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I want to change my g-mail password but before I stop getting mails in Thunderbird I looked for how I will do that in Thunderbird. I find there is NO WAY to change a password in Thunderbird and there is no current password listed either. I find that ridiculous not to be able to change a password and zero instructions anywhere. Pretty stupid ! Someone with some brains at Mozilla needs to come up with an update for Thunderbird to add a way to change a password. Can't add an image because I don't want to give away any private information.

My thanks again to sfhowes, Rick and others for assisting me to get back my ability to once again send e-mails from Thunderbird. Now for the next step.

Just days ago, I migrated my years of Thunderbird e-mails on a POP protocol to IMAP. Before doing so and before also uninstalling my old Thunderbird because of e-mail sending problems and then reinstalling a new version, I saved a profile. Now with the most current version of Thunderbird, I lost (i)a decades worth of saved inbox e-mails (but for the last 2 years), (ii)I lost all of my sent e-mails but a few odd ones, (iii)I lost my archived e-mails in Local Folders and (iv) I lost all of my contacts and saved group e-mail address lists.

My profile is saved on an external hard drive. Obviously the new installed version of Thunderbird must have somehow found the last 2 years of my inbox e-mails but nothing beyond that as mentioned above. Can you share please a recommended procedure where I can better import what I assume I saved correct on the profile I saved twice (I saved a master folder named Profile and separately saved 4 folders - 2 folders ending in default and 2 ending in default-release. Thank you.

Windows 10 on PC with Thunderbird 140.1.0esr (64-bit) Since the last update, the background on my Tbird messages list, email panel and in my compose email panel have turned from my eye-friendly light grey to glaring white and this is literally causing me a headache and a "flimmer" in my eyes (common in people with blue eyes). All other programs in Windows show me the light grey background as they should, it's Thunderbird itself which isn't picking up the light grey. The only place in all the tools and settings menus that I was able to find ANYTHING about background colour was (three bars) -> tools -> Settings -> HTML Style [ ] Use reader's default colours <- makes no difference whether this box is marked or not Beneath that: Text Colour is set to black. Background colour is set to light grey. There is no way to Save the settings page, so one presumes they are automatically saved. Restart (done several times) Thunderbird - still this blasted white background. I do not use HTML for emails, I use plain text. Could someone please tell me how I can get my light grey background back ?

Hi. I have over 20,000 messages in my Inbox. I've been sometimes having trouble moving messages into folders, so I thought it would be a good idea to reduce the number of messages in my Inbox. But I can't delete or move messages in the Inbox. When I select messages and enter command to move them to a folder, or ask to delete them, nothing happens. I am a Thunderbird supporter, and I love this program. Thanks for your work! Any advice appreciated. Connie

I was recently asked for my email account password after many years. I have no idea what it is after all this time so I reset my password. I received an email from you accepting the new password. I still cannot login since it will not accept the new password. Who knows what the old one was. I initially tried to recover the old one but no luck doing that. Help!.

Had this problem suddenly crop up since the update of one of my accounts not sending mail due to timeouts. I've not changed any passwords or settings since I had it working last. The message is the "Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) [my workplace's SMTP server] timed out. Try again." one, and it's preventing me from sending any emails.

Specifics:

• It's one account (my work one: work runs an Outlook/Microsoft mail server).
• My personal account (gmail) sends fine. Both accounts recieve email fine too, so this is just one direction on one account.

Things I've tried:

• Switching my Firewall off makes no difference, so it's not a firewall problem
• It's not that the emails I'm trying to send are too large, one word test emails also don't send
• Extending the timeout time by 3x doesn't help

I also opened a second computer not yet running the latest version - the account worked fine. Then applied the upgrade and that broke things in exactly the same way as described above. So I'm pretty sure this is an issue caused by the upgrade in some way. Not sure if other people with Outlook servers are having the same problem or if there's any workaround available but would appreciate advice.

I keep getting this message "Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox." every time I log in, try to delete an email that has already downloaded, and every time I click get messages to download messages.

No messages have been downloaded since two days ago. I did go on the web version of my email and deleted all emails from that time period in case there was a virus so it's not that. I strangely started when I ignored the compact folder message sever times. I did however try to compact the folder from the file menu, as well as cleared the cash and emptied the trash.

I made sure I had the latest update as well. I am thinking the software is corrupt at this point.

I changed settings to no threading, but it continues to show the thread column in all the folders and do threading unless I manually remove the threading column from each folder - very time consuming. How do I get rid of the threading column globally?

After backing up a specific email account, and then checking the backup under local folders I only have those backup files under local folders. All of my subfolders in local folders are gone. How do I restore the original local folders? Thanks, Matt

Not sure which "topic" best describes my question, so . . . .

