Thunderbird for Android Community Forum

I looked up how to import from Gmail into Thunderbird but, after doing an export from Gmail to MBOX, realised the instructions appear to be for Thunderbird for desktop.

I'm using POP/SMTP.

So I have my email sitting in an MBOX file on my phone, but I can't find any instructions on how to import the email to Thunderbird for Android.

I moved to Thunderbird for Android, away from K9mail, because K9 wouldn't seem to download all my messages. Worked fine for a while, then just started downloading one email per fetch even though there were hundreds yet more to download.

I read about the import feature for Thunderbird and so installed onto both PC and mobile phone. Now I can't see how to get the mail onto the phone.

I've been searching for more than 24 hours now for a solution. It probably doesn't help that a search for Thunderbird for Android still brings up solutions for Thunderbird for desktop.

Can anyone here assist?

i know that thunderbird for android works differently than desktop version, that's ok. i ask here to add to thunderbird-android function of backup emails to mbox-file, collect emails from selected server and make backup in mbox file which can than be opened in thunderbird-desktop. i must emphasize, i don't ask that thunderbird-android should be capable of handling mbox-files, this would be pure backup functionality.

When I try to set up Thunderbird on Andriod I run into a login issue. The email is actually in Microsoft and Thunderbird/Microsoft wants my Microsoft account info. This is not my email account info and I can't change it. My email address is username@alumni.caltech.edu, but my login name on the server is username@alumni.caltech.onmicrosoft.com. I am able to change it on Thunderbird for Windows desktop and I got it to work in K-9 email a long time ago, but the new Thunderbird for Android is not allowing me to change the login name and insists that I use my Microsoft account info which does not work for this email.

Thank you for your help.

Not getting any mail on my Android devices. Had to get a new Google account as the old was was very screwed up. I have TWO email accounts: GMail and Outlook. Outlookk account forwards all incoming mail to GMail account, so I should get mail only from GMail, but both accounts are set up in TB anyway. Outlook is set up as IMAP. GMail is set up as POP, necessary for some reason GMail setup (gmail.google.com) told me. Something about keeping message on the server or deleting them. Have an APP PASSWORD for GMail account because TB didn't like the POP account. Set up TB on my laptop physically. To speed up rest of work, I used TB "Export to mobile" on my phone and tablet. That's when the problems seemed to start. Finally had to set up TB on BOTH Android devices, which as far as I know, I did correctly. With that background, why am I not getting email on either Android device? Any help greatly appreciated.

This just started happening a few days ago, once I click into an email in the unified inbox it disappears from the inbox. Prior to that the email would remain in the unified inbox showing as read. Now the email will still be in the individual email address inbox, just not in the unified inbox. How do I change this back? I'm running three email addresses through thunderbird.

I wonder if there is an option to show the messages sent by me in a conversation. I could not find any option for this in the settings. If the feature is not there it would be very nice to have it. Thanks.