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Hello folks, This has been a normal part of using Thunderbird for years, One of my Gmail accounts takes forever to synchronize... Eight or ten minutes... Strangely today, it's two of my other Gmail accounts that are taking very long.... Thanks ! Craig in Seattle

When I click on Thunderbird to read my Emails I get a warning box popup saying ( Configuration Error. Failed to read the Configuration File. Please contact your system administrator) When I click OK the box closes and Thunderbird Email starts up and I can then read and send emails. I can't contact the administrator because I am him and I don't know how to fix this error. I would be pleased if any one out there knows how to correct this error. Thanks for Helping.

I have 8 different emails in my Thunderbird. Some of them holds quite huge correspondances. I have all emails set up as Imap. I have plenty of space on my server.

My computer guy tells me there is a bug somewhere that keeps piling up emails to take up much more space on the computer than on the server. We have deleted the program twice and it happens again, and again.

What can I do? Can I use Thunderbird as webmail?

I have just downloaded Thunderbird on my phone as well. Is that what caused the problem this time.

How do I solve my problem.

Thank you in advance for your assistance

I exported Outlook Contacts to a .csv file and imported giberish to the Thunderbird Personal Address book. Can the giberish be block deleted? How should the Outlook Contacts be transferred to Thunderbird? Secondly, I exported Outlook Contacts to gmail and have used them on the web based gmail app to send messages. Don't remeber how the gmail contacts got to the Thunderbird Address book, but they don't work. The first message I sent from Thunderbird from my wife's gmail address to my hotmail address produced the following error:

Sending of the message failed. An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: The recipient address <Steve Thompson (sthompson2486@hotmail.com> is not a valid RFC 5321 address. For more information, go to

https://support.google.com/a/answer/3221692 and review RFC 5321

specifications. 00721157ae682-70ca8508772sm13401897b3.82 - gsmtp. Please check the message recipient ""Steve Thompson (sthompson2486"@hotmail.com" and try again.

Both imported address books are unuseable. Please help.

Why Thunderdird now is so slow

Why you recommend to upgrade to ESR when the one that I had been using for years I don't trusted

I have Thunderbird: 128.10.1esr (64-bit)

Amparo

Hi, I recently had an office location change and post that in my office laptop, Thunderbird cannot authenticate with outlook and collect mails from it. IT team tried syncing the password from their end, and we tried a million other things like checking server settings in Thunderbird etc, but nothing is working. It just says "connecting to outlook.office365.com...." and is stuck there.

I'm using Proton VPN. I have the split tunneling set to allow non-VPN connection for thunderbird.exe . It doesn't work. I have a different app that needs split tunneling and it works fine, so it's not the way Proton VPN handles split tunneling. I'm wondering whether I should use a different exe as the split-tunneled one. I see 8 other exe's in the same folder. Perhaps one of these is the one to set-up for split tunneling. BTW I had exactly the same problem when I was using Nord VPN.

Thanks,

Tom

On Windows 10, address book sync with the server Radicale works fine from TB to Radicale, but TB does not receive address changes from Radicale. (Sync of calendars and tasks works perfectly to and from Radicale.)

I tried to find a log file for this, but failed.

Help greatly appreciated!

Crashes upon opening thunderbird almost immediatly, then I don't get any error reports even thought it says that it has successfully generated one. anyone know what the issue could be?

Cheers.

Today my email suddenly will not load onto my computer but I can view the email in the web browser. The error says The certificate is not valid for server. I did not set this email up and need step by step instructions.

My smtp account settings are correct yet anything sent is returned. When I go to my webmail account, I have no problem with sending anything. Does tbird have a different setting for SMTO?

For some reason, I am getting message that the Certificate for server is not valid (etc.). I can not get or send my emails as of this morning. Is there something I can do to resolve this issue?

I am using 64bit Windows 11 Home. This happened suddenly without any changes on my part that I know of.

Thunderbird suddenly started freezeing right after startup. The only thing I can do is login with the master password then the regular thunderbird screen opens, but I cannot click on anything. Soon after the screen is greyed out. However I can close the program down with the red "x" in the top right corner. It opens a dialog that gives me the opens to close down or wait to respond. The close option works.

The only hint I can see from the frozen screen is that the local Folder seems to have a problem as a subfolder has now multiple copies of itself. It seems to create a new copy of that subfolder every time I try to start the program.

So far I tried reinstalling/updating TB, as I assumed an update had maybe malfunctioned, (it was stuck on version 128, since I could not open TB for about a week now) but upgrading to to version 138 did not help. I also tried starting TB in troubleshoot mode, which made no difference I also tried starting TB while windows was in safe mode, which made no difference.

I read around but people that have problems with TB freezing seem to not have the freeze happen before they can do anything.

I assume something is wrong in my profile, maybe the local folder? But I have no idea to fix anything, since I cannot do anything at all in TB.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Hello! The past two days, probably since the 128.10.1eser (64-bit) version, I have access to the local folders, I can see the list of the e-mail on them, but the e-mail open a white empty page and there is also no preview. I tried to install from scratch the 138.0.1 version, but the same problem appeared. Thanks in advance for your help.

How do I create a new mailing list? I'm trying to follow the instructions here, but with the address book open, I don't have "mailing list" as an option under 'File' 'New'. See screenshot attached.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-create-and-use-mailing-lists-thunderbird

Thanks for your help.

When I receive an email documenting an online purchase, it is my habit to print the page that tells the amount of the purchase and the vendor; I use the printed pages to keep my credit card up to date.

This has worked very well for many years. But now all of a sudden, sometimes Thunderbird imposes a rather long delay when preparing the "print preview" prior to printing the page. It's inconsistent; sometimes the page preview shows up instantly and sometimes it is a matter of many seconds. I have made no change to the printer or its connection (although Epson does from time to time issue updates to their drivers). No other application on my computer - not even Firefox - seems to suffer this delay; only Thunderbird.

This is with Thunderbird version 128.10.1esr, as well as with the previous 128.10.0esr

How do I save my open tabs while compacting my inbox? They all disappear after compacting. I am trying to move my open tabs over to a different folder to preserve them, but I can't figure out how to do it.

When I choose an open tab from my Inbox to move it to a different folder, the folder choices on the left side of the interface go away. I there a way to move between folders? Drag /drop?

Chris