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Hi, I hope someone can help me. I've been archiving my e-mail on my Synology NAS for a number of years now. However, my W10 desktop computer died last year and I've had to reinstall Thunderbird on a new W11 PC. I want to get access to all the archived e-mails on my NAS, that is, as they used to appear in Thunderbird under local folders year-by-year. I also want to be able to archive more recent e-mails to the same location. That is, I want to re-establish the same archiving process I had previously, complete with access to the old archives. I've tried to set up the same file path to the NAS under Local Folders in Thunderbird (as far as I can remember - I might not have it correct) but the old archives don't appear. in an attempt to identify the correct file path on the NAS, I've tried to archive a recent message as a test so I can see where it is stored - in Thunderbird the year folder appears under the NAS location under local folders as expected and I can see the message in the message window so it seems to be working but I can't see any new folders or files on the NAS - nothing modified or created with today's date. I'd be grateful for any assistance. Thanks, Kevin

Hi Thunderbird Community,

I started using Thunderbird yesterday. I am using the latest update, 28.7.1esr (64-bit).

I’m encountering an issue with how URLs are displayed in my incoming emails. Instead of showing shortened, clickable links, emails from LinkedIn and other sources display the entire lengthy URLs, which include various codes and symbols. This makes the emails difficult to read.

For example:

https://www.example.com/messaging/compose/?connId=exampleUser&lipi=urn%3Aexample%3Apage%3Aemail_email_accept_invite_digest_02%3Bb6%2FtTggbExample&midToken=AQFfExample&midSig=ExampleSig&trk=eml-email_accept_invite_digest_02-null-0-null&trkEmail=eml-email_accept_invite_digest_02-null-0-null-null-Example~Example~iq-null-null&eid=Example~Example-iq

The URLs show up in their full form rather than as clickable links or with descriptive text. I have checked the settings, but I could not find an option to improve the readability of these URLs.

Can anyone suggest a way to configure Thunderbird to display URLs in a more readable manner, similar to how they appear in Outlook or other email clients?

Thanks in advance for your assistance!

Anders

I've been using Thunderbird on my Win10 PC for many many years, (and donated to Mozilla) and all has been fine till mid December. Emails still work fine on my Android phone and tablet using the Gmail app for my main Gmail email address and K9 app for an old email address, but on my PC using Thunderbird they both suddenly stopped around mid December. I can't give an exact date as I'm now disabled so only use my PC every fortnight or so just to keep everything up to date.

Thunderbird is using the server settings recommended by Melbpc group and they haven't changed for years. I also use Nord VPN which recently underwent what seemed a major upgrade so I turned that off - no difference.

I then tried manually instigating a download of my primary Gmail email on the pc using Thunderbird and watched as it said "connecting to  imap.gmail.com", then "connected to imap.gmail.com" but then nothing happened.

Everything is totally up to date - Win 10, Thunderbird etc..

Can anybody suggest what the cause might be please?

Moin,

ich bin von Outlook umgestiegen auf Thunderbird, das lief soweit alles gut, dann wollte ich meine "alten" Ordner im neuen Programm anlegen habe dabei festgestellt dass Änderungen in Thunderbird ins Outlook übertragen wird, also ich ändere im neuen Ordner den Inhalt in Thunderbird ist die Änderung auch in Outlook ausgeführt, das ist sehr ärgerlich.

Ich bin mit der Bedienung von Thunderbird nicht so gut vertraut, das bedeutet wenn ich hier was ausprobiere hat das Auswirkungen auf die Daten im Outlook, in meinem Fall sind wichtige Unterlagen futsch.

LG Marion Petzold

Hello, Since tuesday (2025 february 25) I can no longer send e-mails from my main account, whoever is the recipient. As soon as I clic on "Send" I get the message below: "Sending of the message failed. An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: : Client host rejected: Access denied. Please check the message recipient <recipient address>". I did not change anything. I have the exact same issue on an other computer with the same Linux distribution (Xubuntu 20.04, both up to date) running the same Thunderbird version (115.18.0). What is weird is that I have no trouble to send e-mails from a secondary account, on both computers. I checked using openssl that the problem is NOT related to the smtp server. Anyone experienced the same weird issue? Thanks in advance for any help. Lucie

Although messages are being sent OK, copies are not being saved to the Sent folder.

I'm sure there must be settings that would affect this, but I cannot find them!

Thanks

Keith

For the last year or so, whenever I delete a message from anywhere in my Inbox, Thunderbird then jumps to the last message, rather than staying where I was. This is infuriating when trying to clean up my inbox, necessitating scrolling back to the previous position each time. Is there any easy solution to this?

