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It seems lately that when I simply open a calendar entry to see what the contents are, then close it without making any changes, it sends an update to all those involved that something changed (as seen in the picture).

Also, when I accept an invite event and tell it not to send a response, it always does. This has been happening for as long as I can remember, and I cannot figure out a way to stop it, no matter what I do.

Anyone have any ideas for either of these issues?

Although 1900 or more messages are reported, Thunderbird only downloads a few - 18 once, 10 and now only 2 - before stopping. After deleting all messages, stopping and restarting Thunderbird, it then downloads the same few - or less - again, no new ones, and the are very old ones. Screenshot shows current situation - several identical messages only. Version 140.8.1 esr on Windows 11 - both up to date. I don't know what esr means !

Hi, Address Book Search doesn't show any results for example Phone Numbers or Addresses.

Search for Phone Number 030 shows: No contacts found - which is not true! Search for Address City Berlin shows: No contacts found - which is not true!

Please improve the search, so that it considers any contact detail.

Thank you in advance.

Best regards blueice_haller

I'm long time user of Thunderbird Calendar. For most of the events in calendar I have reminders that should pop up for example 7 days before the event. This was working correctly.

About half year ago. The reminders stopped working. I don't get the reminder 7 days before, but they pop up on the day of the event. This is quite unpleasant. For example If I have my car technical check deadline and I get the reminder on the deadline, not 7 days ahead.

I have not changed any settings around the time it started happening.

So far I have checked: -Individual event reminder settings : yes they still got the reminder set up to pop up some days before the event -Settings / Calendar / Reminders / Show the reminder dialog - checked -Settings / Calendar / Notification / Show notifications for upcoming events - I added here "1 day before event starts" notification, but that also doesn't work. -Tried Googling the issue. Found some threads about reminders not popping at all. Not the case here. I don't get notifications before the event, but they pop up at the time of the event. No luck here.

Since about half a year has passed since this started, I guess it's not a bug that happens to everyone.

I accidently unsubscribed my current calendar. It does not list anymore, I do not know how to list unsubscribed calendars. How to re-subscribe it? (Window 11 w/latest Thunderbird). thanks very much.

One of the more aggravating aspects of Thunderbird's calendar is when an event alerts me that event grabs focus from whatever I am doing at the moment. I have no interest in having Thunderbird yell at me to stop what I'm doing and pay attention to the alert like a 5 year old. I am often deeply involved in other work and never appreciate Thunderbird's calendar interrupting me.

Is there somewhere in Thunderbird where I can tell Thunderbird that the calendar can pop open and make a sound but under no circumstances is it to take focus from where it is at the moment?

After recent update I can no longer send email on any of my accounts. A message popped up when I opened Thunderbird after the update stating I would need to change some settings, but message disappeared before I could read it all and could make changes. I need to know what settings I need to change to restore outgoing mail ability. my Email accounts are Gmail and Yahoo.

When Thunderbird injects a link preview into a message, it changes the text composition from Body Text (my norm and default) to Paragraph. This styling change persists even after I delete what look like the entire preview.

My fix for the current message is to select all and reestablish Body Text, then clean up left over mess.

My overall fix is to uncheck Settings > Composition > Add link previews when pasting URLs

Clearly HTML is required to create a graphic preview box in a message. I do not recall having turned link preview on to begin with, so I'm feeling opted in. Do Thunderbird updates download with this option turned off? ___

Another reason I eshew link previews is that they appear to establish connections to online assets without asking. How is this safe? As a software developer - and simply as a user - I have occasion to send people links that I don't want to connect with. To pick an easy edge case, what if I'm reporting a phishing or malware site? Just because I type or paste an URL into an email message doesn't mean I want to download anything from that source.

Curmudgery aside, I'm grateful for your help as always. Paul

Very little to do with accounts, but none of the selectable topics cover 'user Interface'.

Used to be able to open different accounts in different windows. Can't remember how, but it was obvious. Once new window is created, each time Thunderbird is started it re-creates them. I accidentally closed one and can find no way to re-open it. I use three email accounts each needing a different mindset, so keeping them in different windows helps. Also one has a screendepth full of folders and so is easier to handle in its own window. (The others are still there but only take up one line each when collapsed.

