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I have a big folder of similar letters I have to print. And I was wondering if it is possible to send the letter itself and its .pdf attachment (usually 1 page) as a single print job so they could be printed on both paper sheet sides. The reason I have to print the letter body is that Thunderbird automatically adds a footer with the printing time as well as the sender's e-mail, the date of letter's receipt, etc. Please, share any information if such thing is possible to do.

Hej, jestem okropna z komputerami. Zmieniałam w pracy komputer i zalogowałam się na Thunderbird. Nie miałam tam maili - ponoć lokalny mail?

Poprosiłam informatyka o przerzucenie maili. Niestety większość albo wylądowała w koszu, albo ich nie mam (mam maile z 2021, a nie mam z 2024?).

Stare konto było 'usuniete' z poprzedniego komputera. Utraciłam tam wszystkie maile z posegregowanych folderów. Zostały tylko te w odebranych i wysłanych, nawet po ponownym logowaniu.

Nasz informatyk kazał zmienić w konfiguracji serwera, katalog docelowy. Co zrobiłam. Nadal ich nie ma, po odświeżeniu.

Może jestem głupia, ale proszę o pomoc. Co robię nie tak...? Sprawa trochę pilna - potrzebuję tych maili.

Dziękuję!

I want to move my local folders from thunderbird laptop to android thunderbird Maybe if I could find the profile location for thunderbird android it might help, but where is it? The thunderbird android seems really lacking in access to configure it ... all over the search engine I find "how to import data and settings into android thunderbird" but every one of these references is actually just import settings, NO DATA IMPORT AVAILABLE that I can find.

Trying to report a bug in Thunderbird:

Subject: Missing message preview/snippet in Thunderbird 115 (Supernova)

Hello Thunderbird team,

I’ve been using Thunderbird 115 (Supernova) and noticed that the message list no longer shows a preview/snippet of the email body. In earlier versions, this was available as the “Message Preview Text” column, but in Supernova neither Table View nor Cards View currently display snippets.

For many users (myself included), having a one‑line preview of the message body is an important part of quickly scanning the inbox — it’s a feature Outlook and other clients provide, and it makes Thunderbird much more efficient to use.

Could you confirm if this feature is planned to return in a future release? If so, is there an estimated timeline? Even a rough idea would help us understand whether to wait for it or look for alternatives.

Thank you for all your work on Thunderbird — it’s a great project, and I appreciate the effort that goes into keeping it modern and usable.

After clicking on the message pop-up on the Thunderbird email client, the email appears blank,Open other windows to overwrite, then close other windows to resolve the issue. How can I view emails normally after clicking on the message pop-up

I'm using Thunderbird on Windows 11 with my Outlook email account. I can receive email, but when I try to send an email, it tells me the password is wrong. When I check the password in the Privacy and Security settings, Thunderbird has changed the password to a long string of letters, numbers, and symbols. I enter the correct password, but it keeps changing back to the incorrect password. I have tried deleting and re-adding the account. I have also uninstalled and reinstalled Thunderbird. Same result.

Hello, i created new folders in different mail accounts. but they are not visible. i checked the subscribe menu . the folders are visible and checked there. but still not visible if i left the menu. searching for the mail shows a result and the subfolder location. i can open the mail.

but still no folder visible thanks in advance for helping ideas Tom

PS the red arrow points to the new folders

hi all

have somehow got an imap and a pop3 [version of the same acct] acct on my main pc , but they are are the same TB acct if that makes sense. suddenly ive lost all msg's in inbox.

have opened Tb in troublshoot mode but no help. i also did an "impoort" which was no help

i have 2 inboxs with associated folders [which i don't want]. i was tackleling a problem with this acct in another thread and appreciate peoples
input there, but it was not completely resolved

i suspect i need to change both accts to either pop2 or imap , preferably the one where data is kept on a server so acct is syced with my laptop pc

any help much appreciated. thanx

update: just now i did a second "Import", this was successful and recoverd my inbox msg's, but id still like some help getting back to normal, thanks

Hi, everyone,

I have a strange problem with my TB installation - when I go to repair a folder through it's properies settings, TB deletes BOTH the message (mbox) file and the index (msf) file. There is nothing wrong with either (the folder is fine) - I'm just testing out TB's functionality as I'm moving to it.

