• Imetatuliwa

How to sync Thunderbird Calander and BT Mail Calander

Hi. Having become frustrated with BT mail I recently installed Thunderbird on two laptops. One laptop runs on Window 11 and the other Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia. If possibl… (read more)

Hi. Having become frustrated with BT mail I recently installed Thunderbird on two laptops. One laptop runs on Window 11 and the other Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia. If possible I would like to link the Thunderbird calendar on the two machines. I have tried to Google the subject but any discussion/guidance on the issue was beyond my technical competence: which is very limited! From my reading I came to a view (possibly erroneously) that if I maintained the BT calendar I could somehow sync this with the Thunderbird applications on the respective laptops. I would appreciate guidance on whether this is in fact possible and if so is there an idiots guide to doing it? Thank you Tim Ballycarn

Asked by tim.ballycarn 11 hours ago

Answered by tim.ballycarn 5 hours ago

  • Imetatuliwa

Config Ed doesn't change Date/Time Format

TB 128.2.0esr (64b) Setting a decent Date/Time format should be easy, it's not. This is what I tried - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-date-time-formats-t… (read more)

TB 128.2.0esr (64b) Setting a decent Date/Time format should be easy, it's not. This is what I tried - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-date-time-formats-thunderbird I added these formats to Config - intl.date_time.pattern_override.connector_short = {1} {0} intl.date_time.pattern_override.date_short intl.date_time.pattern_override.time_short They had no effect, see screenshot for before and after. 08:42 for today's time and date = good. 9/3/2024, 09:11 the comma is unnecessary, I want it gone, otherwise good. Monday, September 2, 2024, 17:12 after 7 days ultra verbose? Am I missing something?

Asked by EMMA_SKEPTIC 1 day ago

Answered by sfhowes 1 day ago

  • Imetatuliwa

new(ish) Thunderbird layout

firstly, i'd like to say this isn't really about settings, well it sort of is, it's about layouts, but there's no heading for that. sorry! i've just gone from version 10… (read more)

firstly, i'd like to say this isn't really about settings, well it sort of is, it's about layouts, but there's no heading for that. sorry!

i've just gone from version 102 to version 128. for my use of Thunderbird, nothing much seems to have changed, except some things are now harder. (such is progress!) i would like to see the columns in message lists as proper columns, with headers you can click on. so only one line per message, as it used to be, would suit me just fine. that way i can compare things in the list, which i would say is really important. you can change the sort, and easily see how it effects things.

does anyone know if is there any way to achieve this? i can't see anything in Settings or View. thanks so much.

Asked by Atom7 15 hours ago

Answered by Atom7 15 hours ago

  • Imetatuliwa

Emails have chaged format

Some of my older emails, which were in HTML, now appear as text with full headers and formatting data, making them unreadable. How do I convert them back to HTML? Thund… (read more)

Some of my older emails, which were in HTML, now appear as text with full headers and formatting data, making them unreadable. How do I convert them back to HTML?

Thunderbird 128.2.0esr (32-bit)

Asked by paul645 2 days ago

Answered by Matt 18 hours ago

  • Imetatuliwa

Colored Label

Before the last update, when you assigned a colored label to the message (e.g., work, important, etc.), the entire title, header of the message, took the chosen color. No… (read more)

Before the last update, when you assigned a colored label to the message (e.g., work, important, etc.), the entire title, header of the message, took the chosen color. Now you only see a small tag.

'The previous system was definitely more practical. Can it be reactivated?

Asked by Mario “Bariom” Barbieri 1 day ago

Answered by Mario “Bariom” Barbieri 18 hours ago

  • Imetatuliwa

Unsupported Authentication

My PEC mail sends me this error: Sending username failed. The mail server mail.postecert.it responded: unsupported SASL authentication method Can this be solved? Thanks… (read more)

My PEC mail sends me this error:

Sending username failed. The mail server mail.postecert.it responded: unsupported SASL authentication method

Can this be solved? Thanks

Asked by Mario “Bariom” Barbieri 1 day ago

Answered by sfhowes 1 day ago

  • Imetatuliwa

Cannot install add-ons in Thunderbird in (rare?) Linux Chrome environment

As described in [question] I am unable to install addons in Thunderbird: when attempting to install an addon, either via the in-app browser or via a file, a pop-up windo… (read more)

As described in [question] I am unable to install addons in Thunderbird: when attempting to install an addon, either via the in-app browser or via a file, a pop-up window appears for which "Add" and "Cancel" buttons do nothing (there is no way to move or remove the window without killing the process).

I am opening this question as this problem still persists over a year and many versions later.

