"Archive" folder from Evolution & K9-Mail is not visible in Thunderbird

Hello! I'm in the process of migrating from Evolution to Thunderbird, but I seem to have hit a snag. In Evolution, there is an "Archive" folder, which any archived mess… (ვრცლად)

Hello!

I'm in the process of migrating from Evolution to Thunderbird, but I seem to have hit a snag. In Evolution, there is an "Archive" folder, which any archived messages go into (attachment 1). This same folder also appears in K9 Mail (my mobile email client), and similarly is treated as special. In that first attachment, you can also see the "Archives" folder created by Thunderbird, which Evolution does not give any special treatment to.

However, in Thunderbird, the "Archive" folder is completely absent, both in the folder listing on the main page and in the "Copies & Folders" settings where an Archive folder would normally be selected (figure 2). Notice that the "Archives" folder is still present, and is now given special treatment, but the "Archive" folder is absent. Checking the contents of the "Archives" folder confirms that it doesn't contain the emails which K9 Mail and Evolution have been archiving.

Is there a way to access those archived emails from Thunderbird?

Thunderbird Version: 128.12.0esr via Flatpak OS: NixOS 25.05 Email Host: migadu.com (IMAP)

Happy to provide any more info if needed!

Thanks!

Emi

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Update crash help get old profile from backup

Dell tech reinstalled Windows 11, but missing info on my local folders now on 2nd drive. I have iDrive backup of both the drives, need help to find what I need. I'm Tbird… (ვრცლად)

Dell tech reinstalled Windows 11, but missing info on my local folders now on 2nd drive. I have iDrive backup of both the drives, need help to find what I need. I'm Tbird supporter monthly and at other times. Sure can use some help as need some financial records that were in local folder files.

Appreciate help to find and restore my Local Folders which held the needed data.

Thanks in advance, Kelly

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eMails in Archive folder are suddenly missing today 7/5/25.

All of the emails in my Archive folder and its sub-folders came up empty today 7/5/25, but were present yesterday 7/4/25. I have tried to locate hidden folders to restor… (ვრცლად)

All of the emails in my Archive folder and its sub-folders came up empty today 7/5/25, but were present yesterday 7/4/25. I have tried to locate hidden folders to restore them, but to no avail. The computer has not been rebooted. The content of all the other folders and accounts are as they should be.

Any assistance appreciated!


EK

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Move multiple messages to folders?

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Blind, vision impaired, no contacts in microsoft store app.

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Hi,

Since the last update, downloaded on 4 July 2025 to my computer, thunderbird will not download any new emails from my server.

Please assist.

Thanks,

Melissa

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RSS Feeds Don't Update

I have 7 RSS Feeds installed and working. The problem is that 5 of them only update when I right click and update manually but the first 2 update normally when I select … (ვრცლად)

I have 7 RSS Feeds installed and working.

The problem is that 5 of them only update when I right click and update manually but the first 2 update normally when I select "Get Messages".

I've checked each feed and they all seem correct in Properties.

Anyone out there have a suggestion or solution?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Jim T

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Constantly keep inbox and all folders updated

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group addresses

I am new to Thunderbird and needed help to import my contacts from Outlook. It wasn't easy; I had to reorganize the CSV file to match Thunderbird's format - what a pain. … (ვრცლად)

I am new to Thunderbird and needed help to import my contacts from Outlook. It wasn't easy; I had to reorganize the CSV file to match Thunderbird's format - what a pain. Then I needed to recreate all of my group addresses using Thunderbird's tools. I used some of these newly created group addresses a few weeks ago. Now all of the group addresses exist, but they have no members. What could have happened? And, what should I do to recover their contacts?

Thank you, Stephen Thompson

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550 DKIM Sender Invalid - envelope rejected

Hello, Recently I have started to have emails fail to deliver to a certain domain and the message that comes back is 550 DKIM Sender Invalid - envelope rejected. I am… (ვრცლად)

Hello,

Recently I have started to have emails fail to deliver to a certain domain and the message that comes back is

550 DKIM Sender Invalid - envelope rejected.

I am using Thunderbird v128.8.1 esr (64-bit). Extensions installed are: 1. Attachment Saver (Deimios, v.0.2.2) 2. FileLink provider for Send (Teal Dulcet v2.1.1) 3. Remove Duplicate Messages (Eyal Rozenberg v0.6.1)

I have been in communication with this client for several years and not had this problem before. When I send email to the same recipients using WebMail there is no problem, it is only when I send from Thunderbird.

