"cloning" Thunderbird

Have TB on my laptop (146.0.1 (64-bit) on Win11) all set up the way I want it. Would like to "clone" those settings/profiles to my desktop. AI site said, "Copy profiles… (read more)

Have TB on my laptop (146.0.1 (64-bit) on Win11) all set up the way I want it. Would like to "clone" those settings/profiles to my desktop. AI site said, "Copy profiles folder and profiles.ini to the new machine." Didn't work. Asking me to set up from scratch. Laptop is on "standard" edition, think desktop is on beta. Is that the problem? What do I need to do?

Asked by PathMan 2 days ago

Sent mail has suddenly vanished

Sent mail has suddenly vanished, even though it is still on the originating file server. This happened very suddenly. I uninstalled and reinstalled Thunderbird, but no ch… (read more)

Sent mail has suddenly vanished, even though it is still on the originating file server. This happened very suddenly. I uninstalled and reinstalled Thunderbird, but no change. I am about to reboot PC to see if this will solve the problem. Very strange!

Asked by joan.kemp1 2 days ago

Thunderbird mis-identification of incoming email sender in the "Correspondances" field of the message list.

Thunderbird 140.6.0esr (64-bit) "On Linux LMDE 6" 64 bit, on an Intel platform. An HP small format desktop, using two screens. I see this issue (below) when receiving… (read more)

Thunderbird 140.6.0esr (64-bit) "On Linux LMDE 6" 64 bit, on an Intel platform. An HP small format desktop, using two screens.

I see this issue (below) when receiving digest mail from groups.io See the hopefully attached image. If that didnt come through, I can send you a whole screenshot if needed.

The issue is that the first line is correct. The "sender" is the group "linuxham" and is a mail digest message. The second line "Thunderbird 2025: A Year in Review" is correct.

However.. The third line from the UKMicrowaves group, another groups.io group configured to use "Digest Delivery" mode, is shown as coming from "[edited] @groups.io" Misleading at best! (It is always the linuxham group details that is used, regardless of which group has sent the digest.)

The last two lines are correct.

I see this on all groups.io group mail where what comes to me is in the form of a "Digest" (so as not to flood my inbox.) Does T'Bird handle "Digest" mails differently to one-to-one mails?

This odd labeling of the "Correspondents" started some time ago as a result of a past T'Bird update, but prior to that update, was not an issue. I have "Many" groups.io groups I'm a member of.

Sorry but it's taken me this long to find out how to submit this info and ask the question.

I'd love for this to be fixed, and am willing to test any trial version(s) that may be needed, and/or to provide any other needed system info that would help. I am contactable on [edited from public] @googlemail.com

Oh... I made "Many" attempts over the last year or three to setup a "Mozilla" account to report this, but I now know "Mozilla" has renamed to just "Moz". Sadly, "Moz account creds" are not accepted! to login here.

By accident I found that a Google ID works. Pity that was not sorted some time ago, else I could have reported this sooner. (Better presentation on the T'bird support initial web page would help with such confusion, or is this intentional to filter out lame questions? And lower support costs! I know of others who implement such! ;-)

Anyway, thanks for seemingly letting me in at last. Much appreciated from a long time Thunderbird user of "Many years".

Even with the above wrinkle, it's far the best mail client out there I find. True "Cross Platform" too. (Though I found the Android offering rather "clunky" at best.)

Thanks Again.

Yours...

Dave or G8KBV, yes a "Ham"...

Asked by Dave B 2 days ago

Account creation not possible despite confirmed login credentials

Hello, When creating a new account with the email provider @gmx.de, after entering my name, email address, and password, it is confirmed that this combination is found i… (read more)

Hello,

When creating a new account with the email provider @gmx.de, after entering my name, email address, and password, it is confirmed that this combination is found in the Mozilla ISP database. (1)

After clicking the 'Done' button (2), an error message is displayed (3).

I can log in to the email account using the same credentials via a browser.

What could be the cause of this behavior?

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Martin Kuhr

Asked by Martin Kuhr 2 days ago

Umlauts are not displayed in German Thunderbird

As you can see in the screenshot, the umlauts are missing in many emails. Unfortunately, the corresponding fonts can no longer be set in Thunderbird; I use version 140.6.… (read more)

As you can see in the screenshot, the umlauts are missing in many emails. Unfortunately, the corresponding fonts can no longer be set in Thunderbird; I use version 140.6.0esr (32-bit). Where can I set that ä, ö, ü, ß (...) are displayed normally? Greetings from Berlin, Markus

Asked by post550 5 days ago

Last reply by post550 2 days ago

Font size

I am a regular supporter of Mozilla. Since changing my desk top computer and re-entering Thunderbird, I have had font size problems, to read incoming E-mails but even mo… (read more)

I am a regular supporter of Mozilla. Since changing my desk top computer and re-entering Thunderbird, I have had font size problems, to read incoming E-mails but even more so with sending E-mails, when the print size is almost too small to read. What can I do about his? Please go easy on me : I am a non-techy 91 year old so words of few syllables in everyday terms, please.

Asked by ajbhovis 2 days ago

Windows 11, Thunderbird 140, How to increase the"New Event" box and its Font

Windows 11, Thunderbird 140, How to increase the"New Event" box and its Font - Windows 10, the size is OK - I have 'Googled" this problem and there seems to be no answe… (read more)

Windows 11, Thunderbird 140, How to increase the"New Event" box and its Font

- Windows 10, the size is OK

- I have 'Googled" this problem and there seems to be no answer.

