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Help instructions do not correspond to the options in the program:

  "Open the Address Book.
   Select File > New > Mailing List."

The only way to open the Address Book is from the Tools menu; it shows:

  "All Address Books
   Personal Address Book
   Contacts
   Collected Addresses"

Whichever of these is highlighted, the New menu offers no Mailing List option. (I seem to be using Version 102 / Linux)

We work with Thunderbird on local PC's but for roaming support we have the Thunderbird profiles on a network drive. Lately we noticed that on occasion the network drive is slow or disconnects for a second at which point Thunderbird looses it's lock or the connection to the profile. This results in then giving a popup to reenter the credentials for the mailbox. Is there some setting in Thunderbird where we can tell it to try again for a few times before giving the error?

I found the option 'network.protocol-handler.external.disks' but I cannot find any description on what this setting actually does, is this setting relevant to this issue?

I would appreciate any help you can give us.

I have an email address at an organization that uses Office365. I am able to log in, read and send emails using Outlook either as a standalone app or through a browser. I can also do the same on my desktop with Thunderbird. It's version 102.6.1 (64-bit) running on Windows 10. I must have logged in ages ago and I don't need to do it daily. I use the 2FA mandated by my organization when I log in with Outlook.

Thunderbird is so much better in many ways that I'd like to use it on my laptop as well, but when I try to set it up, it just replies with "Authentication failure while connecting to server outlook.office365.com" even though even the 2FA succeeds. This is a laptop with Windows 10 and TB 102.7.0 (64-bit)

I have checked that (suggestions from other threads): -Cached connections is 1 -IPv6 disabled -Cookies enabled -I cannot set up a app password. I guess not allowed by my organization.

Settings are typical, server outlook.office365.com, 993, SSL/TLS, OAuth2. All that works on TB on the other computer.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Please help with my predicament. I had to use 38.1 to import OUTLOOK details etc. Now I want to update Thunderbird to get more functions like a dictionary etc but when I tried it messed all the settings for the email accounts and I went back to 38.1 Thankfully that worked again and I got all the settings back fine.

Please could someone help with any guidance on what version I can update to safely and step by step what I need to do?

Many Thanks

Mon, Jan 23, 2023 (01:32pm EST)

Ok Guys,

I know you are all very busy, but how long should it take to perfect the "ADD NEW EMAIL ACCOUNT" option in Thunderbird.

I have always had problems (from years ago) adding new Email Accounts, I've learned to manually change the username to reflect, the full email address not just the name, (left of the @ symbol.)

Solution - include the full name ex: "Name@Domain" rather than Name, it would be such a great advancement.

Secondly,

Now on this latest release of Thunderbird (102.7l.00) and a little prior

I have been running into this Strange problem

Every time I add a New Email Account, and click on Done, It spins, and spins, while I wait for TB to add the New Email. and apparently, it never does.

Same problems as before: the Username is incomplete, which is a pain I manually have to configure it and I re submit the Task, and it comes back " Incoming Server Exists Message" Error Message

After maybe 10 years of developing Thunderbird, I cannot understand why this basic of all basic procedure is flawed.

FYI - I have spent the past 1 hour trying to add an email account - and it will not work.

You have any solutions?

Thank you in advance.

One of my mail folders has disappeared from Thunderbird, perhaps accidentally deleted but it's not in the Trash folder. My questions are:

1. Can I restore it to my SSD from my backup drive (Seagate drive with their Toolkit backup software)?

2. If so, where do I look on my drive and backup for my mail folder files? I used to know where they were but the path appears to have changed, and a search of my C: drive didn't locate them.

I'm running Thunderbird 110.0b1 (64-bit), beta, on Windows 11 Home. The emails come from a POP server and are stored only on my PC, not on the server.

This question was asked here and the answer worked for some years, but no longer does.

The method was pretty simple, just change browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground from the default FALSE to TRUE.

An update in the last few months (not sure which) broke this. So, what is the new way of doing this?

(Running TB v102.4.2 on LM 20.4)

I am running thunderbird v102.6.1 under Windows 10. An Email message text contains a valid http://www..... address, but it cannot be opened, nothing happens when I click on it. It is not highlighted in blue as I would have expected. When the same message is opened with the Outlook programme, it is displayed in blue, and can be opened when it is clicked upon. How do I get Thunderbird to correctly display and allow me to open the link?

Thank you Roger

My goal is to keep Thunderbird from auto-synchronization or auto-login sever unless manually. What I did followings are unable to work. Could anyone help?

1. File->Offline->work offline, Thunderbird back to online next time.
2. Account setting->Sever settings->uncheck all(as attachment image).

Hi there,

I can't find the file panacea.dat in my profile folder. I can find all the others I need (global-messages-db.sqlite, etc.) but no panacea.dat.

