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Hi,

On one of my accounts I have an enabled filter for incoming messages consisting of a Tag + Copy + Delete (see screenshot) When a new message arrives, the filter is executed TWICE (see screenshot of the log) , the copied message arrives TWICE at the destination (once tagged, once NOT tagged). In the deleted folder of the source there is only one message.

What might be gong on ? Why is the filter executed twice ?

PS : I also tried Tag + Move instead of Tag + Copy + Delete

Version 140.10.2esr | Released May 8, 2026 I get this message every time: Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because connecting to Outgoing server (SMTP) mail.twc.com failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections. Please verify that your Outgoing server (SMTP) settings are correct and try again.

Thank you, George Correia

Thunderbird Only Provides My E-Mails of the past two or three Weeks on my mobile phone and on my Laptop. Die Older Mails kann online be accesssed on the Vodafone Webpage. How can I synchronise My Account?

Hi. Since the last 2 updates, my Bell sympatico email through T-bird cannot SEND anymore emails (No errors are given but the email never comes through). I can receive emails without issue and when I use another tool (like Outlook or go directly through my browser, the sympatico emails come through) I attached the settings for the SMTP in a screenshot if that could help.

Any idea how to fix this?

Tx, Robert Z.

Okay, so how to be simple. I kept getting a pop-up from Comcast about a latest promotion and it wouldn't go away. I spoke to Comcast about their ridiculous pop-up promotion, it was coming through my Thunderbird email client. That may be taken care of. But in the meantime I tried to delete my main Thunderbird account, I must have done so and now I can't get it back! I've tried everything! I was using an IMAP account, and for my incoming I had imap.comcast.net. For my outgoing I had stmp.comcast.net and the ports were 993 and 587 I believe. Please don't quote me on this. So when I try to create a new email account using the same information I keep getting an "Authorization Error" each and every time!

So....since and while writing this email, the Comcast pop-up continues to pop up, and I still cannot reset my email account. Talk about a frustration level at this point! I would like to keep my Thunderbird email account minus the stupid Comcast pop-up. I just don't know what to do. Please help from anyone who can!

Thanks,

Michael....

Not sure what has happened to my PC but lost my Thunderbird app.

Reinstalled but cannot get my emails working again. I only get emails up to 13th May 2024; I guess when TSO Hosting finished?

I am now on 123 Hosting.

I have a note that SERVER for both i.e. Incoming and outgoing is:-

sxb1plzcpnl503269.prod.sxb1.secureserver.net (smtp as prefix)

Where and in what format do I enter theses server details.

I think I also need to get into cPanel but the URL I have will not work:-

https://sxb1plzcpnl503269.prod.sxb1.secureserver.net3 (:2083)

Sorry but I am confused; don't get old!

I can receive outlook e-mail but I cannot send from Thunderbird. I am asked for a password for the specific Microsoft server. I enter my Microsoft account password but this does not work. Security setting is STARTTLS withNormal Password authentification. My other Thunderbird non-MS e-mails are problem free.

Hello,

Everything working just fine last night. Wake up and Thunderbird will not retrieve emails.

Remembered this old message I got so I went through and deleted my second email address, didn't help.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-yahoo

Checked all settings compared to Yahoo, still won't download messages. I can even send a message with my current settings no problem, and it does login, just won't retrieve emails. Gives me a connection timeout.

Anyone have any ideas?

In one email account the arriving messages arrive shown as "read". before they showed "unread" and were bold. I've tried but can't figure out how to reverse that. a different email account on the same reader shows new messages

Comcast/Xfinity email services have migrated to Yahoo. Using Thunderbird I cannot send out a reply. the error message is "Login to server smtp.mail.yahoo.com with username leifsvensen failed."

I am getting emails in, but for some reason it is not asking for a password when I open up Thunderbird. I would like it to ask for a password every time I open Thunderbird.

outgoing mailbox settings: Server name: smtp.mail.yahoo.com Port:465 security: SSL/TLS Authentication: normal password user: leifsvensen

I have also tried it with authentication turned off and get the same result.

Thanks Leif Svensen leifsvensen@comcast.net

Running Thunderbird 128.14.0esr (64-bit) via 64 bit Win11 Pro v. 25H2 on a Dell Inspiron 16 plus, Core i7-12700H @ 2.3 GHz, 24 MB cache, 40 Gb RAM, 877 Gb free on a 1.8 Tb Crucial T710 NVMe SSD drive. Integrated Intel Iris Xe graphics using 20 Gb shared RAM.

