Thunderbird will not download e-mail from yahoo.com

23 June 2025 I'm still unable to fix ongoing e-mail Download into my Thunderbird from my yahoo.com acc on My Desktop or Laptop. I've re-set Password on both Yahoo &… (xem thêm)

23 June 2025

I'm still unable to fix ongoing e-mail Download into my Thunderbird from my yahoo.com acc on My Desktop or Laptop. I've re-set Password on both Yahoo & Thunderbird ...

On checking my Thunderbird e-mail I get these error messages:

Mozilla Thunderbird ESR Authentication failure while connecting to server pop.mail.yahoo.com

Mozilla Thunderbird ESR Thunderbird Connection to server pop.mail.yahoo.com timed out

I've had Thunderbird for well over 10 yrs in US & now in the UK, no problem. The only recent changes I've done is to change my Yahoo.com Password & updated it on Thunderbird. Once that was done Thunderbird failed to download my messages to my Inbox.

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Hi there,

I've recently had a problem with a couple of client PCs where their Thunderbird profile folder has grown to fill the entire hard drive. In both cases, the relevant account folder in the profile's ImapMail dir had grown to over 300Gb. This account takes up 45Gb on the server (where I'm running Dovecot with maildir storage). In another case on both PCs, an 18Gb account had grown to over 90Gb.

Both client PCs are running up-to-date Thunderbird (139.0.2 64bit), one under Windows 10 and one under Windows 11. Both had auto-compact set, with the minimum saving reduced to 100Mb. Both problematic accounts are shared accounts that use a deeply-nested folder structure. In both cases, I was forced to delete and then recreate the these accounts in Thunderbird.

I'm an experienced sysadmin who is also running the mail server, so I am able to provide any extra info needed. Additionally, I accept that these are large email accounts; I'm in the process of setting up an email archive system for the client using Piler. I have read many other reports of outsize Thunderbird data folders; these are usually referring to less than 20Gb. The problems we're having seem to be an order of magnitude larger!

Thanks in advance, P.

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I have two issues that are related to a buggy interaction between Thunderbird and Microsoft's email server.

Issue (1) When I send an email with my Outlook email address (from the Android app or from outlook.live.com, but not Thunderbird), my email address shows up as a jumbled mess in the sent folder on Thunderbird.

It appears to the effect of

IMCEAEX-_O=FIRST+20ORGANIZATION_OU=EXCHANGE+20ADMINISTRATIVE+20GROUP+XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX+29_CN=RECIPIENTS_CN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX@sct-XX-XX-XXXX-X-msonline-outlook-6f06c.templateTenant

(I have masked some potentially sensitive information).

In the sent folder on my Outlook Android app, my email address looks normal. It also looks fine on a browser in outlook.live.com. However, it's in the sent folder on Thunderbird that my email address is a mess.

Issue (2) When my Outlook email address is involved, the sending and receiving email addresses in the "correspondent" field are swapped in Thunderbird.

There are a couple situations where this swap happens:

  1. Sending an email with my Outlook email account (either through the Android app or outlook.live.com, but not Thunderbird). In my Outlook sent folder on Thunderbird, the "correspondent" field shows my jumbled email address and not the receiving address, such as bob@gmail.com. Likewise, In the inbox of the receiving email account (such as bob@gmail.com) on Thunderbird, the "correspondent" field shows bob@gmail.com and not my Outlook email address.
  2. Sending an email with any other account in Thunderbird to my Outlook email address. In my Outlook inbox on Thunderbird, the "correspondent" field shows my Outlook email address (this time unjumbled) and not the sending email address. However, in the sent folder of the sending email account in Thunderbird, the "correspondent" field shows up correctly (i.e., my Outlook email address).

These two issues are perplexing and probably related. Thank you for any help!

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A bug?

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Any idea how to achieve this ?

My problem is:

  • A POP3 account will miss all folders except the Inbox. (It's a pity that POP4 has not gained traction yet.)
  • An IMAP account creates a mirror, not a backup. Remote deletions in the webmail account must not delete messages from my backup and vice versa.

detailed requirements:

  • one-way sync only, since a local backup/archive must be built, not a mirror (two-way synchronization):
    • Remote deletions must not cause local deletions (otherwise it would be a mirror, not an archive/backup).
    • Local move/delete operations must not be reflected back to the mail server.
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