Bonjour, j'ai perdu tous mes mail des dossiers sur la gauche entre courriers entrant, corbeille, envoyer, c'est très importent pour moi conversation avec un commissaire de justice. Les dossiers sont toujours à l'écran plus une deuxième liste en double en dessous mais tous est vide. Merci de votre aide. Cordialement DD pasdag@sfr.fr

I am no tech genius and am struggling....

I have an old laptop (L1) and now have a new laptop (L2) - wanted to make my Thunderbird messages (POP account) accessible on both so installed Thunderbird on L2. The problem I then had was that if messages went to L1 or my phone they didn't come through to L2. So I went into my gmail through google on L1 and changed my POP settings, not really knowing what I was doing. I changed it to 'Enable POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded)' and 'Keep Gmail's copy in the Inbox'.

This resulted in every email I'd ever had since setting up my Gmail reloading into my inbox (20K messages!) on L1. I now get new messages on both laptops however nothing is showing in any of my L1 Inbox subfolders (I had everything nicely filed...), and on top of this if I make a new subfolder the folder appears but if I moves a message from inbox to that folder the message disappears i.e., it's not visible....

I restarted Thunderbird after this and got an error message 'Couldn't load XPCOM' but I can still see all my inbox messages so seems to be starting up OK but the folder problem persists. It's maddening as I can't sort out my 20K messages into manageable folders....

I'd really like to understand - in an explanation fit for a tech dunderhead - what's going on. Both to fix it, and to stop the same thing ever happening in my Thunderbird on L2....

It'd be much appreciated if someone could help me unravel :)

I have a problems receiving and sending emails from and to externals users. However I don't have this problem with the emails receiving and sending between my coworkers (we have the same domain @spectratech.gr). We checked the SMTP settings (IMAP/POP3), SSL/TLS settings, updates and these setting seems to be ok. What could be the problem? thank you

Hi - I have a problem very similar to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1493859?page=1 I think.

I am unlikely as technically savvy as user @iwright2 though.

I am running a MacBookPro 14.1.1, Thunderbird 129.7.1esr

Like the other user, this is no doubt due to my overstuffing of folders. I have, as a friend says, terrible computer hygiene.

I can see from the size of the empty inbox that there are many messages there. These messages all display in AllMail and outbox. These are all embarrassingly large.

I believe the problem stems from my searching on a string in one email's inbox and highlighting just these - they numbered n=60 I think, and I transferred them to an inbox on a different email account. They transferred slowly and after that, the entire first folder was empty.

This is a mac, running a lot of different gmail accounts all as IMAP.

Perhaps I need to restore some file, but I'm pretty nervous to do this. I will backup the computer first.

I'm not sure what else to tell about or investigate. Is there anyone who might be willing to help see me through trying to restore these emails to visibility. I tried someone's suggestion to change the display parameters, but that doesn't work. I must have messed things up in the transferring. I can also try repairing a disk as suggested in the other thread, though I'm not sure that's the root of the problem, I think the transfer amid way-too-big-files is.

Thanks - Huge Thanks!!! - if someone has a thought/suggestion as to where to start.

My Macbook Pro has been crashing - sometimes Firefox, sometimes Thunderbird -sometimes multiple times/day. I've saved many of the crash reports in case they might help someone know how to fix this. An Apple tech person diagnosed my memory was broken, so I just got a new logic board and reinstalled all my data from my Time Machine backup. Then a message popped up that Thunderbird was damaged and should be put in the trash. Around the same time i replied to an email from someone at Thunderbird donor who was responding to a question i had about a small donation i tried to make - i explained i was having trouble with Thunderbird. At that time, i could see the Thunderbird icon in my task bar. When talking with someone from Apple support this evening who was helping me answer a couple of questions, including about a new "mail" icon that showed up in my task bar, I mentioned that i'd like to learn how to back up or archive my emails in Thunderbird. That's when i saw that the Thunderbird icon - had disappeared. The Apple support person and i searched all over my computer for the Thunderbird app, but couldn't find it. I'm really nervous. I have over 300,000 emails I've been wanting to learn how to archive - or something. I don't want to delete most of them. I hope someone can help me find everything. Thank you.

I just changed the incoming and outgoing servers on Thunderbird. Both are the same server name. I can send emails but when I check email, the incoming server times out. I added the account that I check with Thunderbird to Outlook and it both receives and sends emails.

so i made my Microsoft account [email]@GMAIL.com insted of [email]@outlook.com so then how can i use my microsoft account WHEN thunderbird knows @gmail= gmail.com and knows @outlook = outlook.com PLS HELP PS: im useing family link so im useing a bypass from microsoft. ;)

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Trying to create a Group of ten people. Went to New Message, File, New, Connect where I filled out the Group name and emails of people in in it and then clicked add to Personal Address Book. Then there wasn't any other choice but to x it out but when I went to use the Group in an email it wasn't there.