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I have 2 hotmail accounts that Thunderbird can access but my wife's one has not since set up.

I have had to set up new email account for my wife because her one she has used for 10 years will end after 6th January 2026 because email service provider is ceasing email business. I have an hotmail address that has worked seamlessly with Thunderbird for 10 years. If it is tried in Thunderbird to access the new account to check for new mail it either states not authorised or not connected. I have tried adjusting settings to be same as mine but not succeed in solving. I am at a loss. Maybe it was easier set up accounts 10 years ago?

My Thunderbird inbox stopped accepting messages with a 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 'repaired' the folder but all my junk messages suddenly reappeared in my inbox (a lot of them!). Tools didn;t work (wanted to re-apply junk filter). Went into safe mode - no difference. Now can't get any tools to work on the inbox folder. Not sure what to try next. Help much appreciated.

Thunderbird will not connect with virginmedia.com outgoing or incomimg email servers. It was working fine several days ago. All of the settings look to be correct but a message appers saying that the Connection to pop3.virginmedia.com server has been reset. I have a recovery code from virginmedia but cannot see any way of entering it in Thunderbird.

In the past week or so (since the holidays, perhaps), meeting invites I am getting are not converting the time correctly. I can make it work by manually editing the ics file and changing the first TZID from America/Chicago to US/Central I. The screen SHOWS the correct time (image atached) , but it imports as it the time was UTC

If the DTSTART and DTEND are set to US/Central it doesn't work. The issue is it would seem that the user is creating these with the webmail version of Rackspace email, which he has done for YEARS with no issue. Did something change as of recent that would make this format no longer work?

I have to export every one of his meeting invites (and several other people not using rackspace) and make that change at the top to make this import correctly.

BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Webmail//emailsrvr.com calendar//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Central BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6c27a39585ce5041bc8d09d947515f48f3366ce5 DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260109T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260109T130000 DTSTAMP:20260108T115204Z CREATED:20260108T115203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260108T115203Z ORGANIZER:MAILTO:REDACTED ATTENDEE;PARTSTAT=WAITING;CN=Mike Chytracek;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;ROLE=OPT-PART

ICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE;X-NUM-GUESTS=2:MAILTO:REDACTED

SUMMARY:Test Invite DESCRIPTION:Testing\, is this 12:30pm CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR

Hi. Somehow, in Thunderbird Mail, I moved the "Bulk" folder into the "Trash" folder and now I can't reverse that. Some of my mail is going to the "Bulk" folder and I'm forgetting to check that, thus missing emails. Is there a way to move that "Bulk" folder back where it belongs? thanks in advance

I use a work email server outsourced to office365.com and Thunderbird v115.18.0 (64-bit).

I connect using Thunderbird with IMAP, and am subscribed to 100s of my folders there.

I reorganized my folders there, moving them about using THUNDERBIRD (not, as I've learned now, using the Outlook Web interface that I "should" have used). Needless to say, I was only moving subscribed folders about.

Now I find that the subscriptions to folders which have been moved or even deleted cannot be manipulated. Folders with the same name but now in different hierarchies can't be subscribed to.

I have removed the account, recreated it and Unsubscribed from EVERY FOLDER. But the erroneous subscriptions do not go away.