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I use Protonmail, and after a year of on-and-off back and forth with them, I finally have the bridge working with Thunderbird.

At any rate, I have been trying to import my contacts from the Protonmail webmail to Thunderbird. There is an export tool on the webmail site, and that seems to go fine - it creates a .vcf file. If I open that document, it has all of my contacts there. Then I open Thunderbird and use the import tool - that appears to go fine, but after I hit "finish" and look in the contacts, there are no addresses. I have shut down and rebooted, closed Thunderbird and re-opened it, tried all of this several times, but nothing changes.

I searched on here for threads on this and found things from 2015 saying that a .vcf file is for individual addresses only, but I'm thinking that must have changed? It is the only export option.

Can anyone help? I have TB 102.8.0, and I am on Cinnamon - Kernel: 5.15.0-67-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.8 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy

Thank you.

Hi Wishing you are doing Great. Is there an option to Repair only that email instead of Repairing the whole inbox. Thunderbird is connected to Gmail which is the source email. Observed, if I deleted the corrupted email in Thunderbird this also gets deleted in my Gmail inbox and vice versa. Seems Thunderbird still retaining the Gmail email ID when deleting so is it possible to bring down only that email using that source inbox email id.

I didn't see a Thunderbird Beta forum, so please point me to the right place if this isn't correct.

I am currently running TB Beta 112b5 on two machines right now. After the update a weird thing happened to my "Favorite Folders" Section. One of the machines was fine. The other ended up adding an account folder for one of my e-mail accounts. There was no option to "remove" it like normal Favorite Folders.

I couldn't find any setting to remove it and even looked in Config Editor. I removed the account completely and, yes, it removed the Favorite Folders entry. However, the minute I added the account back, it returned.

The only fix I found was to copy the profile from the other machine over, delete the current profile, and replace it. That worked.

Is this a bug in the beta that just happened to manifest on one machine and not the other, or is there a Favorites Folder setting I missed that somehow added the account folder rather than an individual folder/subfolder? Thanks.

I am troubleshooting for a friend who is running Thunderbird 102.9.1.

He is using Thunderbird with an email account on cinci.rr.com mail server. It has been working for some time on a PC I set up for him last fall. Starting earlier this week, he has not been able to send an email to any person with a gmail.com account. He can send to any of the other email addresses in his contact list but not gmail.com addresses. He is able to use cinci.rr.com webmail and send to the gmail addresses. He does not get any message telling him the email we not delivered.

I sent him a message from my gmail account. He was able to receive it and he replied to it. There is a copy of the email in his sent folder, however, I never received it. I checked all of the boxes in my gmail account but nothing shows up.

I think there was a new update that came out earlier this week and am checking if this may have anything to do with the problem.

He likes Thunderbird but is concerned over the problem.

Thanks! Terry,

I can see my email when I search for the sender, but when I click on the email it does not come up. When I scroll down in Thunderbird, it does not scroll down to the date. I have attached a screenshot but again I can't pull it up.

Does anyone know how this could happen?

see: Thunderbird not sending with Gmail POP3 SOLVED

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1408429

See 21 March.

Well, after I thought I had fixed my Problem, I got a big surprise. A friend came by and I was explaining what I did so we had a look at the Account Settings. When I pulled up the SMTP settings I noticed that the Port selection had been changed back to 587. I checked the other Gmail accounts and they too had reverted to 587. Bear in mind, I had previously changed all the accounts SMTP ports to the default, 465. Now, the question is, “How did the ports revert to 587. 587 is the port chosen when Thunderbird sets up a gmail account even though it shows the default as 465. Does anyone know how this could happen? Joe

I have four accounts in Firefox, 1 gmail, 2 yahoo and 1 posteo - as of a few days ago, only the posteo.de account receives mail but none of the accounts can send mail, I repeatedly get the attached error message. Btw: I have not made any changes to any of the account settings.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated Susanne

I had several address books with selected contacts under my Personal Address Book so that I was able to select them for sending emails to selective groups. Unfortunately my system crashed and I had to reinstall my OP system including Thunderbird. When I upgraded to a new version of Thunderbird I was unable to migrate the contacts within those list to the new address books, unfortunately I don't remember which version caused the change except it was when they moved the address book icon to the left side of the screen. I had copied the respective sub address books to .csv files. How can I import the selected .csv files to a sub folder under my Personal Address Book? Also, how do I copy/paste individual or groups of contacts from one file to another?

I deleted my emails between 2017 - 2019 by mistake, I think I have found them in this Thunderbird file : Profiles uq4n2zn3.default mail mail.pestblastersrus.co.nz, it is the sent emails I want to retrieve, I opened the sent in this file, someone told me to put all numbers to zero in the X-Mozilla-Status 0000, I then opened it in wordpad and it is encode base64, is this correct file to recover deleted sent emails ? And if so how do I convert them to readable email format?

I cannot seem to get auto reply to work. I am running thunderbird on Linux Mint.

First I created a template with a subject of "reply" and a text body of "reply test". The "From:" field defaults to contain my email address and the "To:" field is blank.

I created a filter with 3 actions.

• Reply with Template: reply
• Set Priority: High
• Tag Message: Reply

When I receive an email, the filter does run. The message shows up with the appropriate tag and priority. But the Auto Reply does not return to the sender. I have tried from multiple senders.

Anyone have any ideas what I am doing wrong or is this a known bug in Thunderbird on Linux?

