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I asked a PC repair shop to move the local profile from C:\ to D:\. The result is as follows: The profile at D:\ is used to store my mails according to account settings: Account Name: Wolfgang Local Directory D:\Thunderbird\Profiles\uec9qce6.default\Mail\Local Folders Troubleshooting Information "about profiles" says: Profile: default This is the profile in use ... Local Directory: C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Thunderbird\Profiles\uec9qce6.default The profile manager only knows the profile default

How can I tell thunderbird to switch completely to D:\ (where all my mails are currently stored)? I need to free the disk space in C:\

Thanky you for your help

I have upgraded to the 64 Bit version of Beta and also installed Daily. The Beta install successfully upgraded all my profile settings, including address books, to the 64 Bit version. However, Daily did not do so. I pointed the mail folder to my upgraded profile and that links email between the Beta and Daily versions. However, when I try to import MAD, CSV, of LDIF files into Daily, the import fails.

Is there a way to have Daily use the same address book(s) as Beta?

Ubuntu: 20.04 LTS Kernel: 5.13.0-40-generic Thunderbird: 91.7.0 (64 bit)

Since starting service with an new ISP, I have been having problems with Thunderbird outgoing mail (incoming works fine). I did not see this problem with my previous ISP.

In both plain text and HTML formats, if the body of the email is greater than approx. 930 characters, when I click <Send>, the progress window goes to 100% sent, then hangs and eventually times out with the message not being sent. It shows an error message:

"Sending of message failed The message could not be sent usin Outgoing server for an unknown reason. Pleas verify that your Outgoing server settings are correct and try again."

I have contacted the new ISP about this and they have no idea what is causing this except it is not a problem with their SMTP host. All email settings are as directed by the new ISP.

I have confirmed this on 2 computers, both running the same software by creating messages with known character counts of over 1000 characters, created in a basic text editor, and progressively deleting characters until it is successfully sent and recounting the characters.

EDIT: After reinstalling Windows 10 and Thunderbird, I attempted so send an email with a 78Kb attachment, which failed with the message:

Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.seaside.ns.ca was lost in the middle of the transaction. Try again.

Further searching on the Web has led me to looking at an old thread:

https://thunderbirdtweaks.blogspot.com/2010/10/i-cant-sent-mail-networktcpsendbuffer.html

but this had no effect.

I am at a loss, so any possible clues as to what is going on would be greatly appreciated.

If I receive an Excel spreadsheet (either .xls or .xlsx) or a Word document (.docx) as an attachment in Thunderbird it will only open in Read Only mode. I can save it & then open and it is fine but I cannot simply open the attachment directly without it being in Read only mode. I cannot uncheck the Properties "Read Only" check box because it is greyed out.

[Later note added: Similar problem applies to jpegs where you can't rotate the opened attachment (ie this is a kind of non-editing mode too)]

The yellow "Warning" bar that permitted editing is no longer appearing.

Something seems to be preventing this yellow bar showing & that is why I cannot "give permission to edit". Is this a config issue ?

This problem does not occur if opening from webmail or Windows Live Mail, only on Thunderbird.

Same issue on Windows 7 (yes I know it is not supported) and Windows 10. I have Thunderbird 91.9.0 (release update channel) on both.

I have several email accounts and the issue occurs with any email account and whether POP3 or IMAP. Also with Word/Excel attachments to emails stored in Local Folders which used to open fine.

It is kind of like Thunderbird is trying to force me to save the file rather than open.

This problem has only arisen following latest update (91.9.0).

I have tried opening in Troubleshoot (Safe) Mode with add-ons disabled and the problem still exists.

Can anyone tell me what to do about this please ? How can I make Thunderbird allow direct opening of an attachment in normal editing mode as it used to do ? How do I get the yellow warning bar back please ?

What, if anything, do I change in config editor to make the yellow bar reappear ?

Thanks for any help.

