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With the latest update 136.01 whenever I click on any Thunderbird mail I get a popup screen that says "Thunderbird Email wants to access you Google account". The screen implies there is an "Allow" link that I should click on but none exists! Then the only way out of this screen is use the esc key. That takes me back to my Thunderbird mail but anything I try to initialises this pop up up screen again. So my email account is totally unusable. I have used Thunderbird over ten years and have not had any problem. I hope it can be fixed. Thank You. Gary Nye. text me at xxx 408 9995

Hi, I am using the latest version of Thunderbird, connected to three Gmail accounts (two are POP3, one is IMAP). I usually load up thunderbird once a week to backup all emails from Gmail. The problem is when I click the get new mail button it only downloads emails in batches of 14 or 20. I have to keep clicking the get new mail button to download all the weeks emails. I cannot find any setting to change this behaviour. I just want thunderbird to download all emails in one go. Is this a Gmail issue or thunderbird issue? Thanks in advance

James

I installed Thunderbird 136.0.1 for Windows this week to use with my Gmail/Google account. I'm loving the way it works and the fact that it interfaces with the Google calendars (even the birthday calendar driven by Google contacts) well. The address book seems a bit more inconsistent with syncing/updating and I'm trying to gain an understanding of how that works. If I add a contact the the address book in Thunderbird, it shows up in the web interface in Google contacts. However, If I delete a contact in the web interface, that contact is not removed from the Thunderbird address book. Am I just not being patient enough for the syncing to take place?

Thanks! Rob

Last night (9/23/2024), Thunderbird began presenting a screen (see attached) requiring me to sign in to contine to Mozilla Thunderbird Email. At the top of the screen is a "Sign in with Google" line. However, there is nowhere to sign into anything. My correct email is displayed but no entry for a password.

Clicking "Next" takes you to an Error 400 screen. There is no "Close" button and the only way out of the screen is to hit "Esc," which takes me to my Email account. After a short bit, the screen refreshes back to that " sign in to contine to Mozilla Thunderbird" screen. After one or two more uses of :Esc, I can get back control of my laptop.

Meanwhile, Thunderbird is frozen--mail doesn't update, and any attempt to use T-Bird returns me to the sign in cycle. Win 11; TB ver, 128.2.3esr (32-bit); server security imap.gmail.com, port 993, outgoing server smtp.google.com, authentication OAuth2. I've accepted cookies and javascript and closed my VPN. can't figure what to do next.

Hi All,

Two days ago, my Google calendar sync stopped working. I tried to add them again, but now, for a change, I can't see events at all, even though Thunderbird plugins theoretically got access to calendars. Should I wait for an update? Is this a global problem? How can I solve it?

Thank you Mariusz

Downloading emails works quickly as normal but reading opening or looking at emails (even ones downloaded weeks ago) is suddenly very slow. There is a pause before anything can be viewed even with a preview screen open.

Version is 128.7 0esr I use bitdefender - but that has never been a problem before Any ideas?

Thunderbird had never crashed before, but lately, after the last 2 Windows 10 updates within the last 2 weeks, it crashes. It's at 128.5.2esr, the next-to-last update.

It always crashes when I choose "About" and it starts downloading the update. It appears that it doesn't get the 1st byte before crashing. It will still say 0 bytes when it crashes.

It also crashes if I leave it running and the screen goes through the screen saver mode and turns black. Twice it crashed while I was using it.

I thought it might have something to do with the fact that I had 4,000 emails in my Inbox (is there a limit?), so I deleted many and moved many to folders. I now have just under 1,000 in my Inbox.

I also tried restarting in Troubleshoot Mode and updating, but it still crashed at 0 bytes downloaded.

Is there a way to manually download the update and apply it? I can't find it on the website.

The next thing I know to do is reinstall. Is there anything I can try before doing that? Would you suggest uninstall first or reinstall over what's here?

I am no longer able to copy and paste events in the Calendar, which is linked to Google Calendar. Any suggestions or comments? I am using Nebula v 128.8.1esr (64-bit) on a Windows 11 PC.

Hi,

Since upgrading to thunderbird 128.6.0esr, my shared google calendars no longer show any events.

The activity manager shows it is stuck trying to sync, but not going anywhere.

Onn checking the developer logs, the following messages are displayed.

Anybody else having this problem or know of a solution. (I have removed "CALDAV" and "TB SYNC" extensions - also installed "TB SYNC 4")

Thanks Paul

Developer Logs: 15:25:05.693 Calendar: XPCWrappedNative_NoHelper { QueryInterface: QueryInterface(), result: Getter, message: Getter, ERROR: 1, INTERNAL: 2, PERM: 3, ABORT: 4, BUSY: 5, LOCKED: 6, NOMEM: 7, … }

CalStorageDatabase.sys.mjs:247:15

15:25:05.696 [calCachedCalendar] replay action failed: <unknown>, uri=googleapi://????????/?calendar=???????, result=error executing async statement, operation=[xpconnect wrapped calIOperation]

Hi to all ! On a MacBook Pro under Sequoia 15.3.1 whenever I launch T'bd (128.8.0esr) it opens but accepts no command and the message screen is empty. The CPU usage is about 25%. Nothing else of importance runs on the computer. The same happens sometimes in the middle of a session. I removed Norton 360 just in case: no help. I could not correlate this behavior with any change I or the software updates did (it worked perfectly well until ~end 24). When I wait (15-30 min) and the messages finally appear. I tried killing an relaunching T'bd but it does not make much of a difference. Would someone have an idea where I could search to solve that? Thanks in advance for any help. Max.

https://addons.thunderbird.net

The addons website for Thunderbird appears to be down with a 502 bad gateway error.

