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Just got a new pc with windows 11, I used the export from my older Thunderbird to create the file and it worked great, but I messed up when I installed Thunderbird on my new pc, I was so impressed (and curious) that Thunderbird could auto set up my email account, so I let it do it and it worked. I have 3 email accounts and when I used the import I thought it would overwrite the one it just created, but it didn't so I'm missing 3-4 folders I had on that one account It imported the other 2 accounts and folders great Is there a way I can get those folders from the old pc and copy over to the new?

I tried to uninstall Thunderbird from the new pc so I could do it right, only use the import function and get everything, but it doesn't uninstall much, everything is still there. Or is there another way? Thanks.

Is there any way to get Thunderbird to display attachments in the body of an email message rather than in tabs underneath the email? There is a "Display Attachments Inline" option under "View" but attachments are in tabs whether that's checked or unchecked. I am coming from Mac Mail...and am used to seeing the attachments in the email body itself before I grab them and drag them to my desktop. They only appear as tabs in Thunderbird.

Emails from a number of emails are going into my junk folder that should not go into it. Even when I mark each email as "Not Junk", it continues to grab emails that it shouldn't. This has been going on for a long time and list of Non-Junk emails going into the Junk folder is increasing. I cannot find how to fix this any where on your website.

I am not a techy of any sort, so don't want to change any thing I shouldn't.

Maybe the easiest thing to do us just shut down the junk grabber. I'd rather do the choosing my self.

Thanks

Steve Powell

Hello, I had to download Thunderbird (and donate to you) last November in order to access my old Rogers.com email account, because Rogers quit supporting other email clients like Apple Mail two years ago. But Thunderbird doesn't allow saving in RTFD format, only .txt text and .eml email formats. Only Apple Mail allows saving on RTFD format. How can I save emails in both RTFD format and .EML format in Thunderbird in Mac OS? I'm running a 2012 Macbook Pro with Catalina 10.15 just for the Rogers email account, because if I switch to another Mac, I lose access to the AppleMail client for my Rogers.com account. I'm mainly using a 2023 Mac Mini M2 8-512 running Mac OS Sonoma 14.5.

Switch my email and login from dave.stuhl@rogers.com to dave.stuhl05@gmail.com, as I switched to GMail last November.

1. I'm running v 128.7.0esr, Windows 11, hardwired or wireless connection 2. I manage 8 email accounts in Tbird, ONE of the IMAP accounts started checking email on startup and I can't get it to stop. 3. I have all the Server Settings, specifically including "Check for new messages at startup" UNchecked

I checked the previous messages (and even Reddit...) but nothing I've tried works. The other accounts are unaffected.

Unless I'm not connected, it's a minor inconvenience but when I'm off line (like working on my laptop on a plane) it seems to "bog down" trying to connect and retrieve for that one account.

Suggestions about how to turn that off?

Hi,

I use Thunderbird's Message Filters to sort my incoming mail. I have about 31 filters, some of which are long ("Delete Junk" and "Advertisements" are two, which OR many domains and send mail directly to trash or a specific "Adverts" folder). I also use several Linux computers and run Thunderbird on each computer for connecting to my GMail account (IMAP). I like to synchronize my filters between my Linux hosts. I've been pointed to the file for copying filters between hosts: HOME/.thunderbird/MyProfile/ImapMail/imap.googlemail.com/msgFilterRules.dat

Copying that file between hosts (or using it as a backup after SNAP damaged my profile again) only partially works. The filter name, action, etc copies alright, but when triggered, the filter fails as the "folder" does not exist. Of course, the folder still exists and has for a long time. The following is a log entry from such a failing for a "magazine" entry for "Aeon".

[4/25/25, 12:35:15 GMT-4] Applied filter "Aeon magazine" to message from Aeon Weekly <support@aeon.co> - This week: Why AI science will be incomprehensible at 4/25/25, 12:34:22 GMT-4 moved message id = 89c6e02ebaf75bbc918731474.c3e7d573b0.20250425163412.c7ad5cda2b.7a1e170f@mail220.suw16.rsgsv.net to imap://mdalphin%40gmail.com@imap.gmail.com/Maillists/Aeon