I have been searching for a solution for over five hours and three different Thunderbird updates. My version of Thunderbird is 91.9.0 (32-bit). I have found several suggestion on things to do, but they are all for prior versions and the UI has changed so they all refer to pathways to find the default incoming message text size that does not match this version. I have tried every font size input I can find, setting all to 20 (larger than I need but immediately obvious when it works) and one of them did change all of the incoming message text sizes, but when I next reopened Thunderbird (for an update), it no longer persisted.

Thanks in advance, Richard Aronson

I had Thunderbird running fine under Ubuntu 20.04 and built up contacts and calendar events. i loved it.

I have now upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 and found Thunderbird has made a new installation and a new .default file. I no longer have my contacts and calendar events.

If we call my data rich original file old.default as the old file and the new.default file as my new empty file with a few recent emails, how can I merge old.default and new.default please?

All of a sudden when I try to print my emails from my MacBook Air, they come out all garbled like HTML code. Headers and body copy all come out in code instead of formatted correctly. I've tried everything I can think of to try to correct this issue, but I'm out of ideas. It works perfectly fine from both my other desktop computers. It's just happening with my laptop. I NEED to be able to print my emails from my laptop so I have GOT to get this figured out. Please help!

I fried my old laptop and have a new one. After installing Thunderbird, I wanted to transfer my address book to the new laptop. The old hard drive (M2) works and I can access it. I cannot find the address file. I tried copying the entire folder, but that did not work. Should I uninstall Thunderbird from my new laptop and then copy again? Or can you tell me how to find and transfer the address book?

Every few minutes when it automatically checks if I've got incoming email, Thunderbird (78.13.0) pops up a window that says:

Unsent Messages X ? Do you want to send your unsent messages now? □ Always ask me when I go online [Send Now] [Later]

I don't remember what these unsent messages were, and do not want to send them until I see them and perhaps decide to delete them instead of sending. I understand that unsent messages are "supposed to be" in the Outbox, but my Outbox is empty! I keep getting this annoying pop-up that doesn't tell me where these messages are or allow me to access them. Where are they? How can I access them? Thank you. (P.S. Please don't tell me to upgrade to a more recent version of Thunderbird. That's not the problem!)

Is there a way to require Thunderbird to ask before emptying the trash folder? It will ask if I... click on/try to delete... a single message from the trash folder but does not ask when I click/try to empty the trash folder...sometimes I really wamt that second or two to quickly review....

I suspect this has something to do with our old mail-server and changing the minimum level for TLS to TLSv1.2

In version 91 there is no ≡ > Options > Find in Options to get to the Config Editor. How is that done now ?

I'm trying to add another member to an existing email list. I open the list by choosing Edit, select the name I want from my address book, click OK. When I go to the list, the name I added isn't there. Why?

I have been using Thunderbird for several years for my GMail accounts, and have always preferred to download my messages using the POP and SMTP protocols, rather than use the IMAP protocol which leaves them all on the web. Google now inform me that "To help keep your account secure, Google will no longer support the use of third-party apps or devices which ask you to sign in to your Google Account using only your username and password. Instead, you’ll need to sign in using Sign in with Google or other more secure technologies, like OAuth 2.0. What do you need to do? Email software, like Outlook 2016 or earlier, has less secure access to your Gmail. Switch to Office 365, Outlook 2019 or newer, or any other email software where you can sign in using Sign in with Google." These changes are due to take effect from May 30th. How can I prepare for them and still use the POP and SMTP protocols after that date? Is OAuth 2.0 appropriate?

I don't understand the article about "Automatic Conversion of Google mail accounts to Oauth2 authentication.

As a gmail POP3 email account user does this mean if I am on Thunderbird 91.8 (or 91.9) I need do nothing about getting an App password from Gmail and when Google forces 2SV upon me Thunderbird will automatically cope with this ? We were told gmail/Google would not accept/allow/permit Oauth2 authentication for POP3 (and therefore we would have to use an App password). Has Thunderbird found a way to deal with this ?

