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I have created several categories that I use to assign a color to each of my calendar event entries. When I do this, the event shows a very thing stripe of my assigned category color down the righthand side of the entry. I would REALLY like the entries to be colored entirely with my category colors rather than that tiny stipe. Is this feature available and if not, I am hoping it can be considered in the very near future.

Dear Community,

I have a LAN connected desktop Windows 11 computer using Thunderbird 140.10.0esr (32-bit) synced to two different Apple calendars with no issues.

I also have two Wi-Fi connected laptop Windows 11 computers using Thunderbird 150.0 (64-bit) each synced to the same two Apple calendars above. I haven't had any sync issues with these until lately and I believe they are setup exactly the same as the desktop computer above.

For example if I attempt to "Add" a calendar entry I will get the following error message: "If you're seeing this message after snoozing or dismissing a reminder and this is for a calendar you do not want to add edit events for, you can mark this calendar as read-only to avoid such experience in future. To do so, get to the calendar properties by right clicking on this calendar in the list in the calendar or task view."

I have tried removing the calendar and adding it back but I still get the same intermittent sync issues and get these type of error messages. I have no extensions.

Not sure if this might be a software bug in the latest 150.0 (64-bit) release because 140.10esr (32-bit) appears to work fine on my desktop computer.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.

I recieve several emails a day from a submission form on my website that contain what looks like Russian words. I would like to create a message filter to move these messages directy to the trash based on one or two characters that do not appear in the english language. I thought I had done it, but the filters don't appear to work.

I have removed the drive from the computer that will not boot up. I hope to be able to transfer my "profile" to my new computer from that drive. I understand that I will need to have the same version of Thunderbird installed on my new computer in order to transfer my "profile". Since I can't access Thunderbird on my "crashed" computer, how can I know what version I had installed previously? How do I find where to load that version on my new computer?

I am using Thunderbird on a Macbook Pro 13-inch mid-2012, in a POP3 account

Thunderbird 140.10 is generally running fine, except that some sub-folders are not visible in my Thunderbird email tool view. I have a hierarchical

I have tried repairing the parent folders, but that had no effect.

The corresponding .sbd files are clearly visible in ~/<user>/Library>/<profile>/Mail/Local Folders/pop-server.<account> and being backed up in Time Machine backups.

Curiously, there is a much-truncated replica of some .sbd folders in Local Folders named /<folder-name>.sbd, all dated in 2013, yet the folder was created in 2017. I presume these refer to an update of Thunderbird that left some trash, and of no consequence. These are parallel to Archives and Archives.msf files.

Please advise on how to disambiguate this structure and recover views of existing mail folders not being displayed.

The summary says it all. My T-bird acc't combines both outlook and gmail and now I wish to transfer the data into a new T-Bird (account?) on a new computer. I'm going from an ASUS Zenbook to a HP Omnibook AI.

Many thanks ! I should sign my name as "Totally Lost". Regards, Andre

I recently created a Google Workspace account. There, I have a user profile with a custom email address. I've set up the new account in Thunderbird, and it is working as expected. If I send a message from my "external" account to the workspace account, it arrives, and I'm able to reply back.

One feature of Google Workspace is what they call "alternate email" addresses. They sort of work as an alias for the native address. I have created one such alternate. If I send a message from my external account to the alias, it arrives correctly in the workspace account. However, when I reply from the workspace account, it does not go back to the originating address, but instead it is addressed back to the alias. If I repeat the experiment from the Gmail web interface, it replies to the correct address.

I've downloaded all the headers, and the Return-Path tag is correct. I can provide the full header if needed.

It feels like there is an invisible forwarding action to get from the alias to the workspace account, and that the reply action is incorrectly finding the interim alias. But that doesn't really seem to be what I see in the headers - although I'm probably not the most expert reader of those.

And it isn't necessarily a Thunderbird issue. I can see that there could be something going on with Google. But this is a good place to start...  :-)

I cannot find a way to sync my tasks on my thunderbird Windows desktop with my android phone.I have tried byrdiesync, but byrdiesync says they cannot do it.Is there some way to do this?

I've used Thunderbird for a few years, worked great. No Thunderbird setup option has been changed for a few years. Last week, it failed, could not receive email. The host says they checked and found nothing wrong there. But now when requesting email, it says Connection To Server was Reset., and repeats that every few minutes (every new try I assume). I Sent email from me to myself, and web email there sees it is received up there, so STMP works, but not POP.

