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I've followed the process of adding an email account but on the page title Setting Up Your Existing Email Address, when I click "Done" at the base of the page, I get an error message "Error Creating Account, Incoming Server already exists.

I use Protonmail, and after a year of on-and-off back and forth with them, I finally have the bridge working with Thunderbird.

At any rate, I have been trying to import my contacts from the Protonmail webmail to Thunderbird. There is an export tool on the webmail site, and that seems to go fine - it creates a .vcf file. If I open that document, it has all of my contacts there. Then I open Thunderbird and use the import tool - that appears to go fine, but after I hit "finish" and look in the contacts, there are no addresses. I have shut down and rebooted, closed Thunderbird and re-opened it, tried all of this several times, but nothing changes.

I searched on here for threads on this and found things from 2015 saying that a .vcf file is for individual addresses only, but I'm thinking that must have changed? It is the only export option.

Can anyone help? I have TB 102.8.0, and I am on Cinnamon - Kernel: 5.15.0-67-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.8 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy

Thank you.

Using Thunderbird 102.9.0 (64-bit), Windows 10

To clarify what I mean in my title: I've set up a message filter that is supposed to search in the body that contains a word. I know the word is in the body, but yet the filter is not being triggered.

I have tried a different word that has spaces before and after and it seems to work, so I guess that's the problem, but how can I allow thunderbird to work when there's different characters before or after the word also?

I need someone here to please help me with resetting my Thunderbird email Version 102.9.0 (64 Bits). The Settings are messed up and I don't know how to reset them! You can contact me at my two email addresses [emails removed from public forum] Thank you in advance for helping me!!! Carl

With the recent update to Thunderbird I am getting the following error when I click on a link that will take me to the internet for information.

In a window I get

Choose Application Choose an application to open the HTTP link

When I click on the tab for the application it searches for an application (*.exe;*.com) that is not there.

Please assist me, I will even allow remote access to better resolve this headache!

Richard Germain rdg_tech@comcast.net

Saturday 25-Mar-2023

To the Thunderbird support group,

I am not tech savie when it comes to software. I have been reading through the links related to this issue and I am now at a total loss! I have had to go back to Outlook to to refer to emails with links within them. I have only until 31-Mar-2023 before the email server will stop sending emails to Outlook. I am desperate to get this issue resloved. I ask your team to please help me!

Richard Germain

I've been happily using the feed from https://feeds.feedburner.com/LICD for quite a while, but in the last few days, suddenly Thunderbird 91.10.0 (64-bit) gives me the feed "is not authorized" error. Previous solution https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1166672 isn't working for me - Lightning is no longer an extension, so I can't deactivate it. I'd remove the calendar function entirely if I could - I don't use it.

Going to advanced preferences and pulling up calendar.useragent.extra gives me radio buttons to select Boolean, Number, or String with a plus sign to add it. Adding one doesn't fix it. Setting to false doesn't fix it. Deleting the one I added doesn't fix it. Right click only gives me Select All, which highlights all text on screen and does nothing.

Most of my other feeds are fine, and checking the website shows the RSS URL has not changed. I have read a couple of other complaints about this same issue, and, apparently there is a bug concerning this issue at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1694001 but it has been stalled for over two years.

Is anyone going to do something about this?

Windows 10, Thunderbird 102.9.0. I have a local folder for "Clients". There are subfolders for the individual clients. Within these there are annual subfolders. I move emails to the local client folder, then at the end of the year I move them to the new annual subfolder. I’m looking for a recent email in a local client folder, but all I see are the star and “read” icons – no entries for the various headers. The annual subfolders are fine, location correct etc. The local client folder “Properties” shows no location for the file index, no size, unknown number of messages. The “Repair Folder” option is unavailable (greyed out). Looking in File Explorer (Windows 10) I don’t see any file or .msf file for the local client folder, although there are files and .msf files for the annual subfolders. If I move a new email to the local client folder, it vanishes into the abyss. I ran a surface check on the SSD which showed no problems. HELP, please.

I used to be able to use my arrow keys to scroll through email folders (in/out, etc), reading the previews rather than actually opening up the emails themselves. For some reason this no longer works? Instead of remaining in preview, the email open up. Is there a setting I'm missing? Peter

This past Sunday, when I opened my email program, my mail would not open. It was asking for a password. I did not sey it up with a password. After a couple of tries, I got the message that my email had been shut down but it is now re-opened. I logged on my my internet carrier & they said they had not closed my email but if I was using a different email program that might be the problem. Once I signed into my internet carrier, I did start receiving some emails but I am not receiving all the emails that I was receiving before the message that my email has been closed but was now being re-open. Did something happen on your end that can possibly be straightened out?