140.7.1esr (64-bit) Mozilla Thunderbird Snap for Ubuntu ubuntu-snap-build - 1.0

Using TB 140.8.1 esr(64 bit) on Win11 Home desktop. My internet speed: About 40 Mbps up and down. All routine Win and TB updates installed when available. No changes in configuration, accounts, settings etc. except installing routine updates to TB and Win11. No problem with sending/receiving email. Sent mails go out immediately and appear right away in my sent folder. No problem receiving USENET news new postings to subscribed groups. I'm subscribed to 3 groups, using news.eternal-september.org. It used to be that when I wrote a reply to a post in a thread the msg would be sent within a few seconds. Recently and consistently, when I post to a group, pop-up notification tells me msg is being assembled. But progress appears to stall and msg often takes an hr. or more to appear in sent folder. Sometimes, it never appears in my sent folder but I can see it was sent because subsequent new postings to the same thread often cite my text and/or reply to it. My sent configuration: outgoing server: smtp.gmail.com port: 465 user name: my gmail email address - which works fine using google's web interface or TB authentication: OAuth2 connection security: SSL/TLS Any idea what's wrong? Any suggestions what to try to get back to prompt processing of sent postings to subscribed USENET groups?

Hello everyone. Thanks for all your support.

A few weeks ago I started noticing a pop up window was occurring every (approx) 5 minutes in Thunderbird suggesting that I run a compact to save 992MB. I assumed this would stop happening after a few weeks and a few updates from Mozilla, but the problem has remained, so I'm coming here to ask about it.

Context: I'm on Windows 11. I have multiple email accounts that my Thunderbird reaches out to. At least one of the accounts is retired so reaching out to its historical server fails.

Reproducing: For me to reproduce it, I run the compact. Quit Thunderbird. Start Thunderbird. It reports 992MB can be freed. I let it compact. The main inbox disappears and reappears. I wait a few seconds and restart Thunderbird. It again tells me that it can save 992MB by running a compact.

What I've tried: I've tried repair on the inbox folder of the account I'm typically in. That didn't help. I have many other folders across many accounts and not tried to repair any other folders. I've searched the Mozilla help system.

Logs: It seems to me that a compact is probably failing but I don't know where to look for evidence of the failure.

Help. Help. I have been a very happy Thunderbird user for many years. I have linked my microsoft exchange calendar to thunderbird with the TBSync and Provider for Exchange ActiveSync.

With the upgrade to version 148, those add-ons no longer work.

So I downgraded to 140 ESR and those two add-ons were ok.

But when I tried to link them to my calendar, they would not sync. I received 401 and 403 errors from the automated setups. And the manual setup, asked for my password over and over again. They all worked beautifully before.

Please how can I get them to work again. I do not want to have to shift to outlook.

thank-you

Today I have experienced a problem downloading new messages, bulk, trash or anything else in my mail server into thunderbird. it requires my primary password and then my regular password. I just set up my primary password so I understand why it is asking for that, but I don't understand why it is also asking for my regular password before I can get access to the mail server that I am using. the regular password was set up on 6/17/24 and until today it was working fine.

Hi there, it seems I'm suffering from the same problems as others in several countries. I have also not been able to access my gmx.com account via Thunderbird for about a week now. I live in Belgium and use a Proton VPN, in case this is relevant. I can't find how to delete cookies in history, nor any other potential solutions to the problem. Any help offered is greatly appreciated! Best, Doreen

I have several emails (personal and business) that I use and have them grouped in Unified inbox. Recently one of those emails showed up as a new folder (just under Trash folder) in bold type. It has with a varying number of emails in it, now 18. When I click on the 'open folder arrow', a subfolder 'Archives' with nothing in it shows up. When I open the email folder a new page appears with the email as a header and underneath 'set up another account', 'import from another program', 'about mozilla thunderbird', and 'resources'. What is happening? How can I get rid of this folder since I can't read any of the emails in it and it is just a duplicate of the folder that already is working find in the inbox? TIA

I had about 7 accounts in ThunderBird already setup and working. Now when I try to setup another account, it goes through until the screen that wants me to click to Allow ThuderBird to get information from Google. This screen comes as fullscreen with no scrolling bars. And there is no icon that I can click on the screen to Allow information sharing. I am stuck here and cannot add any more accounts to Thunderbird.