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The Firefox homepage is constantly broadcasting privacy incentives and ways we can donate to improve a free web, yet they need the permission to access my camera, mic, files and so on in exchange for the use of their program? I find this very contradictory, and would love to hear more from Firefox. I understand that certain permissions are necessary but i find the request for these things to be intrusive and upsetting when it's coming from a company that pats itself on the back when it comes to privacy and the fight for a free and open Internet.

Please at least provide the option to turn permissions that aren't necessary for the operation of Firefox on Android, off. Camera and mic, are not integral parts of my web search past time and therefore, i don't believe they are any of the Mozilla corporations interest either.

If there are ways to get back some of the privacy taken away by these requests using Android, as i understand getting away from all these permissions from every app is futile.. Please let me know. Maybe an app that retains some of these permissions, or blocks access to apps from accessing then? If there are suggestions out there I'm open to suggestions, thank you.

On my old (Win XP) computer I had saved hundreds of messages in Local Folders.

I got a new Windows 8.1 computer a few months ago. I installed Thunderbird and have been using it ever since. But I would like to copy the contents of the Local Folders from the old to the new computer.

Is there a way to transfer them on a memory stick and get them loaded into Thunderbird on the new computer?

I've downloaded Thunderbird and set up my gmail and tiscali accounts ok. They work fine. I can't get Thunderbird to set up my icloud account - it fails to recognise the servers. I've tried to set it up manually (using the info on the Thunderbird help page) with the same result. Should I be able to send/receive to an icloud address from Thunderbird? What do I try next?

HELP!!! When creating the IMAP account, I inadvertently used the same email address as the POP account. Now when I go into Account Setting and selecting the POP account, it tell me an account by this name already exist, please create another. I want to retain the email address I have in the IMAP account. Thanks, Vicki

after downloading thunderbird onto my mac pro os 10.13.6 unable to open thunderbird due to message "disk is damaged and should be ejected how do i get an undamaged disk.

This is a new install on my laptop. Almost everything on my office PC synched up on the laptop except T-bird. I loaded it and it found my credentials but it keeps asking me to sign in with Google. I enter my User ID and click next but nothing happens. What am I doing wrong or what is T-bird not doing?

jbacinti

I have lost the possibility use Finnish dictionary for spell checking after Thunderbird upgrade to version 60.3.1. How could i revert to older version and prevent automatic updates?

I am exporting private messages from Lotus Notes (work account) to the EML format, and would like to view them in Thunderbird without associating them with an existing account. After installation, Thunderbird does not show “Local folders” unless an account is specified.

Is it possible to use Thunderbird to import and view the EML files exported from Lotus Notes only locally, that is as a simple archive not associated with an existing account? I am surprised at not finding information on this after an extensive web search. The closest I found is an article explaining how to read local mail accounts on GNU/Linux:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/192572/how-do-i-read-local-email-in-thunderbird

My e-mail addresses are "orphaned" addresses i.e. originally from Tiscali (now Talk Talk) although my current ISP is now EE. I have been using Windows Live Mail on my Desktop and Laptop PCs (both Windows 7) for several years but recently suddenly could no longer receive any e-mails from on my Desktop PC.

I checked account settings which all appeared to be same on both machines. I was unable to repair WLM so backed up e-mail archive and attempted re-installing WLM - but unable as download / support for WLM from Microsoft has ended.

Anyway I have now installed Thunderbird and can set up accounts OK for my primary and secondary e-mail addresses and then can send out e-mails OK, but have not been able to receive e-mails at all.

(a) If I let Thunderbird set up the accounts automatically they are set up as IMAP and I do then get a list in the account Inbox of the e-mails currently on the server, but none of them will open at all - they just show a blank white page and I get a message that "the server has been disconnected".

(b) If I manually set up the account to POP3 (which I understand is the correct server type for my accounts) when I then try to receive mail a message briefly flashes up for a split second at the bottom of the screen saying how many messages are on the server but then says there are no messages to download.

I have tried altering the account settings in various ways but am not really sure what needs to be altered and have been unable to find any settings that work.

Attached is a screenprint showing the e-mail account settings which currently work OK (under WLM) on my laptop, which hopefully might give some clues as to what I am doing wrong.

Thanks in anticipation of your assistance as to what I need to do to receive e-mails via Thunderbird.

Regards

Mike

Hi,

I have used Thunderbird for some years and it works well for me. I don't do anything fancy, just mail, calendar and tasks as a stand-alone user.

I'm migrating to a new pc. - I downloaded and installed Thunderbird. - I did not create any email accounts at this point. - I copied my profile from my old pc as per Mozilla support guidance. - Open Thunderbird - Now I can see my mail, folders and layouts perfectly.

But I cannot see anything at all to do with Events and Tasks. - Tools-Addons says Lightning is installed. - No 'Events and Tasks' in menu bar - No 'Calender' tab in Tools-Addon options-Lightning - No 'Events and Tasks' panel

From 'Events and Tasks' tab on old pc I have exported calendar (Home.ics) ready to import to new pc but I can see no option to import this.

I'm sure I must have done something wrong. I would be most grateful for any advice. I am not a tecchie; I am but a basic user.

thanks john

Got a new computer and I just wanted to transfer all the contacts in my address book from there to my new computer on Thunderbird rather than painstakingly doing it one at a time! Can I import them all?

I am virtually certain i was able to easily do this using the import tools on the version of thunderbird I had about a year ago. But Outlook Express is no longer an option when I open the import tool.

My freeserve email will soon not be available so I have set up a new email address with zoho mail via their website. Now I want to add this new address to my Thunderbird email set up. I have enabled POP/SMTP in zoho. I need a new, separate, inbox for this email address on Thunderbird.

I am trying to setup Thudnerbird to retrieve my Outlook365 emails from the University.

The software has been able to validate the servers, IMAP and SMTP, however when testing I receive an error message saying the the "Username or Password is invalid".

I don't know how much this relates but I am afraid the Micorosoft accounts through school use some kind of double authentication or similar.

Any help will be greatly appreciate it.

My Thunderbird account was deleted from my laptop during a reset. I re-installed it and successfullyre-installed my gmail email but was told my plusnet email was not recognised, though it had been on the previous Thunderbird account.

I came across a site "mozdev.org" that gives instructions as to how to download a file called "mailtweak-0.16.xpi" Firefox will not allow me to download it and I cannot find it in the list of Firefox add-ons.

Please advise

I, and with many others, have the following problem: If I want to create a gmail account in Thunderbird via IMAP, I will arrive at the following screen:

see word doc. 

Whatever I click or do not react in test. We have tried several gmail acoount. All account work via login on the site. Everything that is mentioned on the internet does not work. The security through the site has also been reduced. All virus scanners are disabled, Java updated or reinstalled. And again: many more people have this problem, but no one has received a solution. What else can we (I) do?