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I have 25 filters set up in Thunderbird and all work as expected. However, any mail I receive that is not caught by one of my filters is directed to the folder I have set up in the last filter in my list. Why? Shouldn't any mail not caught by a filter just remain in the inbox? How do I get this unwanted behavior to stop?

I installed Thunderbird on a new Windows 11 desktop. I thought that I did the all the correct things for transferring my local folders. On the portable hard drive I can see the *.msf files. But when I copy them to the new computer they don't show up when Thunderbird launches. I copied them the same folder as on my old desktop. I even tried different folders on the destination desktop to no avail.

So I'll just ask, where should the *.msf files reside?

TIA.

Stolen laptop .Thunderbird had saved all my accounts passwords . I had no master password. Accounts were synced with my desktop .Now I installed Primary Password and, changed all my accounts passwords . Can the thief still access my accounts on stolen laptop. I backed up my profiles. Can messages on laptop be deleted . If I delete all messages from my desktop, will all messages also be deleted from stolen laptop if thief access thunderbird

Hi all, I have a new Computer and I'd like to transfer my Thunderbird installation with the complete settings (folders, mails, archives, address-book, ...). Also the calender would be of interest, because I have some settings which I want to keep. Is there any way to do this? I have access to my old computer, so I could export everything there and import that on the new one, but I did not find something to do that. Can you help me? Regards, Gerhard

why is everything going to trash in thunderer but not in Comcast.net email what do i do o i eed to reinstall it and uninstall it

can not  do restore point

Hello, I apologise if this subject has already been discussed somewhere but I haven't been able to find anything that specifically answers my question.

I run Thunderbird on two desktop systems running Windows 7 Professional and a laptop running Windows 10 Home. The desktop systems are running Thunderbird 115.5.1 (32-bit) and the laptop 139.0.2 (64-bit).

I use a file synchronisation program to keep my data on all three systems in sync, which also acts as a backup. I also use it to back up my main desktop system to a portable hard drive.

I should like to know if it is possible to include Thunderbird data in the synchronisation process, specifically mail messages in various folders (e.g. Sent, Read - including subfolders, Deleted etc.), Address books and Calendar data. I have successfully transferred the message files and their .msf companions. The sync software detects and updates changed files and this seems to work smoothly but I haven't been able to do this with Calendar data or Address Books. As far as I can see this can only be done by exporting the data to iCalendar or csv files then importing to the other systems which is obviously not convenient for something that I am doing on a frequent, regular, basis.

A final problem I have encountered relates to message filters. I have not been able to find any way to copy these to the other systems. Copying msgFilterRules.dat doesn't work and I can't find any way to export the filter data.

I should be most grateful for any assistance you can offer.

Regards, M. J. Thompson.

Hello,

I want to set up filters so that from every folder of my webmail / IMAP (inbox, sent, deleted, drafts) after Thunderbird syncs up or when a new email is received / sent / drafted / deleted, the new Emails (or changes) are automatically copied (!) to corresponding folders (that I can create manually) within the local folder as a Backup / Archive.

Please, I do not want an entirely different approach because you think this is stupid or do it differently.

SO: PLEASE, how can I achieve this?

Thank you in advance!

For the last week or so, my Junk mail folder (on Local Folders) has remained empty, which is highly unusual. I finally found all the junk mail in a sub-folder of the Junk folder called Local Folders. I have all my accounts set to move junk mail to the Junk folder in Local Folders. Somehow, the Junk folder has had a subfolder created called Local Folders, and all of my junk mail is being moved there. This is without me changing any settings as far as I'm aware.

I've looked all through the account and global settings, and I can't figure out how this happened or how to get it back to the way it was, where just looking in the Junk folder in Local Folders shows all the junk mail. There certainly shouldn't be a Local Folders subfolder of the Junk folder.

Is this a folder corruption issue? Should I manually delete that folder? Any suggestions

Hello,

My Thunderbird is on 140.0ESR - just updated yesterday. This morning I am noticing that when I open an email to read, and then close it, my inbox automatically scrolls from the top of the box to the place where that just read email is located. It used to just close and I could open the next one - now it goes through this momentary, fast scroll and then stops at the most recently read. It doesn't seem to matter if there are unread messages in the mailbox - it does the same thing when all messages have been read.

Very strange behavior - and just started with 140.0ESR.

Any ideas appreciated. Thanks!

For some time I cannot access any more Gmail messages from my Thunderbird.

When cancelling my email address in Thunderbird and trying to reopen it as new address, I'm getting the message "registration on the server failed".

