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Every 10 minutes, your Thunderbird app generates an attachment (nmsa) that McAfee deems a Trojan and quarantines it. I get 15-20 popups from mcafee every hour. If I close Thunderbird it stops. What can i do to stop this from happening?

Trojan:Win/SuspiciousAttachmentScript.a

C:\Users\ken_s\AppData\local\Temp

I am no longer able to add attachments to my emails. when I press the attachment button top right nothing happens. The same also occurs on the yellow reminder at the bottom of the page. This appears to have occurred after last weeks Windows 11 update. I have five email addresses and I have the same problem with all of them. Also in the Setting menu under Incoming Mails I have ticked the box 'Use the following sound file' but when I click on Browse, again nothing happens apart from the task bar at the top goes dark for a short while before lighting up again. This also happens when I click on the attachments buttons.

While composing new message window and opening the attached pdf file to check whether right file attached (from email composing window) an error occurs pdf could not be opened, because the associated helper application does not exist. Change the association in your preferences, but, I can open the pdf files (same email or other drafted emails) from "draft folder, after sending and accessing it from Sent folder and even from Inbox folder " which have pdf file attachment, in the system adobe reader. But when I change in default program settings to - "view in Thunderbird" it opens in Thunderbird (opening from composing window too), but I need to view in adobe reader. Using Thunderbird 115.18.0 (64 bit) Supernova in Windows 7 - 64 bit. Any ideas or solution anyone have?

Dear Thunderbird, I am using version 128.10.2esr and I have noticed lately that in my Inbox the email From have all been given the same incorrect senders name. This usually happens to emails that contain an attachment How do I correct this ? Thank you. Regards. Steve Hawes.

Dear Madam or Sir,

The outgoing mail cant be sent with attachments if it's greater than 5MB at every time and it has error popup as I have attached in this mail. But it doesnt have such issue if I login https://outlook.office365.com with the same account in ThunderBird and send over here. Please clarify if I need to modify something in ThunderBird.' You can reach out to me via ThunderBird

Thanks

I have several attachments that are jpeg files when I save as there is no jpeg listed. when I do save I am unable to open in Photoshop. I have looked for setting and don't seem to find any.

Thank you, Rick

I've recently added my iCloud account to Thunderbird, and can use this along with my other accounts, yahoo, gmail and so forth.

icloud.com, however, has a useful feature, which is that if you try to send an oversized attachment - anything up to 5Gb - it will automatically send it via Apple's Mail Drop facility: that is, it will store the attachment for 30 days and incliude with your email a link from which to download it.

This also works with Apple's Mail app, but it doesn't work with Thunderbird; with Thunderbird I just get the familiar 'attachment too large' warning, and the email is not sent.

My question is twofold: first of all, should it work? i.e. is there something I haven't done properly in setting the icloud account up; secondly, if it's technically not possible for it work, why is that? I don't understand the mechanisms of internet connection to know why this might be.

Thanks in advance to any experts on this topic!

I am using Linux Mint and Thunderbird v140ESR.

I have searched the knowledgebase here to find out how to add an attachment to an email. All the screenshots are for the Windows version, even though I have selected my version from the selector on the RHS:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-attachments#thunderbird:linux:tb140-esr

Any advice gratefully received.

Thunderbird Version 142.0 will open when I chose a file to send to mail recipient using win 11, but the new email screen doesn't open so no file attaches. All my defaults are correct, there is a proper mail recipient entry in the appdata sendto file and there is a key in the registry for Thunderbird under client mail.

hello, i cannot seem to find a solution online, hopefully someone here can help.

i often receive emails with images attached, and most of the time people don't resize the image. so you can imagine over time this all adds up. i dont always need to keep a 6mb image versions. i would love if there is a way to resize the email image attachment, to at least still have a smaller copy for refence, but not end up with a huge email account (local/pop3)

preferably a one click solution, or even a routine i can run on the file system, etc.

thanks

Is there a setting in Thunderbird that ensures all email attachementsto sent and received emails are stored locally and can be opened without access to the web?

I want to use Thunderbird to download all messages and attachments for an email address that will soon be superseded and not available to me in the medium term. But emails without attachments would be of little use.

Hence I want to be able to use Thunderbird to open past emails and their attachments without accessing the email account once it is closed.

If I download all emails before I close the old email address, will I be able to open the attachmnets when the account with the old email address is closed?

What would the be the best approach and correct settings in Thunderbird to achieve this?

Many thanks in adance.

I use Thunderbird for emails in Windows 10 on my PC and today I looked for an email that I received in October 2024 to view the attachments that I know were included with it. However there were no attachments and no symbols to indicate that there are attachments. The same thing happened several months ago and I wondered if I have inadvertently changed a setting to cause this. Your advice would be greatly appreciated.

I am an experienced TB user, but at the moment at a total loss for a solution to my problem.

I use Windows 11 Pro. When trying to click on image attachments for PNG and JPG/JPEG pictures, the behaviour is different: PNG images are displayed just fine in the Windows photo viewer, JPEG images are not. If I open the same images via double-click from the local disk, both open just fine in the same viewer. I have checked the file type settings already and even changed them to always ask me for JPEG images. I get asked just fine and see that TB wants to open the Windows photo viewer for both files types, but while it works for PNG, it does not for JPEG. There is no error message, just nothing happens, at least nothing visible to me.

When trying the same from a new user profile, it works as expected. I tried TB safe mode, deactivating all add-ons, but it still does not work in my main user profile.

I would be glad to receive hints for how to solve or at least debug this. Thanks in advance.

I am using Thunderbird Version 140.1.1esr on OSX. Some emails sent to me show their signature graphics as attachments instead of showing them visually within the message itself.

Is there a software setting that can resolve this issue of "attachment clutter"?

Using: Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon 64-bit 7.0.0-29-generic Nemo 6.6.3 Thunderbird 153.1.0esr (64-bit) - but it has happened in the previous two releases which is when I first tried.

As per title, when trying to save an attachment I have a number of locations on directory trees at least 5 deep on networked shares (SMB). Attempting to access these via the favourites entry in the file dialogue does not work.

I use favourites to get round having to trawl through the structure each time I'm accessing very frequently used places. This works with everything I have tried so far, but it does not seem to work with Thunderbird.

I get the following two errors:

If I just click an entry in the favourites folder I get a dialogue as in screenshot 1. If I right click the entry and then select open in file manager I get a dialogue as in screenshot 2.

The shares are attached using Gigolo, so I presume this uses GVFS to mount them but what effect that has to programs is beyond my knowledge.

I can use the shares to save something from Thunderbird if I use the same file dialogue but then access the location via the "other locations" (see screenshot 3) , then select the correct network drive and track through to the same directory, so the issue appears to be that Thunderbird can't use the favourites function, not that it can't access the directory itself.

Anyone any ideas?