Kind regards: Gary Shaw

Asked by gary.s.shaw 5 months ago

Last reply by gary.s.shaw 2 days ago

'Update' has forced the date format to Month-Day-Year.

Ever since I stupidly let Thunderbird 'update' to 140.5esr 64bit the date format has been wrecked. The program now forces the plain weird US date format of Month-Day-Yea… (read more)

Ever since I stupidly let Thunderbird 'update' to 140.5esr 64bit the date format has been wrecked. The program now forces the plain weird US date format of Month-Day-Year. I hoped that this obvious error would be fixed but it's been rather a long time now and the problem - and IT IS A PROBLEM - hasn't been addressed. It looks like Thunderbird is following Firefox in making each version worse. Whilst I switched to Pale Moon long ago there is as yet no fork of Thunderbird. If I were still on Windows for internet use I would just install an older version alas I do not know how to do this on Linux (Q4os Trinity) PLEASE fix this problem. I am far from the first to point this massive mistake out.

I am genuinely grateful to the people who work on these projects but a little more effort on actually being able to use the programs would be a substantial advance.

Asked by Brithnoth 2 days ago

Impossible d'envoyer une PJ avec smtp.free.fr

Quand l'envoie une PJ avec un compte qui a smtp.free.fr, j'ai le blocage "L’envoi du message a échoué. Le message n’a pas pu être envoyé car la connexion au serveur sorta… (read more)

Quand l'envoie une PJ avec un compte qui a smtp.free.fr, j'ai le blocage "L’envoi du message a échoué. Le message n’a pas pu être envoyé car la connexion au serveur sortant (SMTP) smtp.free.fr a expiré. Veuillez essayer à nouveau." Si je l'envoie avec un compte qui a smtp.sfr.fr, je n'ai pas de problème ! Je suis en Thunferbird 146.0.1 (64 bits) sur Windows 10. Merci de votre aide.

Asked by galou57 2 days ago

Move emails from local folder to inbox

Merging an installation I need to move emails from a local folder to my inbox folder and sent box folder. When I try to do this the menus seem to permit it but the emails… (read more)

Merging an installation I need to move emails from a local folder to my inbox folder and sent box folder. When I try to do this the menus seem to permit it but the emails don't move. Why might that be?

Asked by bobgarrett 2 days ago

Folder name mish-mash after upgrade to ver. 144.0.1

I'm using Thunderbird in Polish language. After upgrade to ver. 144.0.1 folder names for my only IMAP account have changed into English and fonts into capital (except inb… (read more)

I'm using Thunderbird in Polish language. After upgrade to ver. 144.0.1 folder names for my only IMAP account have changed into English and fonts into capital (except inbox folder name). Attached screenshot shows discribed case in red frame - capital names are in Engliś and inbox is in Polish. Below in green frame there is my POP account and folder names are correct.

Asked by Tomasz Bogutyn 2 months ago

Last reply by Tomasz Bogutyn 2 days ago

messages thunderbird

Bonjour, après plusieurs échanges sur le même message (envoi, réponse, etc..) dans outlook, tous les échanges restent dans le même message. Dans thunderbird il considère … (read more)

Bonjour, après plusieurs échanges sur le même message (envoi, réponse, etc..) dans outlook, tous les échanges restent dans le même message. Dans thunderbird il considère que que chaque élément de discussion resté dans le corps de message est un nouveau message, je reçois bien un message mais lorsque je l'ouvre, il y à plusieurs onglets. Comment avoir la même présentation que j'avais dans outlook. merci de votre réponse

Asked by Alfred Luciani 2 days ago

Advanced search directly in the global search function (from:XXX to:YYY subject:"foo" after:20d)

Is there any hope for us to have syntax which allows for advanced search through all the folders of a different account? Something that allows powerusers to type somethin… (read more)

Is there any hope for us to have syntax which allows for advanced search through all the folders of a different account? Something that allows powerusers to type something like: "from:XXX to:YYY subject:"foo" after:20d" and get results?

I'm currently parsing all my email with notmuch locally to get something like this. It would be great to be able to get this type of functionality in Thunderbird natively. There are some adons that I have found but they seem like hacks; search needs to be super reliable.

  • Apologies if this is has been asked before!

Asked by RC 3 days ago

Last reply by RC 3 days ago

Setting alarms/notification for events in calendar

Apparently it's possible to select different notifications or warnigs for events, it is possible to define one time by default, but also add anothers, but that does not w… (read more)

Apparently it's possible to select different notifications or warnigs for events, it is possible to define one time by default, but also add anothers, but that does not work at all, it only accepts the one selected in calendar.alarms.eventalarmlen

Asked by Fran 2 days ago

eero settings with Thunderbird

Hi, I am using Fibrus email (network name is xxx and network key is yyy). Fibrus uses eero as a modem. I cannot work out the correct server settings in Thunderbird as the… (read more)

Hi, I am using Fibrus email (network name is xxx and network key is yyy). Fibrus uses eero as a modem. I cannot work out the correct server settings in Thunderbird as there doesn't seem to be a place for 'network key'.

Most grateful for any help you can give me.

Simon

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Asked by shpbrown 4 days ago

Last reply by shpbrown 3 days ago