Then I tried to open my email address on the laptop of my wife in her Thunderbird: there it works perfectly.

In addition I tried to open her email address on my Thunderbird: I'm getting the same message "registration on the server failed".

We have both Thunderbird 128.12

I'm working with Windows 11.

She is still on Windows 10.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

I have used Thunderbird for several years for all my emails. About a month ago, I changed my password to my spectrum account. On Friday, Thunderbird started refusing to connect to charter. The message I get is "Login to server mobile.charter.net with username xxxxxxx@charter.net failed" with options to retry, enter new password or cancel. I enter the correct new password. I get the same request - until I cancel.

   The account is working at charter if I use their web-mail.  But I want to use Thunderbird to keep all my email accounts together.  
    I did call spectrum, and do have the port numbers from them.  But I do not know how or where to enter them.  Please help
  OH - in case it matters - this is on my laptop, and the internet is wired - not WIFI

How can I stop Thunderbird from displaying its own advertising/donation page on my browser when I open Thunderbird? It opens this page on my default browser, no matter which is chosen: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/128.0/whatsnew/?locale=en-US&version=128.6.1&channel=esr&oldversion=102.8.0 If the browser is not open, it will open it.

This is the result of trying to keep Thunderbird from automatically upgrading. In newer versions, the option to choose not to upgrade has digressed from difficult to not available. It did such an upgrade, so I de-installed and reinstalled my original version, only to have this issue.

I was very satisfied with my old version AND see no need for new any of the "features" or look. And, especially, once such a setting is made, don't want Thunderbird, or any other application or app, changing it back. This is a violation of privacy at best.

Worse yet, Thunderbird is attempting to penalize the customer for making a choice on their own computer by infecting the machine with nuisanceware.

Am getting this message along with a recurring download of a specific email (keeps coming back even after deletion) that does not allow any other new messages to be downloaded. I do see new emails on my phone but will not read into Thunderbird??

Error: "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."

Tried: Troubleshooting, closing Thunberbird and reopening, rebooting windows system, compacting, etc. to no avail....

Hello There was a problem with auto renewal with my domain registrar, adotname, and the domain failed to renew and became inactive.

My host is Hostgator. the pointers were turned from HostGator back to adotname and DNS records were deleted.

I succeeded in renewing the domain but the tbird email is not working, prolly due to DNS issues. I have no idea how to reconstruct DNS in Adotname and their communications are 'iffy'. If anyone can help on this issue I'd appreciate it. Please contact me through an alternative site until tbird is repaired; vox80@protonmail.com Thank you Norm Norton

My filters seem to work for emails received but not for ones I've sent. I use the rule "From, To, CC or BCC" combined with a persons email name (i.e. preceding the @ sign) and while From works the To doesn't and remain in my sent folder. Periodically I have to use "Run Filters on Folder" or "Run Now" from within the Sent folder to move everything to their respective folders. Do I have to have a separate rule just for "To"?

I did have a version of Tbird on a laptop some couple of years back, maybe that is the confusion? Anyway was trying to set up a new separate version on this desktop. Whatever, User Name and Pswd I try I cant get an Acc and use the prog. All seems so hard and I'm old and unwell to boot thanks if you can get me sorted

I started using Thunderbird a few weeks ago. The first problem I had was importing my address book (contacts list) from Outlook. I needed help because Thunderbird would not import the CSV file created by exporting my Outlook address book. It was necessary to re-organize the columns to match Thunderbird's layout - what a pain. Next, I created nine group addresses using Thunderbird's tools. I successfully tested at least one of the groups by sending a test message to the group. A few weeks later (now) I needed to add new members to a group, but found the group had no members. All of my nine groups exist, but have no members. Is there anything I might have done to empty all of the group addresses? I'm more than frustrated trying to learn how to use Thunderbird.

Thank you, Stephen Thompson

Hello. I have a strange problem. I have the latest Beta version with an IMAP account running fine. I need to add a second POP account. When I go through the motions of New Account > Email, the 'Account Hub' box appears were I can enter the name of the account and the email address. When I click Continue, I get two green ticks and it says Looking Up Configuration then it changes to a spinning blue circle. This stays like this indefinitely. I click the escape key to close the window.

Then if I go back to the New Account > Email procedure, it takes me back to the same box with the spinning blue circle and I can't start the process again. I have to restart Thunderbird to try again, but it still won't work. I have tried starting in Troubleshooting mode and disabling add ons but like the blue circle I am going in circles.

I have two computers and on the other one I have the original Release version. This adds the second POP account with no problem.

I am on Windows 11. Can anyone suggest something to try?