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

I HAVE PLENTY OF SPACE. Can't find the instructions to make sure I have privileges, not sure why I need to change anything since it is my account??? Please help me!

Hi all,

Notice that any search via email address or key word in upper search box for emails in 2025 returns nothing. 2024 and past emails in search are there. Rebuild the Global Database https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/rebuilding-global-database and deleted global-messages-db.sqlite as instructed.

Problem not solved and global-messages-db.sqlite was not recreated in the profiles folder. Just took a global-messages-db.sqlite from a back up and put it in profiles to see if this helps. Also repairing one of my accounts to see if that helps.

Anyone know what is going on? I see several other posts about folks having similar problems in search and indexing. Running window 11 and TB 128.6.0esr (64-bit).

Also notice 2 stable extension are now non functional.

Provider for Google Calendar true 128.0.0 128.0.0 133.* Allows bidirectional access to Google Calendar

AI Grammar Checker & Paraphraser – LanguageTool true 8.11.2 8.11.2 136.* Instantly Enhance Your Texts with LanguageTool’s Grammar Checker and Paraphrasing Tool

Thanks for any insights -- jim

When I right-click on an Event in a calendar, it "Edit" option in the context menu is grayed out (disabled). The only way I can find to get to edit the Event is to right-click on the Event and select "Open" in the context menu and when the dialog opens, click "Edit" at the bottom right corner of the dialog. I can ever get the "Edit" in the Event context menu to enable. It would be nice if this worked right so that I don't have to open an intermediary context menu just to edit an Event.

Does anyone know who to get this working? If not, how do I report it? (Sorry, but I'm new to Thunderbird.)

Hi Folks,

nightmare scenario: backed up entire Ubuntu 22.04 system (but failed to copy Thunderbird profile separately): upgraded Ubuntu to 24.04; upgrade failed because Thunderbird Snap upgrade failed. Apparently this is very common, and many other people have had similar problems.

So now I'm working in Recovery mode, root prompt command line.

There is still a /home/username/.thunderbird/profile.default directory. It contains lots of files and directories, including a 5Mb Mail directory. So it looks as though my original mail data still exists. Fingers crossed, prayers etc.

And here's the question: is the directory structure under the new Snap profile the same as the old Thunderbird structure? In other words, can I copy the existing profile, scrap Thunderbird, finish the Ubuntu upgrade, and copy the files back under the new Snap profile?

Thank you for reading this far, and I hope someone can help...

Cheers

John M.

Bonjour, I have used TB fore more than 20 years without major problems but today I am stuck. The TB version I run on is: 128.6.0esr (64 bits) on Windows 10 I use three accounts with Orange, one has the problem, not the two others. Originally the settings were the same on all three/

pop.orange.fr Port 110, default 110 SMTP France Telecom / Orange Port 587, default 587

Having sought help from the French (my mother tong) TB forum, one suggested to replace those settings for: pop.orange.fr Port 995, default 110 SMTP France Telecom / Orange Port 465, default 587 As a result I no longer received the ERROR message asking me for a password, instead a small blue segment showed on the bottom right of my screen and, after a while...nothing: no mail IN no mail OUT. I tried these new settings on the two other accounts with just the same result: no mail IN no mail OUT. So I went back to the original ones.

Has anyone a clue?

Christian

Hi,

Today I got some problems with thunderbird. At first, when opening the program, it opens a new message that mentions "Provider for CalDAV & CardDAV: It's time to go" The message is not complete and has some drawing background I could initially still look at my mails but then tried to remove that mail and then the rogram crashed. I tried going into the accounts setting to update and that would also lead to crashing. I tried to set the troubleshoot mode off but it would crash before I can click to turn it off.

Any assistance would be great I use windows 11, 64 bits the thunderbird version is 128.5.2esr (32 bits)

Thanks a lot!

Vincent

After I download email into my Inbox I typically save attachments to my hard drive for later reference. As I am viewing the email and after I've saved the attachment (the attachment is not open) I right-click on the attachment and delete it. At that time the message immediately disappears and cannot be found in any folder in my download Inbox or in any local folder - not Junk, Trash, Inbox, Archive, Sent or Drafts. This is a random, though frequent, occurrence and I can find no specific pattern to its occurrence. It occurs whether or not the email was Read or Unread. Repairing the folders does not reveal the deleted email(s). Has anyone else experienced this?

