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I have a local folder which has 90 folders within it. These are folders brought over from Eudora (the mail system I used before Thunderbird). It would help me if I could easily move all 90 from their current "Eudora" folder to the big "main" folder that Thunderbird has. To make it clear what I'm asking, here's an example, using two folders, Danbury and Fritz.

D (folders whose names begin with D) Eudora folder, which has two folders - Danbury and Fritz F (folders whose names begin with F)

Is there any way to move the 2 folders that are currently within the "Eudora" folder so that they're "first level" folders. In other words, Danbury would be among the "D" folders and Fritz would be among the "F" folders.

The only way I know to achieve this is by manually creating the new folders, moving the items from the old folder to the new folder, and then deleting the old folder. This is cumbersome.

Hi there,

Is there a way to get checkboxes to select messages or at least a plan to get it in a future release? I saw that there has been an add-on in the past, but not maintained for some years and therefore not possible to use in newer versions. Yes, I know that you can select messages with ctrl and mouse click, but there are others in my family who are not familiar with it and reluctant to get used to it. (have used gmail for too long).

Greetings Grauer

I have just acquired a replacement PC and installed Thunderbird, and (as happened on previous occasions) I am unable to send emails because the outgoing server settings that were automatically detected are incorrect, and even feeding in those I recorded on the last occasion does not work. I have had a long conversation with somebody at Plusnet Help Desk, who agrees that the outgoing server should be mail.care4free.net and the port number should be 25, and the connection type should be SSL. He also thought that on my "Account settings" screen there should be an option "Account actions" through which I may be able to solve the problem, but this is not there. I think that last time I had this problem, some genius on this forum managed to solve it, and hope that this will again be the case!

Hi, I did something stupid. I accidentally deleted an entire year's worth of emails. I was in the process of archiving them, and mistakenly thought that the originals had been left in the inbox. I thought I needed to re-archive them, so I deleted the copies from the archive folder, and then - this is the stupid part - emptied the trash in the archive folder. When I went back to the inbox to re-archive the emails, I realized they were no longer there. I have not compacted the folder. Is there any way to recover the deleted emails?

I have seen a thread about this, but the request remains unanswered. I am using iMap, for mail accounts in Thunderbird. Under Account Settings you can select folders to be downloaded, but they are only a preset few folders.

I wish to download the folders that I created on webmail. Thanks, Steve

Given Thunderbird version 140.7.1 esr (32 Bit)

Since 27.01.26, no emails have been downloaded from my ISP Server and I don't know how to fix.

Note in the version above, it says (32 Bit) but Windows 11 is exclusively 64 bit ????

I inadvertently deleted a mail sub folder named Shopping Oder Confirmations I found the folder in my acronis backup and copied it to my desktop I then pasted it in to the profile window of thunderbird in hopes that when i restarted it would show up in my mail folders which it did not I can send you screen shots of the different windows where I dropped the folder Can you help please?! There is tons of information in these folders I reference often. Thank you! BTW I did just make a donation :)

I just got thunderbird and I'm so grateful to the ones who have immediately answered my questions. Now I'm trying to transfer my email of thunderbird from my pc to my cell phone. I keep trying to take picture of the QR code and it won't take it. I tried with my regular camera and it took it fine. Can you help me? Thank you for your time and knowledge.

I have recently installed 140.7.1esr (64-bit) on Windows 11

1. It keeps asking for my account password, I always check the box for saving to the password manager, with no effect, I still have to type it in every single time. (I did set up pwd manager and I do have a master pwd)

2. Initially I had Thunderbird pick up my Gmail account as well, but it stopped picking up my Gmail for some reason. So I completely deleted my Gmail account in Thunderbird. yet it persistently asks for access to Gmail every 15 minutes. (I get a notification from Gmail saying that Tbird is asking for access to Gmail). The Gmail account no longer exists in Tbird, does not show up in the menu, and it does not download anything from Gmail if I give it permissions.

One of my 2 Tbird accounts will download a new message but not display the contents. In the inbox list the message remains bolded, and clicking on it won't display the contents or unbold it. Any suggestions? Tkans, Alan

I just today returned to Thunderbird. I successfully inclued my 3 email accounts but two of them only have inbox and trash folders none of other folders such as drafts, spam ,deleted or trash etc. folders. My G-mail has all these folders. Do I need to delete the two accounts with the missing folders and reinstall or is there a setting I need to change. Regards Mike

Sending of password for user (name) did not succeed. Mail server mail.skymesh.com.au responded: [AUTH] Authentication failed. this is the message I get and then no new mail comes, I can sign in to my skymesh account

Hi, I recently installed Thunderbird (POP account type), but it only downloaded about 3000 emails and then stopped, even though I have a lot more emails I would like to archive. It's been about 2 days since no more downloads have occurred. Ive got no way of knowing if it's a temporary pause or what the issue is.

I installed Thunderbird to archive my emails as I intend to delete some older emails from google work space to clear up space, but I want to still have an offline archive of these email.

Thread email responses not realistically visible!

A new email comes in, it is in bold.

A RESPONSE to my own response comes in, and it looks completely normal! An underline is not "noticeable" enough!

A NEW EMAIL (brand new, or in a thread) should (obviously) generate the same optical indicator -- BOLD.

This is, frankly, embarrassing and pathetic. I'm really mortified at how this company presents itself as "a family" of "volunteer friends and community members" who are "happy to share their time" to "kindly solve the issues [we] have" when the reality is that everyone knows Thunderbird is broken, buggy, Windows Vista-tier technology maintained by a corporation actively pushing AI companions on its browser users but legions of Reddit upvotes and moderation manipulation obfuscate the level to which the client:

-fails to retrieve emails -fails to adjust to user settings -is obtuse and difficult to understand -is easily compromised by manipulative technology (BitDefender STILL has "administrative control" over Thunderbird MONTHS after being totally removed from my PC and after numerous "fixes") -fails to connect to the internet itself, despite all other programs on the PC doing so -fails to operate on even the level of the old, now-sunsetted Windows Mail program

And the responses to these grievances are condescension and gaslighting that demonstrate why the stereotype of programmers as "divorced men in their 50s" exist. I have seen people accused of "being angry," "making problems where there are none," and "misunderstanding" Thunderbird. If users do not understand Thunderbird or your documentation... that is because YOU have failed to properly DOCUMENT or present its UI/UX features, and shows YOU are poor programmers with overinflated egos.

Honestly, I sincerely hope Mozilla was purchased secretly by a crypto scheme or something. Because if these are the same people, all along? The sheer small amount of power it takes to corrupt is so pathetically small to me that this isn't even a villain arc, it's like seeing someone take a collection plate and just hold on to it and claim it was a master plan.

Go FireFox yourselves.