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Hey,

I am seeing the creation of a file "logins.db" when opening thunderbird.

When I open the file with textedit, it begins with "SQLite format 3". It looks like a script to me, including things like "ON loginsL (is_deleted, origin)" and "idx_loginsM_is_overridden_origin".

I can delete and it's recreated when launching Thunderbird.

Is this file legit? Can anyone confirm having this file, too? I'm running Mac OS 15.7.1 with Thunderbird 145.

Thanks for listening

I have been using Thunderbird to access my comcast emails. I never had a problem with it. However, this afternoon, just out of the blue Thunderbird cannot download my emails, the following message popped up: "Login to server mail.comcast.net with username xxxxxxx failed." Then Thunderbird asks for a new password. When I enter the still correct password, it displays the same error message. I did not change anything in the settings before this error message popped up. I tried ChatGPT to get some answers, but whatever I changed it had no effect. I am attaching a screenshot of the server settings (I have of course removed my username). I would be grateful for any advice as to how to fix the issue. Thanking you.

When I set an event or a task to go off on a certain date and time, nothing happens when the set time is reached. I used to get a pop up showing the event or task on my previous pc with Windows 10. This new pc is Windows 11

My C & D drives restored from a external device except some documents after inadvertently formatting . Then when trying to obtain latest version T-Bird wiped contacts

Comcast required me to change the password for my secondary Thunderbird email account. Now secondary Thunderbird account password doesn't work. It is my understanding that my secondary Thunderbird password has to match the one on Comcast. I have tried numerous times to try to change it and have not been successful. I have tried to follow the instructions I have found but instructions don't seem to work. Apparently I am doing something wrong. Would appreciate your help.

Earlier this autumn my mail provider Telia changed mail platform, and I have problem that synching of Inbox is not working properly after that Thunderbird has been running for some time. Other folders are synched if I click on that folder. Then after some time time the Inbox is updated automatically again. Sometimes after a few hours, sometimes next morning. If I restart Thunderbird it work again for some time. Or if I change the "Connection security" field it also starts working for some time.

Is there somewhere some log to see why the synching stops?

/Bengt-Åke

There were problems on the email server. As an emergency solution, a new access was created by the service provider for this email address. However, this does not contain the old emails. Unfortunately, I have already synchronized and no longer see all the old emails. However, I have now seen in the search function that I can still see the old emails in Thunderbird, but I cannot open them. You can see in the attachment that i can see emails when searching. But if i want to see one of the items ther ist the information "Keine Nachricht gefunden". How can I access these emails?

This follows on from two questions I posted earlier - which I can't find again.

I hoped that by removing Thunderbird and then installing it again, I could set it up so that it continued to work without, as it did last time, seeming to be fine then saying the password didn't match the server (which wasn't the one I'd used). But Thunderbird remembered everything so re-installing didn't help. But I tried using the app password I'd generated for the last attempt - and that worked. It remains to be seem if it will when I open Thunderbird again . . .

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

My Tags window & folder [View, Folders, Tags] layout stopped properly displaying all my items with the appropriate "tag" set in the past few updates to T'bird. I recently switched to version 140.4.0esr but the problem existed before that in 140.2.1 as well. Is there any way to force a "rebuild" of the Tags window so that all my tagged items show in their appropriate categories, with appropriate statuses [read/unread, etc]? Otherwise, the Tag feature is no longer useful.

All of our email goes through Proofpoint. It has a feature that redirects all links to their URL Defense before allowing it to continue to the original destination. However, when the link is typed out in the email, Thunderbird pops up with the message that there is a Link Mismatch Detected and it lets the user go to the actual link instead of forcing it through the Proofpoint URL Defense. I need to disable that feature or create an exception for anything that redirects to Proofpoints URL.

I just went through hell trying to figure out why I could not send emails on my comcast.net account when I had to reinstall TB.

Here's what worked for me:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1548207

Bonjour, J'ai un problème pour imprimer depuis Thunderbird. Lorsque je tente d'imprimer, mon imprimante Brother s'affiche momentanément, puis un message d'erreur apparaît indiquant "L'imprimante choisie est introuvable". J'ai supprimé mon profil de Thunderbird pour paramétrer à nouveau le logiciel avec mon compte de messagerie et j'ai réinstallé proprement mon imprimante Brother. Je précise que je peux imprimer en dehors de Thunderbird. Est-ce que vous auriez une solution à me proposer ? Ci-joint, une capture d'écran du message d'erreur. Cordialement. Cyril.

Hi there,

I need to export my thunderbird account over to outlook.com. I'm hoping to just sign into outlook.com and add my current thunderbird email details for j.childs@mhslimited.net.

When trying to add this as a POP or IMAP I get an authentication error once applying the incoming/outgoing server and port details.

Can you please help with what details I need to do the above.

Thanks

11-14-25 I have a Dell Precision M6700 laptop running Outlook 2007 under Windows 7 64 bit Pro. I have a Dell Precision 7720 laptop running Thunderbird under Windows 11 64 bit Pro. So far I have been unable to export the Outlook.pst file from the M6700 and import it into the 7720. I have tried to find a free version of a pst to eml converter, but the free (or trial) versions only seem to convert a few files in each folder. So assuming pst to eml conversion is the first step, I need recommendations for reliable but reasonably priced conversion utilities so that I can export the files from Outlook 2007.

I have tried to import converted eml files into Thunderbird, but the Thunderbird import software seems to be looking mainly for a profile which I don't know where to find. And besides, it appears that Thunderbird is designed to do the export/import operations on the same computer, not two computers as in my case. Anyway, I get an error no matter what I try. If someone has insight into these various steps, I would greatly appreciate some help. Thanks!

Regards, Dave

Everything was working fine then one of the email addresses stopped working. I tried everything and finally deleted that mail box but still can’t access the emails via thunderird. Help

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?

I have a number of email addresses and access them via Thunderbird. One of these email addresses always asks for my password when I send an email from that address. This doesn't happen for the other addresses