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Example why question is being asked:

Three separate GMX email accounts, each with its own unique password, and NOW Application-specific password for Thunderbird. Aliases are not used or desired. Three different separate accounts that should each have its own outgoing server.

Worked fine until updates to Thunderbird and changes to the GMX server, and Application-specific passwords became a requirement to send and receive email.

Seems like updates to nearly every program and/or app that may be released with the intent to resolve an issue or include a new feature breaks something else. M$ is horrible with updates and labels nearly everything as a critical update so it gets pushed through even when updates are turned off or supposedly permanently disabled by a registry hack; Windows 11 being the absolute worse ever. Why I only have one computer with M$ while all the others are Linux. Problems all the time with M$ while Linux simply continues to work.

Regardless, can setup each GMX account but the default email account name must be used as the user name on the other two GMX accounts on the outgoing server in order to send email. Then the recipient sees the name for the default account rather than the name assigned to the other two accounts, and the Application-specific password for Thunderbird must be changed to that of the default. Then attempting to pull down email for the other two pop accounts comes to a halt, and email messages can only be viewed by going to the online account.

Two separate accounts for yahoo, two for gmail, and one for Charter work fine, each has its own name and outgoing server. Should be the same way for GMX but is not because Thunderbird requires one of the three GMX accounts is set to Default.

Appears by having a Default email account, users are not only restricted by the default account, but email that is sent is done so with he incorrect name, The purpose for three different emails is for email segregation and better management; personal correspondence, business related, and Internet stuff.

Instead of having a 'Default' email account, makes more sense to use a valid email to register Thunderbird after downloading and installing, and then using that email for Support, Boards, assistance, etc. The default email requirement causes too many frustrating unneeded issues that should not occur, along with wasted time, stress and grief. Computers were suppose to make our lives easier and allow us more time for the real world. Biggest lie told since the Bell Labs created the transistor.

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Hello,

My email server has been absorbed into another company. I do not want to continue with the new company and need to keep my current Thunderbird account active and uninterrupted. Can I do this directly with Thunderbird/Mozilla? In other words, do I need a separate email server or can I just continue with Thunderbird for my email account?

If I am able to continue directly with Thunderbird/Mozilla, what needs to happen next?

Thank you, Edward Fleming

I'm using Thunderbird 153.5.Oesr (64-bit) on a Linux machine (Zorin OS).

Most of my email addresses use POP, but with a new email address, I decided to use IMAP. When I'm disconnected from the internet, that particular email address keeps checking for new emails and saying it can't connect. I don't WANT it to connect. A message pops up every few seconds or so and is very annoying. I need to unplug my ethernet cable/adaptor periodically, since it seems to overheat, so keeping it connected to the internet continually won't work.

I have un-selected the boxes in Server Settings to check for messages. See the images below.

Any ideas? Thanks!

I just added a Gmail account to Thunderbird. It is showing the following folders: Inbox Drafts Sent Sent All Mail Spam Spam Trash Important Starred

I would like to delete the duplicate folders, all mail, important and starred. Any idea how to do that? OS is Windows 11 Pro on my desktop PC.

Appreciate information.

I use T-bird for my email accounts and have for decades. This includes accessing an enterprize version (work) as well as basic personal gmails and even another non-google web based email account. I'm an ardent fan. I recently had to reinstall on wiped/cleaned laptop (workplace IT situation). Since then, the 2-factor authorizations have been creating problems. Including: a pop-up whenever I open T-Bird on my laptop, requiring me to sign-in to a ghost Google account. This would be less of a problem if either:

1] the account in the pop-up window hadn't been disabled over a year ago, OR
2] I could change the account in the pop-up to one I still have (can't) 

3] PS: yes, my settings for my other google accounts are at SSL/TLS & OAuth2 (except for the one that requires 4]PPS: No, the ghost account is not listed as one of my 6 accounts in T-Bird, and it was deleted long before I had to re-install T-Bird on the newly wiped hard drive... 5] I cannot log into the ghost account and disable the 'sign-in with google' option, because it's disabled/shuttered/NoLongerLive. 6] Yes, I've cleared the cache. Multiple times. 7] Yes, I've updated to the most recent T-Bird (158.0)

The popup only happens with T-bird, and only on one laptop (ot others I use, which also have T-Bird). I really don't think this is a problem at the google end, much as I'd be happy to blame them.

