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All of a sudden my account will not open automatically?...asks me for my password?...I have no idea what that is...if you answer via email I cannot open it to see your answer..

When I tried to log in to my Google Email account, the authorization pop-up window that appeared was completely blank. I have tried operations such as re-logging in, but it still didn't work.

I received a request for donations for the 100th time. I have donated to the group more than once, and coincidentally, my system crashed and prompted me to make another donation. We need a permanent fix to stop the donation requests and get Thunderbird functioning properly.

Unknown to me Microsoft ditched POP3 recently. I have a large 22gb Outlook .pst file with important historical data for volunteer run non-profits. Using Outlook for 15 years or more. Outlook 2021 that was working stopped suddenly and now only uses IMAP. IMAP and 22gb chokes and is unnecessary as synchronisation not required or desired -or the expense of Microsoft Onedrive excess storage fees.

Can Thunderbird import this large .PST and can it connect to Telus in some way like it used to and that does not invoke IMAP? In other words everything local? Thanks!

I´ve used Gmail through Thunderbird for many years now, mainly because I prefer your treestructure. After changing laptop I discovered that a new map had entered the tree, which turned out to be Gmail´s map "Important" (Viktigt in Swedish). Important stores ALL incoming mail, now over 3 700! There are "only" under 400 in the Incoming map. If I erase a mail from Important it will also be erased from the Incoming map, and vice versa. Important should be for me to decide if a mail should be temporarely stowed there. Can you tell how to clean out only the Important? Best regards and thanks

I'm a long time user of TB. However, the installation I have now is fairly new on a Win 11 computer. I have attached a screen shot showing my server settings where it clearly shows that TB is not to download any messages on it's own.

I have an email address (cox.com) that was taken over by Yahoo some year and half ago. I don't remember this problem occurring on my Win 10 computer.

Why is Thunderbird downloading messages when it's not supposed to?

Thank you.

I am using my University of Florida email (https://www.mail.ufl.edu/), IMAP. When I turn on Thunderbird and I send messages, everything is good for a few hours. After that, when I send an email I get this error every time:

Your message was sent but a copy was not placed in your sent folder (Sent) due to network or file access errors. You can retry or save the message locally to Local Folders/Sent-XXXX@XXX.

How can this be solved? Only way to fix is closing Thunderbird or rebooting, then problem represents itself. But then I lose the sent emails.

Note: could the problem be that by Default Thunderbird saves emails in a different sent folder? Which is not ideal, because when I send from my phone or from the web things go in a different folder than when i send from Thunderbird. Should I tick off "others"? in the attached pic? How should I consolidate the 2 "sent" folder into one? Should I manually copy them? Or after I select "others", they consolidate themself. I dont wanna do a mess, can you please provide step by step instructions.

Certificate errors have been an ongoing, several-times-a-day frustration for me and other users, with different ISPs, since approximately June 25. Is anyone working on this bug? Because it clearly is a bug: Not only I but several other users have reported that Thunderbird worked fine until that date, then stopped working fine. What changed, and can it be put back the way it was, or can we receive some explicit instructions on how to fix it for ourselves? It's making Thunderbird borderline unusable. Every time I try to send a message, I have to confirm a security exception, then send it again. Several times a day, when I try to fetch messages, I have to confirm security exceptions. The confirmations never seem to stick. This is some BS.

I'm in the process of cleaning up Thunderbird e-mail before moving to a new computer. I started with 11,593 e-mails in my Inbox and 7,799 e-mails in my Sent folder. I'm now down to 7,634 in my Inbox and 4,965 in my Sent folder. I've allocated 2 weeks for this process and found that it's taking me about 3 hours per day to meet my daily goals. I'm finding that I'm spending at LEAST half the time responding to "Empty-Trash/Compact-folders" requests. There are times I can delete 50 e-mails at a time without getting a request. Other times I will try to delete ten e-mails and get the request. With the old version of Thunderbird I could literally delete hundreds of e-mails at a time. Can you help? Russ Bukwa Yardley, PA ps. I have intentionally given you specific numbers. Based on my software- and test-engineering experience, I speculate you need to create a stress test to solve this nagging problem.

When I try to reply to an e mail sometimes I get Reporting-MTA: dns; smtpout.karoo.kcom.com Final-Recipient: rfc822;ngoedupwangmo@sbcglobal.net Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 (permanent failure) Remote-MTA: dns; [144.160.235.143] Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 5.1.0 - Unknown address error 553-'5.3.0 alph772 DNSBL:RBL 521< 212.50.160.34 >_is_blocked.For assistance forward this error to abuse_rbl@abuse-att.net' (delivery attempts: 0)

Any ideas anybody? Reporting to abuse.....as I have done in the past produced no help whatsoever.

Yet I received an email today and 'replying' and sending a new message produces the same resuut This is not the first time this has happened and messages get through from Ngoedup and sometimes my 'replies' gets through. Thank you Bernard

Trying to enable calandar on thunderbird. No information how to do it

Trying to sync date and time with windiws 11 date and time. Instructions state "three lines/ preferences" Thet word "preferences: does not appear at all

While I am a management consultant and do not understand how to code and develop software beyond the most surface levels, I wish to contribute this idea towards development of Thunderbird.

One of the most important components of an email client is the editor. There have been many requests for changes in the Thunderbird mail editor in the past. I wish to propose a strategic solution to this issue.

The solution that I offer is that this team of independent contributors builds a word processor like Microsoft Word, does so under the umbrella of Thunderbird, so that there are no copyright issues in using that editor for composing email in Thunderbird, and uses that editor as a stand alone editor as well as an editor for composing emails within Thunderbird.

I am not aware if the Linux Word Processing Editor can be used for Thunderbird as a sharing between two community software initiatives, but that aspect can also be explored by talking directly to Linux.

I suspect there is no fix and I (possibly) can restore from backups, but I would sure like to know what the issue is.

I tried retrieving an e-mail from the "folder" where I kept e-mails from 2023. The "index" one sees displayed for the folder had e-mails from Jan-Mar of 2023, but Thunderbird froze when I tried to open any of them. I tried the repair function (which I imagine is meant to rebuild the .msf file), but after than the index contained nothing from Jan-Mar. I opened both the .msf file and the no-extension file in Notepad, but I see nothing from those months.

Any clues/help would be appreciated.

I am struggling trying to get a consistent format in Thunderbird. First of all let me say that I am happy with the default use of paragraph style and if I want to have occasional single spacing I can use shift-enter instead of enter. Most queries on formatting seem to be about getting single spacing all the time. That is not my issue. That means that if I compose an email from scratch everything is just the way I want it, using the default settings. The problem arises when I reply to an email. The settings then seem to be ignored. For instance the line spacing can be fixed to single spacing whether I select paragraph or body text and no matter what I do I can't get it to follow the default behaviour. Also, I noticed that the font goes to "sans-serifArial" instead of the usual "Variable Width". In fact if I try to select "Variable Width" in the Format menu it is just ignored. How do I get the default composition settings when I reply to an incoming email?