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My signature block in an external file stopped working a couple days after i migrated to a different machine (but it worked temporarily)

I went into debug mode to try and analyze but have not been able to get out of debug mode,

Hi. Right now mesages with same subject are shown under first message (Uploaded image), this is good, but I would like to see them like messages in gmail. If I open any message I would see all this messages in message pane as list. Where I could make some compact or if I want I could expand all messages and see them all at once. Is this posible in Thunderird?

I have numerous folders in my email account. Some folders have subfolders. I have one case where a folder has two subfolders, but when I expand to show the subfolders, only one subfolder is displayed. The main folder and both subfolders existed in my account before I installed Thunderbird.

Hoping that someone can get me pointed in the right direction to sort out a problem I'm having.

I've been using Thunderbird successfully for a number of years on a few different PCs to access my email account. It worked just fine years ago with AT&T and more recently Frontier email servers. Several months ago Frontier discontinued their email service. But I had a "Free Email For Life" account which they automatically switched over to a Yahoo Email account which allowed me to continue using my long standing "@Frontier.com" address. The change over went pretty smoothly and Thunderbird was still working as expected. Until it didn't.

In the last month or two Thunderbird in two Windows machines will not connect to my Yahoo email account. I continually get messages indicating a "time out" issue when attempting to connect. But I can still access my email by logging directly into my Yahoo webmail account.

The two main Thunderbird installations, one on a Win 10 laptop and another on a Win 7 Pro desktop are the main problem areas with time-outs and no connection established. Oddly enough Thunderbird for Android seems to work just fine on my phone.

The only free tech help that Yahoo would provide was essentially to check my SMTP server settings, which I did again for probably the fourth or fifth time. I also changed my password which was a couple years old . . . just in case. But I'm still spinning my wheels.

Hopefully someone else has had a similar experience and can tell me what I may have overlooked. I don't want to switch to Gmail or any other server if I can avoid it. Yahoo offers their own 3rd party app but it seems a bit futzier and more invasive than Thunderbird. Somebody please point me in the right direction of where to dig in next.

Hello, I have several role-based accounts attached to my work email account. When trying to read an email from one of those role-based account, when Thunderbird tries to load the email, I get the following error message: "The specified object was not found in the store. The store ID isn't an ID of an item." The message never loads. I just get the error message. What does this mean and how do I fix it?

Thanks!

Running Thunderbird V130.0.2 64-bit on Win 11 Pro. I have several profiles, mostly on Gmail. Yesterday I had to change all of my email passwords. I was able to change passwords on Thunderbird for all but one of the Gmail accounts. I still don't understand why I had this issue with one Gmail account but not 2 others. Eventually I deleted the profile in question and created a new profile (same Gmail email address / account).

Which was fine but in doing this I lost my local email folders. I have all of the email folders and I tried just moving them from old profile to new one. This worked fine for local folders (at least the ones I tried) but not for nested folders. The support I've found so far tells me how to move the entire profile, but that doesn't work (I run into the same password problem as I did yesterday).

Is there a way to tell Thunderbird about these nested local email folders so they will be found upon Thunderbird startup? I haven't found it yet.

My local email folders are found here: C:\Users\<Windows Account>\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\<Thunderbird profile>\Mail\Local Folders

Thanks in advance.

Dear Thunderbird, I am using version 128.10.2esr and I have noticed lately that in my Inbox the email From have all been given the same incorrect senders name. This usually happens to emails that contain an attachment How do I correct this ? Thank you. Regards. Steve Hawes.

It would be very useful if I could see Inbox and Sent mail together, in a single list, without including any other folders.

If I use All Mail, it includes all of my archived emails as well. I would like to avoid this when I go through all of my Inbox and Sent emails and put the ones I want to keep into archive folders.

I suppose a simpler and more flexible way to implement this would be to provide the ability to use check boxes to select exactly which folders I want to include in the list. Each folder would have a its own check box. That would be very flexible and incredibly useful.

After my email provider changed some things, to get TB to work I had to delete and add back my five email accounts (discussed in another thread). All those email accounts now work, but their visual presentation is very different (and worse in my opinion). Before, there was one Inbox, Junk, and Trash, all under Local Folders. Now, there are five (one for each email account) sets of Inbox, Junk, and Trash. They appear above Local Folders which now contains only items put there before my problem started.

I've attached an image of what this visual presentation looks like now.

I ask the following question a WEEK ago. No one has offered a solution. Can someone put me in touch with Thunderbird Tech Support?

Recap

Thunderbird(TB) gets mail from Hotmail, my own domain, and gmail. I've use and auto-updated this program for the past 20 years. This is the first major problem I've had. Nothing has changed, ie: updates, new programs, or the like.

TB has stopped retrieving new mail since 05.12.2025. I can send mail but not receive mail. ALL settings are correct. I can go to the original sites individually and all the mail is there. Obviously I can send and receive mail on those sites, but TB will only send mail not receive it. The only thing I have not done is uninstall/reinstall.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

New Info: No error messages, sometimes when I click on "inbox" it says "Loading Messages" but it says that FOREVER.

Second question: If I re-install, can I bring all my setup, filters, and boxes to the new install without having to recreate everything from scratch. I have at least 100 subfolders and as many filters.

My Thunderbird(TB) gets mail from Hotmail, my own domain, and gmail. My TB has stopped retrieving new mail since 05.12.2025. I can send mail but not receive mail. ALL settings are correct. I can go to the original sites individually and all the mail is there. Obviously I can send and receive mail on those sites, but TB will only send mail not receive it. The only thing I have not done is uninstall/reinstall.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Here are the error messages I get when trying to send or receive email. Note that I've been using Thunderbird for many years and the email addresses or settings have not changed in a long time.

After compacting, nearly all my my e-mails that were stored in subfolders have disappeared. You indicated that most of these should be recoverable, but I'm unable to locate any process for doing so.

Some of these subfolders contained links to paid subscriptions, and of course - restoring those is pretty critical, both personally and professionally.

Please explain how to go about recovering all these missing e-mails. I cannot believe a regular maintenance procedure would result in such a significant data loss.

Many thanks and best regards!

John Van Epps <redacted>@gmail.com

I want to send an email to most (but not all) the members of a mailing list - as I used to be able to. In the historic (2015) Help article "How to create and use mailing lists on Thunderbird" the first of 2 methods of "Create email using a mailing list" was "Via the Address Book"; "each contact in the mailing list will appear in a separate To field. This allows you to remove a name, if desired. " To do this, the 3 steps were:- 1 Click Address Book to open it. 2 Select the mailing list. 3 Click the Write button. Using 128.7.1esr (64-bit), step 3 is not available; the 4 options after selecting the mailing list are

• Edit list
• Export
• Print
• Delete

Is there a way of actually doing what used to be possible before the improvements took place (and IIIBDFI was forgotten?)

Dzień dobry , proszę o pomoc przy eksportowaniu skrzynki z komputera na telefon pojawia się tylko to co w załączeniu, co robię nie tak ? nie ma folderu odebrane ani nic więcej poza folderem "wychodzące"