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Hello,

I've migrated Firefox and Thunderbird profiles from %appdata% dozens of times now, but noticed something odd last week when I migrated my previous computer's Thunderbird profile folder to new. I use Saved Searches extensively, and have dozens of them in various 'real' folders. (Real, as in, when I log into the web-based email systems that I have loaded into Thunderbird, I can see the folders - they just appear completely empty, which is of course accurate, because they only contain "thunderbird" things, not real email things.

My work requires me to use Office 365, and I had a few Saved Searches right on the "root" of that Account. Those ones survived the migration just fine and are working. However, I had a few subfolders on my old computer, things like "Companies" and "Coworkers" that each had a dozen saved searches in it for, obviously, companies I email with, and emails with specific coworkers.

None of those saved searches made it through the migrations; their folders are still there, but they are completely empty.

Is there any way I can do a migration that will capture these saved searches OR, even better, is there simply some internal database contents from my old computer I can get at, then just copy and paste that into the database of my new Thunderbird install? That'd save me some time not needing to migrate my 15GB thunderbird profile again.

I just found it interesting that my Saved Searches on the "Root" made it over, but the ones in Folders, did not!

Hello,

I had Tbird installed on a WIN7 laptop a couple years ago, but was not happy with it.

Moved on to Mailbird for a year or so, but not completely happy there either. Search function was VERY weak, and i have about 100,000 emails.

I thought I would give Tbird another look.

I decided to try to download it to a new WIN10 laptop, to get a completely CLEAN setup. My old one (on the WIN7) actually works.

After I downloaded it to the new WIN10 laptop, AT FIRST it tried to verify the account. That failed. Then, somehow, it seems to have skipped right over that step. In the meantime, I read (too late to help) that I should not input the password until AFTER the verification.

At this point, I cannot get back to the "VERIFY" step, and the auto-install has not worked. All the server settings appear to be the same as on the old WIN7 version. It just won't connect to the email and begin downloading.

I'm linking in to an old NETSCAPE account (via AOL), on a POP3 basis.

At this point, I've uninstalled and then re-installed the software about three times. Nothing seems to help.

what am i doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

A few years ago Verizon outsourced its (POP only) email to AOL.When addint a verizon email account to Thunderbird, automatic account setup selects the old defunct Verizon POP server. AOL's imap server at imap.aol.com (ssl port 993) would be a better choice. Also, AOL supports OAUTH3 but I canot get it turned on correctly, maybe you could offer a how-to see [https://help.aol.com/articles/verizon.../verizon-move-to-aol-mail-setting-up-your-new-aol-account-in-a-third-party-email-program-or-mobile-device-imap]

Hello ! I can't reinstall gmail on Thunderbird. Until recently, I had never encountered such problems. Now I get the following notification: "Unable to log in at server. probably wrong configuration, username or passsword". Can anyone help me? It's very frustrating. Thank you very much. Patrick

I'm trying to move my profile data to a different local drive. I copied the profiles directory, and edited the profile.ini to point to the new location. When I start it up, for some of the accounts I end up with an inbox (in thunderbird) with mutliple (100s) of inbox files like

INBOX-1 INBOX-10 INBOX-100

When I look at the directory these are all .msf files.

How can I combine them into a single inbox file? It seemed to happen on two imap accounts, one on outlook, one on gmail.

I have several email accounts with my domain at Godaddy. They say I must change from POP/IMAC to EXCHANGE PROTOCOL to see my email. When will there be a software solution for TB to change the emails to EXCHANGE automatically?

When I installed the new version of Thunderbird, I lost all my saved email files, and I lost all the opened emails in my inbox, which I had been keeping there for further action at a later date. Is there anyway to recover my lost emails? Can I go back to the old version, and will my lost emails be recovered there?

Gwen Barry

I am trying to set up a new Thunderbird email account using pop3.gotadsl.co.uk port 110 and smtp-auth.gotadsl.co.uk port 25 which are the settings I have been using for years on my old Livemail account. Thunderbird recognises these settings but warns me that pop3 and smtp-auth do not use encryption and as such could expose my password and private information, Can you please advise me what settings I can use. Many thanks.

