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Whenever I forward an email, I end up with two copies of the forward in my "Sent" folder. I can't be sure, but I think this behavior started recently and has not always been the case.

New email and replies do not create duplicates.

Is there some setting I can adjust to stop this happening? Thanks.

Okay, I am trying to set up Thunderbird for my wife's service club's email (gmail account). It just will NOT recognize the password during the account setup. Everything goes along fine until the available configurations come up and I hit "Done" (same for either configuration + trying to use the "manual" function).

Pop up window opens that says "enter credentials" in the header, but page is blank. Alternately, if I exit setup but stay in program and then use the "new account" option, no pop up, but same as with popup, I get "Checking password" for an extended time and then error message about user name or password. I have verified we have the correct password by logging into gmail directly using it.

I am totally stumped here. The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 15 5000 running Win11 and Tbird version is140.4.0esr (64 bit)

Have been trying to set up some pop3 yahoo mail accounts on a new computer. I have used automatic configuration. I have used manual configuration using the data from my old computer. I have checked the configuration settings on both Yahoo and Thunderbird sites. In all instances Thunderbird verifies the account is valid, but the next window asks for my yahoo username and password. I cannot get passed this stage. I have tried entering my yahoo password and I have also tried the app generated password from Yahoo, all I get is a Yahoo "something went wrong" message. Interestingly I did manage to get one of the accounts to work yesterday, but I must have tried no end of different permutations and I have no idea which one eventually worked.

Why do I keep getting these? See image.

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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.

I have my OS (F43 Budgie) and Thunderbird in dark mode. When I click reply to an email I get black text on a dark background.

Question number one: what will the recipient see exactly? Question number two: how do I setup Thunderbird so that I can read the reply I'm typing?

Hey all, here's my issue:

I recently switched from macOs to Linux mint and started using Thunderbird again. I have three email accounts.

(1) Business, hosted through godaddy on an outlook/office365 platform (2) private on mail.com (3) private on web.de

Initially, i set up three. Accounts 2 and 3 were fully functional (imap) from the get go. Account one had issues sending emails.

Yesterday I sat down to finally try to solve the issue. In my "turn everything off and on" mindset, i completely reset (or so i though) TB, deleted all three accounts, uninstalled TB, reinstalled TB and set up the accounts again, starting with account 1.

When i finally got it running i realized the issue was a checkmark regarding smtp authentification (also a known problem with office365 running on client software apparently) on the microsoft backend, and not on my computer.

After that was set up, i tried adding my other two accounts. Now, this doesn´t work any more. I get timeouts in the setup process. I tried both, adding through the account hub and without it, it just does not work. All the credentials are obviously correct, so is the imap/server data input. So i think at least.

Thanks for any suggestion in advance.

I recently changed my emails to using Thunderbird. When I added my 3rd email account, I was going through sorting folders (moving and re-naming) and it deleted a heap of my sub-folders and I can't find them anywhere - they're not in trash with the stuff that I actually deleted. 2 of the subfolders are randomly there as their own folders now and when I hover over them they still have the name of the old main folder as like "folder/subfolder". When I was moving the folders around it kept popping up with errors but still doing what I asked until this happened. Not sure if it's not syncing properly and the lost emails and folders are somewhere I can retrieve? I'm worried I'll lose more of my emails if it's not syncing properly. It always has a blue loading bar down the bottom right as well, not sure if that's associated (it has a heap of actions when I double click on it but nothing to do with the folders I'm missing).

Hello,

I use macos sonoma and my email provider is hushmail.com . I have version 115.18.0 (64-bit) of Thunderbird.

I would like to get emails in Thunderbird as soon as they come. What setting should I use?

I tried - Server Settings -> Check for new messages every 0 minutes.

Lately, in the last 3-4 days, it has been really weird, the emails don't arrive in the inbox automatically. Just to give you an example, I looked in the inbox at around 9:00am and I had to click the download button (the one with the cloud) and I got messages that arrived around 7:30am.

While writing this message I just upgraded to version 140.6.0esr (64-bit).

Thanks

I transferred Win 7 Thunderbird Profile (TB)to a Windows machine. It left behind all the other settings, such as when picking up/sending email, passwords are required at the IP to login, get email/send email.

