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Can I actually sign up for a Thunderbird email address (account) in addition to my gmail.com address (account), if so I would like to do that.

Sincerely, Agnes M Wellens

went to white text on black background after latest automatic update to Thunderbird (128.12 Oesr). I've tried all suggested fixes and can't get black text on white background active again. HOW DO I GET BACK TO NORMAL??

I’m having trouble adding my DNS email address to Thunderbird. My username and password are correct, but I received an error message. Please see the attached screenshot. Could you please advise me on how to resolve this issue?

New computer Ubuntu 24.04 Mate, older Ubuntu 22.04 Cinnamon. Following support transfer directions (open Thunderbird on new PC, close it, paste a copy of older .thunderbird from USB stick to .thunderbird on new, over write), when I open Thunderbird no accounts are shown only the create account screen. I find no update path for older Thunderbird. New PC came with 128 esr but I found a tarball of 115 .18.0, installed it and followed transfer directions with the same results. Seems like the esr version uses a profile ending with esr and ignores my older one. What are my options for transferring 20 years of significant messages? The hard way might be to identify the account specific files in my older profile and copy them into the new esr profile...

Since yesterday Thunderbird cannot download messages.

It says "Downloading 1 of 4 messages" and attempts for a while, then stops. No messages are downloaded.

When I try to forward an article (to myself or others), I get a message: "Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your devices?" Whatever button I click on, it goes into Set-up mode, though it's already set up on my PC, and getting out of the sequence is difficult, like navigating blind alleys to nowhere.

I get the following error when trying to delete emails:

Messages cannot be moved or copied because writing to the folder failed; to gain disk space, go to file, empty trash, then compact folders.

I have tried this and all trash folders are empty, yet the message remains, I cannot delete, move or receive emails. There are 970 emails in my inbox... I even rebooted several times after doing the above and it still does not work.

What ever instructional help is provided, please include how I can save some of those emails if possible as I don't want to loose them... Right now I have had to go to spectrum to be able to read any incoming emails. Thunderbird is bricked....

Please help...

Thank you

I recently upgraded to new software for Thunderbird. For some reason now, when I click on New message, it doesn't work. I can't write a new message and therefore I cannot do my work as I need to.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

John M. Swart

when i oppened tbird on windows 10, it showed a page to obly my for a donation. i had made a donation short ago, but eventhough, i just made another one time donation. when i open tbird again, i can not get out of the donation page. what should i do please???????

Hi all

I have my sent mail going into my Inbox be default, so that I can see entire threads in context. It's set that way in Copies & Folders in each of my email accounts. However, I frequently find sent emails in the Sent Mail folder.

Can anyone offer an idea of why, and how to fix it?

Thanks Edwin

Trying to get a formal account with Thunderbird, and fully willing to pay for it. I have been locked out of using Thunderbird because I have never had a password for Thunderbird, starting from when it was Netscape. My only access to signing in and creating a formal Thunderbird account is a small laptop. Its screen is too small to show the entire form, so I cannot complete the captcha picture part -- can see three of probably four boxes (select all the traffic lights), and cannot see the 'Enter' or whatever is next.

On both MAC and PC versions. I recently installed a new SSL certificate on one of our company servers. It works on most email applications without issue (Apple Mail, Outlook etc.) - but Thunderbird is complaining about the certificate. The certificate is coming from: sectigo.com

The error is: unknown identity The certificate is not trusted because it hasn't been verified as issued by a trusted authority using a secure signature.

If I confirm the default exception - it uses port: 443 - instead of ports 995 and 465.

A certificate exception has to be deployed by adding network.security.ports.banned.override to the configure editor. Adding a string of 995 and then 465 to make the exceptions. It doesn't always work....

I have used multiple online scanners and they all give green lights on the certificate. Any help appreciated... I have no idea where to go from here.

Hi everyone.

Hoping someone may be able to help. I see that other users are able to fully highlight the events in calendar. I seem to be only able to highlight 2/3's (see image)

Thanks in advance

Hello

Is there a way to have the TAB function in an email message body with an option to produce a string of dots, instead of just a blank space? I would particularly love to have it line up subsequent rows on the accounting decimal point when the $ sign is used.

EG with a list of expenditures:

Home Depot .....................$50.00 Office Depot ...................$200.00 Starbucks...........................$37.50

Hope this makes sense! thanks Baz

Hello,

Recently I have started to have emails fail to deliver to a certain domain and the message that comes back is

550 DKIM Sender Invalid - envelope rejected.

I am using Thunderbird v128.8.1 esr (64-bit). Extensions installed are: 1. Attachment Saver (Deimios, v.0.2.2) 2. FileLink provider for Send (Teal Dulcet v2.1.1) 3. Remove Duplicate Messages (Eyal Rozenberg v0.6.1)

I have been in communication with this client for several years and not had this problem before. When I send email to the same recipients using WebMail there is no problem, it is only when I send from Thunderbird.

I am not using any encryption type of setup.

Has anyone come across this before? Does anyone know of a solution?

Thanks, Franc.

Have just installed TB for the first time (replacing WLM) and am very happy with it. My only problem is that the option to open with a blank page is not working despite leaving the checkbox unchecked. I've tried checking and unchecking but it makes no difference, it always opens with the full setup options displayed. Is there another way to have TB open with a blank page?

Hi, Win 10 Pro new installation. Dell Optiplex MBR type Bios.

I had saved a recent profile to an external drive in its own name (i.e. not the profiles folder)

After the new Win 10 installation, I downloaded a new copy of Thunderbird.

I then copied the saved profile into the new Profiles folder, selected it in Choose user profile and started Thunderbird.

Thunderbird opened but not with the saved (8+ Gb) profile, just one new email account and asking for passwords to other email accounts I used before, and no folders.

I went back into the profiles folder and renamed all other profiles "OLDxxx999, but still the same one new email account when I opened Thunderbird.

I desperately need the saved email folders - I don't mind loading all the email accounts again, just need my court case history folders.

How can I force Thunderbird to use the saved profile, or can I identify and individually load in the saved local folders?

Thank you for any guidance towards a solution.