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Hello, I have six calendars: five are hosted by one provider, Runbox.com, via SabreDAV, and one is hosted by a different provider, Apple iCloud Calendar. I am periodically seeing the error shown below on multiple calendars during automatic sync.

I have saved a two-day event history from the error console and can provide it on request, along with any other troubleshooting information that may be helpful.

I am technical by nature, but my programming experience was primarily with mainframes rather than personal computers. Could someone kindly help me troubleshoot this ongoing issue?

Thanks in advance.

Bill

10:34:53.958 An error occurred when writing to the calendar House! Please see below for more information. Error code: MODIFICATION_FAILED. Description: If you’re seeing this message after snoozing or dismissing a reminder and this is for a calendar you do not want to add or edit events for, you can mark this calendar as read-only to avoid such experience in future. To do so, get to the calendar properties by right-clicking on this calendar in the list in the calendar or task view. CalCalendarManager.sys.mjs:949:15

   announceError resource:///modules/CalCalendarManager.sys.mjs:949
   onError resource:///modules/CalCalendarManager.sys.mjs:803
   notify resource:///modules/calendar/utils/calDataUtils.sys.mjs:46
   notify resource:///modules/calendar/utils/calDataUtils.sys.mjs:73
   onError resource:///modules/CalCachedCalendar.sys.mjs:95
   notify resource:///modules/calendar/utils/calDataUtils.sys.mjs:46
   notify resource:///modules/calendar/utils/calDataUtils.sys.mjs:73
   notifyError resource:///modules/calendar/utils/calProviderUtils.sys.mjs:689
   notifyOperationComplete resource:///modules/calendar/utils/calProviderUtils.sys.mjs:662
   notifyListener resource:///modules/CalDavCalendar.sys.mjs:720
   doModifyItem resource:///modules/CalDavCalendar.sys.mjs:794

Here is an additional group of errors from the night before:

23:09:52.245 [calCachedCalendar] replay action failed: <unknown>, uri=https://dav.runbox.com/calendars/908506/bill/, result=2147500037, operation=[xpconnect wrapped calIOperation] 23:09:52.249 calendar: CalDAV: No response status doing webdav sync for calendar House CalDavRequestHandlers.sys.mjs:476:16 23:09:52.249 calendar: CalDAV: No response status doing webdav sync for calendar House CalDavRequestHandlers.sys.mjs:495:16 23:09:52.249 calendar: CalDAV: Error doing webdav sync: undefined CalDavRequestHandlers.sys.mjs:528:16 23:09:52.263 calendar: There has been an error reading data for calendar: House. However, this error is believed to be minor, so the program will attempt to continue. Error code: DAV_REPORT_ERROR. Description: There has been an error reading data for calendar: https://p31-caldav.icloud.com/204954917/calendars/home/. It has been disabled until it is safe to use it. CalCalendarManager.sys.mjs:952:16 23:09:52.263 calendar: There has been an error reading data for calendar: House. However, this error is believed to be minor, so the program will attempt to continue. Error code: READ_FAILED. Description: CalCalendarManager.sys.mjs:952:16 23:09:52.263 [calCachedCalendar] replay action failed: <unknown>, uri=https://p31-caldav.icloud.com/204954917/calendars/home/, result=2147500037, operation=[xpconnect wrapped calIOperation]

Look at this picture and tell me if this makes sense. It doesn't, and you're right. Whoever was the 'genius' that designed the Threads feature apparently never used an email program.

• The topmost 'main' message in a thread isn't the newest one, it's the oldest. How the hell does that make sense? • Even if you condense the thread, it still shows the oldest one • As a result, if you sort and look at the date column, it looks completely out of order. I thought it was a bug at first until I realized what was happening. • Replies keep getting indented instead of staying at the same width, which makes long thread subjects impossible to see because they get cropped off and it's just a bunch of blank space. • There's no option to change any of it.

As a result, it's completely worthless to use. None of this "well if you use a text editor to open up the layout css and find these lines, you can insert some code to kinda make it work, blah blah" no, no regular user is going to do this, nor shouldn't they. And no extension can properly correct this, as they shouldn't have to.

