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Yahoo has made changes recently, supposedly in the name of security, that have had quite the opposite effect for those of us who use Thunderbird for email on shared computers. Before Yahoo's recent changes, Thunderbird would ask users to enter their password before connecting to the email server. This is no longer the case. Now, when logging into Thunderbird, there is no dialog box popping up for entering a password, Thunderbird just automatically connects. This needs to be corrected. Hopefully someone at Mozilla is listening and will take action.

So far, the only work-around I have found has been to go into Account Settings, Thuderbird Preferences, Saved Passwords, and deleting the oauth password that was automatically saved when I jumped through Yahoo's hoops to get my email working again after they implemented their recent changes. This has to be done EACH SESSION and, if this is done, then the next time I want to get my email I have to repeat the process of generating a new oauth token by logging into Yahoo by way of my browser, which will then be saved once again in Thunderbird and will, once again, need to be deleted at the end of the session. This is obviously a colossal PITA.

Someone PLEASE FIX THIS!

Best Buy installed a new hard drive with additional storage capacity on my computer. A lot of stuff got wiped out and had to be re-installed, including Thunderbird. Now, Thunderbird is slow to respond to the server and even simple reply messages can take a minute or longer to send. It takes a long time to get messages, send, etc. What can I do to increase speed? My ISP tells me I have 45 MB of speed [soon to be 300mb] and that something is slowing down the email process, not them. Also, when I forward a message Thunderbird sends all the coded info with the messages that confuses the receipient. For example, if I send a political cartoon, some will delete the message because the cartoon is on the very bottom of the message and all the sending material is first and he thinks the message is a gag of some sort. Messages used to just show the sender and receipient(s) names and topic, not all the unnecessary detail involved in the message itself.

Can you please me with these issues, as I am so frustrated that I am exploring using Gmail or Outlook instead.

Thanks. Jim Maciej jvm1@windstream.net

I know how to add a new contact to address list so don't need that again - that is the advice I'm given every time I try and find an answer on line - from your web site also. My problem is, that after entering new contact name and other details, the entry box for the email address(bottom of the list) is hidden (or the panel which holds those details is too narrow to allow for the email entry box to show.??). With the occasional problems I have, and the time spent sorting them out, I'm starting to think of installing another mail program. I will appreciate any advice you can give. Thanks and Kind Regards, Colin Churchill

Hello,

Even though [replied in another similar thread] that I have the same issue, I'm making another one 'cause it seems pretty dead.

Since ver 128 Nebula, some mails (sorted in a labeled folder) appear totally white / blank and I don't know why. They appear perfectly fine when viewed from my provider's webmail service (Gandi SOGo), but not in Thunderbird. But here's the thing: they appear fine from the sent folder after I replied to them (via the webmail).

I've already tried restarting in safe mode with all modules disabled, to no success.

Hello,

In Thunderbird I created many filters too get my incoming mails organized. The majority of my incoming mails are re-directed to sub-maps within 'Local Folders.

I sometimes want to know to which map I re-directed incoming mails, and open the related filter definition. As path indication I unfortunately I can only find the word 'Local Folders' (which is right), but not the full path to which messages are re-directed. Can somebody please provide me a solution, thanks?

I have an email account ...@outlook.de. I haven't been able to send emails for a few days. Email reception works. SMTP-Server: smtp.office365.com Port: 587 STARTTLS OAuth2 Errormessage: Failed to send message. The message could not be sent because the connection to the SMTP server smtp-mail.outlook.com failed. The server is either unavailable or refusing SMTP connections. Please check the SMTP server settings and try again.

Im trying to change some folder text color pernamently, regardless of new or unread messages. I tried something like this for inbox but it seems to be depreciated.

1. folderTree > treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, newMessages-true){

color: red !Important; }

What would be the correct way?

I attached a file which TB correctly showed to be 23.3MB in size. (FileLink's not an option.) But when I clicked on Send, it asked me if I'm sure I want to send an attachment of file size 31.9MB! The initial size would have gone through. Gmail would not accept the latter size. How did the size grow by nearly 8MB?!

My Thunderbird version is 128.2.3esr (64-bit) running on Windows 10.

My Thunderbird shows the following folder tree Local Folders / MailStore Export / Outlook gmail / Organizations / _Service Providers / Health Providers / Cleveland Clinic (Sports Medicine Specialists) - Shelagh Baker - Mailstore says the folder contains 913 email messages - the folder shows as empty in Thunderbird

Windows Explorer has the following folder tree: C:\Users\Sam\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\ardwce2w.default-esr\Mail\Local Folders\MailStore Export.sbd\Outlook gmail.sbd\Organizations.sbd\_Service Providers.sbd\Health Providers.sbd - this folder includes a 38 files that seems to represent the 19 email folders in the Health providers Thunderbird directory (two files per folder) - the two files representing the email folder "Cleveland Clinic (Sports Medicine Specialists) - Shelagh Baker" are "Cleveland Clinic (Sports Medicine Specialists) - Shelagh Baker" and "Cleveland Clinic (Sports Medicine Specialists) - Shelagh Baker.msf" - The Windows Explorer size of the first file (with no extension) is 213,019 KB; when I open this file, I can see text that matches the content of emails that I see in this same folder in Mailstore

My Conclusions: 1) The email "raw data" exists in the file system 2) For some reason, the Thunderbird client is not "seeing" these emails and thinks there are no emails in this folder.

