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Please consider a slight change in the new feature where on the bottom right we have an opportunity to click on "as read" or "delete". Great time saver, but for heaven's sake you bring up the Thunderbird anyway. Come on ! ! ! ? The short cut is so we don't have to bring it up. What good is this new feature if it is exactly the same number of clicks as if you didn't have this new feature. Walt

This morning I was receiving e-mails in TB as normal. This afternoon my e-mails have stopped (sending/receiving) and I have seen a message " Connection to server pop.virginmedia.com was reset. "

I have tried turning the PC off and on - no effect. In FireFox I can connect to web pages as normal but my e-mail has stopped working. A couple of days ago I changed my Virgin router but only now has my e-mail stopped. I can receive e-mails on my Kindle but not on my Windows 11 PC.

How can I reconnect to the internet, please?

Thank you,

Tregarth

How to remove extraneous characters in email content? (i.e. =, 3D and sometimes others) Some google suggests changing thunderbird encoding.

(1) If that is the answer... HOW to do that and to WHAT should it be changed to?

(2) Also, When I click "Edit as new message", the extraneous characters do not show up!

(3) thunderbird 140.4.0esr (64-bit) Eclipse (Win 11, but thunderbird reports it as win10) Thanks, jason53

Example1: (= sign and new line should not be there on the line below) was made to be emailed = to you.

Example2: (3D should not be there) Password =3D xxxxxx

Hey

Thunderbird has a well-functioning Search function that uses the cache (or rather, what the background search process/function "read" and saved in global-messages-db.sqlite).

With a newly configured account (IMAP), it works like this:

- establishes the directory tree - downloads message titles (including sender, date, etc.) - *.msf summary files - then a process that downloads the entire message for local storage - in the background, an indexing process (GLODA?) starts, which creates a search database (subject, from, to, keywords in the message body) using the global-messages-db.sqlite file.

For very large mailboxes (>100k msg, ~50GB), this means that the server's content is transferred to the local disk (and stored in ImapMail).

The question is: how do I configure TB to run in "thin" mode, meaning after connecting a new account: - establish a directory tree - download message titles (including sender, date, etc.) -> *.msf - DO NOT download messages for local storage - start the indexing process, which will download and index the subject, from, to, and keywords in the message body (it will download and "read" the message, but not save it locally) and save it to global-messages-db.sqlite

Setting "mail.server.default.offline_download" to "false" will cause this behavior, but the message body will not be indexed (only from, to, and subject).

I tried to work around this by: - configuring the mailbox with the download option for offline use - waiting for it to download - setting "mail.server.default.offline_download" to "false" - deleting all "cur" directories (I use maildir) or deleting all *.eml files from the ImapMail directory.

Content search works for messages that have been downloaded (and indexed) previously; it doesn't work for new messages.

Why am I trying this? Some people have "air" laptops (meaning - weaker processors, small SSDs) and need access to email (via IMAP), including full search, without having all their email downloaded locally.

In other words, how can I configure TB via IMAP to: - download the directory and subdirectory tree - download the headers of all messages - "read" and index all messages (including their content) and store them in "global-messages-db.sqlite," but not store all messages locally (online mode only)?

Regards Chris

I am getting the following message using Thunderbird "login to server imap.comcast.net with user id pspringer11@comcast.net failed" it worked until yesterday afternoon please help

large tranches of emails disappeaed from Thunderbird folders but are on the server. How do I force a download to restore them? Using windows 10 and latest Thunderbird

Hi I get an error message that says "The connection to the pop3 server has timed out". What do I do? I haven't received any emails since wednesday at 3:14 PM. We use an email account fra a company called Yousee. When I check the server connection all info is correct. Please help as fast as possible as we use the mail every day in our company.

Best regards, Rikke

Dear friends, This is another question of the type "it has stopped to work after years of perfect service". I do: Tools/Message filters/. The filters are for me (only user). The "Enabled filters" drop-down list shows 238 items with virtually everyone enabled. Then I select folder to be filtered in the input window at the bottom; my "Sent" folder. Then, when I click the button "Run Now", nothing, absolutely nothing, happens. Normally Thunderbird lists messages like "Moved x mails from Sent to folder Y" .

Thunderbird 144.0.1 (64-bit) under Windows 10 which was first removed whereupon it was downloaded and reinstalled.

Hopefully someone has a suggestion where I can check for the cause of this error? Ch

When I add attachments when replying to emails, the file icons on those attachments don't display. This only happens when replying, the file icons display when receiving emails. Have tried many things to fix this including using ChatGTP with no luck. What can I do to fix this?

