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My email provider provides "Disposable Email Addresses" - aliases which still direct mail to my inbox but don't expose my primary email to any web sites etc. I provide them to. It's very handy for registering for mailing lists, product vendors etc. since if one gets leaked, it's no big deal. I can drop the email again, but at least I know who was responsible for leaking it (I still get spam to my old Myspace account). My problem is that I'll occasionally have a need to reply such an email, and by default my From: address is my primary email address, not the one in the To: header. This is confusing to the recipient (since it's from some unknown email) and also exposes my email unintentionally. Is there any way to configure Thunderbird to always reply using the To: address? If there are multiple To: or CC: addresses, it could perhaps be specified with a wildcard matching any of my aliases. I can do it with Identities, I know, but I have to set that up before replying and I frequently forget.

Hi, I can receive emails (via satellite internet) but not send. I logged on to my email provider and I can send emails from there but not from here. any ideas?????

I just started using Thunderbird about a month ago having switched from Gmail. I've tried to forward a few emails to my personal gmail account but they are not going through. Any suggestions.

This is the error message I get when trying to download email

Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox.

All my other emails work fine, same computer same "Local Folder"

I live in Germany and use t-online for my email. I can receive emails but not send. I have tried to fix it myself but nothing I do has worked. I don't understand all the technical stuff, so this is maybe my problem. Can anyone help me? PLEASE

Maybe there is someone near me in Germany (Obertshausen) by Frankfurt that can Help. I speak German so this would not be a problem.

I've been using Thunderbird for years but suddenly as of yesterday it's stopped receiving messages. First it told me my password was incorrect. Ever since then when I try to click "Get Messages," it simply has no response at all. Nothing happens. I went into my Thunderbird password settings, and upon seeing that the incoming-message password had for some reason reverted to an old, obsolete password, I corrected it and saved the correct one. I've checked several times and the passwords are correctly saved now. But this did not fix the problem. When I click "Get Messages," nothing happens. My Thunderbird is connected to my Earthlink account, which is working fine. When I go into Earthlink, I am able to send and receive messages as normal. So the problem is not with Earthlink but with Thunderbird.

This just all the sudden started happening for my charter email account, I haven't changed any settings, the font turned red and can't receive the emails. I have mail washer and see the emails, they not from anyone shady. got a couple screen shots. Thanks

When left clicking the "get messages" button, nothing happens, no synchronization or status bar of importing shows up. The only way I can synchronize mail is to right click and select "get all new messages". Is it intended to be this way?

I have used Apple Mail, GMail and Outlook; i am hoping that Thunderbird will achieve (relative) zero inbox.

My objective is to create an inbox that observes established rules/filters and directs my emails into the appropriate folders. I was hoping that Thunderbird would achieve this objectives but I have so far been unsuccessful.

I would be happy to screenshare with an appropriate technician in order to resolve this issue as its becoming increasingly frustrating.

When I try to send an email via Thunderbird using my email account it errors out with a smpt error. I went in and deleted all the passwords (like it said online) to force a screen to pop up. Then I closed Thunderbird and restarted it with no success.

I have a number of pop3 accounts with the same mail host, but suddenly one of them gives me the message "Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox."

I use Thunderbird on two Windows machines, and the problem is on both, so it is something in the interaction with the server, however, there is no problem accessing the mail via webmail directly on the server.

I have tried to change password on the account, but the problem did not go away. In fact, I got the box to tell me that the old password did no longer work, so I know that the problem pops up after log in to the account. Before the error message appears, the message "downloading 208 messages" (or something similar) briefly appears.

Is there a way to find out exactly what fails?

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

When all the comcast accounts migrated to yahoo, there wasn't supposed to be a change but I cannot send or receive messages through Thunderbird. I deleted my old passwords and tried to use the one that works at yahoo but it is not working.

Apparently I also have 3 thunderbirds running on my machine .  I don't know how to get rid of the old ones

I also got an error message that says 151.0.4 is not compatible with 151.0.3

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.