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I have been successfully using Thunderbird for many years. In the last year or so I have been noticing that occasionally one of my sent emails gets corrupted such that the email body starts showing html text and the email subject header is changed to another email header that exists in the same folder but is unrelated to the email body. When I check the corrupted email from the Gmail web user interface, the email is not corrupted. I tried repairing the folder but to no avail.

I attach an example of a corrupted email below:

From Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------NlJPhaGMpTt1f7wbEHlOvxNE" Message-ID: <4bf83075-b571-4214-921b-09f4582e6e58@jesuit.org.mt> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 10:25:56 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Minutes of SCPC Meeting Content-Language: en-GB To: Charlotte Attard <charlotte.attard@staloysius.edu.mt> References: <AM9PR10MB487111674D307583B8DB6AD3D195A@AM9PR10MB4871.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> <AM9PR10MB487106F96E9E404BDA477808D167A@AM9PR10MB4871.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> From: Stephen Scerri <stephen.scerri@jesuit.org.mt> In-Reply-To: <AM9PR10MB487106F96E9E404BDA477808D167A@AM9PR10MB4871.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Yes Charlotte - please proceed - sorry for delay

S

Im using Thunderbird Beta release. Starting last week, my PC would become extremely slow, to the point it would nearly come to a complete halt. After digging around, I realized it was due to excessively large Thunderbird NSTMP files that were being created. I would delete them and the speed would improve. But then a while later, the NSTMP files reappear and gobble up all my Harddisk again. Part of the issue is the sheer large size of the file, which will consume all available space on my HD, which at present is 600GB. But it also eats up all my RAM so my system slows down til the NSTMP file is fully built.

I use this as imap with Gmail installed on a PC with a 1TB SSD

Today after my pc started slowing again, I started poking around and noticed my main Inbox is massive, 29GB, which there is no chance its that large. All Mail is only 1GB to give perspective

This has been going on about a week.

I tried repairing my inboxes and other folders, but that does not seem to have helped.

Hi, we started getting Thunderbird errors on both inbound and outbound messages when everything was fine earlier this morning on both. We are on Windows 10 running the Thunderbird 115.5.0 (32-bit) Release.

Inbound error message: The STAT command did not succeed. Error getting message number and sizes. Mail server inbound.att.net responded: [SYS/TEMP] Server error - Please try again later. Outbound error message: Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) outbound.att.net was lost in the middle of the transaction. Try again.

Are you all experiencing server issues - I don't believe this is a configuration problem on my side?

cant send or recieve eemails for past week get this message???? This message could not be sent because The connection to outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.gmail.com timed out ... Try again ???

I hae no idea why or what to do now if someone could help me that would be great

Sorry I have no idea what any of what is in the Shared Data means

When Thunderbird is set to synchronize from an iCloud contact CardDAV, it is unable to show the photos for the contact. I am using TB 115 on Windows (problem is platform independent).

Steps to reproduce

1. Have an Apple ID. Use iCloud contact's web UI to create a contact and upload a photo for them.
2. Get an app password for the Apple ID.
3. Add iCloud contact as a CardDAV address book in TB. Should use https://contacts.icloud.com/contacts/ as the carddav location. The actual carddav URL I got is something like https://p123-contacts.icloud.com/12345678901/carddavhome/card/. (not a real link)
4. Sync the address book. The photo would not display correctly.

My investigation

Apple's carddav API server returns in its vcard a HTTP URL as its PHOTO field, like:

PHOTO;VALUE=URI:https://gateway.icloud.com/contacts/12345678901/ck/card/123
 456789abcd12345678abcd1234567

(not a real url; you can export the vcard if you have done the above reproducing steps) However, this URL cannot be directly accessed (would return 401 saying "Missing X-APPLE-WEBAUTH-USER cookie"; see e.g. this github issue). However, the cookie is not really needed; I can use HTTP basic auth with the same credential for the carddav server (in this case it's the apple app password, yourappleid@apple.com:1234-abcd-5678-dcba).

Potential fix

The current implementation directly puts the carddav photo URI into an HTML img tag. I think Thunderbird can make an AJAX request to fetch the image with the credentials and then put the result into an img tag.

Since upgrading to version 115.8.1 I get unable to write email to mailbox . I have three email addresses in my profile. All are POP. One (from yahoo) always hangs and the other two fail intermittently. OS is Windows 10 64-bit at 22H2 level It doesn't matter if Zonealarm is turned on or off. I have over 300GB of free space on disk.

Full error message: Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox.

