Forum Bashkësie Thunderbird

1. How to move mail between two different Macbooks with different OSX and different versions of Thunderbirds?

How do I move my email profiles (there are several) from an old Mac to a new one, when the old Mac can't be upgraded anymore and the Thunderbird versions don't match?

Old Macbook OSX Monteray 12.7.4 can not go any higher on OSX due to hardware not being compatible Thunderbird 140.5 Oesr 64 bit - don't know if it can be updated or not, but expect not. Minimizing run time as much as I can because the fan is going nuts and I think the battery is going - gets very hot.

I copied all the different profile folders from the Old Mac to an external drive. However, I don't think I can just plop them in to the new Profiles folder on the New Mac, given the Thunderbird versions and OSX version don't match.

New Macbook OSX Sonoma 14.1 Thunderbird 153.0.2 aarch64 Not updating to Tahoe yet because then I can't use my 2019 MS Office products - need to save up to update those first

All I need is e-mail - not calendars, contacts etc., although it might be nice to to have those Thanks in advance

2. How to .pdf old emails (With attachments) Also, the profiles folder is huge (219 GB), with multiple profiles and I want to save old emails (with attachments) into .pdf and appreciate advice on what .pdf converter/file converter would be best. It doesn't have to be free. It does need to respect my privacy.

Sometimes an email I receive contains text whose right margin and text is chopped off. I thought this was because the emails were formatted for Google's gmail, but I just received an email from Thunderbird itself that is truncated this way. What's going on?

I'm enclosing a screen shot. I can also send the .eml file if that's helpful.

I want to get all my emails down and saved before Yahoo starts deleting them. I asked already and got directed to the tool Importexporttool.NG which I got. Installed. Tried it. It didn't work. Something wrong on that machine. Big mess. Now I am here on a new machine: linux mint, new Thunderbird. complete with the tool. I have got two accounts with yahoo. I have one set up via IMAP and it has downloaded everything. Inbox and nearly 100 custom folders. The second one is not set up yet. Next step I think is to get all these emails, custom folders and all, into 'local folders'. Then set up the other account and do the same Then I'm done. Right now I have a hitch: can't clearly see how to do this with Importexporttoolng and certainly don't see any other way. You will appreciate that with 100 folders manual on each folder is something i want to avoid if i possibly can. We only have about three days left I think. Anyone can steer me through this?

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Na versão 153.0esr do Thunderbird, quando se clica na pasta com o botão direito do rato, o menu não apresenta a opção de adicionar pastas aos favoritos. Para além disso, quando se arrasta uma pasta para a área das Pastas favoritas do menu esquerdo, nada acontece.

Hi, I just installed Elementary OS on a Dell M6800. The OS runs well, and I have multiple email accounts, so I installed Thunderbird from the Elementary AppCenter. It showed up as a flatpak install, but I went ahead.

Now, in the past when I tried to replace the .default-release file with one from another machine and rename it with the new filename (which is what I've always done to transfer my multiple emails and address book),

I went to the usual place, which has always been /home/myusername/.thunderbird/whatever.default-release, but it wasn't there. Going to Help/Troubleshooting Information/about:profiles shows it there, but won't open it when clicked on.

The only place I could find it was in /home/myusername/.var/app/org.mozilla.thunderbird/cache/thunderbird. But when I replaced and renamed the .default-release file there, and then restarted the app, I still did not have my old data. How do I go about this with a flatpak installation? Thanks in advance.

I have been using Thunderbird since over 7years, facing issue since few days. Have my personal mail linked to my website hosted on a unix server. All sent mails were earlier visible in Sent folder. But now since a week only yesterday's mails are visible. All previous mails are in a subfolder by year 2026 in Archive. This makes it difficult to search sent emails. While this is not an issue for the Inbox where I can see emails from 2017. Please suggest how can I restore all my previously sent emails since always, to my Sent folder.

I am having problems accessing my email [redacted]@hotmail.co.uk I am currently using Windows 10 on my computer.

