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I have the latest T-bird installed on a latest version linux Mint laptop and occasionally get puzzling errors on Yahoo mail.

Mostly it all works, but Yahoo email errors are often enough to be bothersome and I can't find any information on the rather obsure errors. Been this way through many t-bird and Linux releases.

My other email accounts don't seem to have a problem (gmail, outlook) on any t-bird instances. Just Yahoo mail on Linux Mint t-bird. Here are the errors:

"Please try later" and apparent timeouts on Yahoo mail (on t-bird, of course). This is obvious, but it doesn't happen on my Win 11 and Android T-bird programs.

Operation on yahoo "inbox" did not succeed. Yahoo mail server responded "p." (Yes, just "p.")

Operation on yahoo "inbox" did not succeed. Yahoo mail server responded "UID FETCH completed"

These errors don't seem to happen on Android t-bird or Win 11 t-bird on the same accounts, but I'm not on those for very long.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Yes, this outlook account was made earlier this year. I've tried all of the "fixes" offered on here and across the internet. I'm changed to to password and got the app password. I've deleted 2FA to see if that would work. I've deleted the Oauth key and it refreshed to a new one. I've done it all and TB-sync is not available to me cus apparently now i'm right outside the app version limit.... how convenient. It's very frustrating as i really like the app and still use it to read my emails but it's very annoying to have to open the outlook app and go through all that just to send an email. I keep getting told it is possible, i've been battling this on and off for months. I cant just get a new email either as i already swapped everything to the outlook one and my work using out look as well. i am able to sync my calendar even but apparently just not my outgoing emails. I would like to transfer my email but the other email i have is a proton email and they are a whole other headache. Please help.

OS: Linux / Android

TB Version: 156.0

Current Outgoing Server Setup:

Server Name: smtp-mail.outlook.com Port: 587 Connection Security: STARTTLS Auth Method: OAuth2 Username: *****@outlook.com

Out of the blue Google started blocking one of my Gmail accounts on Linux Mint. It's been running fine for months. The rest run fine. It kept giving me this error message.

400. That’s an error.

The server cannot process the request because it is malformed. It should not be retried. That’s all we know.

I installed that account on my windows box with exactly the same information. I cut and pasted it in fact. It went right through with no problems.

It's one of my main accounts and it's dead in the water. I deleted it and tried to reinstall it and I have exactly the same problem. Setup information. Hit continue. "Configuration found" Click done. Goes to "Sign in to continue to Mozilla Thunder bird Email" Put in email address. Click next and I get that error message. Help?

Captain Quack.

A few times I have missed messages that have have been inadvertently placed in the Accounts Spam Folder. Is it possible to to indicate that the Spam Folder has contents in the same way contents are indicated in other Account Folders?

When replying to an email or sending a new mail I get the message :- An error occurred while sending mail. Server responded : You need to authenticate when sending mail from (ip address) Please check "message Recipient" and try again. How do I authenticate ? Thanks140.7.1

I understand that in the immediate future that Virginmedia.com will no longer provide email services for their subscribers is this true.

As of noon yesterday my Thunderbird gets messages, puts them in the trash, then the spam and then sends a message to "spam" at my email provider. Since noon yesterday, I don't get email messages. I don't know what else it could be. If I go to the webmail, I get messages, but as soon as I download them with T-bird, they are in the trash and then sent as a spam notification to my email provider. I really use t-bird a lot so I would really hate to stop using it, it's much more useful than the webmail. Thanks

PS. I use Linux Ubuntu

I'm aware (e.g. https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1277401) of how to toggle whether the message window stays open (opening the next message) when an email is moved or deleted. But I would dearly love for it to happen only sometimes.

Specifically, when a new message comes in, I want to read it, usually move or delete it, then read the next new message, if there is one. But if the next message is an old one, I don't want to keep having it shown to me. I keep my inbox fairly tidy, but I'm getting sick of seeing that message from a year ago that doesn't have a better place to be.

So, after moving or deleting a message, if there is an adjacent unread message, keep the window open. Otherwise, close it.

If there's an unread message somewhere else in the folder, don't jump to that one. Trust that I've left it unread for a good reason, and don't want to now constantly get shown it, and also have to remember to mark is as unread again.

If it's easier to look for other unread emails based on dates, a few days (enough to span a long weekend, for example) would probably be enough, a week at the most. Or make that number user-configurable.

I have quite a few tags and quite a few message filters which are set to add tags. In the last few days, although the rule will automatically add a tag when I run it, it seems to be being deleted again almost immediately.

I have deleted several now obsolete message rules in case there was some kind of stack overflow problem, and likewise removed several obsolete tags, but it seems to be still happening. Is there a maximum number of permissible tags and/or a maximum number of permissible rules that invoke tagging?

This is a new phenomenon to me. I am on the latest stable release of Linux Ubuntu and Thunderbird 153.2.0esr (64-bit)

Is this a known fluke. In group with more than one email I see the excerpts and can easily deal with them (delete) but if there is only one in a group I can do nothing?

Maybe I accidentally made a setting, but if I go get email, it sends it to trash and from there marks it as spam and sends it to spam at my email provider. This just started when I tried it this afternoon. I think it was OK in the AM. I use Linux Ubuntu. It moves all emails to trash and then sends them. I just looked at my message filters and they look normal to me, I do have something called SpamAssasinYes, which I remember from years ago that looks at the whole complete header and sends an email to all the providers in it telling them that their user is using their server for spam. Maybe that has changed somehow, but I forgot it was there because it has been there for about 20 years. Should i just remove all those filters and see what happens? I need some guidance. thanks

I posted a question on this forum that I want to delete. I can't find a way to do that. Is there some way to do it? This question isn't really about performance" of T-bird, but about this forum but I was required to make a selection. . . ..

As of noon yesterday my Thunderbird gets messages, puts them in the trash, then into the spam and then sends a message to "spam" at my email provider. Since noon yesterday, I don't get email messages. If I go to the webmail, I see messages, but as soon as I download them with T-bird, they are sent to the trash and then sent as a spam notification to my email provider. I really use t-bird a lot so I would really hate to stop using it, it's much more useful than the webmail. Thanks

PS. I use Linux Ubuntu

I am using thunderbird client on arch linux. I am trying to filter by adding "Reply-To" as a filter. If i look into the source of the email i am trying to filter (i get like 100s of spam messages and only the Reply To seems to be from the same domain in the end) the Reply-To appears in there.

Any idea how to fix that? The other rules work fine, this one only seems to not work

The method I found successful in creating my Thunderbird profile on a new PC was different from the posted method. I hope this method helps others. Both Ubuntu 24.04.4 Mate and Thunderbird 155.0/ On the source PC I copied the .thunderbird folder to a USB drive. On the destination PC I opened the thunderbird folder (not hidden). Copied 123xyz.default and 456pqr.default-esr to this folder. Replaced profiles.ini with profiles.ini from the source PC. Opened Thunderbird and found my familiar experience.

I have a problem to add my mail account on Soverin.com to Thunderbird under Linux Mint. If I have created the additional e-mail in Thunderbird and I put there a right passord it is not possible to connect Soverin server.