Thank you for your help. I don't know when this started happening, but I noticed that the notification sound for new emails was not working. You can switch between the default (D) or WAV file (U) in Settings → New mail notification → Play sound, but it will not work no matter which one you select. Also, in the field for specifying WAV files, the directory of the file specified from the previous version is entered, but I cannot delete it (see attached image).

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When I try to send, or receive emails the following notice pops up: 'Log in to server imap.comcast.net with username [edited from public] @comcast.net failed'.

When I got rid of OpenOffice and installed LibreOffice, I ran into a problem. Attachments in the MSWord or MSExcel formats (.doc and .xls files) would not open when clicked on. Thunderbird would properly open attachments in the Open Office/LibreOffice file formats, but not the Microsoft format files.

In checking the file associations, I found they were all correct. MS Word files were set to open with LibreOffice Writer, and the MS Excel files were set to open with LibreOffice Calc, but they did not work.

HERE IS THE SOLUTION...

1) Reset the file associations for the Microsoft format files to "Always Ask." 2) Open an email with an MS Word attachment. (a doc file) 3) Click to open the attachment. 4) Thunderbird will ask you "What should Thunderbird do with this file?" 5) Tell it to use LibreOffice Writer 6) Check the box to "Do this automatically for files like this from now on." 7) Do the same with an Excel spreadsheet file. DONE.

Microsoft format files will now open properly from Thunderbird in LibreOffice.

Every so often a message pops up that a folder can't be compacted because it's in use.

I don't understand why TB bothers users with this message. Compacting folders is supposed to be invisible to the user. It'll get compacted eventually, so no user action is required.

If I'm missing something, please educate me.

And if not, what's the best chance of getting it removed? Should I submit a bug report and argue that it's a bug in the design? Is a suggestion likely to do anything?

I use Thunderbird for my WOW email. Today it stopped working (incoming) I even changed my password on WOW and have logged into my email at WOW with the new password. Thunderbird says Login to server smtp.mail.wowway.com has failed. Then asked me to enter a password. I did all that and it still has the error.

For years, I have been routing all my Gmails through Thunderbird very seamlessly. Then my computer crashed.

Nothing on my hard drive was retrievable...so I had to download Thunderbird onto my new computer. I then proceeded to move all my Gmail to this newly downloaded Thunderbird. I had many different files in Thunderbird on my old computer, so everything was tidy and easy to find. When I opened Gmail after losing my old computer, I was relieved to see that the files, and the way I had them organized was the same. So, I assumed it would transfer over to the newly downloaded Thunderbird that way.

However, when I moved all my Gmails to the newly downloaded Thunderbird, all 3200+ Gmail emails were lumped into Thunderbird's "inbox".

What can I do to get everything back into their folders like they were before?

Hi

I am using the latest TB build, 144.0.1and have only the British dictionary as an extension, no themes.

Occasionally TB will hang when launched and the Windows event viewer will show this....(added image)_

The friendly xml log within the event viewer...

AppName thunderbird.exe

 AppVersion 144.0.1.0 
 ProcessId 0x6234 
 StartTime 0x1dc51956edcf231 
 TerminationTime 5 
 ExeFileName C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe 
 ReportId f3ad169f-c629-4357-85ae-7db29d0541f1 
 PackageFullName  
 PackageRelativeAppId  

HangType Cross-process

as noted, this only happens when the email client is launched and will not happen each time. I have tried without the dictionary, as it is so random it can take a while to occur, but that does not seem to make a difference.

I am using Windows 11 25h2

Thanks

I had a Windows Update tonight, and after that, when I go to email the sign in dialog always pops up. This time it is not recognizing my email password, even though I know it is correct. Keeps saying login failed retry, enter new password, or cancel. This has never happened. I have HP Windows 11 Laptop.

I am not sure if this is an issue that is isolated to the DropBox provider or to all of them.

But the issue is when you have multiple attachments and then try and use FileLink to upload them, it appears like ThunderBird tries to make too many connections at the same time or tries to upload too many of them at the same time because some of them will go through but then all of a sudden an error message pops up for the remaining files that says "Upload Error" Unable to upload FileName to DropBox.

Which you could then right click each item below at the attachments location and Convert to DropBox but you have to do it with each individual file.

It seems like maybe the FileLink feature itself just needs to space out each of the uploads in order to avoid this error but I am not sure.

For the third time now I have found messages I have saved in Local folders in TRASH. I did not put them there, and the original ones in Local Folders are empty. I have had to manually move messages intended to be saved from Trash into my intended folders. I am perplexed why this is happening, as I have not chosen Compact Folders or anything. Very, very annoying. If it continues I will search for another mail tool