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Hey,

I use thunderbird for email purposes and noticed today that I could not send or receive emails. When I go to compose an email it allows me to type email as usual but there is no send button or option to send when I right click the screen. I got someone to send me an email as a test but I did not receive the email. My email address is ianwil@interlog.com.

Please let me know.

Thanks

Thunderbird works well for me and downloads to the Thunderbird Inbox from my email providers host Inbox.

However I would really like the sys to also download to my Thunderbird "Spam" box from my host "Spam" box which would be seen immediatly rather than have to go to my host web mail account which is a bit longwinded and a hassle. I find that some valid emails are treated as spam by my provider.

I have created a "Spam" box in Thunderbird and the path is exactly the same as the Inbox but substituting "Spam" in lieu of "Inbox".

Is this possible? Help! What do I do?

Many thanks

Robin

I am currently using Thunderbird (128.6.0esr) on a Mac with OS Sonoma (14.7.1). I have used Thunderbird for many years with a Gmail account on both Windows and Mac machines, and it has always worked well.

But a couple of days ago when I tried to open Thunderbird it went into some kind of loop. The MacOS spinning beach ball appeared and would not go away no matter what I did or how long I waited. The only way out was to Force Quit Thunderbird. Rebooting the Mac and trying again produced the same results.

I have logged into the Gmail account on the web and had no trouble accessing it. But every time (and I have made many attempts) I try to load Thunderbird the spinning beach ball appears again.

I cannot check any of the various settings that Help articles have suggested checking since Thunderbird will not load at all.

If anyone can suggest how to resolve my problem, I would greatly appreciate it.

I am using Thunderbird 128.6 in an attempt to get away from Microsoft Outlook. I still use an outlook.com address though through IMAP on Thunderbird. Each time I send a message I am getting two copies in my sent box. I understand this is because Outlook sends an automatic receipt for the email and this gets filed in my sent box along with the original message sent. The receipt from Outlook is always larger in size than the original message, presumably because of the garbage added on to the header ID. An earlier post suggested filtering out these receipts if one can identify a standard item in the receipt which could be used to filter. I have established that the receipts headers always end with, in capitals, 'PROD.OUTLOOK.COM' but the filters in Thunderbird appear not to permit the header to be used for filtering. Any suggestions how I can use this identifying aspect to automatically delete these messages as soon as they hit my sent box?

All of a sudden I have no emails since January 13th, when I usually have emails every day. I tried sending myself a message as to why no emails, and thunderbird would not allow me to send a message to myself. Based on this I'm sceptical whether an email will reach me. What can I do?

Hello - Some years ago I had old Emails recovered by the support team which were indeed fully deleted in all folders of T'bird. They directed me to the online version to achieve the recovery and it worked well. I am need again and cannot locate those instructions. To be clear, the procedure was from the support team guiding the way. Anyone have possession of these instructions or algorithm, or a better method that still works? Many thanks :)

I have been using the old Microsoft Calendar app on my laptop to manage my Google calendar which is also shared on my android phone, but the MS Calendar app no longer works after the latest Microsoft update. I decided to switch to using the calendar in Thunderbird since I already use it for email. But I get an error if I try to import a single calendar event from a .ics file.

I successfully shared my entire Google calendar read/write in Thunderbird and I can create new calendar events, so I know that it is writeable. But when I attempt to import a .ics file, I get an error saying "Import failed unexpectedly. more information may be available in the Error Console." I don't know how to view the Error Console, so I'm stuck. I can see that Thunderbird opens the .ics file and previews the contents just fine. But the last step of the import process fails.

Why won't Thunderbird import the calendar invite in a .ics file into the calendar from my Google account?

My husband's emails are arriving at his correspondent as though they have come from my email address. This means that his correspondents keep replying to me and not to him. So far I have not been able to see anything wrong with our settings. Any ideas as how to correct this, please?

Hi, I am moving from Outlook and struggling with Thunderbird email accounts I wish to setup 5 mail accounts, four of which relate to different people or departments and on that collects incoming email from mailboxes that are re-directed. I find that I can set up the outgoing smtp and the incoming smtp but I am not give any choice for sending mail. Also whatever I do the first account I set up always appears as the only account visible in the folders pane. If there is a definitive explanation of what to do to configure email in Thunderbird it would be most helpful?

Regards Greg

Alwasy had Inbox drafts sent deleted

 subfolder1
 subfolder2

etc etc.

re-added my account after moving to MS 365 from another iMap account

now have inbox then all my folders then drafts etc.

Is there a way to revert back?

Also another query, ref subscribed, in all my years never noticed this setting before (never had ny hidden) but I used import/export tool to backup from old server to import for the new one (may also be relative to my problem above) The folders were all hidden on import.

Can you advise if subscribed just hides these folders or actually prevents syncing to the server. I can test but would like to understand the purpose of this feature?

Thanks I/A

The problem with standard email storage methods is that they don't scale well. Mbox, the default in Thunderbird, creates large files, and if you backup changed files, every backup requires recopying a multi-gigabyte file, because it has changed when even one message was added or deleted. Maildir, the alternative, puts each message in a separate file. But file systems have a lot of overhead and their own limits. When you have hundreds of thousands of messages, especially on a PC, that clutters the computer's file system, and between the file cluster size and directory overhead, it wastes a lot of space and slows down other operations. Two bad options. And let's not be too snarky about what that company from Redmond does in its awful mail system, with a giant proprietary mail database file that sometimes gets corrupted...

It is obviously a lot to ask to create a new mail file format that scales better. It would not be standard and could break some things anyway, though in the long run it might be a good idea. But I have an idea that might work for Thunderbird. As it stands now, it is possible to create archive files by month or year. Then new mail doesn't require those to be re-copied. WHAT IF a "virtual mailbox" could be created that, instead of consisting of one Mbox file or one maildir directory, consisted of a set of Mbox files treated by the UI as one? Quick Filter would filter them all as one, unlike with archives, and you could scroll through them all and sort them and see threads, but they'd be stored as monthly or annual (or whatever) files, the way archives are. Sending and receiving would be unchanged, using the current folders, but periodically the folder could have the oldest ones moved out and still made part of a virtual folder.

There are some modest virtual folder capabilities now, but I don't see how to do this. Does it seem like a possibility with what's there, or a modest enhancement, or is that the kind of thing that would be a huge effort?