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As shown in the attached screen capture, recently these subfolders of "sent" have appeared to the left of the folder. They make the folders undeleteable. How do I get rid of them? I want to delete "sent" and create a fresh new "sent" folder.

Thanks John

If you look at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1201896 you will see an archived discussion on this topic.

One can display the size of folders using: View/Layout/Folder Pane And then right clicking the icon at the top right of the folder pane and selecting size.

The problem is that if too many digits are required, all that displays in the leading digit and one does not have any idea of the size without moving the cursor over the number to get display of the value. How does one increase the number of columns used to display that size so that it is more useful ?

I just noticed TB now has 5 address books & this is what I want to do: My email addresses are all mixed up so:

1] I would like down load all address books to 1 CSV file to sort & eliminate any email addresses that are NOT MY PERSONAL ADDRESSES.

2] Then I want to import MY PERSONAL ADDRESSES back to TB to 1 PERSONAL ADDRESS book, While eliminating [DELETING] all other PHONE BOOKS as I don't need them. I will do my own adding of emails myself, it's that simple.

Regards,

klxdrt

There is nothing to warrant the kind of attack I was subjected to in the response below. I raised legitimate concerns in my question, I am brand new to this support platform and it is not easy to figure out, and yes there is a big button at the bottom of the email that says "Mark it as Solved". I am not a moron as Mr. David is suggesting, and I have spent considerable time trying to figure out how to reply in a thread to no avail. If this is how you treat new users of TB, this is the beginning of the end of this software because users will not tolerate this kind of abuse. Shameful. So I still have no idea how to reply in a thread, and now I am beyond discouraged wondering what I have gotten myself into. Great way to welcome newcomers.

From David "I do not know why you cannot respond to posts here. An email is sent on each post and there is a large button at bottom, Post a Reply. People who work on this forum are all volunteers. We are not the developers and have no voice in the code being generated. We volunteer our time to assist users where possible with their problems. Yet, somehow you feel you are being insulted. Regarding your question, I use Win 11 and do not see a Start-Programs list, so cannot assist in that. "

As of a couple of days ago, Thunderbird will no longer allow me to send emails to more than one recipient. The email just stalls out on "sending" if there is more than one name/address. Doesn't matter if the additional names are in "to," "cc," or "bcc" fields. I've tried finding other reports of this online but no luck. I've rebooted Thunderbird several times. Version is 97.1.0. Please help - thank you!

I posted this question yesterday and received one reply, which I have rejected, but there was no way to respond in the thread so now I have to re-post the question. So that is yet another problem, why is there no way to respond in the thread. First question, I need a real answer and solution to the disappearance of my TB thumbnail icon under Start-Programs after agreeing to do an update. The first reply was to reinstall, which is not a solution in my opinion. I use many software's that do regular updates, and none have killed the thumbnail icons so this is a TB problem not a Windows problem. Secondly, I have spend over a week getting TB to function as I need it to function and to properly accommodate my email addresses. I really don't need to risk losing these efforts to a reinstall, and given my experience thus far, I don't trust TB to not kill my custom setup during reinstall. I am willing to work with TB developers but this kind of response is rather insulting frankly.

Greetings, I'm attempting a pop3 connection with gmail using Thunderbird - newest I assume because I just downloaded it today. I get as far as logging into Gmail in the smaller window that pops up and then I "Allow." That window closes and goes back to what you'll see in the screen grab. I have verified that the password is correct by logging into Gmail using a browser I rarely use.

Can someone please look at my screen grab of the settings window and help me out?

Thank you!

Steve

Yesterday my gmail account suddenly stopped downloading and sending emails on Thunderbird 91.8.1. I receive/send other email accounts on TB no problem. In preferences cookies are allowed and the authentication OAuth2 is set for outgoing smtp. I haven't changed the gmail password. My husband's gmails are downloading to my TB, it's only my gmail account that has stopped working. When I try to send an email I get this error message Sending of the message failed. Unable to authenticate to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.gmail.com. Please check the password and verify the 'Authentication method' in 'Account Settings | Outgoing server (SMTP)'. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Despite reading similar support recommendations, Thunderbird V91.10.0 will not accept my passwords. I have three email accounts that I'm using with TB, and have used the same passwords for years. Now the program will not accept the passwords. Specifically, I cannot send outgoing mails. Incoming mails do arrive, but not the outgoing ones.

When trying to send an email, I get this message: "Log-in to server smtp.googlemail.com with user name [email address inserted here......@gmail.com] failed." Then, options for 'Retry' or 'Enter new password'. If I try to enter/create a new password, still it is not accepted. If I persist, I get this:"Sending of the message failed. Unable to authenticate to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.googlemail.com. Please check the password and verify the 'Authentication method' in 'Account Settings | Outgoing server (SMTP)'.