I have 5 email accounts (AOL = Yahoo, Yahoo, GMail, Verizon = Yahoo & MSN) each with a distinct IMAP server description. I also had my daughter's AOL account in the same TB profile.

On 5/9/2026, I foolishly entered my credentials in an AOL request for verification of her account (to allow TB access). As result, my jawarters@aol.com account and her jmwarters@aol.com account somehow became linked. Her email account in TB now contained only messages which were duplicated in my email account.

I deleted her existing jmwarters@aol.com mailbox and attempted to recreate it in Account Settings. Despite entering distinct IMAP settings (user name = jawarters@aol.com, imap.aol.com, port 993 and user name = jmwarters@aol.com, imap.aol.com, port 993) and having distinct SMTP settings with the user name in the Description, the recreated account again downloaded my emails into her TB account. The same happened when I opened TB on my desktop.

Interestingly, TB for Android v. 18 kept both accounts separate. I attach a copy of the TB Android k9s settings file which shows the same IMAP and SMTP settings as the laptop / desktop TB.

Help solve my self-imposed problem! Jim W

On my PC Thunderbirds sending/receiving mail says the mail server refused my connection. My laptop works fine. I have duplicated my laptops in/out specifications onto the PC but still nothing works. Spectrum says everything on their end is fine but can't vouch for roadrunner who is the rr in my mail address of ca.rr.com. All this started about 4 days ago. Any ideas on what to try next? Thanks.

This is what I get when I click on email link. I can't delete it. This has to be solved before I can get to my second problem https://webmail.spectrum.net/mail? context_token=eyJza3NpZCI6ImNvbnRleHRfdG9rZW5fc2lnbl9rZXlzZXQiLCJza2lkIjoiNmJkYzZiMTEtZjBiZS00ZGFlLTliOWUtY2RkMGMyNWE5ZmUyXzIwMjAtMDEtMjRUMDcuNDIuNDQuMzQwWiIsInNlY3BvbCI6ImNvbnRleHRfdG9rZW4iLCJraWQiOiI2YmRjNmIxMS1mMGJlLTRkYWUtOWI5ZS1jZGQwYzI1YTlmZTJfMjAyMC0wMS0yNFQwNy40Mi40NC4zNDBaIiwia2V5VHlwZSI6IlJTQSIsImFsZyI6IlJTMjU2IiwianRpIjoiYWU2MzMwZDYtNTBlZi00Mjk3LThlOTMtZDUxOWVjZmMxMjdkIn0.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.SkxhnFtRLxHTpXXn5_kDX8nBISuPu3wdpoNFwTKLtmUadL29D40rNMHlmEOOa2LbGFVi8qlEWnscUMV8WXGLF02RFhSsEMFtBbXGpB9XUy6q_YW5FRJo1su5AJxboh1LMastJ39rdqnooQsnvA5_Mmy4NDBZrb1bQCmzXn3wiLsiBDMxorQ8Kk45CEWL6Bz09Z8EltuEQ2yVN3FGTGqAeU2i5-qNv12kzgimIu4TbDyE2DIi6_AKenLGc1kXlcZ8oxGjUEbJm1AThmpNbGF9WJ7d55_JQyfGWvEMIYNOtAiPaNNRCF1AlcBP3TAH34L1uI49Ve6C0SvidbRu2jYDuQ&referrerAppVisitId=202601311716P-753ab3c2-c22c-44cd-865d-2b77307fabfa&referrerAppName=SpecNet&referrerAppType=Web

I have two computers, both Lenovo. One is an older model running Ubuntu linux and the other is a newer one running Windows 11 and Ubuntu WSL. The plan is to move from the older to the newer. The older model has Thunderbird 140.10.1 esr (64Bit) and I have no problem with it. The newer one came with Windows 11 and Thunderbird 150.0.1 (64Bit) installed. I want to set up the newer computer with the same complement of email accounts as the older. This complement of accounts includes a gmail account, a yahoo account and an account that existed on comcast.net before being moved to yahoo. The latter still retains its comcast.net identity, but is served by yahoo. To support this account, it was necessary to provide Thunderbird 140 with the comcast.net email address, but configure it with yahoo entities underneath. However, this same process does not appear to be supported by Thunderbird 150. It seems to insist on using comcast.net entities, which do not exist anymore. My question is, am I correct in this conclusion, or is there a way, which I have not discovered, to configure the account to work on Thunderbird 150? If so, what might it be? One final note, I am not likely to be unique in the comcast.net issue. I suspect there may be thousands of us.