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My school email's storage and emails will expire end of today (June 30th, 11:59 PM EST). I accidentally thought the account would just be frozen at that time, but realized they would be deleting the account all together for universities alumni.

When I downloaded Thunderbird to transfer my emails, I'm logging in, but I'm getting prompted to log in to Microsoft rather than Gmail for some reason. The email should be Google Workspace. I'd love to know what's going on as I'm not sure and my school's IT support said it's a problem with Thunderbird as it should be gmail for me.

Anyone know of any fixes or suggestions?

Hi,

I am unable to get Thunderbird to work after my microsoft password was updated. I get the popup & enter my email & new password, but I never get the second popup to accept permissions. It just doesn’t go any further. I can see Failed login attempts for TB on the microsoft side. I am not too tech savvy, so I’m doing my best to troubleshoot!

This is Thunderbird 78.14.0 on mac 10.11, YES, that is old, it is a legacy mac! It was successfully setup with OAuth2 over 3 years ago & worked fine until the password update. I was able to add TB to an old 10.15 mac & it got the permissions popup & the account was added fine (but it is also using TB 150.0.2). Oddly, there was no 2FA prompts given, it just connected with my password only??

I had a number of devices that needed passwords updated, so I’m wondering if there was a conflict when trying to do this one? Do I need to delete certain files? I found where to delete the stored passwords & did that, but it’s not moving past that point to even store new ones & connect. I can’t grant permissions?

Also, I notice the successful TB login activity shows my IP address, whereas the unsuccessful one shows Browser Mozilla Firefox. I’m not sure if that helps with troubleshooting or not!

Thank you for your time!

I am trying to add one of my Google email accounts to Thunderbird. It brings up the "Sign in with Google" window, which is normal. But instead of "Sign in to continue to Google...", it says "Sign in to continue to Mozilla Thunderbird Email". Which then generates an error: "Error 400. The server cannot process the request because it is malformed. It should not be retried. That’s all we know." I've not ever experienced this issue before; adding a Google account has always been super easy and straightforward.

I had TB on my desktop for years and finally got it also synced to my phone. Then with a failure with Windows 11 had to wipe clean the desktop and start over. Cannot reinstall TB. I obviously have the correct e-mail and password as I was able to log into Mozilla and submit this question. I believe it is a problem with my user name and what is on my phone setup does not work with my desktop reinstallation.

Thunderbird 148+ on Windows 11 repeatedly prompts for the password when synchronizing an Exchange account (professional) configured with the native Exchange support (no add-on installed).

The account only offers “NTLM” or “Normal password” authentication methods. OAuth2 is not available in the account settings.

During synchronization, Thunderbird asks for the password separately for many folders. However, clicking “Retry” usually works immediately without changing the password, and manually re-entering the same password also works.

The issue then reappears for the next folder, causing continuous authentication prompts (I have many folders...).

Actions already tested:

• deleting saved passwords and tokens,
• deleting/renaming key4.db and logins.json,
• restarting Thunderbird,
• recreating the account.

The problem persists.

This looks like an authentication/session handling issue rather than an actual invalid password.

I have Thunderbird on my Win 11 Pro Laptop and on my Samsung Android phone. My primary email account works fine on both devices. My secondary account with the domain name otakorp.org works fine on the Android Thunderbird app, but when I try to set it up on the Windows version it sees that it's a gmail server and sets both incoming and outgoing servers to Oauth2 authentication, but generates an unspecific error (see included image). Any suggestions?

As so many have experienced, but I have yet to find the actual solution, I will bring up the issue.

I recently purchased a new computer. Installed Thunderbird, created all the mail accounts I have and... no problems. All the accounts, once created, populated with emails. For 3-4 days, there were no issues.

Important to note: I let TB use all the default settings. And once everything was up and running >>>>I did not change anything<<<<<.

Then a few days later, I started getting the following messages for two accounts that had migrated from q.com to myctl.net. Entering the 100% proven-correct password results in the know endless-loop of entering the password and the same pop-up error message. The PW is 100% correct as I can go to Centurylinks' website and login using that same, exact password and read my emails.

