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I'm trying to add an email account to Thunderbird that (seems to) require Oauth2 authentication, but it keeps opening the wrong provider in the Firefox window that it launches. The email account is a professional G-Suite address, but it always opens login.microsoft.com instead.

I've checked the MX record for the domain and it correctly lists Google servers, and my laptop was able to authenticate to the correct destination just fine. I have used my desktop for work before, which is all handled through Microsoft accounts, so I suspect that there's some kind of locally cached data which is identifying O365 as the provider, but I can't find any relevant settings or documentation from Firefox. I also cannot find any settings or controls for the Oauth provider in Thunderbird in order to force a Google workflow.

I've been using Thunderbird for several years, but I still don't quite understand how it works. A week ago or so I was unable to add attachments to email and it was suggested to me that I should reinstall Thunderbird, and the claim was made that I would lose neither my email nor the settings. So I did reinstall Thunderbird and found out that all my Local Folders were gone and that I had to configure all my email accounts from scratch, which I did.

Since I regularly back up my home directory using the Ubuntu Backups app, I thought I could restore my Thunderbird data from a recent back-up. Following some advice I'd found on the internet, I restored the ~/.thunderbird directory from a recent backup and saved it at the desktop. Then I replaced the current ~/.thunderbird directory with the one restored from the back-up (cp -r ~/Desktop/.thunderbird/ ~/). When I re-launched Thunderbird, I noticed the following: (1) All the Local Folders that I had created in 2024 and before were restored, but not the more recent ones (i.e, the ones created in 2025 and 2026). (2) The restored Local Folders did not contain any emails dated after early September 2024, which I think is the time when I upgraded Ubuntu 22.04 to Ubuntu 24.04. Looking at the restored profile directory (~/Desktop/.thunderbird/cvb2eouj.default-release/Mail/Local\ Folders), I see that the missing Local Folders are not there, which makes me believe that the problem happened at the stage of making a back-up of my home directory rather than during the restoration process. Is it possible that the location of Thunderbird data moved from ~/.thunderbird elsewhere at the time when the transition to the snap version of Thunderbird took place in Ubuntu 24.04? If so, what is the new location? Knowing the names of some of the missing Local Folders, I have tried to search for them in my home directory, but found none (find /home/<user name>/ -name <name of a missing Local Folder> -print).

I also wonder whether I could use backup data that were created at the time when I uninstalled whatever version of Thunderbird I had prior to clean installation of Thunderbird 157.0. I recall that uninstallation took a lot of time because a back-up was being created (sudo snap remove thunderbird). I have no idea where that back-up was saved, however.

So now I have Thunderbird 157.0 installed and configured on Ubuntu 26.04, I can send and receive e-mail in all my accounts, but Local Folders created after September 2024 are missing, and the ones that exist contain only relatively old emails (older than September 2024).

I would appreciate help and ideas on how to restore the missing Local Directories and emails from home directory backups.

I have a very long list of filters and would like to have the list alphabetized. Is there a way other than "move to [I don't know--bottom? top?]. An alphabetized list would certainly help. Thanks,

Since updating to TB 153esr from the previous esr, I occasionally get a server authentication error with imap.gmail.com. Most often they happen when first starting up, but occasionally seem to happen at other times. They seem to be transient as gmail works fine otherwise.

Just wondering if this is a known bug?

Using Thunderbird 115.18.0esr Supernova 64-bit on Mac laptop OS 10.13.6. Worked fine for years, with ongoing Thunderbird updates, even though Mac OS is 32-bit. Suddenly, after 10/6/26 can't retrieve emails although I can see them on the ATT Yahoo server website. Can still send emails with Thunderbird. Inbound server settings are: POP server inbound.att.net, Port 995, SSL/TLS, Normal Password (I long ago created a Secure Mail Key, and even tried creating a new one). But inbound server name doesn't show in Saved Passwords (only outbound server with Secure Mail Key as password)? I have tried everything suggested, repaired my inbox folder, updated Thunderbird files, etc. in Profile as recommended. But still no prompt for password when attempting to get messages. Just shows "Done" at bottom left with no new messages received. But new messages are seen on server website. So it appears that Thunderbird isn't able to connect to the ATT Yahoo server to get emails. Why? And what else can I do? I love Thunderbird and want to continue using it.

