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Hi iam using thunderbird for sooooo many years maybe 15 i dont remember. BUT lately it makes me crazy. If i am trying to fing some email i am using search area in the top of the app. And it will find nothing. Even if i know there is email from person who i am searching for. I will type just few letters or half od the email name and it will find nothning. To be able to find email i have to go online google mail web and search over there.

Why is it like this?

I have tried to install Thunderbird multiple times on my Windows 11 PC. Everytime I try to import my Outlook files it locks up at 33%. How can i resolve this issue? Thank you.

Dear Team,

I hope this message finds you well.

I am experiencing a significant slowdown in email synchronization in Thunderbird. Emails take a noticeably long time to appear after clicking, and the overall syncing process is extremely slow across all folders.

The problem began on Friday, December 6th, following my use of the "Repair" button on the Inbox (8.9GB) and Sent (10.7GB) folders. After initiating the repair for the Sent folder, synchronization across all folders (Inbox, Sent, Spam, etc.) slowed down considerably.

Already done: Checked "All Mail" on Google IMAP: The folder does not appear in IMAP. Troubleshoot Mode: Attempted, but it did not resolve the issue. Reinstalled Thunderbird: Uninstalled and reinstalled Thunderbird on my Mac, but the problem persists.

The issue seems isolated to Thunderbird and does not impact my Mac’s overall performance, memory usage, or speed. The synchronization delay affects only Thunderbird, while other applications function normally. I would greatly appreciate your guidance on how to resolve this issue and restore normal synchronization performance.

Thank you in advance for your support!

Hello,

my old laptop SSD crashed and I had to re-install Thunderbird. It took a few days to do so, in this time I switched from Windows 10 to Linux Mint.

After an import of a (luckily fresh) backup into the new Thunderbird installation, it don't receive messages between 02. December 2024 and 10. December 2024. I can find them via Webmailer (strato.de), but if I click on "Receive new mails" in Thunderbird, there are "no new messages" in its oppinion.

But it is possible to send me a new Mail to the given address, that will be received immediatly.

What can I do to get these E-Mails of the given date range?

Regards Tim

I use the Thunderbird add ons "mail merge" and "send later" to create mass mailings with individual salutations etc. Now I also want to send an automatic follow-up to these mailings. However, only to the people who didn't answer to the first mailing should receive a follow-up. Is it possible to automatize this process with Thunderbird? Or is there maybe an add on I can use for that? Right now I have to check every mail individually for replies and answer one after another by hand. That takes a lot of time and there has to be a solution for that. Can you guys help me with that? Thank you so much in advance!

Somewhere in between the latest Thunderbird update and me switching broadband providers from Virgin to Sky and back to Virgin again, all in the space of about a week, this problem has developed with sending emails.

At first when i switched from Virgin, I got a message that my NTL email address would no longer work after 90 days, as it was owned by Virgin. Each time I wanted to send from my NTL account I got a pop-up message asking me (Think I recall correctly) to insert my NTL password. I ignored it and switched my sending email address to my gmail email account. Now I find difficulty sending both in Gmail and in Virgin, sometimes having to wait several minutes for the email to go, sometimes it not going at all, other times waiting for a copy, then occasionally "can't copy to the "sent" folder so save in "Local Folder".

I would be grateful for advice how to revert to the previous excellent service i always had with Thunderbird.

Hello, The description of the old add-on, which is unfortunately no longer compatible, says it all: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/auto-save-drafts-folders/

Case 2: You are using Gmail IMAP. Gmail automatically copies deleted emails to the trash folder. This means that if you took your time writing an email, there would be multiple copies of the draft in your Trash folder when you got done. One for each time auto save ran.

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Does anyone have an idea how to solve this in TB >128?

Thank you

Stefan

My mother has an iPrimus email address which she accesses through Thunderbird. Today, she noticed a large chunk of her emails had disappeared out of the blue. IPrimus couldn't find the issue or locate the missing emails and were under the impression it was a Thunderbird - third-party- issue. Can anyone please step me through how to retrieve emails or reset activity? Is there also a direct line with Thunderbird to speak with?

Lately I've noticed that e-mails aren't always coming through in Thunderbird.

They aren't in the junk folder either; but when I log in to outlook webmail - I have an outlook.com address - I find that some (but not all) of the messages have come through, either into the inbox or junk folders.

Any suggestions?

Hi all

hope that's the correct place to ask a TB calendar (formerly: Lightning) question?

I am using categories for different types of calendar entries and wonder whether there is a way to search/select only entries with a specific category (i.e. Anniversary) in the "Find Events" pane?

The category seems not to be a search item i.e. for "All Events" contain ....

Thanks, Michael

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I have a Dell keyboard mdl SK-8135 that I have been using for many years. The one feature I liked was the fact that it had an email hot key along the top of the keyboard that would open my Thunderbird email. Recently however that button when depressed opens my browser and not Thunderbird.

I'm not sure why this is happening but I would appreciate any help or suggestions as to what I can do to get this dedicated key to once again open Thunderbird. I guess it would help if I mentioned that I am currently using Windows10.

Thank you all.

I've been using Thunderbird v102 for quite a while until Supernova was stabilized. I finally upgraded and Thunderbird was updated to v128. I was able to configure it to what it looked like in v102. However, when I compose an email and try to drag and drop a file (e.g. a ".pdf" file) onto the compose pane of the new email window it doesn't work. I've tried a variety of things, including saving my old profile, creating a new profile, then trying to write a new message, and finally trying to drag and drop a file for an attachment. This no longer works. I can, however, click on the "Attach" icon at the top of the write window and within a few clicks, and some searching, and a few more clicks, can attach a file.

What happened? And is this fixable? Why does all new software make it more difficult to do simple tasks that have worked for years, thinking it makes life easier by making it more difficult? Sigh...

In the middle of using Thunderbird it froze. I restarted it and it gave me a screen asking for all of my email credentials. It then started an install of the most recent release of Thunderbird (which I was not trying to do) whereby it needed to download all of my past emails, settings, etc. My Quick Text add-on was completely deleted and much of my "Sent Email" box was deleted along with all the tags I had assigned to my emails.

I am just looking for the version of the Thunderbird I was using up until 8:00 last night. Is there a way to get back to it? This is horrific timing as well since I am at the height of my busy season with work. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

Todd Catlin