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Years ago I created a local folder D:\mail for old mails nice to have, but not needed on the server. It works very well. But it seems that it is no longer possible to create a folder like that, separate from the rest. It seems that a new folder should either be created under the general mail account or under Local folders. So is this type a left over thing, no longer possible, but for a while maintained for compatibility?

Messages from some of the folders in Local Folders disappeared for no reason at all. The folder file and the .msf file though are not empty and if you edit them with a text editor you can see the messages. Also in the folder properties although the number of messages is 0 the folder size in not empty. Any ideas?

I CAN'T DOWNLOAD YAHOO MAIL TO MY MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD ACCOUNT FORWARDING TO MY E-MAIL ADDRESS cucciolone@pobox.com PLEASE, HELP ME!

                                                                                          THANK YOU.
                                                                                      LO IACONO GIULIANO

E-MAIL: cucciolone@pobox.com APRIL 25 2025

Just got a new pc with windows 11, I used the export from my older Thunderbird to create the file and it worked great, but I messed up when I installed Thunderbird on my new pc, I was so impressed (and curious) that Thunderbird could auto set up my email account, so I let it do it and it worked. I have 3 email accounts and when I used the import I thought it would overwrite the one it just created, but it didn't so I'm missing 3-4 folders I had on that one account It imported the other 2 accounts and folders great Is there a way I can get those folders from the old pc and copy over to the new?

I tried to uninstall Thunderbird from the new pc so I could do it right, only use the import function and get everything, but it doesn't uninstall much, everything is still there. Or is there another way? Thanks.

After almost three weeks of hacking I finally solved my [are not working] problem. (It was very difficult, including creating a new `https` setting and hand-editing the profile's `handlers.json` file.) So now I can finally open links in emails like I could in TB 102 before upgrading to 128. Since I have "Always ask" set, I get a dialog with a choice of which web browser to use. All good.

Problem is that the browser dialog pops up a minimum of once per hour whether TB is open (not minimized/iconified) or not. (I leave TB running at all times, often for months at a time.) This is annoying, particularly because the URLs are to internal TB infrastructure, usually but not always https://notifications.thunderbird.net/2.0/notifications.json.

What should I do with these JSON links? Many don't even have a filename in the URL, so I can't save them in my profile folder even if I wanted to. If TB wants them as updates shouldn't it know where/what to do with them, and do it? I suppose I could turn off "Always ask", which I don't want to do -- would TB handle the URLs correctly then? Or would it just open the link in the default browser and I'd be worse off than I am now? (I usually just "Cancel" the dialog and don't go to the URL.)

It would be even better if I could completely turn off all notifications, period. I always have "Check for new messages every ... minutes" turned off and manually check my POP/IMAP messages when I want to. I'll update TB when my Linux distro has a new version. In fact I've always noticed that TB runs continuously as a background process, adding a small percentage to a CPU core's usage. Is there any way to turn this off, too, so that TB is completely quiescent until un-mininized and "Get Messages" or "New Message", etc. is clicked?

Any help appreciated. I've used Thunderbird exclusively as my email client for over 20 years, and IMO these kinds of new features and the breakages they cause have made things continuously worse since the days when I used TB 68 and 78. BTW, I've tried all the above in 115 and 137 with the same problems.

Emails from a number of emails are going into my junk folder that should not go into it. Even when I mark each email as "Not Junk", it continues to grab emails that it shouldn't. This has been going on for a long time and list of Non-Junk emails going into the Junk folder is increasing. I cannot find how to fix this any where on your website.

I am not a techy of any sort, so don't want to change any thing I shouldn't.

Maybe the easiest thing to do us just shut down the junk grabber. I'd rather do the choosing my self.

Thanks

Steve Powell

Hello, I had to download Thunderbird (and donate to you) last November in order to access my old Rogers.com email account, because Rogers quit supporting other email clients like Apple Mail two years ago. But Thunderbird doesn't allow saving in RTFD format, only .txt text and .eml email formats. Only Apple Mail allows saving on RTFD format. How can I save emails in both RTFD format and .EML format in Thunderbird in Mac OS? I'm running a 2012 Macbook Pro with Catalina 10.15 just for the Rogers email account, because if I switch to another Mac, I lose access to the AppleMail client for my Rogers.com account. I'm mainly using a 2023 Mac Mini M2 8-512 running Mac OS Sonoma 14.5.

Switch my email and login from dave.stuhl@rogers.com to dave.stuhl05@gmail.com, as I switched to GMail last November.

1. I'm running v 128.7.0esr, Windows 11, hardwired or wireless connection 2. I manage 8 email accounts in Tbird, ONE of the IMAP accounts started checking email on startup and I can't get it to stop. 3. I have all the Server Settings, specifically including "Check for new messages at startup" UNchecked

I checked the previous messages (and even Reddit...) but nothing I've tried works. The other accounts are unaffected.

Unless I'm not connected, it's a minor inconvenience but when I'm off line (like working on my laptop on a plane) it seems to "bog down" trying to connect and retrieve for that one account.

Suggestions about how to turn that off?

Hi,

I have configured a Matrix account in the [Chat] tab but am unable to delete it. Going to the accounts menu and pressing the red "Delete" button doesn't do anything. I am not aware of a way to delete it using configuration files (I am on Windows)

Thanks !

Hi,

I'm on a fresh Windows and the CPU usage is waaaaay too big. When TB is out of focus, it uses about 10% of my CPU. This can go up to 15% when the window is active. It's not doing anything, not downloading or compacting or anything.

Thanks !