Host support said to remove passwords to reinitialize them. I did, but it does not ask for password and still repeats continual reset (does not mention password, and so no way to reset password now, seemingly does not get that far). They said to remove profile file popstate.dat (file only contains server connection and my email address) and I did, but no change. Still continual Connection to Sever was Reset, repeatedly, every try I reloaded Thunderbird, no help. I tried Thunderbird Troubleshooting, and saw no change but don't know what to do there. Host thinks all is correct there. Server connection is Inmotionhosting Secure303. FWIW, am using Microsoft Windows 11 virus security. Could it be a security certificate problem? It gives no clue.

I see many of same question about Connection Reset here, but no answers. Surely someone knows how to fix POP Connection to Server was Reset?

What does Connection to Server was Reset mean? That is all it says, but every time. Just cannot connect? Any help will be appreciated.

Hi, I am hoping that the community can help me find an answer to this. I have two computers that I use for work. The one in the office has TB running all the time and before I leave for the weekend/vacation I would close TB, copy the profile folder to a USB (or copy it to cloud) and then paste the profile folder on my work laptop (at home). While all the settings get copied (local folders structure, addons etc.) as I use IMAP, it downloads all the mail on the new system regardless. I thought that it should have the latest mail downloaded as part of the profile folder, is that not the case? The bigger issue is that none of the Completed Tasks Lists, Templates, etc. get updated. It still shows all the older stuff on the work laptop and no updates carry over from the PC (at work). Going through the profile folder I see multiple copies of the files prefs.js, folderCache.json, global-messages-db.sqlite appended as: prefs-computername.js and folderCache-computername.json etc. (The computername is the name of the PC - office/laptop) The profile name is the same between the two computers. TB is only started after the profile is copied locally. TB version is the same between systems. I am left scratching my head why somethings are copied but not others. Hoping that the community can help me here. Thanks!

Active Sync 16+ is now in force and Thunderbird has lost the sync via TBsync, so contacts and calendar syncing is now dead, unless TBsync is updated quickly, seems unlikely from reading their website. TB has advised that contacts and calendar are still on a dream list and no date for implementation is known. So TB is no longer a substitute for users wanting to escape Outlook. I am a long time user of TB and a donator, so why have you not pre-planned the inclusion of contacts and calendar sooner or even included TBsync into the code and kept its syncing ability uptodate.

TB with just email sync is no different to many email apps that come with laptop and tablets, so I may as well revert to using in my case Apple Mail.

Regards, SPT

I used to get REMINDERS for all events/tasks until about some months ago. But now I don't get the reminders for most events/tasks. rearly I do get reminders randomly and ocasionally. I have been using TB (Thunderbird) for many years without any problems. I update TB religeously as updates become available. Please advise the fix. Thanks in advance! Anil Deshpande

I have Thunderbird on Windows 11. I have been using Local folders for a long time without any problems. I now find that if I try to delete subfolders in Local folders, they reappear as if they had not been deleted. This applies to any mails I have received since 28th January 2026. Could this be associated with a windows update?

After tried many suggested steps to trouble shooting the problems, it still can't download Comcast emails. It keeps pop up "enter password" or "password failed" again and again. But I can send emails. I can't upload the trouble shooting information file to send. Thanks

I can't access to my personal Google account from Thunderbird.

Thunderbird configuration is OK. Cookies authorised.

e-mail account connection process goes this way: - I enter name and e-mail address - I confirm standard configuration found in Thunderbird's FAI database. - Google asks me to confirm that I authorise Thunderbird to share mail, contacts and agenda informations (I was asked my Google pwd only the first time I tried the process). - I confirm my consent - Back to Thunderbirds account configuration window, with "authentication error".

Similar failure when I try to only connect to the contact list or to my calendars (which is my initial will), also from a scholar Google account.

No change after update from 149 .0.2 to 150.0

I have been using TB to access my Office365 account using the TB Oauth protocol, however, it got to be painfully slow when trying to download messages. I had set up rules and folders that worked, albeit slow.

To try to alleviate the slowness I started a new profile to my Office365 account again using Thunderbird's OAuth protocol. It's lightning fast! But it didn't bring down any of my Office365 folders that exist up on the Office365 servers. (see 2nd TB Install screen print below) It had brought down all the folders and previous e-mails in the 1st installation. (see 1st TB Install Redacted. Screenprint below)

I don't know why this might happen, does anyone have any ideas? Is there a workaround or could I be doing something wrong?

Thanks

Dan

Good afternoon! I have always had a specific folder order in my email, with the inbox folder being the first, followed by the sent folder, and so on. However, today I discovered that the inbox folder was at the bottom of the list, while the sent, spam, deleted, and other folders were above it. I was unable to change the folder order back to its original state, and I have been unable to drag and drop or swap the folders. Can you please advise me on how I can restore the folder order to its original state, with the inbox folder at the top and the other folders below it?