size of 21.5MB, I got a warning that I was trying to send a message the size of 29.4MB. Where does this come from?

When composing an email and adding an attachment, the file type icon does not appear next to the file name of the attachment. I located this thread: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1547712 which seemed to address this and someone hit on the issue--file names that have a space in the name--test file.pdf for example generate the problem. When attaching a file with no spaces in the name, the icon appears. Any further info on this? Windows 11 personal. Thunderbird v. 149.0.2 (64-bit)

Thanks

T-Bird,

Using the latest version of Thunderbird, all of the sudden I cannot attach/send photos or documents. The 'send to' mail icon in the menu is not lit up to accept the attachment. The message come back 'no file associated'. My defaults are as they were. I have been using Thunderbird email client for likely twenty years. What has changed and how can I get my Windows 11 to recognize again? Would reloading the program help? Any information/help would be much appreciated as I am not a system dive in file changing techie. Thanks, Doug

Ich benutze Firefox auf zwei Windows 11 Rechnern. Die Version ist auf beiden Rechnern gleich, (149.9 esr 32Bit ) , beide Rechner greifen im Fall des Verfassens einer E-Mails mit Anhängen auf einen gemeinsamen Speicher über LAN zu, seit kurzem gibt es bei einem der beiden Rechner aber beim Anhängen einer Datei an die Mail eine Verzögerung von ca. 5 Sekunden, bevor der Anhang auftaucht, unabhängig von dessen Größe. ( Also auch kleine Pdf´s werden verzögert angezeigt.) Der zweite Rechner hat das Problem nicht, selbst bei grösseren Anhängen. ( Auch sind die Rechner fast bau-und ausstattungsgleich ) Testprogramme auf dem Problem-PC zeigen keine Auffälligkeiten beim Schreiben und Lesen, auch die Internet-Verbindung ist die gleiche... Habe bereits die Einstellungen der Konten und des Programms in beiden Rechnern verglichen, sie sind gleich. Hat jemand eine Idee, woran das liegen kann?

Grüsse, Martin

Hi:)

I am unable to retrieve an already downloaded email (with attachments) from my INBOX to RECEIVED IMPORTANT MAILS.

All other mails (without attachments) can be clearly seen in the RECEIVED IMPORTANT MAILS folder but the ones with Attachments (irrespective of the size of the attachments) do not show.

I can see that email with attachments in my Thunderbird INBOX but the moment i move those mails to the Folder: RECEIVED IMPORTANT MAILS, it doesn't show. This issue, however, is not there on my other systems that also have Thunderbird installed but on my WINDOWS 11 laptop. I am using Version 149.0.1 (64 bit). Is it a storage issue because this particular issue has been cropping up only since March 28th.

Looking forward to your help!

Thanks and regards, Nauman

What happened to the useful top right window box for attachments on my outgoing emails, can I return it? It's gone to the bottom and is really annoying, I mean who decides these useless and unhelpful changes?

PDF file attachments were working fine and now they don't.

I get no error message, but nothing happens when it's set to open in Acrobat. I can view the file in "Preview in Thunderbird" and the file isn't corrupted as I can save to disk and then open in Acrobat.

I tried restarting TB in troubleshoot mode with add-ons disabled, but that did not solve.

Thanks for help!

hello, i cannot seem to find a solution online, hopefully someone can help.

i often receive emails with images attached, and most of the time people don't resize their images. you can imagine over time this all adds up in the email storage folder total size.

i dont always need to keep a 6mb image version, it can be reduced after i am done.

i would like a method to resize the received emails image attachment, to at least still have a smaller copy for refence, but not end up with a huge thunderbird email account profile (in the email received not externally saved)

preferably a one click solution, or even a routine i can run on the file system, etc. or some way to edit the received email and its attachment in program.

thanks