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I am running Thunderbird 115.18.0 (64-bit) on Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia (base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy). My goal is to create an offline copy of a 13 GB gmail account in local folders and then delete all the custom IMAP folders to regain some free space in gmail storage.

I am achieving this by: 1) Setting up an IMAP account in Thunderbird for the gmail account. 2) Enabling local storage of all folders (in Settings and set config flag, etc). Changed gmail settings to unlimit the number of IMAP downloads. Set Thunderbird account concurrent connections to 15 (gmail max). a) Edit/Preferences/Advanced/General/Config Editor: mail.server.default.check_all_folders_for_new = true 3) Click on each IMAP folder in Thunderbird to initiate download of that folder. I don't see this documented anywhere but it doesn't seem to download the messages in each folder until I do this. 4) Turn Thunderbird offline and ask it to download all emails before going offline. 5) Copy all folders from the gmail account in thunderbird to local storage. 6) Turn Thunderbird back online. 6) Delete custom IMAP folders in Thunderbird gmail account to clean up gmail online storage.

In my mind, step 2 should be enough to force a download of all emails in all IMAP folders. I added steps 3 and 4 because it's unclear when this process is complete. Especially given gmail IMAP bandwidth limits: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1071518?hl=en

My questions relates to step 3 and 4. In step 3, I don't really have any way to know when Thunderbird has finished downloading all emails from all the gmail IMAP folders. I'm experiencing the typical gmail login issues and throttling due to too many concurrent connections and given this it could take days if Thunderbird can even keep track of which messages downloaded and which got errors back from gmail.

How do I know when Thunderbird has finished downloading messages prior to going offline? Does it notify me with a dialog or do I just have to keep hovering over the Offline toggle periodically until it actually says offline?

Any constructive tips on how to confirm everything is downloaded or process improvements, etc.

Thanks, pi

Hello, in last times it going in my Inbox many Billings at Zugferd-Format. Zugferd is an German *.PDF Format with *.XML. Now i can open an Email with Billing in Zugferd, and the attachment as *.Pdf. I see the '.PDF. Wen i want to Print the Attchment *.PDF there comes White Paper as the Printer.

Wen it make an Download the *.Pdf, open with Acrobat PDF Viewer an Print ist all Ready only in Thunderbird i have Probleme with Zugferd *.PDF Print.

Hello again.

I asked this before but still it's not working.

Sometimes E-Mails shown in Thunderbird are missing 50% of the content (first 50%). Today 2 E-Mails got mixed up. So Thunderbird showed 2 E-Mails with the same content but different Subjects. So 1 was wrong. When I logged into my E-Mail Account then it was all ok there. So it must be a Thunderbird Problem or Server-IMAP Problem.

The Question is: How can I tell Thunderbird to re-download this email ?

I was told here this before: "right click the folder, select properties and then the repair button. Does that fix it?" Yes that does solve it but this mixes up the view in Thunderbird (columns are resetted), I don't want that.

Is there any way to re-download a specific email ? I really wonder why such a professionel e-mail program lacks such simple function.

Thank you Nico

Help!!! I downloaded what version of thunderbird I was allowed to for 7/vista (from memory, it was V 38.5)...

-trying to get an outlook account into thunderbird on the older windows, I have (had to) manually configure thunderbird, - exactly as I have done, say, on Kmail android - server name: outlook.office365.com, port 993, SSL/TLS, OAuth2. Outgoing server smtp.office365.com, port 587, STARTTS, OAuth2...

->Immediate failure when I click on the Inbox with a message that the "IMAP server xxx@hotmail.com does not accept the authentication method. Please choose..." -I've tried all of the various offered authentications in the list -- no luck. I have provided screen shots if that might be helpful

Does anyone have the right approach or any way to connect on a 7/Vista machine???

Thanks a whole bunch!

My email host requires changes to connection settings (this is for an existing account), specifically to increase security but also specifying new incoming and outgoing server names.

I have meticulously copied the settings provided by the host for this purpose but Thunderbird will not (cannot?) connect to the server.

Thunderbird is not asking for my password, nor does the password appear in TB's 'Saved Passwords'.

So I tried 'Add Mail Account', entered all the new settings manually, but TB responds 'Incoming server already exists' (presumably because I had already changed the existing account settings?) - see screenshot.

Should I remove the existing account before trying 'Add Mail Account'? Although that would seem unlikely to work, since the existing account with the new settings does not connect.

Support from my email (and broadband) host has been practically useless, so I thought I would ask the wonderful brains on TB forum if they can give me any clue as to where things are going wrong?

Dear Sirs, When I move emails that I have sent or received normally to a local folder, I am unable to see the contents of the email at all, and I can no longer move the email back to the inbox to check. I would appreciate some advice on the cause and solution.

In the Thunderbird windows menu list, below minimize and zoom, the message subject line is lost (says "Mozilla Thunderbird" only) for incoming messages, but not for replies. Where can I fix this? --- Using Thunderbird Desktop Version 128.8.1esr on MacBook Air M2 with MacOS Monterey 12.5

Our emails suddenly stopped downloading on to thunderbird on Friday 3rd April. The final one being at 17.31. We have been in touch with our broadband provider who say they are unable to help us and it is an issue with thunderbird. We haven't done anything to cause this to happen, they just stopped. Can you help us please.

My email host Claranet has said to gain access to my account I have to change my security settings to TLS/STARTLS or SSL/TLS. I have tried this but Thunderbird won't connect.

I've been using Thunderbird for many years (since Eudora) and now I unloaded Beta version. My surprise has been that I loosed my Address Book. Beta version did not copy the non Beta one. How can I transfer my old addresses book to the Beta version without doing it manually?

Actualicé el nombre y la firma de mi cuenta y cada día vuelve al nombre anterior. Necesito que me ayudéis a encontrar la forma de cambiarlo y guardarlo de forma permanente.

I got a new PC with Windows 11. I installed Thunderbird, activated the private calendar, and entered events there. For events with a reminder that have a specific duration (e.g., Wednesday from 10 AM to 11 AM), I receive notifications. However, when I create a full-day event and want to be reminded, for example, 1 day before, I don't receive any notification. Additionally, events with a reminder are not shown in bold in the calendar overview (whether they have a specific duration or are all-day events). Can you please help me?

I just pressed Enter and the whole topic disappeared. Why? Why do you do this? This is my whole subject: Why do you do your things automatically, when I try to do manually? You have a great EMAiL-software: Thunderbird. Why do you want to screw it and the user? Computer usage should be reliable. I have lost so many EMAiLs since you broke the EMAiL paths logic with threads. Why? Why did you want to make it complicated? I had a good filing system with Thurnerbird for years. Why did you have to break it? Why didn't you even make it optional, but mandatory?

How can I get the old EMAiL-filing back without the Thread-Paths? Please help!

I didn't ask this immediately, but during the years, I have lost so many important EMAiLs (again today), that now I ask.

new computer, got my roadrunner email set on my phone but can,t seem to get a password reset on my computer, says I'm charter mobile.net

Until about a month ago, this was working perfectly: whenever I would delete an email message on my cell phone that action would be passed along automatically and update my Thunderbird desktop account.

And now it isn't working any more. So I have to delete unwanted messages twice. And I get a lot of messages.

Please tell me if you know of any system changes that may have cause this setup to stop working, and if possible, how I might restore this key functionality. Thanks!

Good day! I'm using version 137. How do I sort messages from fresh to old (from top to bottom), and not the other way around? My correspondence can be very long, and it takes a long time to find what I need. Previously, this could be fixed with plugins, but now they don't work.