Thunderbird V. 115.11.1-1 on 6.9.3-arch1-1 with Sway WM

Asked by piperfw 3 months ago

Answered by Matt 3 months ago

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I HAVE NOT HEARD BACK FROM ON HOW TO FIX THE SMTP (closed)

HELLO, SORRY FOR THE CAPS, IM JUST FRUSTRATED!! I PAID A COMPUTER TECH $90.00 ABOUT 6 MONTHS AGO TO FIX AND OUTGOING MAIL ISSUE, AND HE FIXED THE ISSUED, NOW… (read more)

HELLO,

          SORRY FOR THE CAPS, IM JUST FRUSTRATED!! I PAID A COMPUTER TECH

$90.00 ABOUT 6 MONTHS AGO TO FIX AND OUTGOING MAIL ISSUE, AND HE FIXED THE ISSUED, NOW IT HAS STARTED ALL OVER AGAIN! I HAVE LOOKED AT MANY YOUTUBE VIDEOS AND STILL AHVE NOT SOLVED THE SMTP ISSUE! THIS IS WHAT THE MESSAGE BOX SAYS: SMPT SERVER

         DESCRIPTION SERVER NAME
         PORT 587-DEFAULT 587
         SECURITY AND AUTHENTIFICATION
         CONNECTING SECURITY THIS IS WHAT I PUT STARTTLS
         AUTHENTIFICATION METHOD: NORMAL PASSWORD
         USER NAME I PUT MY EMAIL ADDRESS willowby4@yahoo.com

I TRYING TO FIND OUT SPECIFICALLY WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO PUT INTHAT BOX!! I WOULD APPRECITATE A RESPONSE PLEASE!

                                                                        THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME,
                                                                         Deborah H. Sigel
                                                                         willowby4@yahoo.com

Asked by TEX SUN 1 day ago

Last reply by Wayne Mery 1 day ago

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IT HASHAPPENED ALL OVER AGIN CANNOT SEND OUTGOING EMAILS OR RECEIVE THEM! (closed)

ello, About 5 months ago I had this same issue and paid a person $90.00 to fix this issue and erything was working gin until just recently, I have this issue al… (read more)

ello,

       About 5 months ago I had this same issue and paid a person $90.00 to fix this issue

and erything was working gin until just recently, I have this issue all over again! I cannot afford to keep paying people to fix this all the time is this issue keeps popping up! Now I cannot received or send any outgoing mail!! THE MESSAGE SAYS: SEND MESSAGE ERROR, SENDING OF THE MESSAGE FAILED THE MESSAGE COULD NOT BE SENT BECAUSE THE CONNECTING TO THE OUTGOING SERVER (SMPT) stmp.mail.yahoo.com failed. THE SERVER MAY BE UNAVAILABLE OR IS REFUSING SMPT CONNECTING. PLEASE VERIFY THAT YOUR OUTGOING SERVER (SMPT) SETTINGSD ARE CORRECT AND TRY AGAIN> I'M LOST, I'M NOT THAT TECHMICAL AND NEED HELP! FORGOT TO ADD ME EMAIL FOR WHAT TO DO! willowby4@yahoo.com

Asked by TEX SUN 2 days ago

Last reply by christ1 2 days ago

  • Imetatuliwa

How can I delete an undeletable folder ?

Hi. I have created 2 subfolders in "Drafts", which ALSO turned into draft folders: The folder icons switched from the standard folder icon to the "Drafts" icon. The… (read more)

Hi. I have created 2 subfolders in "Drafts", which ALSO turned into draft folders:

  • The folder icons switched from the standard folder icon to the "Drafts" icon.
  • The right-click context menu is reduced (just like for other special folders), e.g. the "delete" command is missing.

So how can I delete this misbehaving folder now ?

I doublechecked in my account manager and via config editor that the subfolder are NOT used as DRAFTS folder for any of my (POP3) accounts.

Thank you so much.

Asked by welcome 5 days ago

Answered by Wayne Mery 1 day ago

  • Imetatuliwa

[SOLVED] How to remove menu items ?

Hi. Same question as in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1226211  : How can I customize the TB's main menu ? I would like to remove menu items, whic… (read more)

Hi. Same question as in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1226211  : How can I customize the TB's main menu ?

I would like to remove menu items, which I never use:

  • for simplicity
  • to avoid accidental deletion (e.g. "delete folder", "delete message", "delete mail marked as junk in folder", etc.)

many thanks!

Asked by welcome 4 days ago

Answered by Wayne Mery 1 day ago

  • Imetatuliwa

"Read" emails have disappeared

All of our "read" emails, --from all of our accounts -- have suddenly disappeared. All of the folders and subfolders are still present. We still get new email, but as s… (read more)

All of our "read" emails, --from all of our accounts -- have suddenly disappeared. All of the folders and subfolders are still present. We still get new email, but as soon as we read it, it's gone. We have had these same email accounts for years and have not made any changes. In Account Settings --> Synchronization & Storage --> "don't delete any messages" is checked. "Read" messages are still on our server.

So, 1) Why did this happen? 2) Is there any way we can get our messages back in Thunderbird?

