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I have followed all instructions I can find through many searches online but cannot get my outlook email to configure in Thunderbird. First, I have no option to chose OAuth2 even though I have deleted any outlook passwords, email accounts, and Thunderbird is up to date. I have received so many error messages I cant keep track. Bottom line, all my other email accounts configure find except for outlook. Any help would be appreciated Steven Pecoraro

I have followed your instructions at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer and gotten nowhere all day. on it. You have "Profile Folders", a folder called "Profiles", a bunch of profiles (folders) inside the Profiles folder and profiles in Roaming and in Local paths. When I get the old profile 'k41******' copied to the new computer in both the Roaming folder and the Local folder the Thunderbird program still will not show me the old files. I don't need any of the thousands of emails in the old computer, just the Templates in one account. This should be easy. I should just copy the profile k41***** ect. and paste it into the "Profiles" (notice the pleural there) and then Thunderbird should work. But it does not.

For 4 days, I have been unable to send an email. There is no "send" option. Also, in past, when composing an EM, my complete address book as been available in a column on page left. Sorry to bother. I have just grown too old (84) to search out answers on my own. Thank you! Kenneth Fincher kfincher9999@att.net, a long-time TB user and supporter.

I have had at least two service providers (travel agent and a pool service) that when they send me an email on my comcast.net address they disappear. They don't go to junk (I'm very careful about that and always check). They will try again to resend and still... nothing. The only work around I have found is to use my gmail.com address and for some reason that seems to work. Is there a Thunderbird setting that is blocking these emails? Is it a Comcast issue? Thanks for your help and at least thinking about the problem.

I have a search saved as a folder. I use it on my Gmail many times a day and have for a long time. But in the past week or two it has started disappearing. I recreate it and it disappears again a few days later. Any idea what I can do about this?

Win11 140.9.0esr-bb20 (64-bit)

Hi. I am trying to create a local only thunderbird where I only access locally stored MBOX's. I have added the ImportExport tools but it only shows the option to import EML files and for the life of me I cannot set up a local folder. I also added the Local Folder tool but it didn't seem to do anything.

I have been trying to add my Outlook account for about 30 minutes now. Normally, I would use the beloved legacy account creator, but that doesn't exist anymore.

But no matter what I do, I can't log in to my account. And I am pretty damn sure I got my login correct since I managed to log in to the website and all other devices with it.

And the error message is also seriously amiguous. I just need someone to help me through this..

Hi all,

I was looking at emails (local storage, not on an IMAP server) when I accidentally pressed "K". When I did so, the email was still visible, but the left-most column (which for me is the "Thread" column) showed a red-circle with a horizontal white bar on it. At the bottom of the preview pane, there was a message saying:

"Replies to the thread *EMAIL-SUBJECT-HERE* will not be shown".

I've searched and found that the "K" short-cut is: "Newsgroups: Ignore or Unignore Thread" Source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-thunderbird

...but obviously, I wasn't in a Newgroup... I was in a regular email account!

The result of this is, the email I accidentally pressed K on has now disappeared. It isn't in the Deleted folder (or anywhere else I can find)... it's just gone.

I've done a little testing since. If I press "K" again before switching to a different, then this toggles the red-circle/white-bar in the Thread column, and the email no longer disappears.

But my question is: Can I get back the email I accidentally press "K" on?

Thanks in advance!

Peter.

I have three email accounts. On each of the accounts when I am in the in box, clicking on or hitting enter does not open up he email but instead opens of a reply to the sender in a new tab. This is new! I have looked on line and have tried all of the following except fixing the Folder Flag add on as I do not have that installed: In the Drafts and Templates section, I confirmed that the Drafts folder on: is set to your actual Drafts folder and not your Inbox (although the Drafts folder is in my inbox). I did try and create a Draft folder outside the Inbox but could not. I have set the value for mail.openMessageBehavior to 0. However every time I look at it it seems to be changed back to 2 The issues happens even in troubleshoot mode with add ons (I only have one) disabled I rebuilt the Global Database by renaming global-messages-db.sqlite and restarting Thunderbird. I cannot install FolderFlags extension as it is not compatible with Thunderbird 149

Settings have been set to move Spam to my spam folder. Although Spam is identified it does not get moved to my Spam folder. It used to happen but an upgrade a while back seemed to stop it happening. I have tried undoing and re-doing settings to no avail. Can someone help please?

Thunderbird Filelink uses end-to-end encryption and files are only encrypted/decrypted locally but unless the code running on your system is reviewed and validated you don't really know what it does. I would think that every time recipients click on the link and use the web interface to download a file, their browser is sent a script that does the decoding. Similarly, if you use the web interface of a Send instance to send a file, your browser is sent a script for encoding.

If the above is correct, how do we know these scripts are always the open source scripts that have been independently validated? Isn't it conceivable that a Send instance may send you a customized script for encryption/decryption that compromises encryption? This could be done with selected targets to avoid attracting attention too.

Monsieur, Je voudrais envoyer un mail et ... plus de carnet d'adresse !? D ou ma colere et ma surprise, j espere que la nouvelle vertion de Thunderbird n a pas écrase mon carnet d adresse ! Ou le trouver ? et le mettre en lien la nouvelle vertion pour l utiliser comme avant ! si c'est possible ! Merci de votre boulot pour cette vertion mais prevenez que le carnet d adresse est ... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cordialement David

Moving from a Win 10 machine with TB ver 102.15.1 (64-bit) (Old I know but I still dislike the "new" interface and it still works) to new machine using Mint 22.3 Cinnamon with TB 140.9 esr (64 bit) - (biting the interface bullet)

Copied over the content of the profile folder to the existing profile folder on the new machine. Mail files are in ImapMail directory and mail functions normally.

