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I am new to TB and have spent about six hours trying to delete gmails in both POP and IMAP formats only to have them reappear multiple times a day. I am using the Unified Folders option too.

TB, on Windows 11, appears to operate normally retrieving gmail every 15 minutes. I also have TB beta installed on my Andriod phone, it appears to operate normally as well.

On Windows 11, I go to the email account and delete the emails, empty the spam and trash folders....then I compact those same folders and the main email folder as well.

After a several times a day the 75 or so emails reappear in the inbox. I've only been using TB one day.

I have to have done something wrong? No software behaves like this on purpose.

It there a torture the user check box I didn't uncheck somewhere? I am at my wits end.

Please help me understand and resolve this behavior?

Thanks, Craig

The Reply command no longer shows when I want to send an email back to the person that sent it. There is a note at the bottom of the email that says: A unique identity matching the From address was not found. The message will be sent using the current From field and setting from identity Vince Hunter < omni232@telus.net> Can you give me instructions in laymans terms to fix this bug and return it back to the way it was?

No I cannot see my Emails, whatever I try to do, there is always the image of supporting Thunderbird or doing a donation.

It`s a pity, that I cannot send any screenshot... -

Kind regards, Frank Edgar Wedlich

I was forced into an IMAP email server when switching over to Allo Fiber internet. I now have several issues. I had 7 pop email accounts that all worked within Thunderbirds local folders. All 7 email accounts drop all their email into ONE inbox folder. Now, having a IMAP server and losing pop email service, I have to use message filtering to put all of my new email accounts into the one local inbox. It seems to work, but every new day, it fails. I turn off the computer, go to bed, wake up, turn on my computer, thunderbird then downloads email and like clockwork, message filtering fails every time. I then have to manually move all my email from all my different email accounts into the one local inbox. And sometimes that doesn't even work! I have to shut down thunderbird, restart it and try again to move the emails!!!! Come on Thunderbird...get your act together and get IMAP working just like POP does. I am pissed and am now looking for a different email software program!!!

The latest version of Thunderbird does not seem to have a way to turn off automatic sending of public key and digital signature even when sending *unencrypted* messages. (Prior to 2020, I'm informed there was a way to uncheck "sign all outgoing messages" which I think might have addressed this).

Now letting everyone know my public key would be desirable, except bone-headed email systems -- such as Yahoo Mail -- seem to be more likely to consign my emails to the spam bin with these attachments to spam as being considered suspicious!

How can I have OpenPGP keys installed on an email account, set to not encrypt new messages, and NOT automatically send public key and signature attachments?

Perhaps I should mention that I am using the latest Thunderbird on Windows 11, via Proton Bridge, through the extremely infuriating Proton Mail service.

Thanks, Michael

For some reason, I am getting message that the Certificate for server is not valid (etc.). I can not get or send my emails as of this morning. Is there something I can do to resolve this issue?

I want to get a new PC. My emails come in through GMail and are then transferred to Thunderbird. Once transferred they are deleted from GMail. I have several hundred emails in the Inbox of Thunderbird (one year I must delete the majority!) Also some in folders off the Inbox. How do I transfer them over to a new PC? Some are important that I wouldn't want to lose - eg my wife's name!!!!!

Any help would be greatefully received.

I have multiple Gmail email accounts and just purchased a Windows 11 computer. Upon installing and opening Thunderbird and adding my accounts, I discovered the first Gmail account inbox does not retain READ emails like it always had before. After reading them, they disappear and are only viewable in the All Mail folder. It seems I can only view UNREAD emails in my first account's inbox. However, the second and third Gmail accounts DO retain READ emails in their inboxes.

In my Google calendar, I have the automatic birthday calendar. The birthdays of people in my (Google) contact list will appear in my calendar. See the first attached image.

In Thunderbird, I have subscribed to my Google calendar (and Google contacts), but birthdays are duplicated in my Thunderbird (Google) calendar. See the second attached image. One birthday appears to be originating from the Google birthday (red) calendar, and one from my main/personal Google (green) calendar (which has two icons that I don't know the meaning of).

Why are birthdays being duplicated in Thunderbird?

In Thunderbird, I can resolve the issue by unchecking the option to 'Sync from <email address>' in the settings for the birthday calendar in my Google account. See the third attached image. This solves the problem for Thunderbird; see the fourth attached image. But then in my Google calendar, birthdays disappear. See the fifth attached image.

Is there a solution that allows the birthdays calendar to be synced correctly in both Google and Thunderbird without showing duplicates and without disappearing?

I can send e-mail through Thunderbird on my laptop but can not receive e-mail. I have checked all of my settings and nothing seems to fix the problem. I am receiving e-mail for that account on other devices on which I do not use Thunderbird. Any suggestions?

When I was using Outlook in the old days, ie before it was 365, I used to take a copy of my OST file and save it as an annual archive, then delete all the folders or contents from my existing, live OST file that I didn't need anymore.

How do I achieve the same with Thunderbird?

I have a bunch of calendar events on different days that I want to move from one calendar to another. When I Ctrl+X (move) then Ctrl+V (paste) it prompts me which calendar to place them in. That works. But it changes the dates.

It seems like because I'm selecting multiple events on multiple days (with the Ctrl key), that it selects the date of the last event selected and pastes all the events from that day.

Can anyone confirm this or offer me another way to do it? TIA

While connected to Wi-Fi, intended recipients do not receive my sent emails. Sent emails are shown sent in the Sent folder both in my desktop Thunderbird client and the web client directly linked to my email server.

My SMTP settings are correct, and when on mobile data, rather than Wi-Fi, emails are received by intended recipients.

I have tested this on multiple networks, with various providers, and have also attempted on a VPN connection to eliminate my IP address as an issue.

I have a few email accounts, so Thunderbird is an ideal client to bring them all together. I have used my Yahoo account with Thunderbird for years now, possibly approaching 20 years, with no problem. However, during the last couple of months I have had problems with the connection such that Thunderbird stalls while accessing Yahoo and I see "Thunderbird not responding". I may even get a "Server has disconnected" message. If I get the latter, then suddenly the situation resolves and the email messages are downloaded. Otherwise, it is just a matter of waiting a couple of minutes until it clears, but it was always instantaneous in the past. Occasionally, I will also get delays when trying to send an email, but generally it is with downloading. Nothing else has changed. The only other change in the past few months has been the verification method for hotmail/live addresses which was not a problem.

Any thoughts? Peter

No emails received since 12/31/24. Normal daily load 50 to 100 emails. Traffic normal up to and including 12/31/24. I had been starting up a cellphone during the no-email period and may have caused the email problem because of confusion with gmail/google settings. I do not use a gmail account, only a Hostgator account, sherm@shermworks.com

My emails are not coming through and says server down but all is correct after techinal support from Star Communications at my account email address cherring@intrstar.net.