Forum zhromadźenstwa Thunderbird

I just started using Thunderbird about a month ago having switched from Gmail. I've tried to forward a few emails to my personal gmail account but they are not going through. Any suggestions.

This is the error message I get when trying to download email

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.

All my other emails work fine, same computer same "Local Folder"

I live in Germany and use t-online for my email. I can receive emails but not send. I have tried to fix it myself but nothing I do has worked. I don't understand all the technical stuff, so this is maybe my problem. Can anyone help me? PLEASE

Maybe there is someone near me in Germany (Obertshausen) by Frankfurt that can Help. I speak German so this would not be a problem.

This just all the sudden started happening for my charter email account, I haven't changed any settings, the font turned red and can't receive the emails. I have mail washer and see the emails, they not from anyone shady. got a couple screen shots. Thanks

When left clicking the "get messages" button, nothing happens, no synchronization or status bar of importing shows up. The only way I can synchronize mail is to right click and select "get all new messages". Is it intended to be this way?

I have a number of pop3 accounts with the same mail host, but suddenly one of them gives me the 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 use Thunderbird on two Windows machines, and the problem is on both, so it is something in the interaction with the server, however, there is no problem accessing the mail via webmail directly on the server.

I have tried to change password on the account, but the problem did not go away. In fact, I got the box to tell me that the old password did no longer work, so I know that the problem pops up after log in to the account. Before the error message appears, the message "downloading 208 messages" (or something similar) briefly appears.

Is there a way to find out exactly what fails?

I have about 19,000 + emails in one of my email accounts , I do not want to delete all of them , just select groups , like for example I have about 392 emails from Newegg , what I want to do is get all of them in 1 place (I did this using the Filter Emails) , then I want to delete them all , but I don't want to delete EVERY email I have stored

I tried but I couldn't find any way to do a mass delete , like a Select All , Delete , I couldn't even find Delete unless it was for each email , which would take forever to sort through 19,000+ emails and delete the ones I want deleted , but leaving the rest

Is there any way to do this ?? , or is there a reason this has not been implimented ?? , it seems like a no brainer , basically my email is running slow , so when I click delete on a email , there is a pause before it deletes , I am assuming because of the backlog of emails (already read) that I have in my Inbox that I didn't delete at the time , and now have literally thousands of them

Basically what I was hoping for is to be able to take say ALL Newegg emails , and put them together , then do a Select All and Delete , but I couldn't find any way to do this , that way I get rid of the ones that have expired , but keep other emails from other people/buisnesses and just do Selective Mass Deletion

Thanks ... Jim

When all the comcast accounts migrated to yahoo, there wasn't supposed to be a change but I cannot send or receive messages through Thunderbird. I deleted my old passwords and tried to use the one that works at yahoo but it is not working.

Apparently I also have 3 thunderbirds running on my machine .  I don't know how to get rid of the old ones

I also got an error message that says 151.0.4 is not compatible with 151.0.3

I set up a filter to move messages to the junk folder. If it's not from a .com, .net, or .org domain, move it. Here's how I set it up... If the "from" incoming message doesn't contain "any of the following" ".com" ".org" or ".net" move it to "junk". It moved .com and .org messages to junk anyway. What did I do wrong? There are too many TLDs to create a filter for all of them.

I have three separate Yahoo email accounts. I set up Thunderbird to link to each Yahoo email account separately. It worked fine for a year or more. On 5/25/26 one of the three Thunderbird email accounts stopped downloading emails from Yahoo. I could see at the bottom bar Thunderbird indicating that is was downloading 1 of XX emails, but never actually downloads them. There is no error message. I checked the Yahoo email account to verify the number of emails I am missing from Thunderbird and the number is correct. I can see the emails in Yahoo. I'm the only person using Thunderbird, so no changes have been made to previous settings for retrieval. I confirmed Security and server settings for Thunderbird in and out going emails, and Yahoo are correct. I tested the connection in Thunderbird, and the connection is successful. I tried to send an email from the Thunderbird account having issues, and the email was sent and received by the recipient. The recipient replied, and Yahoo received the email, but failed to download it to Thunderbird...along with all the other emails since 5/25/26. I unlinked the account and reestablished the link between Yahoo and Thunderbird, and still not fixed. I tried restarting the computer, with no change. I tried to send an email from Thunderbird to one of the other Thunderbird emails and it was sent and received. I made changes to Thunderbird to force the download of emails, and it still wouldn't do it. I turned off my antivirus, closed Thunderbird, and restarted it, and that didn't change anything. The capacity of emails on the email in question only has 739 emails, so it's not over the limit and I have plenty of storage capacity. Thunderbird is set to save emails, Cookies and cache were cleared, no change. I ran the folder repair feature in Thunderbird, but there was no change. I compared all the settings between the other Thunderbird emails that are working against the one that isn't, and they are all the same. There was a suggestion to close out of Thunderbird and delete the "Global-message-db.sqite" file from the Thunderbird profile in case it was corrupted, and it would recreate this file when Thunderbird was restarted. The file was recreated, but it didn't fix the problem. There was mention that a suspicious email in Yahoo might be blocked by Thunderbird, so I placed various emails in the spam folder, and it didn't work. I did find one email in the Yahoo spam folder that was dated before 5/25/26 and moved it to the Yahoo inbox. Lo and behold, that one email downloaded to Thunderbird. So there is something within Thunderbird preventing emails from downloading after 5/25/26. I've read many people complain about similar download failures with no solid fix. Someone mentioned it fixed itself on a day, but then stopped again days later. Someone else mentioned Yahoo changed its password protocol to transfer emails, but that doesn't make sense since the other two are still downloading based on the "old" password protocol. I'm at wits' end. Thanks for reading all of this. I hope someone has a solution.