Recently, I have been encountering an issue with editing and creating events in the Thunderbird calendar. The event window opens minimized to the taskbar and I am unable to restore/move/resize/maximize the window so I am unable to interact at all with the feature. I use this feature regularly and this has only recently become an issue and I think it may have occurred with a recent Thunderbird update. Thunderbird ver. 128.6.0esr (64-bit) Windows 11 Home up to date as of this morning

Any help would be appreciated!

Ik logde een vraag over slepen van bijlagen naar een e-mail dat niet werkt en op advies van de moderator Mark Heijl voegde ik mijn info toe aan een reeds gemelde bug. Wat mij nu wel niet duidelijk is is hoe het nu verder gaat. Wanneer weet ik wanneer de bug aangepakt wordt, opgelost is? Kan ik eventueel nog extra informatie geven om die bug te helpen bekijken? Is er ergens een time-line met welke bugs wanneer zullen bekeken worden? Kan iemand mij hier wat info over geven?

Proszę specjalistów o pomoc co mogę zrobić, aby Thunderbird szukał również w treści załączników tekstowych np. PDF, jak np. eM Client, który ma tą funkcję, ale jest znacznie mnie elastyczny i gorszy jeśli chodzi o sprawy konfiguracyjne niż Thunderbird, ale szukanie w załącznikach działa idealnie.

Czy są jakieś dodatki w Thunderbird, abym mógł szukać w załącznikach bezpośrednio w programie w jego wyszukiwarce? Nie chodzi o szykanie poza programem.

Zależy mi na wygodzie użytkowania i skoncentrowania pracy w Thunderbird.

Pozdrawiam :)

Is there a way to set browser for opening links based on the folder or email accounts?

I have 3 emails setup in thunderbird. I'd like to default EMAIL1 to open links in Chrome. And EMAIL2 to open links in EDGE. Is there a way to do this??

Thunderbird 128.6.0esr (64 bit) can obtain access to my Google Calendar and Contacts but not to email. This is a clean installation on a brand new Windows 11 computer. I have reinstalled Thunderbird three times, deleted saved passwords, deleted only the SMTP and IMAP saved passwords (preserving OAuth2 passwords), deleted Thunderbird's access in Gmail security settings to force it to re-request access, followed every instruction on every forum and help page I can find, but Thunderbird refuses to send and receive mail. Thunderbird finds the correct configuration and sets it up (correct ports, IMAP, SMTP, correct servers, OAuth2, etc.) I used my Gmail address and the same password as I use for webmail.

I am presently using Outlook for Gmail because it connected immediately using the same credentials as I am trying with Thunderbird. When I delete access permission in Gmail security settings, then add Gmail to Thunderbird again, it prompts for access to Contacts and Calendar but not to mail (one time it flashed a screen saying it could not because Java is not enabled in my web browser--but Java is enabled on both my default browser, Edge, and on Chrome; the page that came up appears to be some internal browser in Thunderbird).

The attached images show the configurations for IMAP server, the SMTP server, and that the saved passwords contain two OAuth2 URLs, one for contacts and the other for the calendar, but nothing for mail.

I have been using Thunderbird for years, and have a massive archive of emails in it, would really like to use it as my email client rather than Outlook. Installation and configuration has never been this difficult. Does anybody have any thoughts on what to do next?

Really, this is here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1464556

But I could not find it as "My Question". But it is also my question. Because I still have 11,000+ email messages with many duplicates and no way to clean them out, because even trying to look at the folder puts TB into a spin....

So much lameness.

When I change only the spelling of a folder name, changing e.g. "stuff" into "Stuff" I get an error message "There exists already a folder with that name". Is there a particular reason for this or can we consider this to be a bug? Would it be easy to fix it?

For some reason I now have multiple copies of empty sub-folders in the Deleted Folder of my Local Accounts. I have tried emptying the Deleted Folder and I have tried to manually delete the unwanted sub-folders within the Deleted Folder. I have also noted that one of the unwanted sub-folders has appeared elsewhere in a completely unrelated sub-folder.

How do I deal with this?

Menu item "Forward" is grayed out and unusable, but works in other parts of the gui.

I've circled the menu items I'm reporting.

Thanks