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Hello,

My internet provider is RCN. For the past couple of months, I’ve occasionally been getting the message, “Connection to server imap.rcn.com timed out.” As a result, I’m unable to receive emails via Thunderbird.

All my settings are correct. Usually, the problem resolves itself within 24 hours, but sometimes, like this time, it lasts longer.

Any suggestions? Best, Magda

My folders are in disarray and it is cutting into my productivity to file emails. I have tried but it in settings but it doesn't work. Many are in alpha order but there are 2 different two different sections of the same name, and some odd files end up in an alphabetized section.

For instance there are 2 different ZBV sections with other stray folders in the same area that should be in there own alpha folder area. It's a mess to find the right folder. I have to scroll up and own and look for the folder I need to file in. I would be happy to donate, and i have in the past, but I really need this to get fixed. Please, please, please...

Hello. Thanks in advance. I spent a couple of long evenings deleting a few thousand sent emails from Thunderbird in order to free up some memory on my notebook computer and then intended to create a new backup profile. However, when I tried to do so using the Thunderbird Export tool an "unexpected error" occurred and I discovered that there was no longer a Thunderbird profile folder in Windows/Users/[my name]/appdata/Roaming or Local. When I used the Troubleshooting Information tool to look for the folder under Application Basics/Profile Folder, clicking on 'Open Folder' did nothing. The location is seemingly 'unavailable' for no apparent reason. Thunderbird still opens and closes normally, I can send and receive emails and all my emails are still there. I have an older backup profile stored on a removable disc, but it pre-dates the mass deletion of sent emails. My question is: if I install Thunderbird on a different PC and import this older backup profile, I presume all the emails I've just painstakingly deleted off my PC will reappear, but can Thunderbird connect to the server and download my stored emails as they were most recently saved (without the thousands of unwanted sent emails) so I can create an up-to-date profile? Thanks in advance for any advice.

Here is the message I get. Very inconvenient... Sending of the message failed. An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: Too many recipients. Please reduce the number of recipients and try again. AUP#Out-1550. Please check the message recipient "........" and try again.

Dear Support Team,

I hope you are doing well.

I am currently unable to access my email account redacted@sunnyholidays.am as I cannot recall the password. Unfortunately, I have also been unable to recover the account through the available recovery options.

Could you please assist me with resetting the password or provide instructions on how I can regain access to the account?

For security and verification purposes, you may contact me through my secondary company email address: redacted@sunnyholidays.am.

Your prompt assistance would be greatly appreciated, as this email account is important for our daily business operations.

Thank you for your support.

Kind regards,

Gayane Vardanyan Director Sunny Holidays LLC redacted@sunnyholidays.am redacted@sunnyholidays.am Yerevan, Armenia

After returning from a 6 day vacation, my wife attempted to download email from her Yahoo email account. There are nearly 200 messages that have piled up but they aren't moving. I've uninstalled and re-installed TB. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app password in Yahoo. There is no problem with accessing the email via any web browser. I spent 49 minutes on a tech support call with Yahoo and they have said the problem is with TB because they repeated the same steps I have. I checked firewall settings and the only antivirus program on the computer is Malware Bytes and it's not running in the background.

The version of TB is the most recent as of yesterday. I don't see any sketchy looking emails in the web version of Yahoo Mail when it's opened. It's set up as a POP3 account and has been since Cox Internet gave their email over to Yahoo. I'd appreciate any assistance in resolving this because it's currently above my pay grade and tech support at Yahoo.

My email works well most of the time. About three or four times a day now I get a message "The current command did not succeed. The mail server for account <account name> responded: System Error (Failure)." Nothing seems obviously wrong that I can see, maybe some of my recipients aren't getting the emails I send? The account in question is at gmail. I've been using it, and Thunderbird, for many years without seeing this error. It seems to have popped up in the last month or two and is now happening a few times a day. I'm running Windows 11 Pro 25H2 build 26200.9168, Thunderbird 153.0.3 Build ID 20260810194242. I have plenty of disk space (1.15TB free) and restarting my system hasn't helped. Is there a way to turn on more logging to get more information about these errors?

In the last month or 2, when I delete an email it does not show in the trash folder. I can wait from 5 minutes to even the next time I reboot my puter to finally see it it trash. Sometimes it sends it to the all mail or important folder instead of trash. And if I delete from there, it still takes tons of time to end up in the trash folder...if it even gets there. This seems to be getting worse by the day. I have clicked repair folder, no change, I have cleared Thunderbird's cache, no change. It's also now taking way too much time to load an email that contains a picture. This happens with at least 3 of these gmails. I'm at a loss here and extremely frustrated and about to change these gmails from imap to pop. win10 and TB is up to date. But it doesn't compact folders as much as it used to either. Any help appreciated

Hi, Hoping I can get some help here, I couldn't find an answer in the search topics.

I have lost a few local subfolders. First the subfolders lost the emails contained in them and then the subfolders themselves disappeared.

I renamed the main folder just removing the year from the folder name and not long after that the above happened.

I have tried the following:

• Searching the help topics • Searching the forum • Closing reopening Thunderbird • I removed .msf files and restarted Thunderbird

I am not sure what I can do now.

Thanks in advance for any help.

When I added a new subfolder it disappeared. When I tried to add it again it just shows up. Today I can't add a new subfolder and the info in the folder I had won't show up.

I have a new PC. I have added five email accounts, three different hosts, with some difficulty. Thunderbird finds the details for others but then refuses with the message Authentication error. Unable to log in at server. Probably wrong configuration, username or password.

I added Thunderbird by copying from my old PC. The hosts for those not yet added are the same as those added.

This is the message I get when it does not go. I contacted Spectrum and they told me to check Thunderbird.

Sending of the message failed. An error occurred while sending mail: Outgoing server (SMTP) error. The server responded: p-impout004.msg.pkvw.co.charter.net cmsmtp 73.238.167.193 blocked. Please see https://www.spectrum.net/support/internet/understanding-email-error-codes for more information. AUP#Out-1130.

I have successfully added five ntlworld.com email accounts in Thunderbird but my two personal ones keep coming up with Authentication error. Each time the screen shows the details of the account found automatically so the information is coming from somewhere.

Advice I gratefully received was to Disable the account hub in Settings / General, then add the account from New Account, and use an application specific password assigned via your email provider.

Virginmedia no longer seems to acknowledge ntlworld accounts but says they are talktalk. However, talktalk says they do not hold the accounts.

I do not understand how I can disable the account hub in Settings when it has not loaded.

I cannot understand why two of the accounts do not load.

Thank you for the advice on copying the Thunderbird folder, which I have done. However, what is failing is the adding of further existing email accounts. I enter the Account name, the email address and the password but I still get Authentication error. I have, after some difficulty, succeeded in adding five accounts with three different hosts. The further accounts I wish to add use two of the hosts of the successful additions.

After a keyboard accident I am left with this situation. Lin found the toggle problem with F8. Wxie suggested the password but the password is correct. Thanks to both of them. It seems the problem is the missing M in .com .It might be in the DNS but I don't seem to have anything to try except to try to recreate the account. If I try that I fear I will only exacerbate the situation. I have had this email for many years. This stared 08/08/2026 I have been searching daily for a solution. Like most things digital it is probably a simple fix if you know how. I don't.

Some time ago I went tinto exceptions and put in some unwanted email addys and they were blocked. I am getting unwanted emails tried the same thing, but they are still coming through. Here are some of the emails; contact@news.comoundeesgtream.com contact@news.musteraliteinfo.com

Can you tell me how to block these from showing up in my email account? John @ redacted@outlook.com