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Hello!

I am using Thunderbird 140.9.1esr (64-bit) on a Ubuntu 24.04 system. Every time I restart Thunderbird, it reverts to a little used Gmail account as the default account. I have several accounts, but my main email account is a MS365 account. I reset the setting, but every time it is restarted, the default goes back to Gmail. I have tried everything that I've found online, but cannot correct this behaviour.

Do you have any suggestions or assistance?

Many thanks!

Thunderbird somehow only syncs some events on some weekdays from one of my calendars. One event of two on tuesdays shows up, all events on mondays don't show up. These are similar events each week. It seems to be syncing all events from a different calendar on the same account from the same server.

In Thunderbird, the "Play a Sound" feature has quit. I changed from 'Use the following sound file' to 'Default system sound for new mail' and back again. That didn't work. I tried changing the file in 'Use the following sound file'. That didn't fix it. I restarted Thunderbird and it was the same. I don't want to uninstall and re-install. Is there a fix?

Migrei do Windows para o Linux recentemente e preciso das pastas de e-mails e contatos do Outlook. Como importar ou converter arquivos pst do Outlook para o Thunderbird? Grato.

I've been trying to get Thunderbird and the home manager of Nixos to work nicely together. This seems to have been the case judging by the vast amount of config options that are present in the tool.

However, it seems development slowed and I was wondering whether there's a workaround to some of the problems. More precisely, nixos only does static configs - so things you know at compile time. This works great for credentials you know a priori like plain passwords or probably also encrypted password but it starts to fail once tokens start getting involved like with oauth2 (any most likely also Kerberos).

Since home manager in nix does not know the the token, it can only populate the account half way. The rest is subsequently handled by Thunderbird itself, asking you to perform the OAuth flow.

Here are two distinct issues. 1. If I create the "wrong" account - plain password instead of oauth2 - and I update the account to oauth2. Even with a restart of the entire system, Thunderbird doesn't understand that it needs to perform the authentication flow again. Even if I delete any passwords Thunderbird has stored in it's password manager. 2. I have a bunch of email accounts, work, private, university. I would like to keep them separate [...]. However, suppose I have three mail boxes within my university domain and I added all of them in this incomplete fashion as I outlined (everything done except password / authentication), Thunderbird will perform the OAuth2 flow for the first mailbox but the it won't do it for the other two. I just get

The current operation on 'Inbox' did not succeed. The mail server for account ethz-main responded: Command Error. 12.

for the other two mail boxes.

I'm well aware that a big contributor to this issue is NixOS and Home Manager. And I'm in touch with these parties trying to find a solution. What I wanted to ask from the Thunderbird / Mozilla community:

Is there a way to reinitialize the OAuth2 flow or password prompts for any account from the UI or alternatively from the shell? Because deleting the credentials didn't start it (well at least in my case) and I would like to find an explicit way to tell Thunderbird "for account x, please ignore all authentication info you have, perform the auth flow again and then update the auth details with whatever response you got." I'd prefer to be able to things like this rather than deleting and adding the account again. Especially considering that across all Accounts I have about 30Gb of data needs to be fetched every time.

Thank you for your Response and Support

AS2k

I am using version 140.9.0esr-bb20 (64-bit) 

There are three categories of messages I want to filter: 1. Messages where the Subject contains a known word.

   Action: delete  before downloading from POP server

2. Messages from senders not in my address books.

   Action: Move to Junk-folder [and if possible: only download header AND delete them from the server once they have been cleared manually from the junk folder]

3. Everything else

   Action: download the full message to inbox

I'd like to know the settings for __Each message filter __ Check for new messages every 1 minutes __Automatically download new messages __Fetch headers only and anything else that is needed.

I thought I could achieve this out by turning off "Automatically download new messages" and turn on "Fetch headers only". Then, explicitly ask to FETCH FROM SERVER in the filter to get the full messages or "DELETE FROM POP server" as needed. "Check for new messages every 1 minutes" is always on, so I assumed that the filters will be applied every minute. Instead, what I am seeing is that nothing happens, as if "Check for new messages every 1 minutes" does not even work. However, when I do a manual "Get Messages", things seem to work (mostly). If I check "Automatically download new messages" the 1-minute action do occur except everything gets downloaded, regardless of the "DELETE FROM POP server" filters. So it seems I misunderstand these setting. 

Any hints on how to get the requirements done will be appreciated