OS: Windows 11 Thunderbird 140.1.0esr

I have been using T-bird for several years, and have made to changes to configuration in recent memory. Beginning today, when I try to send an email through my Comcast account, it fails with the following message:

“An error occurred while sending mail: Outgoing server (SMTP) error. The server responded: resomta-h2p-555031.sys.comcast.net resomta-h2p-555031.sys.comcast.net EXMTP server not available.”

The outgoing SMTP server is configured as follows: Outgoing server: smtp.comcast.net Port: 465 Security: SSL/TLS

For comparison, sending email from my Android phone, using the Gmail client with the same server specs, also fails, thought it gives no information.

For more comparison, I configured Outlook to test with it, and it was able to send successfully. I noticed in setting it up that it used the same server name, but with port 587. Armed with that information, I changed the port setting in T-bird to 587. With that change, the send still failed but with a different error:

Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.comcast.net was lost in the middle of the transaction. Try again.

Any help is appreciated.

I am on Thunderbird Flatpack version 115.5.1 and I want to transfer to Thunderbird for Android, how do I do that, please? I am running on Chromebook using the Linux partition. I have exported the profile to a zip file, but Thunderbird for Android won't read it. The zip file is 2.5GB so maybe it is too big. But I am not adept at Linux and I can't find my way to the profile files for a manual copy. When I go into Troubleshooting Information the Profile Directory - Open Directory button does nothing. Alonside it it says "(Lolcal drive)". Maybe I should upograde Thunderbird first, but how do I do that, please?

Problems with Outlook & Hotmail Accounts in Thunderbird.

Recently some relatively new Outlook & Hotmail accounts were created on the Microsoft site then I attempted to include them into my Thunderbird program. I logged into each account and sent a number of emails around to each other and to other existing gmail accounts, no problems there.

When the Outlook AC was included into Thunderbird I received the following message "Thunderbird was unable to find connected services", then on the next screen in Thunderbird it said "Email account connected successfully". However when I looked at this account there was a single line saying 'Inbox', but there was no emails in there. I was able to send an email from both the Outlook and Hotmail configurations in Thunderbird, but not receive any emails.

I then modified the IMAP configuration in the Hotmail account according to directions given to me late last week from a member of the Thunderbird Community. This did not make any difference in that still no emails were received on the Hotmail account in Thunderbird.

For completeness I summarise the settings on both the Outlook & Hotmail accounts. The Outlook account settings are what Thunderbird set when the account was set up in Thunderbird, the Hotmail account settings were changed as per suggestion.

Outlook Account: In Server (IMAP) - 'outlook.office365.com', Port = 993, SSL/TLS OAuth2

                Out Server - 'smtp-mail.outlook.com', Port = 587, STARTTLS, oAuth2

Hotmail Account: In server (IMAP) - 'imap-mail.outlook.com', Port = 993, SSL/TLS, Normal Password

                Out server - 'smtp-mail.outlook.com', Port = 587, STARTTLS, oAuth2

Finally, every time I open up Thunderbird I get the flowing message on the screen "Enter your password for account *** on imap-mail.outlook.com:", then after I hit the Cancel button I get the message "Login to server *** failed". If instead I enter the password for the account I get a message saying "Login to server imap-mail.outlook.com with username *** failed".

If I click on either account then hit the Import button I get the Import Tool. When I select the option 'Import from Outlook' radio button the then get a message saying "No profile found" in red.

In Firefox, on another PC, I go to the outlook.live.com site and I can login to both my Outlook and to my Hotmail email accounts separately.

I finally note that my Thunderbird is version 140.1.0esr (64-bit)

15.18.0 how to export to mobile from settings in the desktop thunderbird so i can use my android phone--if it will help, on my desktop there is no Export to mobile in settings!!!!!!!

when i oppened tbird on windows 10, it showed a page to obly my for a donation. i had made a donation short ago, but eventhough, i just made another one time donation. when i open tbird again, i can not get out of the donation page. what should i do please???????

Just updated to latest Thunderbird version and now I can't send my email. I keep getting the message "Login to server smtp.broadband.rogers.com with username [my email address] failed."

Then when I exit this notification, the following shows up "Sending of the message failed. Unable to authenticate to Outgoing server (SMTP) . Please check the password and verify the 'Authentication method' in 'Account Settings | Outgoing server (SMTP)'."

I made not changes afer in upgrade of Thunderbird to latest version.

Any help you provide would be appreciated.

Bob Gmeindl bob.gmeindl@gmail.com (btw, this is not the email address I use with Thunderbird - that one is bgmeindl@rogers.com)

Every time I open thunderbird I get a blank screen with this message, 'Edge: Too many requests' over the top of the thunderbird screen. This screen stays on my desktop after I close Thunderbird and I have to change my screen resolution in order to close the screen. Can you help please? Martyn Smith