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Could you please tell me how to how to add existing mail account to Thunderbird? I could not find "existing mail account" in the [new] which is [file] in the top Bar. Also, there is no "Add mail account" button.

App version is latest one. waiting for your reply.

I just added a new email server to handle my mail. It is a local hosting company that I use. I already have another email address with them. When I added the new account I noticed that the Sent and Drafts folders were missing under the 'Inbox'. Image 1 shows how the existing email account is setup with the drafts, sent and Junk folders under Inbox. The image 2 shows how the new account is showing up, no drafts or sent folders.

I am subscribed to them all.

How to get the Drafts and Sent folders under Inbox?

I feel like this has been asked a million times, but yet I cant find a current answer that resolves it from all the posts on google. And some are conflicting.

I added my gmail account. Imap. I dont want it downloading and saving thousands of emails. How do I stop that?

Is the only way to do that, by limiting the sync settings to like 7 days? Is this screenshot, the correct area?

I also tried Unsubscribing all the inboxes, Save, close. Then check the Subscribe pop up again, and it just re-checks them all! I cant uncheck them, it just rechecks them.

Have 3 machines with Tbird, and 3 email accounts. During a password change for one account, TBird hammered the server enough times to get my IP blocked. I removed all 3 acco8nts and started over. In the middle of this, Bird updated and the new version makes it very difficult to stay in manual config, as the auto config continues to hammer the server. Have been unable to complete the 3 setups without the ip getting blocked, have contacted the server support 4 times for unblocking. Why has Tbird made this so difficult? Used to be very easy! I want to do setup manually, and limit the number of times the setup tests the config.

Me and my colleague are using the same email account on Thunderbird. How do I delete the account from only my Thunderbird app? My colleague will still need access to it.

When I first installed Thunderbird and added an email account it asked for the email address, take and password. Upon setting up additional accounts it only asks for name and email address, not the password. There is no option to enter email details manually. The only manual option available is to configure an email config after it has been added. The adding of email addresses should be presented the same way as the very first initial email setup upon install. This isn't happening. I've used three separate terminal to do this on Mac and Win platform: Same issue.

I use the same e-mail address on my desktop and my Samsung android phone. I was told to change my desktop e-mail from POP3 to IMAP which I did and then told by the Thunderbird desktop forum to change also my phone settings from POP3 to IMAP. I was told in order to do that I needed to create a new account first and then delete the old account.

However, when I go into server settings and I put in my e-mail address from my desktop, it states "e-mail address already in use". Clearly I do not want to create a new e-mail address - just use the same e-mail address that is on my desktop so that I can access e-mails on my phone that appear on my desktop. Help please!

Hi, I am unable to add another email account. I go to "Add email account", an "Account Hub Add your email address window" opens. I enter my name and the email address and press "Continue". A message "Looking up configuration" appears, then the box dims and a spinning circle appears. That's it. It doesn't go any further. I've tried closing out, rebooting, installing the most recent version of Thunderbird to no avail.

I am trying to sign into my Proton mail account. On the Thunderbird app, I tap the Menu and select Settings. Then, I select Add account, type my Proton email address, and tap Next. The "Configuration found" screen is displayed. I proceed to type my Proton password correctly and tap Next. Then, there is an error that says "Checking incoming server settings failed". Does this mean Thunderbird does not fully support Proton mail?

In thunderbird we had to reconfigure our in/out port selections due to what we were told was a tech bud that is known but not fixed yet. After we did that thunderbird automatically duplicated folders inbox, drafts, sent, junk, trash, archives, etc. We did not want that to happen. So all new inbox emails go directly to the "new" inbox. How do we get rid of the new folders and revert back to the older set of folders?? HELP!

received an email that went to spam that my account will be deleted if I don't sign in or use Mozilla by Oct. I use Firefox every day. Is this legit? What do I need to do to keep mozilla

New user: I installed Thunderbird and selected POP. Everything went fine during setup including message from Microsoft

Microsoft account New app(s) have access to your data Thunderbird connected to the Microsoft account W********@outlook.com.

When I click on done I receive the following:

"Unable to log in at server. Probably wrong configuration, username or password

Not off to a good start.

Chip

Originally downloaded and installed Thunderbird 140.3.1, created an Outlook account, but no folder other than an Inbox. Uninstalled Thunderbird, downloaded and installed Thunderbird 140.3.0, same issue, no folders other than an Inbox. Both configured using incoming server imap-mail.outlook.com, outgoing server smtp-mail.outlook.com. Windows 10, Outlook works okay as stand alone.

I am moving my wife's info from a Windows 10 laptop to a Windows 11 one. I followed all the steps in "Method using a transfer device" ( I used a large external SSD for that) and the document I was following had a second section about the possibility of an update to Thunderbird requiring me to create the new profile manually.

It did not work out, so I set to repeating the process, but have misplaced the printout with that second section.

Now, when I get to launching Thunderbird on the new system, the 'Enter your password' dialog comes up and asks me to "Enter your password for cch@clivedencom on mail.cliveden.com." Clearly, I have SOMEHOW mistyped that in doing the now-lost second section's advice.

Any guidance on how to overcome this?

Thank you so much.

   Guy Haas