How could you botch this so badly? You literally just had to copy Outlook's conversations view, which is light years ahead of this and does it right. Whoever did this, you should be fired. I've used Thunderbird since it was part of Netscape Communicator, and it's stuff like this that drives me up a wall where it's clear there was zero user & QA testing when this was getting developed.

Where can a report be filed so this can get fixed and actually be useable by people?

Thunderbird will connect to my yahoo server, but will not "bring in" the mail. The msg bar will say for example "loading 1 of 76. The doesn't until server has timed out.

Today I created a subfolder and moved many precious e-mails there. That move was successful. Thereupon I shut down my Thunderbird and my computer. When I restarted my computer and my Thunderbird the folder which I created was empty. Please let me know how I can recover the e-mails. Thank you.

When I receive a junk email, it spends a brief time in my inbox before being moved to the spam folder by the automatic classifier of Thunderbird. In that brief window, the notification system already displays the notification. I found no way of changing that behavior. Is this normal behavior? How to change it?

I've been trying to create and account on thunderbird with both my outlook and posteo emails but every time I click on 'create an account' it says:

Authentication error.

Unable to log in at server. Probably wrong configuration, username or password.

It showed me the same message last year when I tried to use thunderbird for the first time, and again now that I tried again thinking it was an issue that might have been fixed since then. I double check the configuration, username and password for both me emails but it doesn't want to got through. I tried it both on my computer with the desktop version and on my android phone, and neither works.

Is there anything I could do to fix this issue?

Hello,

I have this problem. On only 1 PC from 5, with same mailboxes installed and same configurations, on one of the mailboxes, Thunderbird does not accept setting to "not read" the letter. I tried making time to read the letter and it worked for 10 min, and then again stopped. At final, no matter how it is set, when I push to read the message it always read it.

Tried repairing the folder, but doesn't work.

Any Ideas will be great.

Thank you

Is there a setting, like in Outlook, to snooze a reminder until "x minutes before start"?

If I have a reminder for e.g. 3pm, which is set to go off 1 hour before and then I want to snooze to give 5 minutes warning, in Outlook I would set it to remind me 5 minutes before. This works at any time up until 6 minutes before the event, regardless of when I snooze it..

But it seems that in TB, if you're away from your desk until e.g. 2.30pm, then you would have to calculate and manually enter "remind me in 25 minutes" to achieve the same effect.

I can't find an addon which does this, but happy to stand corrected!

I'm on Thunderbird 151.0.1 (64-bit).

NB: I have been using app specific passwords for all steps with this.

I previously had nine icloud calendars - my own and those shared with me - synced into Thunderbird. Not all had events in them. Then all the events stopped syncing.

I unsubscribed all the calendars and tried to re-add them with the calendar specific URLs. Initially none of them would re-add.

Got a new app specific password.

Followed online tutorials to try using general login to https://icloud.com and https://webcal.icloud.com. Calendars detected, but would not add into Thunderbird.

Then back to calendar specific URLs, and the calendars are adding, but none of the events.

I've tried adding the calendar feeds to Outlook, which works, so I'm pretty positive it's a Thunderbird problem rather than an Apple problem. If it can't be resolved, I'll have to move onto Outlook, but it's a bad time to do that as I want to resolve some Thunderbird email chain dependent projects first.

Any help very gratefully received.

I've been using Thunderbird on Windows 10 since last year sometime. Currently I'm on version 151.0.1.

I've 4 x mailboxes here and since yesterday, 3 of them show me an unusual message when checking for emails. I tried attaching a screenshot but although the screenshot uploaded, I couldn't find a way to insert it here. But the message says Unable to write the email to the mailbox and asks me to check if I've write privileges (which I have) and to cheek the available disk space.(currently 101GB free).

The message is happening 2 or 3 times each day and lasts for about half an hour, then everything works fine again. Has anyone else seen this??

I have been having troubles logging in with my Microsoft email account on Thunderbird (hotmail). When I fill in the name and email address, a pop-up appears with the OAuth2 authentication but the only thing that ever appears in this pop is the message "Unable to connect" with some additional possible explanations.

I have looked online a lot for solution but nothing seems to work. I have cleared the cache, removed all mentions of the email account (it was working before until I added a passkey to the account).