QUESTION: Is there another TB area where the passwords are stored so I can copy those over to the new computer.

I posted this about a week ago, and when I come back, it's gone. That's why I am repeating myself.

A long timer ago, I was told by a user that Thunderbird does not need passwords. It does if you what to get your email. They are setting for each email user. There are 34 under the one TB.

I hope there is a transferable file because changing all the passwords and preference for each account would be the hard way.

I appreciate your taking the time to read this,

~r

Hi,

      I have a Microsoft Exchange hosted email address with a (mycompanyname.com) domian.   I can check this account via Outlook, but I love Thunderbird so much, I want to sign into this new company account too on Thunderbird.    I know I need to do it via the Exchange Web Services but I get an 'unable to log in at server' error.     See the screen shot attached, is my login field correct?   What should the login field be?  Willing to try any suggestions please!  Thank you,

Thunderbird refuses colored text on new Lenovo 17" Idealpad and adds asterisks not written by the author. Example message test: bbbbbbbbbbbbsssssssss ggggggggggggg***234*5678,56 *<==============* The written numbers and the arrow were colored red. No asterisks were written in the message sent. When writing, colors appeared correctly in messages with no asterisks on screen. However, no colors appear and asterisks are added in recorded messages sent and received on the PC. The Lenovo PC works OK in general, so it must be a Thunderbird configuration/function problem on my PC as the message is correctly received with colors without asterisks on my mobile phone. Can you help me correct this PC anomaly? Many thanks

I use Thunderbird on Windows and on Mac. I'm wondering why the startup time on Mac is significantly longer on MacOS. I'm currently on Tahoe 26.0.1 but Thunderbird has always been a slow starter. Can I change any setting to remedy this. At the moment I have two mail accounts configured both Gmail.

Since updating to Thunderbird v 146.0.1 and Release Channel rather than ESR, Thunderbird will not launch \ refresh. The message "Connection to server imap.mailfence.com timed out" is repeatedly displayed. Troubleshooting mode produced no information about or change to this. Accessing mailfence directly works fine - but I'd like to continue with Thunderbird.

thanks, ---dean

For as far back as I can remember I've been using Mozilla Thunderbird on a old computer running Windows 7. I've a Win10 machine here so a few months ago, I downloaded the latest Thunderbird and I was suprised to see it looked very different. After a bit of experimenting I managed to get it looking familiar so I uninstalled it with the intention of trying it again early in 2026 when I've a bit more free time, So this morning I installed the latest version but it looks even more different now :-(

I'm not sure how to attach images here but if it works, the original one looked like Capture01 and this morning's one is like Capture02. I still had my installer from a few months ago so I installed that one and it looks the same as today's one. Notice that there's no menu bar any more and AFAICT I can only view email headers and not their contents. Also, the 3 boxes at the top RHS (for sizing the window / minimizing it etc) don't work at all.

Is it me doing something wrong - or are there maybe some settings somewhere that I need to experiment with?

I'm trying to move my thunderbird data to a new computer. Both have TBIRD 140.6.0esr installed. Old computer is Mac OS 11.7.2, new one is Mac 15.7.3. I've copied and transferred the files same as Mozilla says to: (user>library>thunderbird folder to same on new computer) I keep getting this error message: A copy of Thunderbird is already open. Only one copy of Thunderbird can be open.

This is a fresh new computer, Thunderbird has never been installed. I am stuck. HELP.

I use Thunderbird 115.18.0 on a Windows 7 machine. I wish to transfer all my Thunderbird data to a machine running Linux Mint 21.3 which has Thunderbird 128.12.0esr. I have not been successful after many tries. Could this be because the Thunderbird revisions are different? If so, can I get 115.18.0 to install on my Mint machine? If not how should I proceed? I have already tried creating a new .thunderbird directory with ********.default directory from the other machine. I have also tried a new .thunderbird directory with a the ********default-release directory as directed by one site.

I have previously been able to view my trash folder and either empty or keep messages. My trash folder now has nothing in it, ever. Where is my trash going and why can I no longer see it?

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