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Today TB froze during start up. No problems yesterday.

I deleted global-messages-db.sqlite and restarted TB. Now it is frozen with a "Loading messages". Maybe it is rebuilding indexes and this takes a long time and I should be patient.

Maybe my In and Sent mail boxes are too big? If so, how can I safely prune them?

TB is becoming increasingly unstable for me. It was very reliable before about a month ago.

I doubt my AV is the culprit because AV has not changed today.

Thank you one and all.

I like the new support for Outlook. Thank you very much. This was the first year that I did not spend >16 hours rebuilding accounts each January. It is also nice that this support automatically transfered incoming emails to the Local Inbox.

Just recently, Spectrum Internet dropped POP3 support and I was able to setup IMAP.

Gee, It would be nice if there was just one more checkbox in the Account Setup which would automatically transfer IMAP messages to the Local Inbox.

Can this be added to the wish list?

Windows 11, Dell laptop, Thunderbird Meadow 153.4.0, yahoo mail configured as pop3 (i like to keep messages on my laptop). I was having trouble with mail getting "stuck" on downloading the past week or two, sporadically. It would load maybe 13 of 90, or 4 of 64, or whatever, then I'd get a "Connection to server timed out" message. I went online to the yahoo mail site to look for some offensive email that was trying to load and delete it; deleted about 50 of the messages that would've been sent to Thunderbird, then tried again. Did this a few times. Today it started where it wouldn't even load 1 of 34, or 1 of 60, or 1 of 96 as the day went on, would just time out on trying to load the first one.

Tried changing to IMAP temporarily, didn't help. Switched back. Didn't help. (Restarting each time I'd change this). Finally resorted to deleting the account (and all of my folders and filters! argghhh!) and re-adding it. Let Thunderbird automatically configure it for pop3. I did change the setting to not have it delete the messages on the yahoo mail server once loaded into Thunderbird.

Seemed to help, and it immediately tried to download the 3800+ messages that I've saved on the yahoo mail server. Only got to 1900, then stopped and timed out.

When I ask it to download new messages, it's back to the same thing - tries loading 1 of now 2007 or something, and can't get past 1. Times out.

Notice the version number above; it was much older, and I've since updated it 4 times to bring it up to where it is now where no additional updates are available at the moment. So as much as I'd like to blame it on an update, I hadn't had any automatic updates for a long time, so it wasn't that, and getting the updates now hasn't helped either.

Any suggestions?

When Mozilla was started this morning it came up with a page to donate. When I try to go around it to get to my email folders that show I have new email, I cannot. I have tried restarting the computer and the same thing still happens. How can I get past this to see my emails?

Byron

Hello !

I'm using Thunderbird in the dark mode. When I open the detail of an event in the agenda, the text is still written in black, on a gray background so this is not really readable (cf linked screen shot)

At some points I had similar issue with mails, but I found the little button "toogle dark mode for mail" that allow to keep the dark mode for thuderbird but show the mail with white background and black text.

Is there a similar functionality for the agenda ?

Thanks !

Ubuntu . Thunderbird snap 157.0.1 (64 bits) - 157.0.1 (64 bits)

Meadow Mozilla Thunderbird Snap for Ubuntu ubuntu-snap-build - 1.0

When i write a email and i attempt to join a file (CTR+MAJ+A or join button + File), nothing happens. It's the first time that i encounter this issue. I try to reinstall thuderbird but it was without effect on this issue.

Is it a new bug on this version ? Thanks

In the last couple days, I am not receiving messages in my email account inbox (att.net/yahoo). Messages are going directly to the local inbox folder. Windows 10.

When I search for new emails in the local folder, they are tagged with a gold diamond, and my option is to "Move to inbox again," which does move the messages back to the main inbox. But, "again" implies that the message arrived in the account folder, but got automatically passed to local folder. On or two occasions, I noticed an very fast dowloading to the inbox, which disappears immediately.

And, I get no response in my email account when hitting F5. F5 works for the local folder, and other accounts, and Shift-F5 (getting messages for all accounts) updates the others, but not my main email account.

The issue is not with att.net/yahoo. I have checked all my settings and server settings in Thunderbird, done the folder repairs several times, closed and reopened Thunderbird many times, deleted Inbox.MSF, etc., but nothing works. The issue seems to be specific to Thunderbird. Any ideas?