Other reasons I have seen is that the request might be intercepted by certain problems like Apache or Nginx etc. I am running an instance of Nginx on my home server, which is a different device. But I have temporarily turned it completely off but it did not change the situation. The same story with and instance of PiHole, it turns on my homeserver which is a different device and also had to turned off.

The machine I am running Thunderbird on is a Windows machine. I have also tried booting into safe mode with networking but also that did not do anything.

I have tried copying the url on the top of the pop-up window and pasted into several web-browsers. There is does load and I can select the correct passkey to login. But the data that comes back from it is not being given to Thunderbird of course so it does nothing. But the fact that it is able to load outside of Thunderbird makes me think it is a problem on the side of Thunderbird.

Could you perhaps help me set up my email on Thunderbird?

Receiving emails was no problem, but when sending one I was repeatedly asked for my password. I did check the save password in the dialog box. I checked the account settings and saw a yellow alert next to certificate exception and clicked on remove. That apparently was a mistake because now I can't get into email since the security certificate is not valid. Reinstalling Thunderbird may be needed, but I need some advice before I try anything else.

J'installe Thunderbird pour la première fois, je bloque sur la page " saisissez le mot de passe de votre compte de messagerie" j'ai noté ma mon adresse orange et mon mot de passe associé à cette adresse , mais il apparait un message d'erreur. Comment faire !!! Merci

How can I ensure that messages are always saved locally, along with images?

The IMAP protocol works fine now! How can I ensure that images in emails are always saved locally when the internet is disconnected?

How can I avoid constant requests to image hosts when I reopen an email?

Lorsque j'essaie d'ajouter un nouveau compte, la configuration est trouvé dans la base de données des FAI de Mozilla, je clic sur "continuer", dans la fenêtre Popup j'autorise Thunderbird a accéder à mes informations, ensuite j'ai le message "erreur d'authentification". Pourtant mon mot de passe est correcte.

I am using Windows 11 with the latest Thunderbird 151.0.1. I have been trying to add color to the column title background in the message list using the userChrome.css with the following:

1. sizeCol {background-color: #dcfffc !important;}
2. recipientCol {background-color: #dcfffc !important;}
3. subjectCol {background-color: #dcfffc !important;}
4. dateCol {background-color: #dcfffc !important;}

1. spamCol {background-color: #dcfffc !important;}
2. fromCol { background-color: #dcfffc  !important;}
3. attachmentsCol { background-color: #dcfffc  !important;}

They work except the 'from', 'attachments' and 'spam' columns title backgrounds. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong? Or is there a way to color all column title backgrounds in one line? Thanks

(If this is a duplicate, please feel free to delete. I posted last night, but the question appears to have vanished from the forum.)

I'm using Thunderbird 151.0.1. After 151.0.0 was installed, the ability to press "/" ("slash") to search while viewing a message was broken. The slash is ignored, and following keystrokes are then acted upon.

If a search is initiated by pressing Ctrl+F, subsequent searches can be started with a slash. It's only when the first search is done that the slash is ignored.

I've been using Thunderbird since the beginning, so starting a search with a slash is in my muscle memory. As a result, I've inadvertently marked or archived or starred messages, navigated to the next thread or next unread message, etc.

Looking at the release notes, I see that a search function was fixed in 151.0.0. I wonder if this is related to that fix?

In any event, can "press slash to start a search in the message window" be restored? ...thanks!

I can not get my google workspace account to authorize in Thunderbird. Using IMAP setting. Thunderbird automatically finds the correct server settings, but when I hit "continue", it gives an authentication error.

I have spent extensive time with the google workspace admin console help. This is the final result: "Thank you for trying all the steps so far. Since Thunderbird has already been added under App Access Control in the Admin console, IMAP is enabled, and cookies/cache have been cleared, but the authentication error still persists, this points to a possible issue with the application’s client ID used by Thunderbird for OAuth. In this case, you will need to contact the Thunderbird support team to verify the correct client ID for their OAuth implementation. Once you have the correct client ID, we can then configure it properly in the Google Admin console so the authentication works successfully. We’ve confirmed that all Google Workspace settings on our side are correct, so the next step must be coordinated with Thunderbird’s team."

Therefore, here I am.