• MY QUESTION*: Where would T-bird, supposedly a fresh install on a recently wiped drive, be pulling the ghost of a previous account as part of the 2-factor authentifications, from? Would it be in the Config Editor? Bottom line: How can I make it stop?

TB is hanging on startup as it cannot connect to an IMAP server (Ping times out) I am chasing this separately. If I click on the TB window it grays out and I have to shut TB. I know which account is causing the problem but how can I start TB WITHOUT it trying to access servers so I can delete the problem account?? Thanks in advance. Paul N

If I want to respond to a message, using the sender’s Email-address as the addressee, I always get the following response: “A unique identity matching the From address was not found. The message will be sent using the current From field and settings from identity Prof. Dr. Manfred Lange <m.a.lange@cyi.ac.cy>.” How can I make Firefox use the sender’s Email instead?

Used old method to setup email accounts and it worked fine. New UI will jam the user name and host name and host name together for new email account setup. In UI for: Username It will have the full user and host together eg. test1@test.com Then during account setup after you enter password, I can see it on the bottom of the UI panel, so like this... test1@test.com@test.com When you go back it will put in the Username field, test1@test.com even when you deleted the host test.com from it. Also the host field screws up. It will put a period in front of the host name eg. .test.com So you have to delete the period.

There used to be an option before, but now it just always pops up. It is never useful for me and constantly switching to offline mode or using some other account first is a pain. There is no button to continue manually.

I was using Thunderbird 153.4.0esr 64-bit and my send feature on GMail stopped working. It just spun and spun with no connection.

So, I removed the GMail account from my accounts list and then tried re-adding it, but only received the following error (see image attached). This implies what? I have an account at GMail already? I have a remnant of the previous working account in my configuration? It was working fine until today.

I'm using the automatically derived ports (993 inbound and 465 outbound). That error message appears immediately after having clicked the "Continue" button.

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   base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

I am trying to replace my Outlook account which has been blocked by Microsoft AI and remains blocked after multiple attempts to get it working again. I have just added a new account and can send @mail.uk e-mail from Thunderbird. However, there is only an in-box folder shown on Thunderbird and no trace of the sent e-mail - although I can confirm that is was received by two test recipients. I did consider a Thunderbird e-mail account as a replacement but, at 79, I avoid additional costs whenever possible. Can you suggest an alternative free e-mail service which works on Thunderbird? My g-mail account used to work but now I am having password problems.

I disconnected a Google Workspace account - Calendar and mail - from a former workplace. As far as I can tell, it's been deleted from Thunderbird.

However, I'll still get dialog boxes and an occasional browser popup asking me to reauthorise it.

How do I get rid of it once and for all?

I'm trying to add an email account to Thunderbird that (seems to) require Oauth2 authentication, but it keeps opening the wrong provider in the Firefox window that it launches. The email account is a professional G-Suite address, but it always opens login.microsoft.com instead.

I've checked the MX record for the domain and it correctly lists Google servers, and my laptop was able to authenticate to the correct destination just fine. I have used my desktop for work before, which is all handled through Microsoft accounts, so I suspect that there's some kind of locally cached data which is identifying O365 as the provider, but I can't find any relevant settings or documentation from Firefox. I also cannot find any settings or controls for the Oauth provider in Thunderbird in order to force a Google workflow.

I found instructions on how to remove the kitimat@wavecable.com account but the is not a delete option. Any suggestions?

My gmail account in Thunderbird stopped working on my lap top but is is still working on my phone and note pad. This happens from time to time so I usually just delete the account in Settings then Account settings then just add it as a new account. But having deleted the account I now can't add it back again. It doesn't allow me to add the account. At the Incomming Server settings Error Creating Account Incoming server already exists