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Hello,

This is the first time I am trying Thunderbird. I am a google workspace user, and I have multiple domains and email addresses all going into the same email account. In google mail, there is a dropdown where I can choose the email address I want to use in "from" field.

I saw that I can change it in Thunderbird as well, but it doesn't keep the emails I used before. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

I tried to add as remote address book in Thunderbird a google account using CardDAV and providing the CardDAV URL, the Google username and the password and fails validation. From Log Viewer:

" 2023.07.03 14:22:01:991 : Validation module : Validating without discovery request on https://www.googleapis.com/carddav/v1/principals/directory@swiss-property.ch/lists/default/ … 2023.07.03 14:22:02:070 : Validation module : Impossible to parse the server response because of this line : { ^ 2023.07.03 14:22:03:015 : Validation module : debug mode : cardbookServerDiscoveryRequest : 1 2023.07.03 14:22:03:017 : Validation module : debug mode : cardbookServerDiscoveryResponse : 1 2023.07.03 14:22:03:018 : Validation module : debug mode : cardbookServerDiscoveryError : 1 2023.07.03 14:22:03:019 : Validation module : debug mode : cardbookServerValidation : [object Object] 2023.07.03 14:22:03:026 : Validation module : Discovering phase 1 request on https://www.googleapis.com/carddav/v1/principals/directory@swiss-property.ch/lists/default/ … 2023.07.03 14:22:03:078 : Validation module : Impossible to parse the server response because of this line : { ^ 2023.07.03 14:22:04:048 : Validation module : debug mode : cardbookServerDiscoveryRequest : 1 2023.07.03 14:22:04:051 : Validation module : debug mode : cardbookServerDiscoveryResponse : 1 2023.07.03 14:22:04:055 : Validation module : debug mode : cardbookServerDiscoveryError : 1 2023.07.03 14:22:04:056 : Validation module : debug mode : cardbookServerValidation : [object Object] 2023.07.03 14:22:04:066 : Validation module : Discovering phase 1 request on https://www.googleapis.com/carddav/v1/principals/directory@swiss-property.ch/lists/default/.well-known/carddav … 2023.07.03 14:22:04:099 : Validation module : Impossible to parse the server response because of this line : -----------^ 2023.07.03 14:22:05:077 : Validation module : debug mode : cardbookServerDiscoveryRequest : 1 2023.07.03 14:22:05:079 : Validation module : debug mode : cardbookServerDiscoveryResponse : 1 2023.07.03 14:22:05:080 : Validation module : debug mode : cardbookServerDiscoveryError : 1 2023.07.03 14:22:05:081 : Validation module : debug mode : cardbookServerValidation : [object Object] " I am using Thunderbird 102.12.0 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Please note that I could do without problems exactly the same operation (exactly the same CardDAV URL, Google username and the password) about 2 months ago using a slightly older version of Thunderbird. Also just logging in in Google in Firefox with the username and the password of the remote address book works fine and I can see all the contacts. So this problem looks like a bug introduced very recently in Thunderbird that was not happening 2 months ago or so. This makes Thunderbird unusable for me, so until this is fixed I will switch back to Evolution. Please let me know when fixed or if you have another solution. Thanks.

Why won't Thunderbird email work for me? It always wants password for "ricc on imap,shaw.ca" I phoned Shaw (my isp) but they don't support Thunderbird

Non-english letters like č and ć are displayed as ? in Correspondents in the Thunderbird mail list and in From in the individual mails. Not known to the font Thunderbird uses? Can I change that font?

I am distressed. I've used Thunderbird for years and had to create a new version of my IMAP account using EXCHANGE. I did that. I know it was successful because the EXCHANGE account showed up in Thunderbird and I then spent days transferring emails from the old IMAP account personal email folders into duplicate folders in the new EXCHANGE account.

Then today I closed my browser. When I re-opened Thunderbird, the new EXCHANGE account was absent. Since I can't use the old IMAP account any more, I tried again to create an EXCHANGE account. When I tried to do that, I got a message that "the server already exists" (see image below) and I am unable to complete the task.

So the previously created EXCHANGE account has disappeared, with all my emails in it, I can't create a new one, and the IMAP no longer works (and won't accept my password to send or receive). I feel completely stuck and I've lost several years of emails.

The fact that the message said that the server already exists makes me think and hope that my EXCHANGE account still exists somewhere. Can you help me find it? Many thanks in advance. Steve

When I enter a contact name Thunderbird offers suggestions. Unfortunately when a contact email is changed the old data is included in the suggestion. How do I refresh or clear that cache so only correct addresses are suggested?

For some reason (my mistake I assume) my Thunderbird roaming profile on my win10 PC was stored on another hard drive which was later overwritten. So I can't open TB because it can't locate my profile. I can't find any backups that have the profile folder included. I do however have the same data and profile on my Android phone and can read/write from there normally. This virtually is a copy of what I had on the PC (folders and sub folders etc). My question: Is there a way to copy the profile from my phone across to the PC (even if that means downloading thousands of messages)?

Your help would be very much appreciated.

With two TB IMAP email accounts, I am seeing incorrect return paths in the headers and sent mail copies from one account. Both are google accounts, B is a business google account and A is a personal gmail account.

Email sent from account B is delivered to the proper address, but with a return path to account A. So all replies are coming back to the wrong account.