In Server settings/Authentication method, I tried switching from 'Normal password' to '0Auth2', but still the same problem.

Can anyone help with this? I'm lost....

Hello. My Thunderbird Portable 91.10.0 (32-bit, Win7 64-bit) stopped working with gmail. Cookies are allowed in the settings. The latest updates are installed. What should I do?

I have similar problem to many on this page. Mozilla Thunderbird cannot receive or send emails from gmail accounts as at today, worked perfectly yesterday. I have followed instructions being - go to Account Settings & Outgoing Server (SMTP) and amend GoogleMail to "Google Mail - OAuth2.googlemail.com". Also go to each email address and under Server Settings change the Server Name to "OAuth2.googlemail.com. I then closed Thunderbird and reopened it and no emails were coming in. I also tried sending an email but received this error message "Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because connecting to Outgoing server (SMTP) OAuth2.googlemail.com failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections. Please verify that your Outgoing server (SMTP) settings are correct and try again". PLEASE HELP AS I AM GOING CRAZY WITH THIS.

I can receive messages to my gmail account on Thunderbird but not send them.

The error message "Enter your password for ***@gmail.com on smtp.googlemail.com" comes up, even after I have reentered the password. The password is correct and allows me to log into the account using a web browser.

Authentication method is set to OAuth2. Changing from Normal password to OAuth2 fixed the problem of not being able to receive messages to that account but did not fix not being able to send from it.

Suggestions about how to fix this problem would be appreciated.

Thanks

Rick

I cannot send email from thunderbird from my Boston University account. They clam they recently changed the SMPT server and that they do not support Thundebird and I will have to use Outlook. One would hope that IT "professionals" could figure how to configure the settings for the new server. I am using: Port 587, connection security SSL/TLS, Authentication OAuth2. Any suggestions for this situation?

I am getting this error message... This only started today.

"The STAT command did not succeed. Error getting message number and sizes. Mail server pop.googlemail.com responded: Invalid credentials."

Background... I have 3 x G-Mail addresses and was not able to get emails (starting today). I am using the latest version of Thunderbird -91.10.0(64bit) - so it "should" have been updated to the 0Auth2 settings, but it was not, so I did it manually (today). But now, with only ONE of the email accounts, I am getting the above error. All other settings are the same as the other 2 accounts and they are downloading, with no problems... Can you help in some way? Thanks Steve K

Gmail refuses to allow Thunderbird to connect as it is "less secure" app. I used to have access using a "app password" but now even that does not work. Microsoft will be doing something similar this fall. So ThunderBird will not be able to work with Microsoft or Google mail servers. I installed OWL as a temporary work around, but I have multiple email accounts on several domains, and "ModernAuth" seems to use a web access and cookies, which means only ONE email address per domain can be used. What is the work around?

I have been having authentication errors with one of my GMail accounts. I went digging and noticed that the authentication method was set to Normal Password. I know that at the end of May, Google started denying "less secure apps", so I switched the account authentication method to OAuth2.

When I hit "Get Messages", the OAuth2 window popped up as expected, and I entered my credentials and allowed access to Thunderbird. After that, still received the authentication failures.

After that, I read all the support articles I could find on this, and I tried everything anyone suggested. At this point, I have completely reinstalled Thunderbird fresh (I made sure to remove any old profiles in the %AppData% folder).

So there are no longer any old saved passwords being used instead, there is nothing of Thunderbird on my computer.

I am stuck at trying to add my GMail account. The OAuth2 window opens up, I enter my credentials and give Thunderbird access, and the error message that pops up below "Checking Password ..." is "Unable to log in at server. Probably wrong configuration, username or password."

I have double and triple-checked both username and password (and they are working in the OAuth2 window).

I have tried disabling AVG (the antivirus I use). I also disabled AVG and then turned off Windows Defender.

I even tried changing the "general.useragent.compatMode.firefox" setting to "true". That caused a different type of OAuth2 window to show, but still didn't work and got the same error.

Still no luck.

I can only assume at this point that Thunderbird is pulling the username/password from somewhere that I have no idea how to access and it is using that instead of the OAuth2 token being returned (which doesn't get saved).

Beyond that I am at a loss. Anyone with any ideas of what it might be?

Thanks, Josh

Unable to get email from gmail using thunderbird on a PC It worked fine until recently. I had it set up to download Pop3 I am using three different Gmail accounts, none work Had Google set up to allow less secure apps. Now the option is no longer available I can still get email on the Google website from a pc Microsoft Mail still works. I would use Mail, but the user interface is not what I like. Bluemail on my android phone and tablet work fine. Server login is set to OAuth2. When I first open Thunderbird a window comes up for each gmail account asking me to sign in with google account. It gets stuck in a loop where it keeps asking for the email or phone. None seem to work. It never gets to a dialog box that asks for the account password. I have spent a lot of time and made no progress. Any help will be appreciated.