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docx and xlsx attached files don't open with I click on them. I want them to open in Word and Excel. Nothing happens. I have to save them to my Desktop and then I can open them.

doc and xls attached files open when I click on them.

I can't find any associations in "files and attachments". 

I'm using version 140.7.0esr (64-bit)

Hi, I did something stupid. I accidentally deleted an entire year's worth of emails. I was in the process of archiving them, and mistakenly thought that the originals had been left in the inbox. I thought I needed to re-archive them, so I deleted the copies from the archive folder, and then - this is the stupid part - emptied the trash in the archive folder. When I went back to the inbox to re-archive the emails, I realized they were no longer there. I have not compacted the folder. Is there any way to recover the deleted emails?

I just got thunderbird and I'm so grateful to the ones who have immediately answered my questions. Now I'm trying to transfer my email of thunderbird from my pc to my cell phone. I keep trying to take picture of the QR code and it won't take it. I tried with my regular camera and it took it fine. Can you help me? Thank you for your time and knowledge.

I have just acquired a replacement PC and installed Thunderbird, and (as happened on previous occasions) I am unable to send emails because the outgoing server settings that were automatically detected are incorrect, and even feeding in those I recorded on the last occasion does not work. I have had a long conversation with somebody at Plusnet Help Desk, who agrees that the outgoing server should be mail.care4free.net and the port number should be 25, and the connection type should be SSL. He also thought that on my "Account settings" screen there should be an option "Account actions" through which I may be able to solve the problem, but this is not there. I think that last time I had this problem, some genius on this forum managed to solve it, and hope that this will again be the case!

Hi there, Just installed Thunderbird email. Before uninstalling Outlook 2016, I tried to forward some messages to Thunderbird, but Thunderbird will not show emabedded images or attached photos, regardless of format (JPG, WEBP or PNG) Example: Instead of the image embedded in the email, I got this: g:20260201194950ee722ec300f042669bef9585ca10p0eu&R=1KSFSC960P76L&T=O&U=https %3A%2F%2Fimages-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fnav%2Ftransp.gi f&H=8QFJAA9HOQ1LXLAKNXLPWFHXGSSA&ref_=pe_109088481_1104238771_opens>

I have Original HTML in Thunderbird settings, not changed anything. How do I resolve this? I appreciate your help

Update: Apologies, seems it was my mistake. While setting up the signature in the first place I *did* pick up a named anchor from a template <a name="_MailAutoSig">. It was buried in the generated HTML, and I have now found and removed it. Problem, such as it was, now solved.

Is there any way either to remove the yellow anchor symbol which Thunderbird inserts in front of my signature, or to tell the client not to display the symbol? I didn't put one in the HTML signature that I use. There's no "remove named anchor" command. It isn't related to the double -- marker, which I've already removed using config. I have no use for anchors, which for me are simply a visual distraction.

Thunderbird is so good in many ways (calendar synch is great - one of my major bugbears with Outlook - also recipient privacy when sending out group invitations) and it can be quite frustrating in some others (e.g. unwanted features that I've had to dig around in config in order to turn off)

Thanks everyone :-)

Hi there,

Is there a way to get checkboxes to select messages or at least a plan to get it in a future release? I saw that there has been an add-on in the past, but not maintained for some years and therefore not possible to use in newer versions. Yes, I know that you can select messages with ctrl and mouse click, but there are others in my family who are not familiar with it and reluctant to get used to it. (have used gmail for too long).

Greetings Grauer

I used to have Windows 10 and was using Thunderbird with Quickbooks POS 18 and if I wanted to send an email in Quickbooks like a purchase order or receipt, it would open up a mailto window in Thunderbird with no issue. I've moved to a Windows 11 computer with the same profile running a 32bit version of Thunderbird, set as my Windows default mail client, even in the registry I've set it there but Quickbooks says I don't have a default email client setup. I've exhausted every search over the internet trying to fix it. Any ideas?

In previous Thunderbird versions, when you subscribed to a RSS-Feed that required authorization, Thunderbird prompted for it, just as a Webbrowser would.

I'd enter the username and password, tick the box "Save in Password manager" (or something) and the feed would come in.

I don't know when that changed, but nowadays Thunderbird just says "Feed is unautorized". No password prompt, no possibility to mark a feed as "requires Authentication".

I know I could pass username and password in the URL, but that is rather unsafe compared to saving the password in password manager protected with a primary password.

It seems that there were some bug reports some 21 years ago about the same issue, so maybe this is a regression?

Given Thunderbird version 140.7.1 esr (32 Bit)

Since 27.01.26, no emails have been downloaded from my ISP Server and I don't know how to fix.

Note in the version above, it says (32 Bit) but Windows 11 is exclusively 64 bit ????

Something changed, but I don't know what. I can not receive nor send emails on my PC Spectrum email account. I can receive and send them on my iPhone and iPad. I've changed the configurations, but no luck. I'm using the password saved on my iPhone to log into Spectrum/Charter.net Any suggestions? Thank you!

I have Mozilla Thunderbird and I find that some emails particularly with attachments (but not always) disappear from my inbox after a few months and I can't find them by doing a search under the sender's name or in my inbox.

As an example my most important emails come from 2 sources. One is an accountancy practice and the other a property management company. Those from the accountancy practice are nearly always missing after a few months but those from the management company rarely are.

If I carry out a search on the accountancy practice name, nearly all of the emails in the list are ones that I have sent and the only way I can find a particular email is to look at the trail before my email, but by doing so there are no attachments with their email. If I then look at the date of their email in the trail and then search for the date in my inbox, the email isn't there.

Hello there - I just changed my gmail password. I deleted the existing Thunderbird account for that gmail and created a new one. I accept the imap discovery and get the login error because it appears to be using my old gmail password. How do I get thunderbird to allow me to update the password to send for authentication? Thank you!!

Since I upgraded to version 140.7.1esr (64-bit) Eclipse, I have been getting intermittent problems with sending emails. My settings for Thunderbird are to not remember passwords between sessions. When I send an email the first time in a session the supply of the password to the prompt is fine and the email is sent. But when I then send another email I get the invalid password prompt. If I use Enter New Password and put in the correct password the sending still fails. Sometimes if I delay and resend the message which has been saved, the process does work.

How can I get TB to read mail from local file instead of always going to the server? When I try to open an email in TB, there is a long pause as TB goes to the server for the email, instead of the local copy. Why is that and hoe can I get TB to read from my Hard drive instead of the google internet file?

using thinderbird and export we could have calendar.ics and calendar.html now it is impossible to save in html. please help. It was so perfect the calendar saved in html, so we could print all the data perfectly Now the results says that error happen and olny ics type can work

Messages that I have moved to Archive have totally vanished. A message which I needed to keep I found in 'deleted'. I then moved it to Archive - and it vanished altogether. I do not feel in control of this new Thunderbird! Please, is there any way of getting this message back?

I have been using Tbird for years. I currently have 3 email accounts, an icloud and two gmail. One gmail account is personal, the other is a personal account but used by 3 people for a committee we're on. The first two accounts are ok but the committee account has lost most of its messages at gmail, but they still seem to be on my computer.

Despite having used T'bird for a long time I still need detailed instructions in how to proceed to put the messages back onto the gmail account, hopefully without touching the other two accounts