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Thunderbird versions: 128 esr and 131 (both exhibit this problem). OS: Windows 10.

Issue: Thunderbird freezes when trying to save all attachments. This occurs when using "Save All". The dialog box to select the folder appears and then Thunderbird stops responding. "Not Responding" appears in the dialog box title. Windows then pops up a dialog offering to close the program or wait for it to respond (which it never does). No crash report is generated.

Note: 1. This issue does not occur when using "Save As..." and saving the attachments individually. 2. This does not occur when dragging attachments (all, or individually) to the Desktop or to other folders 3. This seems to occur independent of the types of the attachments.

Is this a bug or is there a way to fix this?

I am trying to use my Gmail account on Thunderbird for Android app, and Google blocked the OAuth client that it uses for authentication since it is currently not yet allowlisted for use on accounts protected by Advanced Protection Program unless the desktop app.

Technically I could disable it temporarily until the app gets into stable release or use the desktop app, but I'll chime in Mozilla Connect instead on that.

Short version Why can't I set up an email account in Thunderbird for Android Beta (TFA-B) that is only known inside TFA-B and not part of the Google "accounts"?

Long version...

Context #1 - Windows On Windows, I have ONE login username. Once i have logged in, I use Thunderbird desktop to do email. I have 6 accounts, some of which are xxx@gmail.com, and some are yyy@anothercompany.com

When I configure Thunderbird with those accounts, only Thunderbird knows about those account - they are not part of Windows. I'm certain that MacOS works the same.

Context #2 - Android I have been using Gmail as my email app for quite a long time. I registered the phone with xxx@gmail.com so it appears in the Settings under "accounts". But when I configured Gmail with the other 5 email accounts, they are added in the "accounts" section. They become part of the environment, not just email addresses in Gmail.

As a result, every %^&* thing on Android is done in the context of any one of the email addresses. When I go to "Contacts", a bunch are in xxx@gmail.com, some are in yyy@gmail.com, some are in zzz@gmail.com. I never know where a new contact is going to end up. When I go to the Play store, it's the same thing - I have to choose one of the Google accounts. Same for Google News reader, Photos, etc. The list goes on and on. Everything is tied to an "account (email address).

I'm not really interested in hearing how this is a "good thing", e.g. you can have all of your business contacts tied to your business email address, and all of your personal contacts tied to your personal email address. That's a simplistic view of the world. My contacts are not split along business/personal lines - they are used for travel, personal, shopping, etc. But that doesn't mean I want to download from the Play store or read news or whatever using my "shopping" email address (account) or my "travel" email address.

I'm not asking you to explain or fix any of the above. It is what it is. It's just context for the remainder of this message.

Thunderbird for Android Beta (TFA-B) I've been using Thunderbird on Windows for the last ~20 years and it's fantastic. Today I saw several articles about Thunderbird for Android Beta, so I downloaded it. I thought "now this will be much better than gmail".

The first thing I did was delete all of my accounts from my phone except for the xxx@gmail.com account that ties it to Google. All of the email disappeared too, but that's ok (I won't go into details). So now my phone has only ONE Google account and I want to configure TFA-B with 5 other email addresses. So I did the following: (a) entered yyy@gmail.com (b) it recognized @gmail.com and configured all of the IMAP/SMTP stuff (c) then it said "We'll redirect you, to your email provider to sign in. You need to grant the app access to your email account" with a button that said "Sign up with Google" (d) when I clicked that button, it didn't prompt me for username/password to sign in. Instead it listed the following:

Signed in to Google as xxx@gmail.com - manage your Google Account - add account to device - sign out and turn off sync

None of the 3 choices were to sign into yyy@gmail.com as promised. (a) "manage" refers to the current xxx@gmail.com, so that's not it (b) "sign out and turn off sync" also refers to xxx@gmail.com (c) The only possible choice is "add account to device" and I don't want that! I just want to read email from yyy.com without it becoming entangled in the entire Google/Android system.

It does say "Google - sign in with your Google account" and asks for the email address, but then the only option is "Create account", which goes right into the usual Settings -> Accounts part of Android to create the account. I thought TFA-B was just going to ask me to sign in to yyy.com (the same as I would sign in to banking for example). But no, I have to create a Google/Android account. Maddening.

So this is not going to simplify things. Every email address I set up in TFA-B is going to be set up as a Google account at the Android "system" level, and they will all be choices in Contacts, Play Store, and several other places. That's not what I expected. I am SO disappointed. I know TFA-B will be good, but from this point of view, it's just as bad as Gmail.

I'm guessing there is no choice, e.g. you can't set up an email address in an application like TFA-B without setting it up as an Android "account".'

So now I have questions: 1. is it possible to set up an email address/account in TFA-B, without setting up an account in Google/Android? 2. if not, is this a restriction in Android, or are the developers just doing it that way so it works the same as Gmail? 3. why does Android have to do *everything* in the context of one of the email addresses that have been setup as formal "accounts"?

Thanks for listening.

Hi,

This morning I have opened my email and it was working fine. Suddenly, I have stopped seeing some emails. Now I just can see this message: --xUTmK=_pnkMxTM5AqhuhbWKiNOYkQ9xnqY--

But this morning I have seen and read these emails!