Hello! I'm having a problem where a specific tag keeps un-applying itself. I have a number of filters that look for specific words in emails, and tag them accordingly -- all of my other filters are working just fine, but one specific one has decided to stop working. It has exactly the same settings as the other ones, and when I manually run the filter, it correctly applies the right tag.

But, minutes later, the tag will un-apply itself, and I cannot figure out why. For some reason, an older message is staying correctly tagged with that filter, but newer ones un-apply the tag. This same filter and tag used to work just fine. Other tags on emails from the same source work fine, too.

I have two different email accounts in Thunderbird. For the last few days, my Yahoo mail will not download. I can go to Yahoo, but prefer not to. My other account will download. I have just noticed that it seems to be downloading the same eight or nine emails over and over.

Thunderbird in Linux has worked perfectly for me for many year. This is my first ever problem with emails not downloading through Thunderbird.

What could be the problem?

I like the new support for Outlook. Thank you very much. This was the first year that I did not spend >16 hours rebuilding accounts each January. It is also nice that this support automatically transfered incoming emails to the Local Inbox.

Just recently, Spectrum Internet dropped POP3 support and I was able to setup IMAP.

Gee, It would be nice if there was just one more checkbox in the Account Setup which would automatically transfer IMAP messages to the Local Inbox.

Can this be added to the wish list?

Hi, I am running a windows 10 with Thunderbird version 157.0.1 (64bit) IMAP version. I am having problems with quite a few of my old messages not wanting to open when I click on them. This is the message that pops up (Server mail.daystar.io has disconnected. The server may have gone down or there may be a network problem.) mail.daystar.io is my carrier.

I'm running the current 157.0.1 release on Windows 11, and specifically am having my emails from the AP be sent to spam even though I have a specific filter set to tag them. I feel as if the filter itself is set up properly because when I manually run it the messages will be moved from the spam folder to the inbox and tagged accordingly.

The one thing sticking out to me is these emails are being forwarded through my relay account. I've tried changing the filter to work based on the relay address, but again it only works when I manually run it. I've also tried setting the filter to run both before "and" after spam classification, but neither option works. Ideally the filter would work without me having to go to my spam and run it, and even then I'm wondering why the spam filter hasn't learned by now that those email belong in my inbox.

I'd appreciate any help or solutions; I'm not an email power user or networking wiz though so please try to keep it as dumbed down for me as possible!

I’m looking for card body previews in the message list/card view, similar to seeing a short preview of the email body under the subject/sender. Is this feature currently available anywhere in Thunderbird?

If not, is it planned, and is there any estimated version or timeline for when it may be added?

Today TB froze during start up. No problems yesterday.

I deleted global-messages-db.sqlite and restarted TB. Now it is frozen with a "Loading messages". Maybe it is rebuilding indexes and this takes a long time and I should be patient.

Maybe my In and Sent mail boxes are too big? If so, how can I safely prune them?

TB is becoming increasingly unstable for me. It was very reliable before about a month ago.

I doubt my AV is the culprit because AV has not changed today.

Thank you one and all.

I use emojis in email, but recipients report that the text of the email arrives covered with emojis. I thought it was a problem with the receiver until a second person just reported the same issue with an email I sent them. Both are gmail accounts . . .

Was kann ich tun? Habe Probleme mit mozilla. Bei derAuführung der Programme Thunderbird ( ständig ) und Firefox ( manchmal ) kommt es zu Abstürzen wie Programm keine Rückmeldung, einfrieren so das keine Eingaben mehr möglich sind und ich jedesmal das Programm schließen und neu starten muß.

I keep getting a message that says that the connection has timed out. Not sure why that's happening, but it's annoying. I have researched it some here, and changed a setting that is supposed affect that, and changed it to 2000, but it's still happening. What can I try next? Thanks

Ich kann seit einigen Tagen an Mails keine Anhänge mehr zum Versand anhängen: Vermutung: Es hängt mit dem letzten Update zusammen.

Aktuelle Thunderbird-Version, Upsate 3. Oktober 2026