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Dear Sir / Madam, I am still running a perfectly good Win 7 computer. My Mail Inbox & Sent Box have a huge number of Emails i have been trying to delete in batches. They initially go to my Deleted folder which shows the number of emails collected. I then empty the deleted folder. so far so good, except the huge file size in my inbox or sent box hasn’t changed! But the deleted folder is now showing empty! The emails i selected to delete seem to have disappeared, but i have not recovered any disk space! I am running out of disk space in C drive because i cannot seem to remove these emails. I have tried shutting down my computer & rebooting (i shut it down every night) this has no effect.

If i had a tool to open the sent / inbox file i could manually delete emails in old date order? Hope someone out there can help.

Kind regards Nick

Bonjour Désolée, je ne sais pas écrire en Anglais, mais je pose ma question ici, au cas où une bonne âme pourrait m'aider. Je suis nulle en informatique, le minimum... -Mon mail ' nadetted@free.fr ' a basculé sur ZIMBRA, et je n'aime pas du tout fonctionner avec.

                 Les 2 adresses mails sont les mêmes, et je me perds dans les mots de passe.

-Sur l'ordi, mes mails vont jusqu'au 29 novembre ? .et on me demande "Saisissez votre mot de passe pour nadetted sur imap.free.fr : *alors que je n'en ai jamais mis, et accédais direct à mes mails.

-Ensuite j'ai cela  :: "échec de la connexion depuis le serveur imap.free.fr avec le nom d’utilisateur nadetted"

                                 *le serveur IMAP .free serait déconnecté !?

-Sur le GSM, je vois mes mailsl jusqu'au 15 décembre 2025 ?  !

-J'arrive à voir mes mails sur Zimbra, mais je voudrais sortir de là et récupérer *sans pertes de dossiers etc, ma boîte mail d'avant  :: nadetted@free.fr classique, que j'ai depuis très longtemps. Cela est-il possible SVP ? -Depuis, j'ai de gros soucis de connexion avec mes contacts et RV médicaux, nous sommes des personnes âgées, et personne pour nous conseiller. Je pense à un Bug, ou une mise à jour défaillante ? Je suis en W10

-J'espère que quelqu'un pourra me lire, voir me contacter en Français, sur mon mail de secours : [edited from public] @laposte.net ou [edited from public community support forum] @free.fr Bien à vous Merci Mme Benard France

My internet service provider is Optimum. I do have an optimum account for my email. But my account for my emails uses Thunderbird. I kept getting alerts that I couldn't move emails to specific local folders to save. So, I went into my optimum account and deleted the emails in my inbox, junk and trash. when I returned to my thunderbird account, all of my emails in my inbox that I have already read, are gone. Wiped clean, no emails any longer. Is there someway to retrieve these lost emails?

Hi, I did something stupid. I accidentally deleted an entire year's worth of emails. I was in the process of archiving them, and mistakenly thought that the originals had been left in the inbox. I thought I needed to re-archive them, so I deleted the copies from the archive folder, and then - this is the stupid part - emptied the trash in the archive folder. When I went back to the inbox to re-archive the emails, I realized they were no longer there. I have not compacted the folder. Is there any way to recover the deleted emails?

Bonjour Depuis qlqs temps j'ai un dossier Envoyé et Sent message Je souhaite supprimer le dossier Sent message et je n'y arrive pas Comment faire ? Salutations

Thread email responses not realistically visible!

A new email comes in, it is in bold.

A RESPONSE to my own response comes in, and it looks completely normal! An underline is not "noticeable" enough!

A NEW EMAIL (brand new, or in a thread) should (obviously) generate the same optical indicator -- BOLD.

This is, frankly, embarrassing and pathetic. I'm really mortified at how this company presents itself as "a family" of "volunteer friends and community members" who are "happy to share their time" to "kindly solve the issues [we] have" when the reality is that everyone knows Thunderbird is broken, buggy, Windows Vista-tier technology maintained by a corporation actively pushing AI companions on its browser users but legions of Reddit upvotes and moderation manipulation obfuscate the level to which the client:

-fails to retrieve emails -fails to adjust to user settings -is obtuse and difficult to understand -is easily compromised by manipulative technology (BitDefender STILL has "administrative control" over Thunderbird MONTHS after being totally removed from my PC and after numerous "fixes") -fails to connect to the internet itself, despite all other programs on the PC doing so -fails to operate on even the level of the old, now-sunsetted Windows Mail program

And the responses to these grievances are condescension and gaslighting that demonstrate why the stereotype of programmers as "divorced men in their 50s" exist. I have seen people accused of "being angry," "making problems where there are none," and "misunderstanding" Thunderbird. If users do not understand Thunderbird or your documentation... that is because YOU have failed to properly DOCUMENT or present its UI/UX features, and shows YOU are poor programmers with overinflated egos.

Honestly, I sincerely hope Mozilla was purchased secretly by a crypto scheme or something. Because if these are the same people, all along? The sheer small amount of power it takes to corrupt is so pathetically small to me that this isn't even a villain arc, it's like seeing someone take a collection plate and just hold on to it and claim it was a master plan.

Go FireFox yourselves.

Web info says plenty that does not exist. Eg Showing a context menu with "Delete selected" The web says can delete emails with delete or shift delete. It crosses the text out BUT does not delete any emails. Similarly emptying the spam folder is supposed to happen off the right click context menu. Nothing happens except last entry is highlighted.

Ideally I want to select a group of emails in the inbox with the find option then ctrl/A to select them all then delete key to clear them from the inbox. NB. None of these emails are still on the server, just in thunderbird.

Bonjour, j'ai posé la même question et je remercie M. David pour sa réponse, mais j'ai dû mal exprimer mon problème, aussi je lui serais reconnaissant de bien vouloir lire le document ci-joint, où je reformule autrement mes deux questions. Bien cordialement, Guy ROBIN. Hello, I asked the same question and I thank Mr. David for his answer, but I must have expressed my problem badly, so I would be grateful if he would read the attached document, where I rephrase my two questions differently. Kind regards, Guy ROBIN.

When I go to delete a message lately, I click the delete button and it checks mail instead of deleting the message. I might be going crazy but 30 years of hitting the same button has messed me up.

The messages do not show in the email folders. it happened after I tried to delete some folders I didn't need. The folders have an icon next to them that lists the number of messages in the folder. When opened, most of the folders say "No message found."

I have lost my SEND button. I have read several previous responses to this question, but following the solutions offered does not get the purported result. I don't get a Menu Bar after Toolbars. At age 96 I'm too old for this malarkey. Call me on my cell phone if you wish. [edited phone# from community support forum] FWN

以前のサンダーバードでは出来ていた物と思いますが、 送信済トレイと受信トレイの同じスレッドの物全てを同時に開きたいのですが、どうすれば良いか教えてください。

IN ENGLISH I think this was possible in previous versions of Thunderbird, but I would like to open all items in the same thread in my Sent and Inbox at the same time. Can you tell me how to do this?