Same issue with 10 different emails from different accounts. All emails have same error text inside (--xUTmK=_pnkMxTM5AqhuhbWKiNOYkQ9xnqY--)

Please see image attached.

Best regards, Alba

I have thunderbird email and at the beginning of the year my provider ceased operating. I can still see my old email folders but cannot access them. Is there any way I can copy my emails over?

Thanks Bruce

Hello

Is there a quick way to print the first page only of an email? In Outlook it is possible using a macro which can be activated with just one click of toolbar button. I haven't been able to find the equivalent in Thunderbird as yet so was wondering if it is even possible.

Thanks

Hi there. I had a problem that, my previous email in 'inbox' been automatic delete by thunderbird. Up to date (10th October 2024), those automatic deleted emails starting from date 22th September 2024 downwards. Upon checking by last week, it's seen like the automatic deleted emails happen for every 14 days. The automatic deleted emails are not in the 'Deleted' folder. For your info, I had checking my email setting and I found that I'm not choosing for automatic deleting. Please refer to my screen shoot.

Hi.  :-) For quite a long time now, I have seen this error (that was not before in some instance): When I receive an e-mail the program is setup to give a notification that there is a new e-mail, plus on the Thunderbird icon in the taskbar (is that the name for it), there is a continuous count of unread messages. So far so good. But then if you don't read the message(s) right away, after a little time the notification (for the same e-mail(s)) comes again and the count of unread e-mails goes up - even though there is no new e-mails other then the one(s) that came before.

So if you leave the computer unatended for some time and you come back, the Thunderbird icon says that you have 40 unread messages (for example) and you think "oh no, so many" - but when you open the e-mail program, there is only half of that. See attached images. This test I made by sending e-mails to my self. My e-mail is setup to receive e-mails every 5 minutes and I think the second notification and count-up might come at that 5 minute point - when it is time for the software to look for new messages.

It only does this with the main e-mail account. I also have the e-mail program setup to receive e-mails from another e-mail adress - but this count stays true on the Thunderbird icon and does not give extra notification and double count of unread messages.

How to fix that - or is it a general issue that needs to be fixed in the Thunderbird code? It have been like this for a quite long time, but I have not known how / where to ask about it.

Kind regards Master of Science in Engineering Thorvald Johannes Pedersen Denmark

I have several emails. I've been noticing that some of my emails are going out with a "default" email. (I just saw this stated, but I can't find it again.) I never set a default email.

This does NOT happen when I reply to someone, only when I start a new email.

I went to each of the account settings and checked the box which says FROM address, and entered the correct address for each. It continues to use the Default reply email.

I found on this site a couple of old messages regarding this issue. A couple of replies said this will happen if the SMTP doesn't differentiate. With my service, it's the same SMTP for all the accounts - smtpauth.earthlink.net. The wanted reply email is in the User Name box in that dialog box.

Is there a way to tell Thunderbird to either NOT use a default email?

Have had M. Thunderbird in desktop HP computer for three or so years. The number of emails displayed in (Bigpond) inbox keeps reducing, now to 25. This regardless of deletions made. Installed M. Thunderbird in Acer laptop a few months ago and that device currently shows 675 unread messages. How can I get HP machine to display all 675 that must be in Bigpond mailbox if they are accessible in Acer device. Also have folders on left side of HP device that I can't install in Acer device. Regards, J.R. Meyland

Please don't require me to "Confírm Identity" until that is changed to show me where I can click to "Allow." I currently can't access my thunderbird account because I'm unable to confírm my identity.

In the middle run you need to reconfigure the "Confírm Identity" page so my MacBook Air will show and permit me to click on "Allow." Because I can't, I am unable to use my Thunderbird

I have not received any emails today to my email address. I sent myself a test email which I got but when I sent a test email from my hot mail account it did not show up in my joni@priorityoneapprais.net email.

Unfortunately, somehow my setting for "sent" e-mails got changed so that TB only kept the last few months - acktually I want to keep them "forever" (until I delete them).

I have various profile backups - is there a way that I could just import the "sent" items/folder? I guess importing "normally" (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-import) would probably just result in populating the inbox with messages that I already deleted in the meantime.

_Part_308474_628599457.1715177352059-- This is on all me new emails. Don't have any content for any emails. What is wrong. I had this happen last weekend also. Lori Kabere

I recently updated thuderbird on my work computer and now none of the emails that were received prior to the update on october 7th 2024 can be viewed using thunderbird. it just shows a blank page. tried to restart using troubleshooting mode and turned off all my addons, but still my emails don't show.

sometimes one email out of the bunch will randomely work. but for the most part, non of my emails before october 7th at 3pm are viewable.

attached are screenshots for visual refrence

I already tried putting Thunderbird as a shortcut into the C:\Users\<myAccountName>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo (aka. shell:SendTo) folder. But when I use the "Sent to" menu and select Thunderbird, the file to be attached just gets openned by Windows as if I had double-clicked on it. Thunderbird does not even open a new message.

I also tried changing the call of the Thunderbird shortcut in the SendTo folder to: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -compose attachment= At least, then Thunderbird opens a new message. But it just writes the path\filename of the file to attach into the attachment section. When I then try to send the message, Thunderbird says it cannot access it under this path.

How are you doing this? Thanks!