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I have used Thunderbird for years for two emails. Suddenly about a month ago I get and authentication failure for server imap.gmail.com for the second email. I have tried everything I can find to fix this - including deleting the account and re setting it. I still get the error and am forced to use my browser to see that gmail account. My primary account works fine and the setting are the same for both. How do I fix this?

I use gmail and recently started using Thunderbird. Somehow Thunderbird started archiving all files. I am ok to leave the historical archives but I do not want to archive going forward. Account setting message archives is unchecked. There is no filter created to archive. Config does not contain an archive instruction. How can I stop archiving?

Hi:)

I am unable to retrieve an already downloaded email (with attachments) from my INBOX to RECEIVED IMPORTANT MAILS.

All other mails (without attachments) can be clearly seen in the RECEIVED IMPORTANT MAILS folder but the ones with Attachments (irrespective of the size of the attachments) do not show.

I can see that email with attachments in my Thunderbird INBOX but the moment i move those mails to the Folder: RECEIVED IMPORTANT MAILS, it doesn't show. This issue, however, is not there on my other systems that also have Thunderbird installed but on my WINDOWS 11 laptop. I am using Version 149.0.1 (64 bit). Is it a storage issue because this particular issue has been cropping up only since March 28th.

Looking forward to your help!

Thanks and regards, Nauman

in Thunderbird I have the window with the email header lists. I receive mails with icons/emojis (stars, flowers, birds, ...) in the subject line which are annoying. In particular, I dislike the 4 angle star in front of the line for some of them. I would like that they are not displayed. how can I achieve this? other email clients make this possible. Thank you

I've tried Troubleshoot mode, everything I can seed for filtering options. I still see the folder has 12 messages in it but the window always shows No messages found.

Hi,

Can you please have a look at the following problem: I decided to re-index my mails. after I realized that the search results did structurally not contain any messages from 2026. I deleted the global-messages-db.sqlite. However, this did not lead to the desired result. After processing some folders, I can see in Activity Manager that the indexing stands still after having processed about 20% of the "Sent Mail" folder of a gmail account. I waited more than 12 hours, but the number of indexed messages did not increase. The file size of the global-messages-db.sqlite at this moment is only 2.3 KB, while the original database was more that 300 MB large.

I already tried the following without success:

1. restarted TB
2. deleted the database for the second time
3. restarted my PC
4. repaired said "Sent Mail" folder

I am running Thunderbird 140.9.0esr on Windows 11.

Many thanks in advance for your replies.

Thomas

I have successfully added my primary Google Workspace email address, authenticating through OAuth 2.0. I'm adding a second user, but even though I sign in using the Google popup, OAuth isn't listed as an Authentication method under Server Settings, and no email is downloaded.

I have been using Thunderbird with two POP3 Hotmail accounts for some time and I am trying to set up a third account with exactly the same configuration. However, both the automatic and the manual configurations failed. The new account receives mail, but the outgoing smtp server config seems to have a problem. Sending messages times out or keeps prompting for a new password.

The Hotmail account has POP3 and IMAP enabled. Thunderbird is set to receive all cookies. I cleared history and cache after every attempt and also temporarily disabled the firewall.

Any suggestions about what the problem could be?

Hello

I just recently purchased a new SSL certificate for our domain from bluehost. Now I get the following error message from Thunderbird.

Configuration not trusted. We received the configuration for your email over a connection that isn't as secure as we'd like. This means there is a tiny chance that someone could have altered it. Double check provided configuration.

I entered my server dashboard and compared the manual email settings and the settings match exactly.

I have paused anti-virus software on both my mobile and laptop and have uninstalled and reinstalled Thunderbird but nothing helped. Contacted Bluehost all is working fine. I can access my email from other clients but not from Thunderbird.

Any thoughts thanks

Gary K.

Attempting to set up a yahoo email in thunderbird 140.9.0esr(64-bit). The goal is to have this set up on multiple workstations, so I've made the adjustments recommended per this article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-yahoo#w_please-check-the-following-before-asking-for-support

So, the toggle for mailnews.oauth.usePrivateBrowser is set to true, site/third-party cookies are always allowed (no exceptions), and the authentication method is set to OAuth2. Using the recommended server settings for yahoo: imap.mail.yahoo.com : 993 smtp.mail.yahoo.com : 465

I am able to set up the initial OAuth. The window pops up, I log in using the account password then put in the texted code, then the window closes and I get an email confirming the login. Hitting done within Thunderbird after this has it check the password again, and it fails: "Unable to log in at server. Probably wrong configuration, username or password."