I've spent enough time trying all the suggestions here, reddit, facebook etc so I'd thought I'd see if anyone has actually found a solution.

Cannot access Tbird on PC, but have done so using Outlook; and Tbird Outlook & Samsung mail on mobile. Gmail: some new messages and those quite old are accessible. See Screenshot. iinet: nothing accessible. See Screenshot. The password used to access on webmail works there but is not working in Tbird on thePC. Three technicians have attempted and myself have attempted to rectify. A primary password was used earlier, this has been unsuccessfully tried. It isn't required now. I fear this may be the problem but don't know how to rectify.

I've had a Thunderbird email account for years. My laptop quit, so I've set up the account on a new laptop. I discovered that I hadn't saved my Thunderbird password, so I followed the procedure for "forgot password". This included a new p/w, and I also got a Mozilla PIN (for future Microsoft Password Manager use), and got a Mozilla Account Recovery Key, again for future use. But I can't log into my Thunderbird account. I get the message "Authentication Error" (Wrong p/w, email, etc.) Changing IMAP / POP settings didn't help, though I did go with the recommended IMAP setting.

Any suggestions?

Allan

3 дня назад перестали приходить письма - вышла ошибка авторизации. Пароль точно верный (через браузер все работает) и работает Thunderbird на другом ПК. Снес мозиллу, касперского, пробую заново создать почту, не дает, смотрите скриншот 1. Потов выдает ошибку смотрите скриншот 2. Вообще не могу понять что не так! На другом ПК все работает. переносил профиль с другого ПК на свой все тоже самое - ошибка авторизации. Куки разрешены, в исключения gmail.com добавил в Thunderbird Куда копать, что искать?

Dear people at Mozilla Thunderbird Email: Please STOP sending me emails to solicit access to my Google account. I receive enough junk mail without these solicitations; be decent and erase me from your list. I will appreciate that, instead to being irritated with the continuous pop-ups you are sending me.

In gratitude, Taruno Vega🙂 [edited from public] @coastside.net

TBird connected to AOl fine for several years. Now, today, TBird tells me that my AOL password is incorrect. I changed the AOL password but TBird still does not work. I can sign on to AOL just fine using Chrome and going to the AOL web site, but TBird will not sign me in. Please help.

Hello, I'm new to Thunderbird, trying to connect my accounts for the first time. I've tried linking my new Posteo email, and I'm getting the same error message that it looks like many people are getting for various accounts (especially gmail) -- "Unable to log in at server. Probably wrong configuration, username or password." It's the correct username (email address) and password, and I'm selecting IMAP, which is the recommended configuration in Posteo's own instructions for linking with Thunderbird. I can't find any trouble shooting info that's not for gmail. (I haven't tried to link my gmail yet).

I would appreciate any help with this matter. I was excited to use Thunderbird, and now I'm wondering if I need to find a different option.

How can I change my email password in Thunderbird ??? - my account password has been deleted in Thunderbird and I wish to re-enter a new password. Please reply to [edited email from community support forum] @gmail.com

When I checked the box to Require a Primary Password, I did not know this was an always and forever thing. I have found out that it is an every time I open my email in Thunderbird. I can not undo it. Is there not a way to get around this?

I've lost my password, but I believe I have retrieved it from the Profile. The entry reads: "encryptedPassword":"MEIEEPgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEwFAYIKoZIhvcNAwcECOabVSCGHBLGBBiqEqUXu8w7N4eAi09k0ZOIVAcs0chiziM=". Please would you indicate how to decrypt. Promptly upon resolution, I shall obviously change the password using the regular Thunderbird method.

For over a year now, I have had to resort to the Orange.fr e-mail client, which is much less satisfactory. I have used a Demo version of "Passware kit" to seek to retrieve the elusive password, and have received no satisfactory answer from it. I am not prepared to pour good money after bad.

A software solution is only as good as the support the publisher provides for it. Please answer soon.

I emphasise that, as a regular contributor of funds in the past, my continued funding of Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird depends on your answering with a satisfactory, workable solution to my long-standing plight, contingent upon decryption of the password above.

Adam Warren FRSA [edited from public community support forum] @orange.fr