Thank you for your time.

Zach

When I right click on a document [Show More Options/Send To] Thunderbird email I get the following notice: There is no email program associated to perform the requested action. Please install an email or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Programs panel. I've been using TB for multiple years with zero problems, this started when I recently reloaded Windows 11 from scratch (due to a bot virus issue). I have reloaded TB 3 or 4 times. I have also tried creating an association to MapiMail which hosed my Send To link. I had to import a new Send To link from my wifes PC after restoring the registry entry for MapiMail. I have always used the 64 bit version, so the 32 bit version is not for me. I am out of ideas? Anybody else have this problem?

Hello,

I use Thunderbird 128.5.2esr with xubuntu 24.04.

All of a sudden (I haven't changed anything) thunderbird hangs completely after a few minutes running. The process does not react at all, I have to kill it. Thunderbird process is then stuck on 100% load.

Already testet (with no success):

• Troubleshooting Mode with deactivated Addons
• Disabled Global Indexing (with deleting global-messages-db.sqlite file)
• Waiting for 20min (in case thread/process is running a long time)
• Reboot OS

I have no idea what the issue is. Does anyone have ideas? Thx, Hugo

Hi,

E-mail has always worked perfectly (Hotmail/Outlook.com), but my Calendar is still empty (it is not downloading the items I know that are in it). No idea what to do to get it synchronized. Provider for Exchange ActiveSync is installed and enabled.

Thank you

I'm on Thunderbird (128.6.0esr (64-bit)) on Fedora/GNOME. I've noticed, that whenever I launch Thunderbird, it takes several minutes (!) where it says "Connecting to mail.myserver.com" in status. I'm using my own postfix/dovecot server with imap and I don't have this problem on Thunderbird Windows for instance, where it connects right away on startup. After the initial slow connection, it works just fine, when I manually trigger to scan for new messages (instantly). I tried literally any option within Thunderbird to fix that, without any success. It seems to be some trouble with resolving / dns or probably ip6/ip4, but then again, why would it work normally after the long connection time in the beginning? Any clue what might be the problem here?

Hi

Long-term Thunderbird user and in the past couple of months Thunderbird on my PC on connecting to my mail server goes to a time out (about a minute?) before then downloading new messages. Connecting from my laptop is instant.

The PC - which is relatively new - performs well otherwise.

Checked settings on both and they are identical, save for the laptop.being 64-bit and the PC 32-bit versions.

Any ideas for me to try?

Many thanks

Rick

Hi there,

I just switched a couple of days ago and I am trying to make my way into TB.

My issue is that in my server (gmail) I have some rules that sort out some mails into tags (folders) while it marks them as archive (to not to appear in inbox). When I get one of those emails, in TB I get no notification (fine) neither the message count in the folders bar gets updated. What is worse, if I go and I click on "Get messages", nothing happens (I get a "no new messages in server" message),

At this point, if I have received one of those emails, there is no way for me to know whether I have something new or not.

However, if I happen to click on the folder where they lay... tada! after a second or two, the email shows up, and the number in the left bar gets updated!

I wonder if this is some sync issue or has to do with some option I have marked. But this is a very bad issues, as it can take days until I notice that I have received an email.

Any hint of what might be happening and how to solve it (if possible)?

Thanks

import calender not working on new laptop windows 11. I have all my emails but no events show. i tried to import from your app but got an error message, I copied the calender export to a key but I still get the error message and the new calender has no events.

I have a new Macbook M4, and installed Thunderbird 128.6.1esr as default email application.

If a new message comes in, suddenly a white square appears in the upper left of the desktop, and Thunderbird becomes nonresponsive. If I close it, it won't reopen. If I click the white square, a truncated Thunderbird menu appears at the top. See screenshot.

Also, the white square overlays all other running applications, so that anything full screen has the red and yellow close/minimize buttons hidden.

This happens whether Thunderbird is the only application running or if others are running.

It is driving me mad. Any insights how to fix it?

I use Thunderbird to read newsgroup messages. A couple of days ago I selected download 500 new messages. Instead of downloading new messages it downloaded a bunch of old messages from last year. Many of these old messages would not open to read, I would just get an error message when I clicked on them. This morning I sorted all of the messages by date then began to delete all messages from 2024. When I loaded up the newsgroup the folder was empty except for one message thread from yesterday, but the message count said there were several hundred unread messages in the group. I tried various trouble shooting solutions like clearing the cache and starting in trouble shooting mode. Nothing worked, but when I restarted Thunderbird it was now completely empty with no messages. I have tried to download new messages several times, but nothing new will download.

How can I restore Thunderbird and get it to download messages again?

If I have to reinstall, is there a way to do that keeps my history? I have years of sent messages, that I want to retain.