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Hello people, I've just upgraded my Thinderbird because my inbox didn't load on opening the programme. I guess I have made a huge mistake somewhere in the process, because my whole archive has disappeared. I very much hope it still exists somewhere and that I will be able to restore it with your help. Thanking you in advance, Nele Ysebaert, Amsterdam

Thunderbird normally displays the number of messages in a folder, near the top of the screen above the list of messages. But somehow, clicking around, I lost that display of the message count and cannot get it back. Wondering if anyone knows how to get that number back, get it show up near the top of the screen. I'm using version 156.0.

I have recently closed my yahoo mail account, removed all traces from Thunderbird, but when I start Thunderbird, after a few seconds, I get a Yahoo sign in screen over the top of Thunderbird

Recently I posted about this problem here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1580858 In sum, I was having problems both in downloading messages from the Spectrum server and also with sending messages. I've attached screenshots of the error messages.

Matt and David kindly posted some helpful responses. The problem then seemed to spontaneously solve itself and I breathed a sigh of relief. Then a few days later it re-appeared.

This time it's not quite as bad in that I'll get the error messages but then usually a few minutes later I can download the messages or send an email. But it's still a real problem.

I called Spectrum again and this time the rep was adamant that if I can still use the Spectrum webmail feature (and I can), then it's not a Spectrum issue.

Last time Matt asked about my antivirus. I use Windows Defender (and occasionally do a manual scan with Malwarebytes free version), so if I understood him right, I should be OK as far as antivirus interference.

Matt also suggested I set TB so that I download messages at startup and every 15 minutes. I was set to every 10 minutes so I changed it to 15.

Matt said for me to check the Activity Manager. I've attached a screenshot of what that showed a few minutes ago. But I should note that this was after an error message displayed but my email downloaded anyway.

Finally, Matt said I should check the Error Console (Control + Shift +J). I've attached a screenshot of that. He also said I should use the trash can to clear it, so I did. He then said to press Shift + F5 to attempt to get my messages. But on my laptop, F5 just dims the display so no dice on that. But I have a second laptop and F5 is "neutral" on that one so I tried it there. I didn't get any new error message.

However, one of the screwy things is that sometimes I get all my messages as normal, but only after the "Can't connect to the server" message displays. And that's what happened with my second laptop above.

I hope I've provided better info. this time. And I hope you gents can help me with this mess.

Thanks,

Andrew

Hi, In installed thunderbird on my mobile device and manage different email-accounts. Whenever I open an incoming email for account "A", I am in "answer"mode. For account "B" everything is normal. I don't see any different setting for those 2 accounts. Does anyone has also this effect and any idea how to solve this?

I apologize for the subject line, but there is no better way to describe the problem....

I've been using Thunderbird for a few months now and it has mostly worked well. Then this afternoon I was reading my mail in the Unified Inbox and I noticed something very odd. I had a number of emails showing in the header list with the same "From" and various subject lines. On the face of it, that wouldn't describe any weird behavior except that I noticed the subject lines absolutely didn't match the "From" information.

As I would go to read these emails, the email itself would be correct in the preview pane -- including showing the correct sender name and email -- but the "From" information in the header list pane would still be wrong.

I'm sorry that I can't post a screenshot to make this more clear because there is just too much personal information on screen. But these emails are from several different senders, received by several different email accounts. Everything is correct except that the "From" shown in the header pane is wrong. This is very obvious to me because I normally run entirely in the Unified Inbox with the emails sorted by the "From" information

One example is an email that is actually from "U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs <do-not-reply@notifications.va.gov>" which Thunderbird displays correctly in the preview pane (where I usually read my emails) and if I open the email itself, but the header pane says this email is From "Prepper-co <joshua@prepper-co.com>"

Another example is an email that is actually from "USPS Customer Support <uspscustomersupport@usps.gov>" but the header pane says it is from "Rainier Arms <sales@rainierarms.com" < p></sales@rainierarms.com">

These two examples were received in different email accounts that aren't even on the same server. I have other emails from these same senders that are shown correctly

I found this problem while using 150.0 (64-bit), which said 150.0.1 was available, so I restarted Thunderbird and it updated to 150.0.1 (64-bit) but the problem is the same.

hello, i set up my microsoft 365 / outlook account in thunderbid using oauth2 and smtp (port 587, starttls). however outgoing emails fail to send. how can i resolve this smtp issue

On 28 August I received a blank email with just the sender and subject showing. Since then I have sporadically received completely blank emails, with no sender or subject, while others are arriving as normal. The same is happening when I open Thunderbird on my mobile, but not on my laptop which has an older version installed. It would seem that the issue is caused by update 153.1.1esr, as that was released on 28 Aug.

