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I upgraded Ubuntu to 24.04 and am continuing to use Thunderbird for email. I am notified of incoming emails in the menu bar, but these 'numbers' don't disappear once I have read the new emails. In settings, I can turn these notifications off, but cannot seem to ensure that they refresh after the new emails have been read. Is there a solution within the settings? Somewhere else?

I reloaded thundebird three or more times and it ask me to give my name email and password then says no good all I want is to get to my folders to access my history

I just migrated my Thunderbird from my old MacBook to my new Mac Mini. I tried following the official instructions and the instructions in the linked thread, but I experienced the same problem the other users did— that Thunderbird, on the new Mac, would act as if it was setting up a new account, even after replacing the entire Thunderbird folder in the user's Library folder. With some investigation, I was able to detect how to fix the migration, though I can't tell you why Thunderbird behaves this way.

Here are the instructions I followed: [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/que.../1397228]

The process of copying the old Thunderbird is correctly described. However, there is still some funny business on the receiving end.

What I determined was that Thunderbird, for whatever reason, wasn't reading the information in the profiles.ini and installs.ini in a way that launched the migrated installation. Instead, it still created a new installation and a new profile and overlaid those on top of the information in the migrated files, making the newly created profile the default and ignoring the migrated profile when launching.

In order to correct this, I needed to manually edit the profiles.ini and installs.ini file (in a simple text editor) to use the NEW installation but substituting in my MIGRATED profile for the newly created one.

I'm sorry I didn't take screen shots before deleting the files, but the important thing is to edit both files so the both are using the NEWLY CREATED installation ID but that both files only reference the OLD profile ID (deleting all other mentions of the newly created profile and deleting mentions of the old installation ID. This is just a copy/paste operation.

I've attached screenshots of mockups of what my new profiles.ini and installs.ini look like. The important thing is that both have the NEWLY CREATED installation ID (not the one copied from the old Mac) with the OLD profile ID.

Probably after the last update I am not able to simply do "Folder Maintenace" by File > Do Folder Mainenace. After doing this the process gives an error message:

"You cannot maintain the "Recycle Bin in xxx@xxx.net" folder because you cannot write to the folder. Check that you have enough disk space and write permissions to the folder and repeat the action.

This started to happen simultaneously on all my devices (two PCs, one notebook), all with updated Windows 11 and with last version of Thunderbird (128.5.2esr (64 bit) and also both in my personal and working mail domains. All of them are IMAP.

If I try to maintain only the trash bin separately, it takes a long time and finishes without any error message. But trying after that the complete maintain again fails.

I tried to delete trash files from the account profile on the disc and then it work. But only until I deleted any message. Then the problem ocurred again.

I am not sure whether I am doing good or bad to maintain folders regularly, but it was okay and without problems yet around month ago, not now.

Thank you, Michal

I have set a "Filter Rule" to forward any email with match to another folder. The issue is those email are also showing up in my inbox. I only need these in the "Moved Folder".

I recently re-installed Windows 10. When I installed TB on the new version, both address and (home) calendar data were missing. Not concerned with address as most were probably obsolete anyway. From the information on this forum I opened my TB profile and found the SQLITE files from calendar-data and also the same from my Windows.old file (see image).

Is simply replacing the 4 SQLITE files from .old into the Profiles likely to restore the calendar data?

The files in the backup folder in .old has only SQLITE file - local.v22.sqlite which was last modified in 2021.

Thanks.

Thunderbird continues to delete my trash and inbox emails. I have tried multiple times to adjust the settings through those individual folders, but it does not seem to work. I've tried going to Tools>Account Settings>Synchronization & Storage>Disc Space where I changed the setting to never delete. Unfortunately, the SAVE box does not show on my screen so I'm assuming that is the problem. How do I get the SAVE box to show so I can save my settings.

Thunderbird on my wife's windows 10 pc opens but hangs trying to communicate with ATT/Yahoo server. When none of the obvious troubleshooting steps helped, I thought the Profile might be corrupted. I recovered only the 2 day-old Profile folder from my Retrospect backup set, renamed the current Profile folder, and pasted the older Profile in its place. Thunderbird then started, logged into the server, and downloaded emails. However, nothing about Firefox looked familiar - no the local options/folders, etc. were there. How do I get the original Thunderbird look and feel back for her (very important)?

