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Hello,

We are experiencing an issue in a corporate environment. The Thunderbird mail client does not pick up the new password after it has been changed for a user on the domain controller.

Symptoms: After a password change in the domain, Thunderbird continues to use the old cached password, which leads to an authentication error.

Temporary solution: The problem is only resolved by manually deleting the mail account in Thunderbird and recreating it by entering the new password. This is inconvenient during mass password changes.

Question: Is there a way to configure Thunderbird to automatically sync with domain password changes?

large tranches of emails disappeaed from Thunderbird folders but are on the server. How do I force a download to restore them? Using windows 10 and latest Thunderbird

I never had any problem with the older version of Thunderbird, Mailwasher Pro was able to send the mail I was keeping, right into Thunderbird, and ONLY then did it come into Thunderbird. With the new Thunderbird downloaded version, 144.0.1, If Mailwasher is not already open to receive any email from Comcast, It goes right into Thunderbird before I open Mailwasher Pro and choose the emails to keep, mark as spam, or blacklist. It has become a real problem, but I can find no way in the settings to set it as receiving the email 2nd, after Mailwasher "washes" the mail to it. Why did it always work correctly from the beginning, but not now?

This is maddening. A couple of days ago TB started to freeze. I have not added any new add-ons. I don't even have any add-ons. I tried one suggestion of repairing and compacting folders and that did not help. I also tried the accessibility.force_disabled change from 0 to 1. It is still happening. I have to use Task Manager to shut it down because if I right-click and close it tells me that TB is already running but not responding when I try to restart it. It takes 4-5 tries to get it to the point where I can have a few minutes to do anything in the program. If I leave and come back, the mail window is frozen. Help, please! I have been using TB for years and never had this problem!

I had a Windows Update tonight, and after that, when I go to email the sign in dialog always pops up. This time it is not recognizing my email password, even though I know it is correct. Keeps saying login failed retry, enter new password, or cancel. This has never happened. I have HP Windows 11 Laptop.

My gmail account in Thunderbird has only two folders, the Inbox and the Drafts folder. so when I delete a message, it lines out the message in the inbox with a single line strikeout and then in order to get it out of the Inbox I have to leave the Inbox and then when I come back to it the message is actually gone from the inbox. When I am using my laptop rather than my desktop computer, all of the folders are there and the messages, when deleted go to the "Trash" folder and are removed from the Inbox. I have been looking for a way to get all of those folders that are normally a part of the other accounts that I have on Thunderbird without success. Is there anyone here that knows how to restore those additional folders to the Gmail account that does not currently display them?

bold text When in "Local folders" , I had icons for "New Message" and a spot that I could right click on to get new messages from certain servers or left click to get them ALL. Where did they go ?

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Anthony

How do I get Thunderbird to download from two mailboxes in the same account?

My friend has an In box and a second one called Wrenches that was set up in his Zimbra webmail. How can he POP download both mailboxes? It's fine if the messages all end up in the IN mailbox.

Whenever I get an email that says they are including an attachment, the attachment is never there. What is going on and how to I get email attachments. Any help is appreciated.

Thank you

To be clear, I seriously doubt the problems I am encountering are TB's fault! The problems may be my fault since I've grown older, I've tended (believed) using new versions of software present my mind a BIGGER challenge than using the older software/version I have been successfully using? I'm still using Version115.10.1

After our ISP chose to start using Zimbra Oct. 7, 2025 and their tech support could not assist me in getting TB working the had me remove POP3 settings for TB and change to IMAP with their software.

FINALLY someone helped me get TB working with IMAP. For 3 days grrr. Now the ISP says I need to use their web mail, Zimbra.

So might downloading the current TB version and somehow get the In box, all the folder contnets etc. over - into the new TB help?

I was going to backup everything tonight, now I have little to NO hope, without help!

THANKS & remain WELL plus be SAFE!

Robin

When I right click on a folder in Local Folders and select “Copy To” and then select another local folder to copy it to it moves the folder, it doesn’t copy it. It shows up in the new folder and is deleted from the folder where it was, which is what you’d expect if the same procedure was carried out with the “Move To” command. In effect, for me “Copy To” is broken. Running latest version on Windows 11. Tried it in Troubleshoot Mode also, but no luck.

On the 20, of October I was forced to re install Windows 10. Kept my data but I had to re install all my apps. With Thunderbird I follow the same procedure I used with Firefox: After installation I copied the profile folder from my backup and replaced the new one. That worked out well. With Thunderbird, I followed the same procedure, all my emails where there but not my local folders. I am attaching several snapshots to illustrate my steps. Image 1 "local folders now" Image 2 "Profile Folder". (why there are 2 sub-folders)? Image 3 "Mail in the profile folder" Image 4 " List of folders in my Local Folders" The are there, how do I get them back on Thunderbird in the correct place "Local Folders"? Thank you for your help again. Regards Ilio Pieroni

Every so often a message pops up that a folder can't be compacted because it's in use.

