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Hi, I accidentally deleted all my emails on my desktop. I was in Account Settings and pressed the red "Delete" button that appears next to the account name on the screen. I was trying to reset the email account settings but when i pressed delete, the mail account and all my old messages were deleted from my desktop.

I do see a file in the folder in User/appdata/roaming/thunderbird/profiles.../mail/mail.server.co.za that says "Inbox" and I THINK that might be my old emails but I can't seem to get Thunderbird to open the file. I've tried using ImportExportNG but it still won't open that file.

Is there a way to recover my old emails without having to take my computer to a specialist?

Appreciate any help. Hani

I have about 19,000 + emails in one of my email accounts , I do not want to delete all of them , just select groups , like for example I have about 392 emails from Newegg , what I want to do is get all of them in 1 place (I did this using the Filter Emails) , then I want to delete them all , but I don't want to delete EVERY email I have stored

I tried but I couldn't find any way to do a mass delete , like a Select All , Delete , I couldn't even find Delete unless it was for each email , which would take forever to sort through 19,000+ emails and delete the ones I want deleted , but leaving the rest

Is there any way to do this ?? , or is there a reason this has not been implimented ?? , it seems like a no brainer , basically my email is running slow , so when I click delete on a email , there is a pause before it deletes , I am assuming because of the backlog of emails (already read) that I have in my Inbox that I didn't delete at the time , and now have literally thousands of them

Basically what I was hoping for is to be able to take say ALL Newegg emails , and put them together , then do a Select All and Delete , but I couldn't find any way to do this , that way I get rid of the ones that have expired , but keep other emails from other people/buisnesses and just do Selective Mass Deletion

Thanks ... Jim

I set up a filter to move messages to the junk folder. If it's not from a .com, .net, or .org domain, move it. Here's how I set it up... If the "from" incoming message doesn't contain "any of the following" ".com" ".org" or ".net" move it to "junk". It moved .com and .org messages to junk anyway. What did I do wrong? There are too many TLDs to create a filter for all of them.

Hi I am Unable to send e-mails (only receive) after adding a 3rd account to my thunderbird, a microsoft e-mail (the other 2 are gmx and my old work e-mail). This is my private laptop. I tried tons of troubleshootings incl. deleting passwords, triple checking all settings (they are all correct), but I always get a pop up with "Login to server smtp.office365.com with username ... failed" when trying to send an e-mail. When I click on enter new password it just tries to send the e-mail again, which fails, so unable to enter anything.

Why won`t my emails come up, after 16 years of being with Mozilla thunderbird? Keeps saying server not found.

Don`t try to email me with response, as I can`t get them!!!!!

I keep getting the following error when trying to download emails from yahoo.mail: Authentication failure while connecting to server pop.mail.yahoo.com Have hundreds of emails sitting in yahoo.mail that I need to load onto my desktop. Any help is appreciated!

Running Win10, all the sudden I'm getting Not Responding messages, failures to connect to server, and slow deleting of emails. I tried everything: uninstalling/reinstalling; running on troubleshooting mode; checking compatibility. Nothing works. Any ideas?

Thank you

i manage 8 email accounts for different projects I run.

When I open thunderbird, all my folders in each email open up. Is there not a setting to say don't open folders?

On Sunday, May 7, my Thunderbird program suddenly stopped responding (neither the shortcut nor the program itself will run); clicking on the shortcut icon or attempting to open or run the program itself causes the "loading" or spinning wheel icon to pop up, run for about 10 seconds, then stop.

I've used Thunderbird as an email client for my Sonic email account on my pc for over 8 years without any difficulties until now, and now seem to be locked out of my Thunderbird account. I cannot access it to confirm the version, although I believe it is current, since it appears to update automatically.

My Sonic account continues to function normally, but I keep (save) all incoming and outgoing emails in my Thunderbird system and now am unable to access any of those, and unable to access my Thunderbird account at all..

I've consulted with Sonic over this; Sonic maintains that any difficulty must be on my end connecting to Thunderbird, and suggested that I might have changed the account password. However, I have not changed the password, etc.

Please help asap.

Thanks, immensely.

Tim

I have a desktop that is windows 10. I use Mozilla for four email accounts, 3 of my accounts work fine. My problem is with TWC. Emails sent/forward and cant save drafts often fail. When I sign into spectrum webmail, my Mozilla TWC account works again for a while. This started about 2 weeks ago. I'm using version firefox version 151.0.2. I've eliminated Spectrum as being the issue and all my settings are correct. Thoughts?

I received a spam message this morning that had a "Disposition-Notification-To" (aka Read Receipt) line that had MY email address on it. I honestly don't know why a spammer would do this - but that's not the issue. I have Read Receipts disabled, but Thunderbird generated an email (to me) and sent it to my mail host. This seems like a bug. Even if the Read Receipt has my email address on it (making it mostly harmless), Thunderbird shouldn't have generated the message. Or am I missing something? Thanks.

Hello. I am trying to add a new provider, which means adding a new account. When I click "Add new account" it takes me to a page that asks me to enter my existing account. Does this mean the currently running account or the new account?

In event creation in Calendar the options for repeat pattern are daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or yearly. There is an option to create a custom pattern, but if I enter every 28 days, because I want the event to recur every four weeks, it is over-ridden by the option above which is the repeat pattern, daily, weekly etc and the event appears daily. There appears to be no way to create an event that occurs repeatedly every four weeks (28days)?

Can anyone help please?

I've been using Thunderbird on Windows 10 since last year sometime. Currently I'm on version 151.0.1.

I've 4 x mailboxes here and since yesterday, 3 of them show me an unusual message when checking for emails. I tried attaching a screenshot but although the screenshot uploaded, I couldn't find a way to insert it here. But the message says Unable to write the email to the mailbox and asks me to check if I've write privileges (which I have) and to cheek the available disk space.(currently 101GB free).

The message is happening 2 or 3 times each day and lasts for about half an hour, then everything works fine again. Has anyone else seen this??

Hello,

Everything working just fine last night. Wake up and Thunderbird will not retrieve emails.

Remembered this old message I got so I went through and deleted my second email address, didn't help.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-yahoo

Checked all settings compared to Yahoo, still won't download messages. I can even send a message with my current settings no problem, and it does login, just won't retrieve emails. Gives me a connection timeout.

Anyone have any ideas?