This is on a fresh Windows 11 install/fresh Thunderbird install.

Thunderbird stopped syncing with my GMX email accounts (I have several) a couple of days ago. It keeps reporting that the attempted connection has timed out. I haven't changed any settings on either Thunderbird nor GMX. Any idea why and how to fix it?

I reinstalled Thunderbird and since then I can't log in to my gmail accounts, there is a link to the account but it doesn't open a window for me to enter the password, I've tried everything possible but nothing helps

When I log into thunderbird, warning messages keep coming up asking me to input my password. The messages keep coming even when I put in the password. It takes a long time to download messages and almost allways blocks me sending. I have to to my providers webmail to do any work.

I can't send out my reply emails or on new ones b/c I mistakenly deleted the 'sent' option at the top. Actually all the options at the top are gone, including 'forward' etc. This is b/c I clicked with the R mouse on 2 choices there, (which I can't remember what they were called). I did this b/c the 'sent' word had gone gray and I was trying to fix the situation. My emails stopped going in the sent folder and turned up in drafts. I tried sending them from there but it came up with no send option too. Then I finally found 4 emails I was trying to send out in the 'outbox' which I never use! Eventually the computer asked if I wanted the unsent to be sent and it did work then. But I very much would like the former usual configuration to come back please for sending out emails. This is my request here. Interestingly some that went in the drafts were incomplete and did not include all my words! Strange. This is all on my Windows 11 desktop which I prefer to use. Interestingly also, my cell phone suddenly won't recognize my usual long time email address! So I can't forward photos off my cell phone to my Thunderbird (gmail) inbox now. This happened a few days ago, before today's problem. When I try, it says my email address in invalid!! And yet it is receiving the emails on gmail on the phone. But it also wouldn't let me send or even open up 'drafts' on the phone. Emails are arriving in my T-bird inbox all right on my desktop. 'T-bird is the default client on start-up'. On my desktop, my Bitdefender says my computer is 'safe' so there does not appear to be a problem there.

Hello, and thanks for the read...

ISSUE: Every day I have to call the telecom ROGERS that took over for telecom SHAW, turn IMAP and Pop3 on 9 Email accounts (they lost 1). Sometimes the 1 to 2 hors chat w/ a human turned it back on will not last long.

DETAILS:

1. I can receive outside Emails *because I can't send using Shaw/Rogers, checking for Email, just hangs at trying to login in to any of the 9/10 emails.
2. When I can get a support person to check, they tell me that IMAP and POP3 are turned off.
3. They will tell me they re-enabled it. But it doesn't enable for me.
4. It all works OK when using the online webmail Zimbra. However, I need to check 3 of the 9 email accounts every hour, others every 6 hours, and others once a day at boot.

QUESTION: When using POP3, does the setting on my SMTP need a special setting on Thunderbird?.

NOTE: I am complying with "Rogers With Shaw" passing the buck to the Email Client (Thunderbird) by asking here - "Could It Be The Email Client'! And my answer is 'No', because Thunderbird works perfectly with 54 other Email accounts.

Thank for reading this, and for any input you may add, ~r

P.S., I'd like to see a upgrade to this input form that allows us to Preview out Post And, when I started this Post, it alerady had a image from a previous Post

I store many e.mails in a variety of Folders. Most are viewable but at least one folder (ATTIVO) says there are no e.mails despite having just saved them there. These e.mails are visible via my i-phone. As I have passwords etc saved on my lap-top this issue is problematical but not fatal but does indicate a glitch in Thunderbird that makes me suspect it's general reliability

The University of Minnesota makes me change my password for their email IMAP server every year. I use Thunderbird as my email client. I have not had problems in the past, but this time Thunderbird does not connect with the UofM server and I cannot update Thunderbird with my new password. When Thunderbird tries to connect, I get a Google "help" message about clearing my Chrome cache that does nothing. I deleted the old IMAP password in Thunderbird, but that did no good. Is there a way to update my credentials within Thunderbird?

Thunderbird will not get my mail. It continues to send mail but will not fetch it,

I tried to delete the account in thunderbird, It will not reestablish the account. I can use a web login to get to my email on the server but the identical credentials will not establish the account in thunderbird, I can establish an account in Outlook but not thinderbird.

For the last couple of weeks I have been having trouble connecting to gmx.com. It keeps saying connection to server imap.gmx.com timed out. I deleted and reinstalled the account but same thing. I also contacted gmx but so far no response. Is there something I am missing in the settings? Is anyone else having this problem? Thank you