Hi I am Unable to send e-mails (only receive) after adding a 3rd account to my thunderbird, a microsoft e-mail (the other 2 are gmx and my old work e-mail). This is my private laptop. I tried tons of troubleshootings incl. deleting passwords, triple checking all settings (they are all correct), but I always get a pop up with "Login to server smtp.office365.com with username ... failed" when trying to send an e-mail. When I click on enter new password it just tries to send the e-mail again, which fails, so unable to enter anything.

I keep getting the following error when trying to download emails from yahoo.mail: Authentication failure while connecting to server pop.mail.yahoo.com Have hundreds of emails sitting in yahoo.mail that I need to load onto my desktop. Any help is appreciated!

I accidentally deleted a good number of my emails from my local Pop3 server account. I don't delete my emails from my gmail server so I can just redownload all my emails but cannot remember the prefix needed to do it.

If I recall correctly I go under settings for my email account, then go to server settings and add the prefix to my email shown in the Username field under the Pop Mail Server Section.

Can anyone remind me of the prefix?

It was like restore:[my email] or all:[my email].

I should have made a note of it as I cannot find it anywhere online now.

Hello, I face a problem with my email provider. I received an email and I can see 2 dates-hours in the emails platform of my provider (coprmail Cosmote, Athens, Greece). Specifically, 111:24 am and 12:06 pm. In Thunderbird, for the same email account, the column Date shows the value 12:06 pm. This caused other problem. In search I made, in the emails platform of my provider, for the same email, I have 11:24 am and in the preview window of the body of the email shows 12:06 pm. In my question to the provider, why this happened, I received the answer that the message received at their email server at 11:24 am, and the other date, 12:06 pm is the hour that the sender sent the email. I can understand that the PC of the sender could had wrong date+hour, but what is happend with thunderbird? So, my question to the community is: In the table list of emails in Thunderbird, the column Date what does it mean? I am waiting for receiving your reply. Yours sincerely Panagiotis Sousounis Region Of Attica Athens Greece

Hi

I have set up Thunderbird with a Zimbra mail serveur (Zimbra serveur 10.1.10_GA_4785) using the EWS new feature of Thunderbird.

I can setup the EWS account. The test of the secured connection to the server is returned valid. But in the mailbox, the list of folder is empty, and I see no email. Interestingly, I can successfully send email from this thunderbird using the exchange server as sending server.

To resume, no emails are received, but sending emails works.

So, I check the request to the exchange server when starting a synchronization : Here the result : Request : <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types"><soap:Header><t:RequestServerVersion Version="Exchange2010_SP2"/></soap:Header><soap:Body><GetFolder xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages"><FolderShape><t:BaseShape>IdOnly</t:BaseShape></FolderShape><FolderIds><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="msgfolderroot"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="inbox"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="deleteditems"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="drafts"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="outbox"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="sentitems"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="junkemail"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="archive"/></FolderIds></GetFolder></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

Response <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soap:Header><ns2:ServerVersionInfo xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" MajorVersion="14" MinorVersion="3" MajorBuildNumber="158" MinorBuildNumber="11" Version="Exchange2010_SP2"/></soap:Header><soap:Body><GetFolderResponse xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages"><ResponseMessages><GetFolderResponseMessage ResponseClass="Error"><MessageText>Cannot invoke "com.microsoft.schemas.exchange.services._2006.types.DistinguishedFolderIdNameType.value()" because the return value of "com.microsoft.schemas.exchange.services._2006.types.DistinguishedFolderIdType.getId()" is null</MessageText></GetFolderResponseMessage></ResponseMessages></GetFolderResponse></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

The parameters ( domain replaced by *** for privacy) mail.ews.server_versions : {"https://zimbra.*******.com/ews/Exchange.asmx":"Exchange2010_SP2"} mail.outgoingserver.ews1.auth_method : 3 mail.outgoingserver.ews1.ews_url : https://zimbra.*******.com/ews/Exchange.asmx mail.outgoingserver.ews1.key : ews1 mail.root.ews-rel : [ProfD]Mail mail.server.server4.ews_url : https://zimbra.******.com/ews/Exchange.asmx mail.smtpserver.ews1.type : ews

Anyone successfully used the new EWS feature with Zimbra server ?

PS : I confirm the EWS connection with the Zimbra serveur by successfully using EWS on Outlook for android.