I don't understand why TB bothers users with this message. Compacting folders is supposed to be invisible to the user. It'll get compacted eventually, so no user action is required.

If I'm missing something, please educate me.

And if not, what's the best chance of getting it removed? Should I submit a bug report and argue that it's a bug in the design? Is a suggestion likely to do anything?

Yesterday I was able, with someone's help, to turn off the feature in Thunderbird that is a pop-up on lower left of screen that a new email has come in. But now I want to also get rid of the sound. Didn't have this problem with my old computer and Windows 10. Or is this something I can only not have when speakers are turned off?

I am not sure if this is an issue that is isolated to the DropBox provider or to all of them.

But the issue is when you have multiple attachments and then try and use FileLink to upload them, it appears like ThunderBird tries to make too many connections at the same time or tries to upload too many of them at the same time because some of them will go through but then all of a sudden an error message pops up for the remaining files that says "Upload Error" Unable to upload FileName to DropBox.

Which you could then right click each item below at the attachments location and Convert to DropBox but you have to do it with each individual file.

It seems like maybe the FileLink feature itself just needs to space out each of the uploads in order to avoid this error but I am not sure.

I am having recurring problems sending e-mails, not knowing when it is going to work or not. The following message is one that I usually get:

"Sending of the message failed. An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: <info@axxxxx.co.uk> recipient rejected - relay denied.

Please check the message recipient "info@xxxxx.co.uk" and try again."

I also get the following message when trying to send:

"Login to server mail.madasafish.com with username btom@madasafish.com failed."

These are my current settings:

Details of selected server: Description: btom Server Name: mail.madasafish.com Port: 25 User Name: btom@madasafish.com Authentication method: Password, transmitted insecurely Connection Security: None

I haven't changed any settings from the last time I was able to send e-mails, so I would appreciate any help.

For the third time now I have found messages I have saved in Local folders in TRASH. I did not put them there, and the original ones in Local Folders are empty. I have had to manually move messages intended to be saved from Trash into my intended folders. I am perplexed why this is happening, as I have not chosen Compact Folders or anything. Very, very annoying. If it continues I will search for another mail tool

Hey

Thunderbird has a well-functioning Search function that uses the cache (or rather, what the background search process/function "read" and saved in global-messages-db.sqlite).

With a newly configured account (IMAP), it works like this:

- establishes the directory tree - downloads message titles (including sender, date, etc.) - *.msf summary files - then a process that downloads the entire message for local storage - in the background, an indexing process (GLODA?) starts, which creates a search database (subject, from, to, keywords in the message body) using the global-messages-db.sqlite file.

For very large mailboxes (>100k msg, ~50GB), this means that the server's content is transferred to the local disk (and stored in ImapMail).

The question is: how do I configure TB to run in "thin" mode, meaning after connecting a new account: - establish a directory tree - download message titles (including sender, date, etc.) -> *.msf - DO NOT download messages for local storage - start the indexing process, which will download and index the subject, from, to, and keywords in the message body (it will download and "read" the message, but not save it locally) and save it to global-messages-db.sqlite

Setting "mail.server.default.offline_download" to "false" will cause this behavior, but the message body will not be indexed (only from, to, and subject).

I tried to work around this by: - configuring the mailbox with the download option for offline use - waiting for it to download - setting "mail.server.default.offline_download" to "false" - deleting all "cur" directories (I use maildir) or deleting all *.eml files from the ImapMail directory.

Content search works for messages that have been downloaded (and indexed) previously; it doesn't work for new messages.

Why am I trying this? Some people have "air" laptops (meaning - weaker processors, small SSDs) and need access to email (via IMAP), including full search, without having all their email downloaded locally.

In other words, how can I configure TB via IMAP to: - download the directory and subdirectory tree - download the headers of all messages - "read" and index all messages (including their content) and store them in "global-messages-db.sqlite," but not store all messages locally (online mode only)?

Regards Chris

I suddenly this week cannot send email using Thunderbird (v. 140.4.0esr (64-bit)). I receive email fine. I can send email using webmail with my provider. Error message in Thunderbird is: "Sending of the message failed. An error occurred while sending mail: Outgoing server (SMTP) error. The server responded: resomta-h2p-555359.sys.comcast.net resomta-h2p-555359.sys.comcast.net ESMTP server not available (62240/216.183.125.238)." My provider says the issue is not at their end because my server settings are correct. Outgoing SMTP port is 465, connection security SSL/TLS. Operating Windows 11 v. 24H2.