All local folders came over but under mail I have 3 directories: Local Folders non networked Local Folders smart mailboxes all the local folders accessible through the old client are located in the non networked... directory

These local folders are not showing through the new client. I see just deleted and outbox, which presumably corresponds to the trqash and unsent messages files in the Local Folders directory on the new machine.

I have a vague memory that about 18 months ago I looked into whether or not I could place the local folders on a network drive, so that they would be on one of my NAS drives that gets backed up automatically but I didn't think that I had done anything about this.

Question therefore: Is this a version issue, an OS issue or something else entirely causing me to not see the local folder content in the Mint client? & How do I correct this?

Thanks

To: Thunderbird Development & Support Team Subject: Gmail Account Wizard incorrectly configures SMTP, causing OAuth2 window completion failure

Dear Thunderbird Team,

I am writing to politely report a critical bug we recently identified during the automated account creation process for a Google Mail (Gmail) account. The bug prevents the Google OAuth2 authentication window from closing and ultimately halts the account setup process.

Environment Context Account Type: IMAP/SMTP (Gmail) Authentification: OAuth2 Description of the Issue When using the Thunderbird Account Setup Wizard to connect a new @gmail.com email address, the wizard automatically pulls configuration data for Google services. However, the configuration pulled for the outgoing server (SMTP) is consistently corrupted.

Specifically, the following variables are written to the prefs.js file:

IMAP Configuration: Generates correctly as imap.gmail.com with authMethod: 10 (OAuth2). SMTP Configuration: Incorrectly generates the hostname as literally ".gmail.com" (missing the "smtp" prefix) and assigns authMethod: 0 (None) instead of 10 (OAuth2). (e.g., user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtpX.hostname", ".gmail.com");) Symptoms and Behavior OAuth2 Window Hang: Because the SMTP server address is malformed (.gmail.com) and cannot be resolved, when the user successfully authenticates in the Google OAuth2 pop-up and grants all permissions, Thunderbird attempts to finalize the setup against the non-existent SMTP gateway. This silent background failure results in the OAuth2 pop-up window spinning/hanging indefinitely with the message "Waiting for authorization". It never closes. UI Blank Dropdown Bug: If the user forces the wizard closed and attempts to view the new IMAP profile in Account Settings -> Server Settings, the "Authentication Method" dropdown is entirely blank (no text, no selectable options). This occurs because the crashing wizard also fails to inject user_pref("mail.server.serverX.is_gmail", true); into prefs.js. Without the is_gmail flag, the legacy UI is unable to map the internal authMethod: 10 integer to the "OAuth2" string in the dropdown menu. Working Solution / Workaround Used The issue is definitively tied to the automated wizard's database fetch/parsing mechanism. We were able to completely bypass this bug by closing Thunderbird and manually injecting the pristine configuration directly into the core prefs.js file:

Fixing the SMTP hostname to smtp.gmail.com. Setting mail.smtpserver.smtpX.authMethod to 10. Supplying user_pref("mail.server.serverX.is_gmail", true); to fix the UI rendering. Defining proper directory and directory-rel paths for the storeContractID. Upon restarting Thunderbird with the manual internal configuration applied, the OAuth2 pop-up window appeared on the first sync, processed the Google token instantly, and closed successfully without any hangs.

Conclusion Please investigate the ISP auto-configuration database logic that is currently generating .gmail.com as the SMTP hostname. This flaw breaks the entire OAuth2 token routing mechanism and creates a highly confusing infinite loop for everyday users trying to add their Google accounts.

Thank you for your hard work and for keeping Thunderbird an incredible email client!

Best regards.

On my home computer and my lap top I have Thunderbird installed. Both profiles are identical. The emails on both systems are updated by just downloading them from the provider account. My calender is normaly used on my home computer as well all appointments are saved there.

Going on longer trips away from home I would like to import all my calendar data from my home computer to my lap top. Copying the complete profile takes too much time. By just copying the calendar-data file to my lap top I do not get a working result. What do I miss?

Thanks for help Detlef

Using an iMac running vs. 140.9.0esr(aarch64) "up to date", emails addressed to "***@shaw.ca" I receive error reports that says "Server shaw.ca returned" "message reached max retries". Example: Email was sent at 04/01 13:31 and the error msg was dated 04/02 02:16:11. This is not a one-off trial; similar errors are obtained with different "@shaw.ca" addresses.

Using Thunderbird vs. 149.0.1 (aarch64) on a Mac Pro, running on the same local network and same telco connection as the iMac, messages to "***@shaw.ca" are processed in normal time without error msg.

The other day previews of messages quit working in Local Folders>Inbox. New messages will show the preview, but not any of the older messages. The preview area is just blank. I drew an arrow to the preview area.

1) Firstly, I posted earlier because I needed to add a second app-specific password to my account. What I discovered was that my Account Settings tab had disappeared. I got a response from someone that I had to change my email password, and it would reappear. IT DIDN'T. So I've changed my password and I still have no access to my Account Settings! What do I do? I really don't understand why, if I could log in with my old password, what the point is to change the password to correct the Account Settings problem. I need HELP!

2) I need HELP getting either Thunderbird (my normal email client) connected or change to a new email client that will actually work. The problem is that Thunderbird for some reason can't connect even with an app-specific password! I have been struggling with this for more than two days and there is NO HELP from GMX that solves the problem. And it's not just GMX, there's no help from Thunderbird. My sole source of help has been to post queries on the internet and follow what AI tells me which has been only part right. At least it's something. But now I can't even change my account settings!!!!

Can somebody PLEASE help me? [edited email from community support forum]