I sent you a very detailed email the other day unfortunately I am not sure if you got it because I could not verify it because I think you sent me a code or something to the very Email I cant get access to clearly as a 68 year old man who knows nothing about modern technology things like this are not what you need I am also classed as Severely disabled with various illnesses from Diabetes and sleep apnea to Ulcerative Colitis and mental health problems.I also have CTS in both hands so trying to type this out on my phone is not ideal I am not having a go at anyone but I would have thought that with the amount of intelligent people connected to technology organisations that one of them would have thought about this type of problem and came up with a simple solution it's not rocket science if the main problem I'm having is not being able to access my email and have no other accessible other ways to confirm things to you surely a freely available freephone number from the country you live in to yourselves or if you yourselves contacted the person Directly preferably on their home phone but if not their recognised mobile number and asked them some basic security questions by firstly asking them for two step verification to their mobile (if they have one) likewise I am aware not everyone had either a home phone or a mobile (or both) because of various problems I have encountered with verification methods that are not available to me or might be but I dont know how they work then surely I cannot be the only one? under the 1998 Human Rights Acts and Protocols Article 1 Protocol 1 people like myself are meant to have protective status especially here in Britain where the 2010 Equalities Act is meant to give us added protection and certain rights all I am asking for is to speak to someone who wont talk to me using Computer Jargon and at least has some Empathy and Common Sense to help me get this Sorted I use Firefox and Mozilla because I Like what you are trying to do but if you are going to cause people like myself the exact same problems I and others like me may as well just not bother with technology because the Stress it causes me in particular is simply not worth it. Thank you for taking the time to read this Tomb and I really do hope you can help me because I have no other options left PS I cant follow written instructions if I could I would not be in the position I am in Hence the need to speak to someone and not a Robot Thank you

How can one setup a sending email server with same address and username but different passwords?

When trying to setup 2 different accounts i find a thunderbird limitation using API email password which have same smtp server address and username and only differs in password.

Is there a workaround?

Cannot add Outlook acct. Found settings automatically - OK. Error: cannot authenticate. Addy has 3 "-" between 3 words - possibly problem Two other Outlook's fine Tried Windows 10 & 11 boxes both fail. Manual config fails. Tried smtp with "." and "-" before "office365.com"

I recently got a notification that a Thunderbird update was available, so the update was downloaded and installed.

Next I went to my inbox to tidy it up, by deleting some items and archiving some that I wanted to keep. On looking at the 2026 archive none of the items where found.

Why has this happened and is there any FIX ?

Thunderbird has stopped downloading mail from the outlook account for my prime account, but my secondary account also outlook is OK. It kept asking to sign into my account then directed me to a web page to sign in for outlook, but it would only let sign into the 2nd account. I have tried uninstalling Thunderbird and re-installed it but still have the same problem.

// File: Thunderbird.js (Optimized Version) // Executes Thunderbird from a USB drive using the local USB profile path.

var Shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell");

// Returns the drive letter or directory where this script is executed var USB = Shell.CurrentDirectory;

// Ensure the path ends with a backslash if it doesn't have one if (USB.charAt(USB.length - 1) !== "\\") {

   USB += "\\";

}

var ThunderbirdVersion = "07";

// Construct absolute paths to the executable and the profile var PathToExe = '"' + USB + "Thunderbird\\" + ThunderbirdVersion + "\\Programme\\thunderbird.exe" + '"'; var ProfilePath = '"' + USB + "Thunderbird\\" + ThunderbirdVersion + "\\Profile" + '"';

// Combine the executable path with the portable profile switch var Command = PathToExe + " -profile " + ProfilePath;

// Run the application (0 hidden window state, false to not wait for execution to finish) Shell.Run(Command, 1, false); Shell.RunThunderbird.js

When choosing to edit a sent message as a 'new' message, placing the cursor at the beginning of the message and pressing <Enter> does not advance the text.

It used to.

Placing the cursor at any other location within the message WILL advance the text with <Enter>.

I CAN add text by typing, but the <Enter> key does nothing.

The intent of placing the cursor at the beginning of the message is to add a line to the previously sent email.

The chosen option of 'edit as new message' should work with <Enter> regardless of where the cursor is positioned.

Any chance of this being addressed?

Thanks.

I am using ThunderBird 153.0 ESR for Linux Mint mint-001 - 1.0

Whenever I use Thunderbird (TB) I get the following error message:Thunderbird is damaged and can't be reopened." This file was downloaded on an unknown date. What is the problem and how can I get rid of the error message.

Was working OK. Now, "No Apps Available" appears when I try to connect to the Yahoo mail server. The "Find more in Software" button causes the "Failed to start software" message to appear. The reinstall is from the App Center.

It also opens the following link on the Firefox browser which displays a blank page. https://api.login.yahoo.com/oauth2/request_auth?response_type=code&client_id=dj0yJmk9WVZUaWRNUUZSQTBNJmQ9WVdrOVNqbHJUMGhtTkU4bWNHbzlNQT09JnM9Y29uc3VtZXJzZWNyZXQmc3Y9MCZ4PTgz&scope=mail-w+ycal-w+sdct-w&state=AUCYywsENF9wWMx1nhJAefu3yJtqIlLxOCP9laluGgA&code_challenge_method=S256&code_challenge=BhhyhkNZvKm5SUrRFTxgmp3HR7vX26vggsjMoThl4wk&login_hint=randylh%40cox.net&redirect_uri=net.thunderbird%3A%2F%2Foauth%2Fyahoo