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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?

I've been using Thunderbird for work for a few years and a few months ago my calendar integration with my Google Calendar stopped working. I've tried everything I can think of including re-installing calendars, but without success. My Thunderbird at home can still accept invites, but not on my work computer despite verifying that the calendar address and such is the same.

Initially, when I'd click 'Accept' on an invite, nothing would happen (ie no prompt, failure etc), the invite would just stay there without response. Now it's asking me if I want to link it with one of two different calendars I have, both of which I've verified under the calendar on Thunderbird that it isn't associated with an email address (has the yellow bar at the top saying if you want to use this calendar to store invitations you need to associate with an email address).

I can't think of what to do for next steps for troubleshooting, any thoughts?

Recently (~January 25, 2023) in Thunderbird (102.7.0) my outlook.com email (SMTP) stopped working with the error message, "Login to server outlook.office365.com with username xxxxxxxxxx failed."

• I see some have suggested changing Authentication method to "OAuth" from "Normal Password" but this has not helped. (Not sure if OAuth is different than OAuth2, but only OAuth2 is an option in Thunderbird)
• I have tried setting the Authentication to OAuth2 in the outlook.com account => account settings => Edit SMTP server
• I have tried setting the Authentication to OAuth2 in the outlook.com account => Server Settings
• In the outlook.com account => Server Settings - Connection security is set to SSL/TLS; Port is 993
• In the outlook.com account => account settings => Edit SMTP server Connection security is set to SSL/TLS; Port is 465

Hi, I've searched a lot here and on other websites. I want to integrate the thunderbird calendar with the outlook.com calendar, not the Microsoft Outlook calendar. How to do so? I did publish the .ics file from outlook.com settings but do not know what to do now. Really lost. Please advice. Thanks Mohamed

How I got where I am: 1) My hard drive started going out. I was unable to get a backup with Windows or 3rd party backup programs. I started copying what I could, just straight copy/paste, nothing fancy. Yes, there's the possibility of corrupted files at any point during this process, though chkdsk, etc. say otherwise. Supposedly, all the bad sectors have been detected and walled off. 2) Did a clean installation of Windows 10 on the new drive and started copying in the stuff I had gotten from the dying drive. This specifically included my Thunderbird profile. Thunderbird itself is a clean, current install (102.6.1...or at least that's what downloaded the other day--it's now asking if I want to get 102.7). 3) When I run Thunderbird, there are no addresses in my personal address book. It seems to have "collected" a couple from emails that I have looked at, but that's all. There's no abook.mab or history.mab to be found. There are abook.mab.bak and history.mab.bak files.

So, I need my addresses and...

What I've tried: 1) As I said above, I copied over the entire profile from the dying drive. Presumably that should have included both abook.mab and history.mab files. I am assuming that they were corrupted and were not available to copy. Looking at the bad drive, they do not show up; only the *.bak files. 2) I tried renaming abook/history.mab.bak as *.mab. Didn't work. 3) I tried copying the .mab files from a backup I took a while back into my current profile. Didn't work. 4) I tried renaming abook/history.sqlite and restarting Thunderbird, per https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1306681. Didn't work. I lost even the few addresses that I had collected (yes, they came back when I deleted *.sqlite and re-renamed *.sqlite back to their original file names). Note that Thunderbird did not create new *.bak files the way the answer in 1306681 said would happen. The old *.bak files are still there (assuming that you guys aren't playing tricks with the date stamp on the old files...can't fathom any reason why you would). 5) I tried a few other things from the Support here, but don't have specific notes. Suffice it to say that none worked.

I've spent hours on this and have gotten nowhere. I note that the answers that I'm seeing here all have dates from at least a couple of years ago (or more). Has Thunderbird changed sufficiently that those older responses are no longer valid? Am I so short on sleep that I'm making newb mistakes? Have aliens infested my computer? Inquiring minds want to know.

Thanks...

I have TB installed on my desktop. I have installed it on my laptop. I was able to setup my Frontier mail account on the laptop, but I can't get my hotmail setup. I have tried to do it automatically on the laptop. But it fails. I've tried to use the settings I can see on the pc and do it manually, but I can't get the settings correct somehow and that fails also. My email client on the PC is outlook 2010. It is the same on the laptop. Thank you.

Hello,

I think I already asked for this, but I have an account at amis.net and Thunderbird does not even open the connection 99% of the time. When clicking on "Get messages" nothing happens?

Why is that?

Best regards, Igor

I have been using Thunderbird for many years. I have a large number of email accounts added. I recently tried to add another one and received the error message: 'Incoming server already exists'. I eventually uninstalled and deleted the whole thing and downloaded another version which I installed. Although I had deleted all mentions of Thunderbird from my computer, it stills comes up with the same message. If I create an account without the password, it will accept it but then doesn't recognise the password, despite the account working on other devices.