If not and I have to have an App password, can I just edit passwords in Saved Passwords (Password Manager) to insert the App password instead - and will this automatically then be saved; or do I have to delete the passwords, then go through the Get New Mail (and subsequently the Write & Send) to insert the App password and remember to check "save it in passwords" or "use password manager" to get it into the Saved Passwords ? (I get conflicting answers when I search for advice)

Thank you

The image which may be attached belongs to a different question "Thunderbird & icons" but I have been unable to to delete it from here.

Incoming email is displayed in default Thunderbird fonts not the fonts from the sender even though "Allow Messages to use other Fonts " is checked for both Latin and Other Writing Systems

Hello,

I tried to find the answer, but could only find info regarding IMAP, and not about POP3.

At the moment I have my home computer configured to use POP3 and leave a copy of the emails on the server, so I can also access them from my phone, which is configured to use IMAP. Thunderbird on my home computer is configured to delete mails on the server when I delete them in Thunderbird, this works properly.

To reduce the size of my inbox I moved, by drag-and-drop, E-mails from my inbox to folders which I created under "local folders" and as they disappears from my "local" inbox I was under the impression they where also removed from the server. Now I found out that all these mails are still visible when I use Webmail, so they are not deleted from the server at all, just not visible in my inbox in Thunderbird. Is there a way to configure Thunderbird, with POP3, to have mails deleted from the server once I move them to local folders?

From what I read so far, "archive" and local folders is more or less the same, only "archive" can be automated and moving them to local folders I have to do manual. Is this correct?

During my search I also found out that when using IMAP it`s also possible to "Keep messages for this account on this computer", so to have them available offline as well. If above option with POP3 (to have them delete from the server once moved to a local folder) is not possible, I might change to IMAP completely. In that way when I move messages to local folders they will for sure be removed from the server. The reason I never changed to IMAP was that I wanted to have local copies of my E-mails and could back-up them. But now I read, and think, this will also be possible with IMAP and "keep messages on this computer"

Best regards, Jasper

Dear T-Bird

About Release Versions

On T-Bird I receive an email which contains links. Normally these activate and transfer to the link site when clicked. This no longer works!

This is a pain in the proverbial.

Also with your celebrated Firefox 100 - the links in text don't work either when clicked I have to copy the links and paste to the url box to move to the link site.

Look every thing was working fine 3 days ago - I have done absolutely nothing to my laptop.

I think Mozilla reliability is simply getting worse .

When things are working well - you need more checking before an upgrade .

I was on Beta release last year - my experience with beta was dreadful - cost me 1.5 months of work.

I want to go back to the previous Release version of Firefox and T-bird - how to do this easily.

I am going to shutdown automatic updating as you cannot get things right it seems.

I am a former Netscape user

Best

Gilbert

Thunderbird is opening and handling attachments when I attach a file from within MS Word or any pdf reader. In Ashampoo PDF Pro it is the File:attach to email command, it opens Tbird. In Foxit Reader there is a dropdown to attach by email, also uses Tbird. With MSWord, File:Share:Email: send as attachment which again opens Tbird. Or the other opeion send as PDF. In every case, Tbird opens to fulfill the command.

Outlook is my default mail client, it is set that way in Settings:Default apps: Email set as 'Outlook'. Yet if I attach a .doc from within MS Word, it will open Thunderbird. I keep thunderbird on my computer as well as Outlook, I use Outlook most of the time unless it is having 'issues', so I like a fallback mail client. As well I have in Thunderbird other offline accounts that are no longer active and Thunderbird is perfect for keeping Local Folders for archival viewing of very old emails, so I don't want to uninstall Tbird. How can I 'stop Tbird from being enabled when I attach documents from external programs as in these cases?

In file type settings, for .eml as well, Outlook is set as the default client.