I have Thunderbird installed on Windows 11 along with Norton 360. Today, my connection to the AT&T e-mail server suddenly disconnected and I immediately got a pop-up notification that Norton detected a problem with a security certificate. When I inspected the details, it indicated that the certificate for inbound.att.net had expired (the range of valid dates on the certificate actually listed the current date as the last valid date). After several infuriating calls with AT&T support and Norton support, I figured out that simply disabling Norton e-mail protection allowed me to access my e-mail account.

Multiple web searches on similar issues suggested that since Thunderbird has its own certificate storage, fixing the problem involves locating the Norton certificate file and importing it using Thunderbird's certificate manager. Unfortunately, that solution appears to be applicable for first-time Thunderbird installation, and I when I tried it I was informed that the certificate was already installed. Another web search suggested that I should go to the Authorities tab and remove the entry for "Norton Email Protection". Unfortunately, the entry that I found was for "Norton Web/Mail Shield", which according to at least one source is not the same thing, so I am afraid to remove it.

So my question is has anyone else encountered this same problem, and is the correct approach to remove the Norton Web/Mail Shield authority before importing Norton's certificate file?

I open Thunderbird and click on get messages and emails are not coming into Thunderbird from AT&T. It worked perfectly yesterday but today we are encountering this issue. There was no changes to the application since yesterday. Thunderbird is online I clicked the icon at the bottom it shows when it is offline. I contacted AT&T and they said things were working on their side. What are possible things I can do to fix this issue

The option to attach a file to an email is greyed out. The program will not allow me to send email attachments. I can send emails, send anything that I have saved in my inbox but I am unable to do new emails with attachments. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Thunderbird but it still will not allow me to do attachments.

I use POP. I download and keep all my messages received and sent, and have the server delete after a set period. However after installing Thunderbird I've noticed my sent folder is only 6 months old. It should be 15 years! What has Thunderbird done with my messages and can I get them back?

Thunderbird (157.0.1 (64-bit)) write toolbar missing.

All things are correctly configured, as mentioned in this article, and nothing is working in making the Write (Compose) Formatting toolbar appear again.

Everything is set to compose in HTML format and the keyboard commands mentioned in other articles and so forth do nothing.

Is is perhaps a corrupted profile setting file somewhere? Is there a Config Editor setting that needs to/can be changed ?

Please advise, soonest, thank you in advance.

Musste einen Beitrag für Zeitschrift verfassen, lässt sich nicht an Mail anhängen. Sowohl "Anhängen" wie auch "anbei" reagiert nicht. Wie kann ich meinen Abgabe-Termin dennocheinhalten??? Mail funktioniert, aber Anhang fehlt natürlich

Hello,

There is apparently a bug in the latest release of Thunderbird, which has broken the callbacks for Yahoo! IMAP email using OAuth. Potentially, it may actually be a problem with Yahoo!, and how https://api.login.yahoo.com is attempting to reopen Thunderbird after logging in, as the process has changed. I've already reverted back to the ESR Thunderbird channel once, but on a recent update the issue was reintroduced. Screenshots are included.

Thanks for any assistance.

Suddenly yesterday I no longer got the drop down box with my files to select, when I press "attach" or Ctrl, shift,A. I have turned the PC off a couple of times, and refresh Thunderbird but it still doesn't appear. Tried on my laptop and that works OK.

I've read that I can create several Thunderbird profiles and load my desired Profile to startup and use the Profile Manager to switch profiles. I'm guessing that I can only load one profile into Thunderbird at a time (?).

And if I wanted to check emails from another profile I'd have to close or switch or somehow unload the current profile(?).

It would seem to me if it were possible to load more than one profile at a time, then if two profiles had the exact same mailbox account, it would cause problems(?).

Appreciate any input from those with experience in this.

I changed POP3 email password to an app password and Thunderbird would not recognize it even though I updated in Security. I was told to delete the Thunderbird account then set it back up which I did--I did not check the box to delete files. Finally the new account was able to bring in new emails (POP3) but the old folders/emails are not there.

I read that I should go to %appdata%, roaming, Thunderbird but the dates are from years ago--do I go further to find my data or is there another path or something else I should do?

Unless they were backed up somewhere within Thunderbird, I don't think I have any backup.

Can you please help? Thank you.