Форум сообщества Thunderbird

I have hundreds of folders; and move an email in inbox to a folder is turns a pain. In Outlook for Mac there is a future which name is Move To Folder... opens by "command + shift + M". Can search inside the folder and can move super fast and easy. I would like to have in Thunderbird and I'm ready to donation again only for this feature =)

Can anyone tell me how to set up the THUNDERBIRD TO ALWAYS LOG-IN into its own Messenger and avoid the Yahoo's interference with his INADEQUATE Messenger format - this should not be high-science question but I have difficulties to find an information in the HELP-section - thanks, Tony H. ...!

I'm in the process of cleaning up Thunderbird e-mail before moving to a new computer. I started with 11,593 e-mails in my Inbox and 7,799 e-mails in my Sent folder. I'm now down to 7,634 in my Inbox and 4,965 in my Sent folder. I've allocated 2 weeks for this process and found that it's taking me about 3 hours per day to meet my daily goals. I'm finding that I'm spending at LEAST half the time responding to "Empty-Trash/Compact-folders" requests. There are times I can delete 50 e-mails at a time without getting a request. Other times I will try to delete ten e-mails and get the request. With the old version of Thunderbird I could literally delete hundreds of e-mails at a time. Can you help? Russ Bukwa Yardley, PA ps. I have intentionally given you specific numbers. Based on my software- and test-engineering experience, I speculate you need to create a stress test to solve this nagging problem.

This REALLY shouldn't be this hard. Created a TB profile backup (see subject) from my LAPTOP. Copied it to c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\profiles on DESKTOP. Trying to open TB, I get error: Your Thunderbird profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible

Must be something I'm doing wrong. Been on the interweb for 2 hours trying to get this accomplished. Tried everything I could find. Unsuccessful. Can someone help?

As an aside, c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\thunderbird entry is MISSING from my laptop. Can't find the profile directory. TB opens fine on the laptop, so profiles directory is available to TB, but NOT to me. Where would the profile directory be stored on the LAPTOP?

why just today is all my incoming emails coming to trasha nd not my in box in Thunderbird worked fine in the morning but i am not getting any mail in my in box it is all going to trash

Hi, I've read all I can find with regard to 'Threading' but still can't separate all the emails into separate emails. I can't find anything that explains exactly how to switch it off, or how to remove threading from emails already in a thread. I've tried every combination of On, Off, Compact etc. all with no effect. Please explain exactly how to get rid of this damn nuisance. The previous version was much better.

Compacting fails with error message " The folder 'Inbox on **********' could not be compacted because writing to folder failed. Verify that you have enough disk space, and that you have write privileges to the file system, then try again." This happens on both my PC's, which are not connected in any way, but have duplicate installations. The profile is 7.75GB - PC A - Win 10 Pro - has 704GB spare disk space, PC B - Win 11 Pro - has 50GB spare disk space. I can think of no reason why write permissons would change. This problem started with ver. 138 & has continued with ver. 139

Having opened Thunderbird a message came up to the effect that the folder had not loaded. No emails were shown in the list, although the total number of emails in the folder appeared as usual above the list.

Thunderbird then downloaded over 100 emails, according to the status bar. These messages were previously present on the server, and were downloaded via POP3 with the option to delete on the server once downloaded selected.

Having closed Thunderbird and relaunched, the folder with all the existing emails appeared. However, there are no emails now on the server, this having been verified by logging in to webmail.

Where have the emails gone?

If they are indeed lost then why does Thunderbird proceed with downloading messages when a folder has not loaded? Why is downloading of messages not conditional on the folder having loaded? This would avoid such an eventuality.

I am running Thunderbird 115.18.0 32-bit in Windows 7 SP1 64-bit.

I am using ThunderBird, and when I mistakenly sent to the wrong recipient, I did not receive an email indicating a sending error (bounce). It is not in my spam folder or trash folder. What should I do to receive emails indicating a sending error?

I have set my account to "Don't delete any messages", because I frequently want to reread a deleted message in my Trash folder. However, when I go into my Trash folder to search for a deleted message, I am finding that messages older than a certain date have disappeared, although I've done nothing to permanently delete them. For example, today everything older than May 3 is gone. What can I do to prevent this?

thanks, CW

I converted to Thunderbird 128,11.1esr in May 2025. My address book did not migrate to the newer version and I don't have the old one. Also, I don't know how to return to the previous version of Thunderbird.

I have all of my emails in IMAP folders. When I travel I don't always have internet access. It would be helpful to have access to work-related emails at those times. Two questions:

(1) Is it possible to store emails in both IMAP and local folders so I can access them offline?

(2) Is there some setting that can automatically store all emails in IMAP and local folders?

Thanks for your help!

Sometimes when I copy & past part of an article, et,c it changes some of the format settings for TB email. I've been unable to change text style back to the original setting of the email. What I pasted will have ended in a footnote in superscript and I can't change the text style back to no specific text style or any other text style. IIf i click on discontinue text styles (in Format menu) if I try to continue typing email message it'll still be in superscript. This has happened multiple times. I can skip to the next line, doesn't matter, superscript will still be the text style, not the original text style of the email.

How do I return the text style to the original settings?

We have these "old mail" and "nstmp" folders that will not delete.

right click on Empty Trash doesn't work, need to delete individual emails.

Windows 11