Thank You, Geraldine Pollard

My last update Thunderbird (111/112) changed layout UI to "Supernova" (I think, it's changed now), which uses 2 lines per message (with no more detail Tabs)

I HATE IT

I want my compact 1 message 1 line back

How do I do that? Is that even possible?

The emails display OK (without markup.jpg). This is an example of what the markup looks like (with markup.jpg). If I enter "Bell Pepper" in search, nothing appears except from Safeway emails from before 2021 (when they switched to html). All emails are included in the "regular" search (right click -> Search Messages). So the problem is (apparently) that the words are not included in the global search database.

Windows 10, Thunderbird 102.9.0. I have rebuilt all of the .msf's, rebuilt the global database (several times). I have compacted all of the folders. I have run in Troubleshooting mode. To no avail.

Bonjour, THUNDERBIRD m'a suggéré de compacter ma messagerie et j'ai cru devoir le faire. A la suite, j'ai constaté que Thunderbird a "dédoublé » cette messagerie (qui contient plusieurs comptes) pour créer séparément un second compte Thunderbird et y recopier -pour partie de son contenu- l'un des comptes existant,, ( certains messages s'affichant tantôt sur les deux comptes, tantôt sur un seul) ; ce qui devenait peu praticable, d'autant que je ne pouvais plus, depuis mon compte habituel, répondre aux messages que je recevais, il fallait que j'initie une réponse sur le compte nouveau dont je me suis alors aperçue qu'il s'agissait d'un compte « bêta ». et, Depuis 48 heures, toutes mes autres messageries usuelles ont disparu de ma messagerie initiale, ; tandis que seule subsiste la messagerie THUNDERBIRD beta – Comment les rétablir ? – Comment supprimer le compte bêta sans rien effacer de mes autres comptes auquel je n'ai plus accès, sachant que j'ai constaté que le contenu de ces comptes existait toujours, puisque en ouvrant ce jour mon ordinateur portable lié à mon ordinateur de bureau par l'abonnement Microsoft 365, je les y ai retrouvés, et, je le suppose, à jour.

I had a folder that was its own folder. Now it's a sub-folder. I can only make it a sub-folder of another folder. How to fix this?? I have tried to drag the folder in between other folders, but that does not work...a circle with a line through it shows on the screen. Thanks. TomS Houston

Hi, I've just spoken with Apple Care and described to them my problem. When I want to share a Pages document, I have different options but none of them is via a Thunderbird email. In "extensions", the box "Thunderbird" is not even clickable (see picture attached). Two professionals tried to fix my problem but eventually said that the issue seems to come from Thunderbird and not from Apple. Hence my question: how can I be allowed to share a Pages document in a Thunderbird email smoothly, without having to go the other way around (new e-mail -> attach doc -> Pages doc)?

Thanks in advance for your support.

Best,

Flora

My daughter is currently using Yahoo Mail on her Android phone, but keeps/uses only her ATT email address. Her internet provider is Spectrum and her cell phone provider is Verizon.

We attempted to install Thunderbird on her Windows 7 PC (soon to be upgraded to Windows 10). The automatic setup process asks for her email address. We put in the ATT email address. The passwords don't work. We wonder if there is confusion between Thunderbird/Windows/Spectrum/Verizon/Yahoo caused by retaining the ATT email address.

This may just be a misunderstanding in how to set up the thunderbird email. We don't want to change the email address, if at all possible.

What does repair folder actually do?

A search online gets answers like 'it rebuilds the index', but that's not very explanatory. Does it recreate the index by looking at the folder contents or by going back to the server and downloading emails again?

After a couple of odd things happening (emails appearing in the web version of Gmail, but not in my Thunderbird Inbox), I decided to repair my Inbox. It's an IMAP account with Gmail, and has got over 700 messages in it (yes I know, time for a clear out...).

Thunderbird went slow for quite a long time (like half an hour at least), and messages kept flashing up in the status bar at the bottom saying stuff like "Downloading message 237 of 700". When clicking on messages with large attachments, while the repair was apparently still underway, the messages took some time to load, though they seem to be about normal now.

Was it really downloading emails? I ask, because I have some archive folders MUCH bigger than the Inbox, and would like to know what to expect if I have to repair other folders.

For info: Thunderbird 91.11.0 (64-bit) running under Linux Mint 19.1