Thunderbird runs slow...ie when I type an email I can easily type faster than thunderbird will accept characters....(this does not happen in other applications)...this happened about a month ago, and then stopped ( I have no idea why)...but the problem is back. I am running Ver 115.10.0 build 2024012173147. Rebooting windows 11 makes no difference.... I just tried to enter Troubleshoot mode and thunderbird stopped responding....Top line says Mozilla Thunderbird (Not Responding). Thunderbird is connected to my gmail account. ...and I run IMAP....with 'store all messages on the computer', but thunderbird wants to load every email from the server'

Any advice would be appreciated Rick

I am using Thunderbird v 115.5.1 on a Windows 10 system. I am using an "@hotmail.com" email address. I seem to be able to receive emails just fine, but face an issue sending out emails. When I press "send", it gets stuck on "sending message" for quite a while, then I see the error message:

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Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.office365.com timed out. Try again.

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My SMTP settings: Server Name: smtp.office365.com Port: 587 Connection Security: STARTTLS Authentication Method: OAuth2

Appreciate any help! :)

New install on a friend's HP laptop. Thunderbird was setup with profile imported from older laptop running Windows 10. Printer is an HP Smart Tank Plus 655.

Printing works fine on other apps such as Word, browsers, notepad, Acrobat. Start up Thunderbird and can successfully print one document, but subsequent attempts at printing from Tbird show 'Print as PDF' and no other print options in the print dialog box. Attempting to print via other apps produces same result.

Restarting print spooler works temporarily. Other fixes found on forums such as the 'remove addons.json from profile folder' fix dont work.

Have also reinstalled Thunderbird, checked spooler settings, reinstalled printer drivers, with no resolution. Interestingly, I installed Thunderbird on another windows 11 laptop, with a new profile and following Thunderbird's email account setup wizard and I have no printing issues.

Could this be related to importing the old profile across to Windows 11? Or are there other issues at play?

Thanks.

My thunderbird email is linked to my Virgin media email. Suddenly Thunderbird has stopped working, so cant send or receive messages. Any ideas - the virgin email is working fine.

At 15:00 yesterday, my Thunderbird was updated (behind my back).

From that moment it could not communicate with my imap server and I cannot renew my account with the server.

I now have to use webmail.

Can I please go back to the immediate predecessor as that has worked well.

Regards James McCosh james@wanderfree.co.uk

Jeg kan ikke sende mails i Thunderbird, men jeg kan godt modtage mails, det har varet i ca 1 måned. Problemet har vist sig flere gange i de senere år, og så har I rettet det. Er der mulighed for at tale med en tekniker? Så ring venligst på 21135659. Venlig hilsen Minna

Greetings! This morning, I suddenly cannot send emails. I am using Tbird 120.0 for my Spectrum Road Runner account. No problem receiving emails and no problem getting onto webmail where I can send and receive. And I am getting this error message when I attempt to send:

Sending of the message failed. An error occurred while sending mail: Outgoing server (SMTP) error. The server responded: p-impout005.msg.pkvw.co.charter.net cmsmtp Connection Rejected - see http://www.spamhaus.org/query/ip/76.37.3.140 AUP#Out-1220.

I've checked my account settings and don't see anything untoward and have changed nothing. Admittedly, I am no expert but have done my best to check on FAQs and possible similar sounding issues.

Any thoughts?

Many thanks for any ideas and/or solutions.

After years without problems, Thunderbird suddenly started locking up when I try to insert an image into a new message. There is no error alert; the message just completely locks so that I have to force task to end. Until a couple of weeks ago, I was able to insert files stored on my computer or copied from browser with no problem at all. [Not talking about a signature, just an image. Emojis work fine]

Am not aware of changing anything. Running Windows 11 Home version 23H2, if that helps anyone explain what's happening. Thunderbird version 115.5.0 (64-bit)

Haven't tried un/reinstalling TBird as want first to see if there's an easier solution (have several accounts).

trying to get email - got this error; How do I fix this?????????? Happening last few days.

my email: [edited] @yandex.com

Sending of password for user pizzipie did not succeed. Mail server pop.yandex.com responded: [AUTH] login failure or POP3 disabled, try later. sc=75IVcg0DLKo0_290005_

I have observed this behavior for a number of releases - currently running 115.4.2 (32-bit). TB doesn't seem to download, or at least process, a graphic within an email until I actually open it. The display can take what seems like a while. I have a relatively fast (deskside) system, lots of memory/disc, GB ethernet, and would like all graphics to be processed when the email is first downloaded instead of waiting. I don't see any setting to change this. Any suggestions appreciated.

Mark