I am not using any encryption type of setup.

Has anyone come across this before? Does anyone know of a solution?

Thanks, Franc.

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writing a new email.

I have used Thunderbird for many years and have a direct debit set to make a payment each month. Everything on Thunderbird is ok but I cannot write a new email message. T… (ვრცლად)

I have used Thunderbird for many years and have a direct debit set to make a payment each month. Everything on Thunderbird is ok but I cannot write a new email message. The is a little envelope top left that seems to have a padlock on. HELP!

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Incoming e-mails do not always appear in the inbox when they arrive.

Incoming e-mails do not always appear in the inbox when they arrive. They always do appear but there are often delays, sometimes of a few minutes, sometimes of several h… (ვრცლად)

Incoming e-mails do not always appear in the inbox when they arrive. They always do appear but there are often delays, sometimes of a few minutes, sometimes of several hours, and sometimes of many hours. At the end of the delay they always do appear, with the time at which they were sent indicated, even though that time is earlier than the time at which they appear in my inbox. I have sometimes sent e-mails to myself, as tests -- and these are also often delayed for five or ten minutes. I am not aware of any actions that I take that precipitates either the start or the end of the delay.

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SubFolders

Not sure what has changed, but I have a lot of sub-folders in my email handler, I've set up filters and generally, the incoming mail get through the filters and ends up i… (ვრცლად)

Not sure what has changed, but I have a lot of sub-folders in my email handler, I've set up filters and generally, the incoming mail get through the filters and ends up in the correct sub-folders, but today, I've been trying to add one sub and it fails. No message, no error. Just no sub-folder creation. Did an update do this to me? And others?

კითხვის დამსმელი jmeusey 1 დღის წინ

The notorious 'Repair Folder' function once again does the exact opposite of repairing

I'm aware of the many caveats regarding use of 'Repair Folder'. It's widely known that the results are...inconsistent, to put it charitably. Nevertheless... I keep vast … (ვრცლად)

I'm aware of the many caveats regarding use of 'Repair Folder'. It's widely known that the results are...inconsistent, to put it charitably. Nevertheless...

I keep vast quantities of messages in local folders. For some of those folders, I manually archive the contents annually, by creating a new folder with the name of the year ("2025"), then dragging messages from the existing folder to the new folder. This sometimes works. More often than not though, it fails in one way or another. Sometimes I drag them across, a handful of them show up in the new folder, but then the rest just sit there in the old folder, in selected state, but with no activity taking place. Sometimes merely selecting smaller 'chunks' of messages to drag across will work. In others, such as last night, even that didn't work.

I then invoked 'Repair Folder' in a vain attempt at recovery; sometimes that will clear the issue. However, when I did this, what happened is that the chunk of messages that were selected wound up having all their date fields (in the display) reset to near the epoch - January 20, 1970. When I view the message source, the dates are correct.

I'm unable to find a way to recover from this.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Windows 10 Pro 22H2 Thunderbird 128.11.1esr (64bit)

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Tbird won't d/l new messages: "Too many requests."

Tbird starts to d/l messages: "nn of mm new messages" counts up and just before it gets to the last few, it stops. It doesn't put the retrieved messages in the inbox or a… (ვრცლად)

Tbird starts to d/l messages: "nn of mm new messages" counts up and just before it gets to the last few, it stops. It doesn't put the retrieved messages in the inbox or anything. Then it gives this error message:

"The DELE command did not succeed. Error marking a message as deleted. Mail server pop.mail.yahoo.com responded: Too many requests."

But this is POP mail, so delete request don't go back to the mail server. The number of emails deleted from the local db shouldn't have any effect on d/l... I'm mightily confused.

Yes, I did delete thousands of old emails. Still shouldn't make any difference for retrieving mail, nor should the client be overwhelmed by commands it successfully executed days ago.

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Hello, I have recently been unable to create new messages in Thunderbird. I am currently on the latest version, 139.0.2 (64-bit). There is no Create New Message Button, a… (ვრცლად)

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Thunderbird cannot reliably parse its own mbox files with esr 115.

Many of my mailboxes on the IMAP server just emptied. They were still there in my Ubuntu '.thunderbird' ImapMail directory. I have created some replacement mailboxes in '… (ვრცლად)

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