General background : - I'm using Thundirbird on different computers with a shared folder on GoogDrive and some Thunderbird message folders disappeared...

Thks for your help! Nitram

i have windows 11. am on a pc with i-7. my TB version is 102.7.0

i get this error message: jpg could not be opened, because the associated helper application does not exist. Change the association in your preferences. i went to windows default manager, and 'photos' is the default for both jpg and jpeg files.

one TB source recommended going to Tools -> Options -> Attachments / Download Actions -> View and Edit Actions; but my TB doesn't have an 'options' choice under 'tools', and doesn't have an 'attachment' or 'download action' or 'view and edit' choice under any of the headings. my heading choices are 'file', 'edit', view', 'go', 'message', events and tasks', 'tools' and 'help'.

i found a 'config editor' under tools -> account settings -> thunderbird settings (when scroll to the very bottom of the thunderbird settings) -> config editor . there are many many , and i scroll down, but no jpg or jpeg is listed (even when i typed 'jpeg' or 'jpg' in the 'search preference name' box.

what next? please be patient and thorough and walk me through each and every step/click, because i am not very computer savvy.

Hi all,

Is there a way to highlight messages by receiver email addresses. I have three email addresses that arrive into Thunderbird, where they sorted into folders by sender.

I would like to colour code the message header as they arrive by the To: email address.

Many Thanks

Thunderbird 102.7.0, 64-bit, Windows 10.

I just fell over this today but it may have been around for a while.

I have lots of email accounts. It was great when TB starting properly supporting a per-account (outbound) SMTP server, however, this seems to have newly broken. I fell over it today, but I don't reboot things for ages so I cannot pinpoint the start.

Here's the issue.

I have accounts on many mail servers, many on the same (mainly att.net, and gmail.com, as it happens).

Each one of them, to send mail, wants me to log in with an individual sending address. Fair enough. This used to work just fine.

However, suddenly, just the att.net addresses are broken. What *seems* to be happening is that the same, single login address is being used for all N accounts. Naturally, this breaks when the login address doesn't match the one on the From: line. So I have to futz around, fiddle around, and so on, and then things work. (I.E. I change the TB settings so that the outbound SMTP auth login matches the From: line, have to re-enter the password, and only then will the message be sent.) So if I have two accounts, x@att.net and y@att.net, only one of them (at a time) "works" with att.net - it's whatever I successfully used last. If I sent mail from x@, this address is being used (and it's in the account settings field. over-riding what was there before), even if I send mail from y@. Or z@. Etc. If I change the SMTP auth address to y@, then that account works perfectly, but x@ doesn't. And so on.

Now the weird part is this: my Gmail addresses still work perfectly. I can send from all of them without changing a thing.

The only thing I can see is that Gmail is set up to use oAuth, and att.net is set up to use 'normal password' (via SSL, so I'm not that bothered about security).

Did I unknowingly manage to break something? Is there a new tweak? Help!

Jonathan

Happy New Year all volunteers, In W10, after crash all my applications, and their setup/data got wiped out. Tbird worked before like charm. Then it was a new installation 2 years ago. I moved mail data from Vista Mail on a Toshiba PC to my then new GP PC, with W10. Now, I have to re-install all the apps, and try to import/collect data. Luckily, my Vista PC is still working, so I can recover things from there. So, in Vista Mail i exported contacts, tried .csv, and .vcf. Csv seemed to work, however the import in Address Book was not functional. The names and e-mail addresses were mixed up. Then, I tried .vcf: with a single contact it works fine, but not with a list of .vcf files. Then, I found the advice to create one .vcf file for all contacts via copy *.vcx merged.vcf. The file got created, and looks fine. The windows contact too can open it, one-by-one. Windows10 Mail can handle it also. But, when I try to import this in TB I got as far as START import. Then, the message "Import failed unexpectedly, more information may be available in the Error Console". I do not see error console, and more hints. I must tell, extracting contacts from GMAIL works too. But, unfortunately I do not have set up gmail so that it saved all contacts upon referencing, so I just have a subset of contacts there... Do you guys have a working solution, or is this a new chart again ? By the way, the TB version is the newest one, a guess it is 102. Cheers, Zoltan

It seems the default font color for the "Paragraph" format is now transparent. When I hit enter to create a bullet list or manually set the format to Paragraph, the text color is rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)

Has anyone else experienced this? Can I change the default paragraph colors?

This issue has been reproduced on multiple installs/machines, including Windows 10 Thunderbird 102.6.1 (64-bit) Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS

Syncing contacts to a CardDAV account (cPanel) works everything fine in both ways, except that it doesn't sync contacts created local in Thunderbird to the CardDAV server. No error message, nothing. It just doesn't upload/sync created contacts to the server. All the rest works fine.

Any help?

Failed to join the web hosting product identified by Thunderbird when initializing the mail server and account.

Would anyone have the link to this service product?