I have double checked the setting for Copies & Folder and both stipulate unique locations. I have even tried to specify the correct B email in the Reply-to Address. Copies of the sent email are saved in the Gmail Sent Mail folders on BOTH accounts! The header in the copy in the A Sent Mail shows it is from my personal account, not my business account!

I notice one odd thing -- This seems to have started happening when I switched business domain registrars and moved business email from godaddy to dreamhost. Sent mail copies had previously been saved to the regular Sent folder but after editing the settings for the mail server, it switched to the Gmail Sent Mail folder. Could that have anything to do with it?

(I'm not all that knowledgeable with the technical end, just enough to probably get myself in trouble.)

Thanks in advance for any advice/suggestions.

Dell Inspiron 13 laptop Windows 10 256 GB SSD Thunderbird 102.12.0 (32bit)

Over the last few months I've noticed the SSD becoming nearly full without apparent reason and traced this down to: AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles/f9wj1lzh.default/ImapMail/ imap.mail.yahoo-3.com which consumes 111GB. There are 162 nstmp files which account for 73GB of this and one INBOX file of 39GB. The INBOX I can believe as reasonable but I've formed the impression from reading other threads in the help pages that the nstmp files can be erased. Perhaps not the most recent? Is this the case? I have a total of three rocketmail (yahoo) email accounts.

Jim

Dear Friends, I was writing a mail and on the mail body i need to strikethrough some words, i don't find any way to do so. Can you guide and help me. -- Thanks and Regards.

I have Thunderbird 68.12.1 on two PCs and when I open Thundberbird on each, it repeatedly asks me for passwords for all 6 of my IMAP email accounts, even though the passwords are correct. None of the email accounts will log in, so I cant send or receive emails on either of my PC's. It just started doing this this morning, and is happening on both PCs. I have been using the same version Thunderbird to access these accounts for many years without a problem before today.

The error message I am getting is: "Login to server imap.dotster.com with username xxxx@xxxx.com failed" with 3 options "Retry" "Enter New Password" or "Cancel"

I can access the same IMAP email accounts using the same passwords using Aquamail on my Galaxy Phone without a problem. So I know the issue is with Thunderbird logging into the email server, and not the passwords or email server.

Help would be greatly appreciated as I use my PCs to send receive emails more than my phone.

Don't know what else I could say more than what's in subject. Tried deleting all emails in inbox can't do it. Thunderbird freezes up. There's 45,000 emails in inbox suddenly. Have combed and read comments seems no help anywhere. Anybody please help.

I always had notification of unread emails on the Dock of my Mac, but this does not work anymore. I am running 102.9.0 (64 bit). I have seen other posts on this, but no credible answers as to why it has ceased to function and what is being done to fix it?

Everything on my Mac used to have System Preferences for Apps and now even Thunderbird seems to be 'Settings' which is not as easily usable or as well organised as, System Preferences used to be.

It strikes me that more and more computer Apps are suffering from more work all the time in order to use an App by virtue of having to click on more and more menus all the time and using up more and more time, which is not particularly creative.

Not so much a question, more of a "just in case others have similar problems" post...

Searching here and elsewhere on reddit/stackoverflow/etc, there are a lot of posts around fixing IMAP "ghost folders" in Thunderbird. I've had this problem persistently for years, and decided to finally try and get to the bottom of it on one of my accounts.

I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835023 and tried variations of different fixes, but the main clue that this was related not to Thunderbird, but the server, came when I saw the same ghost folders appear on a completely separate/fresh install of Thunderbird, after nuking every shred of Local/Roaming/etc profiles, on a completely separate machine that didn't have TB installed before. The ghost folders *had* to somehow be known to the server, as otherwise how would TB know about them?

In the end, with much to-ing and fro-ing with my email host provider (who, bless them, did their own bit of research and sent me to various posts here where the various "solutions" are discussed - e.g. unchecking the "Show only subscribed folders" option, which really just hides the problem rather than fixing it), it turns out the core issue was indeed a borked subscriptions list on the server.

> I located the folder mentioned in the subscriptions file that is generated by cPanel / Roundcube: /home/splinter/mail/splintered.co.uk/redux/subscriptions [ed: my account is redux@splintered.co.uk, so this will obviously vary depending on your specific server setup] > > I've re-created this and re-subscribed the folders via Roundcube - i'm no longer seeing the extra folders in the above file.

This, getting the subscriptions to be regenerated on the server, is what in the end fixed this for good. All other tips (unchecking the subscribed folders option, or trying to create a new folder with the same name as the ghost folder, etc) seem to just effectively "plaster over" the fundamental problem.

Your mileage may vary, but thought I'd post this here too, as I'd have loved to see this solution being noted here too, instead of sending me down various fruitless rabbitholes...

In a new message in Thunderbird, when i insert a table of certain rows and width, then i start wring inside the table cell, i find that the width of the cell (of the Table) is constantly getting changed as I write. The width of the said cell should not change in first place, and i find that i am unable to adjust the cell width to my requirement. Please guide me. Thanks and Regards

Running TB 102.4.0 on Windows 10 off a SSD drive. System was running fine this morning but when I started TB in the afternoon I have a blank screen as attached. Top menu items are displayed but cannot access Tools > Account Settings or Settings. Tried restarting in Safe Mode but no change. Deactivated Anstivirus (Kaspersky) but no change either. Looked and saw this has happened to other people but cannot replicate any of the solutions. Error console message attached. Cannot access More Troubleshooting Mode. Messages are downloading but I cannot see them - but they are no longer on the server. Only File Menu item that works is Write Message.

Appreciate any feedback.