I have been using TB for many years. In previous version, filter rules data were stored in: MsgFIlterRules.dat file. I find no such file in TB 102. I can copy the MsgFilterRules.dat file from a previous installation, but where should I put it? The folder arrangement of TB 102 seem quite different from that of my previous version, which was 78. I am using MX linux 21.3.

I had to reset win10 and used a satellite drive to move all my Mozilla and Thunderbird app/files in their entireity via drag and drop to the drive. I got tbird installed and all my current inbox messages are there but i cannot find my folders and their subs, this is how I pay my monthly bills, with each folder representing the summation of bill paying for several years. My reciepts of payment as well as pass information is in those folders and my bills have to be paid on the 1st. I had years of data in there and I cannot find it. Please help, fast. Thanks, Arthur

Attempts to import from a previous [recent] profile generate this error message:

uncaught exception: Object Uncaught (in promise) Exception { name: "", message: "Component returned failure code: 0x80550013 [nsIMsgFolder.createSubfolder]", result: 2153054227, filename: "resource:///modules/ThunderbirdProfileImporter.jsm", lineNumber: 725, columnNumber: 0, data: null, stack: "_importMailMessagesToLocal@resource:///modules/ThunderbirdProfileImporter.jsm:725:31\nstartImport@resource:///modules/ThunderbirdProfileImporter.jsm:146:12\nstartImport@chrome://messenger/content/aboutImport.js:701:30\nonclick@about:import#:1:19\n", location: XPCWrappedNative_NoHelper }

Can anyone decipher this?

Hello, thank you for your help. What a pretty application.

I installed Thunderbird on Fedora 36. It came up and asked for account information. I typed some in, but needed to enter ports. I hit the advanced button and it gave me an unexpected message about my settings not being saved.

Anyway, the account settings->Server Settings, and settings->Outgoing Server, are all now set and correct. Strangely, there is no place on the form for entering the passwords for the incoming and outgoing accounts. I guess it will prompt for those?

I can not get Thunderbird to do anything at all.

If I tell it to read mail, nothing happens (and no password prompt so it can not have checked for messages).

There are no 'test connection' buttons on the settings pages that I can find.

There are no error messages that I can find, or any other indication of a problem.

LOL I am completely baffled and have no idea what to do to make it go. Any tips appreciated. Thanks!

Am trying to import my .pst files from outlook 2019 into thunderbird. Have tried using import tool. Get to step 2 and does not asllow me to specify location of the .pst file. what am I doing wrong?

Hi there,

I saved my Thunderbird emails (downloaded via POP) onto an external hard drive, folders only. I did not save the profile portion but I know what it is as I have a screenshot of it. Can it be used in my Thunderbird Mail profile that I currently have?

Is there a way to import these POP folders from the external drive onto my iMac (Ventura)? There are almost 95K emails to import.

Can steps be provided so that I can access these emails, please? I have a new Thunderbird profile that I can use.

Thank you.

Lynn

Going from Windows 7 computer to Windows 11 computer. The profile transferred OK and new emails were downloaded successfully in the new computer.

BUT the Local Folders that I had made were not transferred SO How do I transfer just the Local Folders from the old to new computer?

I used configuration given me by Frontier (auto config resulted in nonsense). It stalled on checking password, so I checked for solutions to that and found: "I suggest deleting the password and letting Thunderbird just check account settings. I have seen this long test many times. After the account is confirmed, you can then enter password."

So I did that. I clicked re-test to be sure the config was right. I got this message: "The following settings were found by probing the server" The settings were exactly the same as my original input, thus confirming my settings were correct.

When I clicked Done, I got an "Error Creating Account" window with the message "Incoming server already exists."

I checked for solutions to that error, but none of them seemed to fit my situation since I never installed Thunderbird before, and this is the first and only account I attempted to set up.

So what do I do? I need to get my messages really soon, as I normally receive 30-40 per day, and Outlook quit on me several days ago.

Thanks, Jon