I recently did a complete re-installation of Windows 10, then downloaded and installed Thunderbird, but cannot see the data files for Thunderbird. Before re-installation, there was Thunderbird data in the subdirectory C:\users\xxxxx\App Data\Roaming, but now there's no App Data subdirectory.

I want to paste the Thunderbird data into the user subdirectory App Data\Roaming, but there are no subdirectories.

When I click on an email and say reply, my reply is part of the original email.

If the recipient replies by clicking my reply-email, his reply will appear in the inbox in a thread along with the original email.

How can I avoid it so that all emails are listed as independent emails.

See copy of Thunderbird 102.7.0. macOS Monterey 12.06.3

Hello,

Received E-Mail Text & Background Color Problem

Win7 Pro ThunderBird 102.7.0

>Tools > Settings > General > Colors : I changed the default colors to: BackGround = Dark Blue ForeGround (text) = Yellow

The receiver of the sent e-mails, sees, black color text on Dark Blue BackGround. The reader can not read the text without highlighting as though desires to 'copy' the text.

The only setting configuration that remedies that matter, I configure in my ThunderBird editor: Text = Black BackGround = White Checked: Use System Colors

I prefer dark theme for everything, but when I configure that, receiver is unable to read my sent e-mails.

Is there a fix for this?

Thanks in Advance - Fractal_One

Like many others I had to switch to AOL when Verizon dumped their email service. I installed Thunderbird and configured the settings as follows:

Server settings for each email address:

Server name imap.aol.com port 993 User Name [email]@verizon.net Connection security SSL/TLS Authentication method OAuth2

Outgoing server: Description: <not specified> Server name: smtp.aol.com User name: [email address number 1]@verizon.net Authentication method: OAuth2 Connection Security: STARTTLS

I can receive emails sent to both addresses. Both show up in their respective Thunderbird inboxes. But I can only send emails from email address number 1, the one used for the outgoing server. When I try to send an email from email address number 2, I get a popup that says

Sending of the message failed. An error occurred when sending mail. The mail server responded: Request failed; Mailbox unavailable. Please verify that your email address is correct in your account settings and try again.

One thing I should add is that email address number 2 was, under Verizon, an alias for an auto-generated email account which in turn was a sub-email of email account number 1. But ever since Aol took them over, I've always logged into email address number 2 via the Aol website, so clearly Aol treats it as its own email address.

Any help will be most appreciated! Thanks.

Hello, I have seen similar reports on that issue here and elsewhere. What surprises me is that if I right click on the sent folder and select properties, it still gives me the right number of messages in that folder.

In fact, If I go to ~/.thunderbird/my_profile.default/Mail/pop.gmail-2.com/Sent.sbd/2023 and open that file with whatever text editor, file 2023 contains all messages sent. I have tried repairing that file, then restarting TB to no avail. Is there a workaround ?

-Tx

Hi, Matt, thanks for replying so quickly. All contents of my old computer have been transferred to the new a couple of weeks ago and the old one emptied for resale. As mentioned, all seemed to be ok with the new computer for the first several days. I have used Thunderbird for a number of years on the old computer and never had the slightest problem. I've hired a technician, a fine one, but he cannot understand the problem either.

I've just installed the latest Thunderbird, using the default imap settings and my known good gmail password. When I press 'Done', Google asks me to log in and give permission to Thunderbird to access my gmail account. This goes fine, but Thunderbird then reports that the password is rejected. I know that it is good, and I can't see anything wrong. Everything seems to be set correctly and none of the help topics appears to give me a solution that I haven't already tried. Help please!

Terry

I want to send an email with another email as an attachment. I know how to attach a file or web page but there is no option in Thunderbird that I can see to attach an email. As a long-time user of Outlook, I am used to being able to do this. Is there any way I can do it in Thunderbird? Thanks.

Hi,

Just want to ask, we are doing a backup on our emails in Thunderbird using IMAP settings. We wanted an individual backup of each user and do the manual backup by downloading all emails and zip the Profiles folder.

In every user that we added, we needed to remove each in order to create a new one. Before deleting the said user, there is a check box that says Remove Message Data. We check this checkbox. Just want to clarify that deleting the message data doesn't mean it affects whatever we had in the mail server, right? It is only being deleted in Thunderbird locally right?

Thank you.

Background info: My PC was recently repaired and since it came back from the shop some emails 'appeared' to be missing. When I searched using a broad search name fortunately I found them BUT I can't keep doing that.

I have looked at the 'help' area and it looks as if, by default, my messages are being 'Threaded'. (A few arrows next to the subject column). I can't cope with this.

Using the help menu I have now selected that messages are not Threaded I hope it works.

But my questions are: 'Can I? and How do I? Unthread the emails that have threaded themselves in the last few weeks? Thank you for any advice you can offer.

hi, i see twice trash bin /dutch -prullenbak/ ,have a look at my screenshot. my wish is to have only one , this above .when i delete my mails from my folders, i would like to have these maisl in this bin above not in this one under, local folders...how can i install it?