I currently have Spectrum internet and now a new fiber optic company is installing their product in my small rural town. I would love to have them and no longer have to deal with Spectrum's outages, etc. However, they do not offer an email service and suggest that I use gmail or yahoo or other web based service. I do not like either of those and have used Thunderbird for many years. Can anyone Than tell me if it is possible to continue using Thunderbird and how will I do it? Thanks for any help. I just want to add that I am 75 years old and really don't do the technical stuff very well. I am willing to try though.Thanks, Jennifer

I tried posting a thread but unfortunately I didn't got any traction. Maybe I've explained myself in a not so clear way? I'm going to try again, hoping to getting better luck this time around. Here it goes.

Big profile backup is out of control when restored. I'm on OSX.

Backup is a normal zip file of the profile folder, created on the same machine.

I know in theory, I should just create a new profile, quit TB, and then replace the contents of the newly created profile with my backup's contents. Next time I start it up, I should see my profiles' content.

However, that doesn't happen. And this is what I've seen after several dozen (?) times attempting it:

[list] [*] the first time starting after the restore, it takes a while to start. Then I'm shown a series INBOXes named with '-n' at the end, for an arbitrary (?) number of n. Such as 'INBOX', 'INBOX-1', ..., 'INBOX-25', some 3 to 5, others 40 or 50.

The last, according to this numbering, appears to be the one that contains the actual Inbox with messages. This happens in almost all accounts in the profile (about two thirds). I can also see several 'INBOX-n.msf' files (1kb) in the filesystem, with one corresponding final 'INBOX-n' file. This, as one could guess at this point, was not part of the original backup.

[*] after restarting TB, it takes even longer, and I lose access to all other folders. Everything below the account name disappears, except for the 'INBOX' that remains listed as a folder in the left pane, and when clicked on, shows no messages, none. For every account.

[*] every subsequent restart is then very quick, and I don't get access to the folders anymore. Even the maimed access the first time around seems now to be gone. There are only the empty INBOX folders, again and again./list

Profile folder size goes from ~24GB to ~16GB throughout this, though in TB's folder pane, it looks as empty as it could be.

I've repeated this dozens of times, with two different profiles which lead to the same result.

I might have tried a restore once on Windows machine to test it out, a long time ago, which I think went smoothly. So I can't vouch for it now, but I'd guess the problem is in OSX. Which is a problem, because it's what I'm using.

Am I doing something wrong? Does it have anything to do with permissions? What can I do to get this restore working? Anyone experienced the same on OSX?

I feel silly going through the trouble of backing up weekly, don't feel safe at all by failing to restore these backups. When I need the backup, I don't think I'm going to have one. I've had a few scares, and one of these days, it's bound to happen.

Below are the pictures when I restore this backup in OSX, in the first run it shows a corrupted folder structure, and from then on I have no access to the emails anymore.

Would appreciate any help with this long running issue.

Here's the pictures of the situation:

[b]First Run:/b

[img]https://preview.redd.it/jqs03d7fdcna1.png?width=324&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=ddc6a11b9da6d0413b8a81921bb3e618879b5f73/img

[b]Second Run:/b

[img]https://preview.redd.it/mvqtvi5hdcna1.png?width=369&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=f44319dd7f06fa25df4a5cb3d931e103f59b2eeb/img

Hello,

I'm using Tbird 102.9.0 on Linux Mint v20. After a few days of running I cannot move messages from the inbox to any other folder. Closing Tbird and re-opening does not work. I tried RMB-Move To, file menu Message-Move To, and drag-n-drop, none of those works.

After a few tries to move messages from the inbox to other folders fails, I can no longer delete messages from the inbox, and the message view pane does not update when I click on a different message in the inbox. If I close Tbird and re-open, these functions work again.

Note, I updated the subject after I discovered it seems to be just one folder that I cannot move new message into. Also, using a menu "Move To" function to try to move messages into this folder locks up my inbox. Drag-n-drop doesn't work either, but it doesn't lock-up my inbox.

TIA, -Brad

Hi there,

since a couple of releases since I installed thunderbird on my MacBook, I got the problem that the counter displays 99+ unread messages when everything is read. It only transforms to a no red dot icon when I have 3 unread messages across my accounts, and then if more come in starts to count up. I waited thinking it's just a bug on one release (as it suddenly started doing it after an update, but I don't remember what version that was) but after receiving the newest update (Version 102.9.1 (64-Bit)) it is still not fixed.

I have tried changing the system settings for the icon (disabling this red dot and then turning it back on) but it didn't work.

Any other suggestions?

My wife has a Hotmail account, which is now stating storage limit exceeded. 1) Is it correct that Thunderbird store emails on the computer? 2) Can you get Thunderbird to open the Hotmail account (If so what info is needed)? 3) Once the emails are downloaded onto the computer, if she deletes emails via her phone app or online, are they deleted in Thunderbird? 4) Can you back up the emails in Thunderbird? Thanks in advance for your help.

I have a 3:2 laptop whihc means that it has more vertical estate that your regular laptop, but still the message header is way too big for the amount of information it has to deliver.

I have looked at all the options and there are only ways to make it *bigger*...

Since it's all CSS behind, do you how to override the padding/margin of that element ?

Hi,

For a couple of weeks the synchronizing of my calendar in Thunderbird between my two devices seems broken.

- I don't know if this is related to Thunderbird or to the CalDav free service that I use (https://fruux.com/). Is there a way to find out which one it is? - Also I've been using this system for a long time, so I have many entries stored in the calendar. I'm aware that this is slowing things down, but can it cause complete lack of sync? - In case it's relevant: when I reinitialize the connection by deleting and setting up the calendar again, the content is correctly synchronized at the beginning.

Suggestions welcome, thanks :)

Erwan