[4/25/25, 12:35:20 GMT-4] Filter action failed: "Move failed" with error code=0x80550009 while attempting: Applied filter "Aeon magazine" to message from Aeon Weekly <support@aeon.co> - This week: Why AI science will be incomprehensible at 4/25/25, 12:34:22 GMT-4 moved message id = 89c6e02ebaf75bbc918731474.c3e7d573b0.20250425163412.c7ad5cda2b.7a1e170f@mail220.suw16.rsgsv.net to imap://mdalphin%40gmail.com@imap.gmail.com/Maillists/Aeon

The entry in msgFilterRules.dat reads as follows after the failure: name="Aeon magazine" enabled="no" type="17" action="Move to folder" actionValue="imap://mdalphin%40gmail.com@imap.gmail.com/Maillists/Aeon" condition="AND (from,ends with,aeon.co)"

A "diff" from a saved version of the file that worked shows that it is identical except for "enabled".

This failure happens to 100% of my filters - the "actionValue" is not recognized as I move the file between hosts or different profiles. I need to re-select the desired folder in the drop-down list of "Move to:" in the "Edit Filter" dialog.

Any idea on what is going wrong? It is as if there is some cache of recognized Imap folders that have unique IDs on a per host basis. Is there anyway I could make this copying work better without need to restore each of the 31 folders every time I make a copy?

Thanks, Mark

My thunderbird has anemail account that stops receiving emails and syncing. I am at a loss to figure out why? If I remove the account and re-add it works for a while then does it again.

A jpg atttachment no longer opens with right click. I have looked at settings, in files and attachments and have tried, open with photoshop elements, open with firefox, always ask, and save file. None make any difference. I can right click on the attachment and the menu says open, save etc. click on open and nothing happens.

I (by mistake) tried go attach a file that was too big to send in a Thunderbird (gmail) message. Even though I click "Cancel" to the warning "Warning! You are about to send a message of size 29.6 MB. Are you sure you want to do this?" the warning reappears each time I open Thunderbird (and I have to close and restart it to have it send any e-mails). The offending message is not in the drafts or trash folders. How do I tell Tbird to stop trying to send this message?

I created a 2nd account years ago and it has worked since then. Now when I create a third account, it works well but when I disconnect I loose the account and have to recreate it again. How come?

Hi all

I installed Thunderbird for Android last week and it was working fine until today when it has stopped loading new messages. The desktop version on my laptop is OK, so it's just the phone app that won't work.

Any solutions out there?

Thanks in advance

see attachements.

I almost threw these messages out but they are legit emails from my cc.

What do I need to do to have ü in the subject displayed correctly?

I have filters set up to file emails to a second IMAP server email account. The filters are set up to copy then delete the email as the source is Gmail. When I get two emails in a row that match the same filter, the first email copies and then deletes as the filter specifies. The second email does not copy but does delete. The filter logs show that both copy and then delete.

This drives me nuts. I want Thunderbird to open links in a specified browser (not the default). I checked the https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/hyperlinks-in-messages-not-working#w_check-that-no-application-is-specified-for-the-http-content-type page and found no solution. In my settings > general > Files & Attachments I don't have any http/https entries. In the config I set the "network.protocol-handler.external-default" to false, "network. protocol-handler.warn-external.http" and "network. protocol-handler.warn-external.https" to true. When I click a link, nothing happens.

I'm on Fedora 42 (Gnome), tried both Fedora binary and flatpak. No luck so far.

I would appreciate your help.

Since a while my maila ddresses are no longer autocompleted. Browsing through this forum I ried different approaches but nothing helped. How did this happen and how can I get back to what I had? Thanks in advance, Silke

I am using both Outlook Web App (OWA, weaning myself off it) and Thunderbird. If I reply to a message using Thunderbird, both Thunderbird and OWA recognize that the message has been answered and they both add an arrow icon to the message. However, if I reply to a message using OWA, Thunderbird does not recognize that the message has been answered. Is that normal? Shouldn't it see the \Answered flag on the IMAP server?

I'm using IMAP on an Exchange server, and this happens with Thunderbird Beta 138.0b4 and Daily 139.0a1 (2025-04-23) under Windows.

Thank you.

Hi all,

TB 128.9.2esr Win64

If I click the 'spam' button on an unread message, or right-click it and select 'Mark as Junk' or if I do the same with a selection of unread messages, TB marks them all as read (which I'm unconcerned about) but doesn't apply the red Spam flag. If I then do the operation a second time the flag is set.

This appears to be new functionality - is it by design? Can this behaviour be changed?

Thanks, Tony