Due to a birst central heating pipe I had to move my computer system to another room. When I tried to re-login to my e-mail accounts on Thunderbird, I had no problems with my gmail account.

But I had problems with my other account: gerard@cict.uk. The server name is outlook.office365.com. One of my outgoing server settings is: smtp.office365.com. The e-mail address gerard@cict.uk was bought from Namesco, who appears to be using Microsoft, presumably Outlook. Unfortunately I didn't make a backup of Thunderbird (just saw that it is possible), although I do have backups of my work up till 15 december 2024. Can you help? When trying to get back into my gerard@cict.uk system I changed some passwords. Strangely, having changed them I couldn't log in (incorrect password).

I am depressed. I can of course continue to live, but I received about 100 emails a day. So reconstituting my system for gerard@cict.uk will take considerable time.

My calendar won't save a new entry (and has no entries). How do I remove and reinstall (refresh) the calendar? Thanks for any help. My Thunderbird is 128.4.4esr (64-bit). My OS is Ubuntu 24.04.1

Hi,

Thunderbird tries to access many websites, even when it is in the background and apparently idle. In the last two or three weeks, it has tried to access about sixty websites that Little Snitch (Macintosh) reports by IP address, not domain name. Without knowing the domain name, I cannot tell what Thunderbird is trying to do, so I do not allow it to access those sites.

I know that Firefox does this also and that Thunderbird is built on Firefox.

In the Mullvad browser, built on Tor's browser, which is, in turn, built on Firefox, this problem is resolved by setting an option to use the user's default DNS resolver. I cannot find such an option in Thunderbird. Might there be one in a configuration setting? Or some other way to deal with this matter?

Thanks for any help.

Rick

Bonjour, je n'arrive pas à me connecter à ma messagerie depuis mon PC. On me dit : Echec de la connexion depuis le serveur Imap.orange.fr avec mon nom d'utilisateur marie.rath13@orange.fr ?

I have migrated from Outlook to Thunderbird but as a Treasurer of a local photographic club I have used Excel Data to manage the members. For different times such as "Invitation to re-join", "Reminde", "Receipt of Payment" I use VBA with an Email Template [*.oft] and change certain strings with the excel data to create individual emails to each member. Is it possible to VBA automate emails to Thunderbird, with body text OR template OR with an attachment. I still use Outlook for this one task, although I have managed to sort the code for emails direct from Excel using gmail with address and log-in details in the code.

Thank you in advance ....

David

Thunderbird has been working fine for years, and a few days ago I went to check email and the program only cycles and won't respond, I've done the regular things, like restart the modem, computer and redownload the program. I have windows 11 home, on a laptop, and thunderbird has about 100 saved messages.

I recently switched over from mailbird to thunderbird. I'm adding all my accounts but for some reason one of them won't show in the left side panel. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this please

Buenos dias, he instalado Thunderbird Movil, pero los emails tarda en recibirlos con respecto a otras app como Gmail o a Spark. No lo hace inmediatamente. En Spark y Gmail me lo notifica y Thunderbird aun tarda mucho en hacerlo, al configurar las cuentas el tiempo mas bajo a escoger son 15 minutos. No esta la posibilidad de inmediatamente como en otras app. Como veo que otra app me lo ha notificado, entro en Thunderbird y lo hago de forma manual y entonces me entran. Un saludo...

Dzień dobry,

Od dłuższego czasu nie dochodzą do nas wiadomości mailowe po wyłączeniu komputer. Gdy następnego dnia włączamy pocztę nie ma nowych wiadomości (chociaż wiemy, że do nas przychodzą). Są też takie sytuacje, że poczta z tymi samymi danymi logowania działa na 2 komputerach i na 1 stanowisku dochodzą maile a na 2 stanowisku nie. Co w tej sytuacji zrobić?

Hello,

I added a new Outlook account to Thunderbird and it is not showing in Thunderbird. I added the new email account to Outlook client, and the email is comign in fine. So, its a Thunderbird issue.

I used the default IMAP settings when addding the new account.

I gave it the required/requested "permissions" as promoted.

This use to work fine in Thunderbird, as I have added several Outloook acounts prior which are coming in fine, but it seems it is no longer working now.