Can I revert to a previous version of Thunderbird or is there another way to fix this, thanks.

I updated to 155.0.1 via the update modal yesterday, on MacOS Tahoe, and it didn't restart as normal. The main message pane was blank with "No Message Found" (screenshot attached).

I tried installing a fresh 155.0 over, that did not work; but, a restore of the prior app from my Time Machine did work -- that is, the application not the user profile data.

I just thought this was strange; never ran into it.

If there is an issue and I can help test it usefully, I happy to do so (I have backups! LOL).

Forrest

I have moved my Thunderbird data from drive C:\xxx\Thunderbird to N:\xxx\Thunderbird. The Thunderbird program remains on "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird" How do I tell Thunderbird to find its data on the N: drive?

     Thank you,    Art Lieberman

I am not able to send emails the last couple days. Any ideas on how to fix this? My incoming mail works fine, but when I try to send and email, reply or forward, it will not send.

Thanks!

Mail sent to me as cc: and/or bcc: addressee (but not as a To: addressee) is received at my ISP mail account, but Thunderbird will not retrieve them.

This has been going for a long while it seems, but I don't get much mail addressed as cc: or bcc:, so I only recently became aware of it.

My ISP webmail interface uses Roundcube. Cc: and bcc: messages sent to me show up there. I have Thunderbird 156.0 installed on two macOS 27.0 machines and Thunderbird 24.0b2 installed on Android 17 (includes all updates through Android security update of September 5, 2026). Neither of the three will retrieve the cc: or bcc: messages, but all other e-mail functions work as expected.

My ISP says it's a Thunderbird problem, but I ain't so sure. Any ideas?

I have been receiving the error message quoting the SCO1 policy about reaching my sending limit every day recently. This has happened even when I have only sent 1 or 2 messages and these have only been to a handful of people.

"Sending of the message failed. The message was not sent due to exceeding the allowed number of recipients. The server responded: Policy-SC01 You’ve reached your sending limit. Don’t worry, you can send again soon.."

I have seen a previous strand where this was explained as being something imposed by the email provider not Thunderbird. However I have managed to send emails from the website of my email provider that I haven't been able to send through Thunderbird. This suggests that the previous answer was wrong. I would like to use Thunderbird so please help me sort this out.

I reported this to you by last Friday but I have received no response so far. After reporting to you, I tried all possible trouble tests and checks, then took following steps. 1 - I deleted my copy of Thunderbird from my PC 2 - I loaded a new copy of Thunderbird - all went well 3 - But situation remains, the program opens, reacts very slowly to commands but I can not get into any functions. Thunderbird does not show any emails, nor can I read older emails stored on my computer 4 - I ask you kindly for speedy help, my email function is fully down. Yours - Jarl Jaatinen - Finland

My Thunderbird version is 153.2. My email provider is Yahoo.. I use the POP protocol and have set it up so that messages are left on the server for this particular email address because I want to hang on to several important emails. I am not sure if I should be checking "Until I delete them" but it is checked right now. Leave messages on server for X number of days is unchecked. I also have a few other Yahoo mail addresses on Thunderbird also set up using POP but the messages are set up to be deleted on the server so they seem ok so far.

Basically when I delete messages in Thunderbird, it also deletes my messages in my Yahoo webmail inbox and it goes to the trash. When I delete messages directly in my Yahoo webmail, nothing happens. So I then transfer the emails that ended up in trash of my Yahoo webmail to my inbox and they are of course downloaded again to Thunderbird. When I delete these emails in Thunderbird thinking that nothing will happen in my webmail since it is set up to POP and messages left on the server, the messages get deleted again, causing an endless cycle of transferring emails to inbox, downloading them on Thunderbird, deleting the unwanted emails on TB, then seeing all my other emails disappear on my Yahoo webmail inbox.

It started a few days ago. There was a random glitch (not sure if it was on Yahoo's end) that led to the OAuth dialog window popping up every time TB downloads mail from Yahoo. Initially I didn't handle this properly and it led my inbox emails going into my other Yahoo mail accounts. I have finally fixed that glitch and emails appear to be downloading properly to their respective inboxes. But I cannot seem to figure out what is causing my emails to be deleted from the POP server. Should I be unchecking "Until I delete them"?