Asked by nonpsvdl 5 months ago

Answered by nonpsvdl 4 months ago

  • Imetatuliwa

After update, get messages shows inbox number increasing but new messages never appear

After auto update to 115.14.0 64 bit, Get Messages (from GMail) shows Inbox total rising and status shows 250 messages but no new messages appear. Each time I try to down… (read more)

After auto update to 115.14.0 64 bit, Get Messages (from GMail) shows Inbox total rising and status shows 250 messages but no new messages appear. Each time I try to download messages the status shows the same number and totals increase by that amount. I've gone from 7000+ to almost 15000 trying various "solutions" i've found and tried. Last messages received were Sept 1st just before the update. Using GMail mail app (tremendously unacceptable) I'm able to view new messages but that app creates copious vacuum (S*KS). Background, I'm running a desktop on and currently updated Win 10 Pro with 400Gb free disk space and using No Thunderbird add-ins. As a long-time user of TB, this came as a big surprise and the only "solutions" I found even partially related were dated 4 or more years ago. These included: deleting certain profile files, disabling firewall, virus protection, and VPN. NoJoy! I'm almost to a point of backup, uninstall, re-install, and re-import but reluctant to do that because of 2 previously failed attempts to recover messages. If that is the only workable solution, please point me to an article that allows me to recover my previous message. Thanks in advance.

Asked by jonsulli2k 6 days ago

Answered by jonsulli2k 1 day ago

  • Imetatuliwa

I can receive emails but can't send emails on my tommorelli@hotmail.com email address in Thunderbird program on Asus laptop

To whom it may concern, Not able to send emails using Windows 10 with Windows Defender as my virus and threat protection service. Attached is SMTP Server screenshot. Alre… (read more)

To whom it may concern, Not able to send emails using Windows 10 with Windows Defender as my virus and threat protection service. Attached is SMTP Server screenshot. Already tried two other recommended numbers as Port numbers and still was not able to send emails. Thanks in advance for any/all assistance. Tom

Asked by Tom Morelli 1 week ago

Answered by Tom Morelli 1 day ago

  • Imetatuliwa

gmail installation issue

Having just re-installed Thunderbird I receive the following error message when trying to set up my gmail account, which had been working fine before 400. That’s an e… (read more)

Having just re-installed Thunderbird I receive the following error message when trying to set up my gmail account, which had been working fine before

400. 

That’s an error.

The server cannot process the request because it is malformed. It should not be retried. That’s all we know.

The password is correct as I can login from my browser and I have easily setup my other email accounts - not gmail. Also have re-started PC and Thunderbird.

Help please, regards, Haydn

Asked by hleaker 1 day ago

Answered by david 1 day ago

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Latest version of Thunderbird downloads deleted messaged from gmail, 2nd request.

Since a recent TB update in August, the program now downloads previously-deleted messages from Gmail. TB downloads from the In folder (OKI), but also current messages t… (read more)

Since a recent TB update in August, the program now downloads previously-deleted messages from Gmail. TB downloads from the In folder (OKI), but also current messages that I sent to Trash folder (not OK).

Example: 50 new messages appear in the Gmail In folder. I delete 30 messages from the In folder, and they correctly move to the Trash folder, leaving 20 in the In folder.

I next launch TB on my Win10 PC and press F5 to begin the download. Until recently, I would get the remaining 20 messages and ONLY the 20. Now, TB downloads all 50, as if 30 were never deleted.

                                         NOTE:  I changed no settings at either end.

If I go into the Trash folder before downloading and delete today's trash, those messages are totally gone and won't download. But this was never necessary a few weeks ago.

If any reader had and fixed this annoying problem, please tell me how you did it.

Asked by LarryGator 2 days ago

Last reply by Wayne Mery 1 day ago

  • Imetatuliwa

Disappearing subfolders SOLVED need to subscribe to imap folders

Hello, I have a problem with subfolders. I created a few on my account, but they are not visible. When I go to the email application on my phone (samsung email), they are… (read more)

Hello, I have a problem with subfolders. I created a few on my account, but they are not visible. When I go to the email application on my phone (samsung email), they are visible. please help me with this problem

Asked by Marusia 2 days ago

Answered by david 2 days ago

  • Imetatuliwa

After update to Thunderbird version 128: Quick filter freezes the GUI while doing the filtering

Dear community, I have recently updated my Thinkpad from kubuntu 22.04 to 24.04, which included an update of thunderbird to version 128.1.0esr (and a switch to a snap pac… (read more)

Dear community, I have recently updated my Thinkpad from kubuntu 22.04 to 24.04, which included an update of thunderbird to version 128.1.0esr (and a switch to a snap package).

However, when I type into the quick filter bar, (i) the whole thunderbird GUI freezes until the filter was applied to my several thousand emails, (ii) which also seems to take much longer than before. Before the update, the filter took maybe ~0.5 seconds or less, it now takes ~4 seconds. A lot for just a few thousand emails. Btw, the same happens if I empty the quick filter field. Just that it seems to take now even longer until it shows all of my emails.

I don't know if anyone can help. I feel more this could be something for a bug report?

Thanks a lot in advance, Matthias

Asked by matthias.merkel 1 week ago

Answered by matthias.merkel 1 week ago