Other Information: 1) I have stopped and restarted Thunderbird several times, but still no emails 2) At one time Thunderbird showed two folders named "Cleveland Clinic (Sports Medicine Specialists) - Shelagh Baker". Neither of these folders showed any emails. I deleted one of the folders from within Thunderbird. Later I noticed there were also two folders in the corresponding Windows Explorer directory. One was empty, so I deleted it (it is now in Windows Trash folder). The name is "Cleveland Clinic (Sports Medicine Specialists) 0554d8b9"

I'm hoping somebody can provide suggestions on what I can try so that the emails are visible within this folder. Thanks in advance!

Good day, Thank you for your time, its much appreciated So My primary email account provider only permits me to receive but not send emails. Consequently I had to load Gmail in order to send mail. However in spite of all the correct settings gmail also refuses to send. Can you please resque me from this frustration.

Thunderbird v115.7.0 (32 bit) Win7 (32 bit) SP1.

I am trying to add another account, but when I fill in the account info (name, email address, and password,) it pops up an oauth2 verification window but the window "Fails to connect"

The title of the window is "Enter Credentials for (email address) on imap.comcast.net.

After some time, I get a "unable to connect" message.

I managed to copy some of the url, here is the beginning part https://oauth.xfinity.com/oauth/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=thunderbird-oauth&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost&scope=https%3A%2F%2Femail.comcast.net%2F+profile+openid&code_challenge_method=S256&code_challenge=xhwuKlnA_c...

This has happened before for Google accounts too.

Is there a fix?

Thanks, Mark.

Windows desktop Just updated to Version 128.2.3esr | Released September 20, 2024 When I select a message and click on the delete button, Thunderbird hangs forever.

Is there a way to revert to the previous version?

Thanks

Hello, sorry, but Thunderbird has been a real pain for a few months! It takes up to 10!!! starts for everything to display correctly. I'm really thinking about changing. See the crazy screenshots! Best Regards Ronnie

For a year or more, and more often lately, I'm getting the E-mails that contains what I call "machine language", for example:

Hi everyone! I completely cleaned TB (using BCUninstaller) from the system, reinstalled, and it still won't add a google account. Tried different ways several times. I never had any problems with gmail in previous versions. Been using it for over a decade.

Before that, I had the previous TB. I decided to uninstall it completely and put the latest clean version to set everything up again.

Sometimes, my Thundermail box will upload my incoming but particially, not allowing the message to upload on my computer. (See image) I can't find a solution. It does not happen all the time. It has been going on recentl.

Hi, I've received the email below from Microsoft today.

I have 15 email accounts linked to Thunderbird mail and use up to 5 of them daily. Sometimes 'instant' communications on one or more of my accounts can be important.

Will Thunderbird mail still function in the same way from 16th September?

I apologise if this question has been answered somewhere else. I searched but could not find it.

"The safety and security of your information is top priority for Microsoft. To help keep your account secure, Microsoft will no longer support the use of third-party email and calendar apps which ask you to sign in with only your Microsoft Account username and password. To keep you safe you will need to use a mail or calendar app which supports Microsoft’s modern authentication methods. If you do not act, your third-party email apps will no longer be able to access your Outlook.com, Hotmail or Live.com email address on September 16th.

What do you need to do?

If you are receiving this email, you are currently using an email or calendar app that uses a less secure authentication method to connect to your Outlook.com email account. You will need to upgrade your third-party mail and calendar app to a version which supports modern authentication methods.

Microsoft provides free versions of Outlook for your PC, Mac, iOS, and Android devices which can be easily downloaded and connect to your email account. Using an updated version of an Outlook application will ensure you are connecting in the most secure way.

How can you set up your Gmail, Apple Mail, or other third-party mail application?

Various non-Microsoft applications will have their own steps for connecting to your Outlook.com email account using modern authentication methods. See our help article - Modern Authentication Methods now needed to continue syncing Outlook Email in non-Microsoft email apps. However, you may need to contact the creators of those applications to provide you with instructions. In many cases, simply removing and re-adding your account with the latest version of that application will configure it to use modern authentication methods."

Not a question, a suggestion. On the help page for using OAuth2 in Thunderbird, there are 2 things not specified. 1. In the SMTP settings, I couldn't select OAuth2 untli I changed the server from something older to, if I remember right, smtp.office365.com. The old entry was more like smtp.outlook.com. Then I had to close and restart Thunderbird. 2. Tbird still couldn't access my Outlook mail account. On Microsoft's security page, I had to create an "app password" and enter that in Thunderbird instead of my previous Outlook password. Either I made an error, or the first app password didn't work and I had to create another app password; that time it succeeded.

With Outlook requiring the new sign-in technology, I deleted an account and attempted to re-establish it in Thunderbird. After naming the account and doing the password, said it "Found the configuration...."

Selected IMAP then clicked DONE. Got the attached message. I tried using Firefox browser which was my default. Then I made Chrome the default.

Same message. "We can't sign you in, Java-script is required"

Need some help as to where to go from here.

Thanks B