The settings are set to always download everything and always keep everything. It's TB version 143. The reason I know the files get deleted is - if I disconnect the Internet connection and click Repair Folder, then go into the profile directory, the mbox file is just gone, while the .msf is sitting at 0Kb waiting for the connection to re-establish. Only the connection is back, TB re-downloads both the index and then ALL the messages in the account...! This is, obviously, highly problematic.

My question is two-fold: - is the expected behavior of the "Repair Folder" button to work offline? Should folder repair be possible even in offline mode? - has anyone else encountered this? I reported this on Bugzilla, along with another fellow who has encountered the same: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1997845 But it appears the developers have a hard time believing it's actually happening...

Many thanks!

Hi, Microsoft recently changed the way Shared folders in OneDrive 365 business are managed. I'm referring in particular to folders shared by other users within my organization. Now you have to create a sort of link to the folder which appears in My files. Previously I used the odrive client to sync all my cloud accounts (OneDrive, Dropbox and Google Drive). Because of the changes, those shared folders cannot be synced by odrive anymore and I had to switch to the official Microsoft OneDrive client. With that, I can now sync the folders on my local drive but I cannot attach files from those folders to a Thunderbird message. While the folders appears as a link in the root OneDrive folder when I browse it with Explorer, when I click on the folder I see the files are local copies synced in my filesystem. Yet, Thunderbird cannot access them and gives the attached following Send Message Error: Sending of the message failed. There was an error attaching kickoff_novembre2025_6slide_V2.pptx. Please check that you have access to the file. Obviously I could make a local copy and attach that, but it is not convenient at all. Any fixes available?

It very important to me to be abler to Turn OFF Dark mode when a recent TB update defaulted to that mode.

Why? Because I have vision problems. So I run everything under Windows' "High Contrast" mode, which changes all displayed colors and backgrounds.

Given that is how my system is set,  Windows "flips" your new Dark Mode into a light and low contrast image that I cannot easily read. 

SO For users like me who must depend on Windows High Contrast settings, everything is fine as long as Thunderbird retains the option to TURN OFF DARK MODE. Please be sure to maintain this option Forever, or TB will become unusable to users like me.

Thank you.

I bought a Windows 11 computer that I am transitioning from a Windows 10 computer. I like to start out with a clean slate and install from scratch. I exported my feeds into a.oplm file from the Windows 10 Computer. Opening up the .oplm file is see text as "xmlUrl="https://feed.podbean.com/potcast name/feed.xml". Is that the url entry that I used to enter in the URL for the feed if I manually subscribe to a Thunderbird RSS feed?

I would like to know, if there is a reason that the Thunderbird Flatpak still remains on a version published on July 7. Iam switching back to Thunderbird, because of the new Microsoft Exchange Feature.

Is there a Timeline for how the Flatpak updates are delayed or anything that can be done to push the current version into Flathub?

Hi, I want to print a list of selected events in the calendar, is that possible? Or, is there an extension that does it? And in the dream scenario I could export the selected lines to Excel.

//LasseT

Thunderbird stopped working today. It won't download any messages, it wants me to enter a new password. I have the correct password and can log into my mail on wowway.net I did not touch anything, it just stopped working. All the POP settings are correct per wowway website. Should I uninstall it? It seems a new update was released on 11-12. When I opened it on 11-13, it didn't work. Please help. redacted@gmail.com

For the last month I have been unable to send outgoing messages from my Thunderbird program. Initially I also stopped receiving messages, but a local commputer technician helped resolve that. I can now receive messages but, if I try to send an email I still get this message: "Sending of the message failed. An error occurred while sending mail: Outgoing server (SMTP) error. The server responded: p-impout003.msg-pkvw.co.charter.net cmsmtp 68.235.43.158 blocked. Please see https:// www.spectrum.net/support/internet/understanding-email-error-codes for more information. AUP#Out-1120." I have tried to resolve this through Spectrum and was told I would have to go to Thunderbird Support.

Please replyby: email: redacted@columbus.rr.com

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Thank you for any response Richard E. Hartle

I have 3 different email accounts on Thunderbird. All was working perfectly yesterday. Today, none of the email accounts can connect with their respective email servers. (Two are Verizon/AOL and one is gmail.) I have tried various fixes with no joy. At this point I give up. My email is very important in my life (I'm 81 years old) and Thunderbird is simply way too hard to fix with non-existent help. (Your Community help line is a joke unless you have technical knowledge. Nothing ever quite fits the problem so it is no help at all.)