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I am unable to send email from only one account in my T-Bird. I consistently receive the attached rejection. I have worked with provider and using alternative email I can send fine. Thus it appears the issue is with T-bird.. and only associated with one address... Help??

Bonjour est il possible q un développeur ai pensé à un manière de sauvegarder les comptes paramétrés dans Thunderbird ? et ne me parler pas du dossier profil puisque d une version a l'autre cela ne fonctionne plus!

(je viens d en faire les frais !)

Hello, is it possible that a developer has thought of a way to save accounts set up in Thunderbird? And don't even get me started on the profile folder, because from one version to the next it doesn't work (I've just had to pay the price!).

merci de votre aide thank you for your help

On January 21st 2025 I changed my Spectrum account password. Almost immediately Thunderbird could not log into the spectrum maintained "mail.twc.com" server. When I called Spectrum support I was told the old Spectrum use of separate passwords for SMTP and IMAP was changed to use the same password as the spectrum web page which is now the same for all spectrum logins, a "one password to rule them all" scheme in November 2024. I changed the passwords in Thunderbird for IMAP and SMTP, but it still will not connect. If I do an auto populate attempt, the server actually responds with the correct setting so I know I am reaching the server. After five days trying to resolve the issue with Spectrum I was told this is a know issue with Thunderbird and it is not the server but the third party application. It is bad enough they reconfigure things like this without disclosing it. It baffles me that the changes they claim were made in November 2024 only make themselves known when the service stops working nearly three months after the change and only when I changed the web site password. Anyone know how to solve this? Thank you so much in advance.

I was using Thunderbird and changed to Outlook. Big mistake. I have now switched back to Thunderbird. I have Outlook emails in the .msg format. Is there any way to import these files into Thunderbird?

I can no longer set up my icloud calendar and address book.

Hello everyone, TB has version 115.18.0 (64-bit) and has been installed on Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia (iMac 2005) since yesterday. So far everything has worked fine with my icloud.com account (email: ...@mac.com). Now I had to delete the ADD-ON TB-Sync, because icloud ‘is now also integrated without it’.

Email: First application-specific password - OK, email works Calendar: Second application-specific password - ‘TB cannot find an account at the address (https://caldav.icloud.com) - doesn't work anymore.

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For the last several months on Windows 11/Chrome, when I am on someone's web page and they have a email link and I click it, nothing happens. In the past when I clicked it, it would pop up a new email message from me to that email address on Thunderbird. What I've tried so far:

o reset Chrome settings o Uninstall and re-install Chrome o Tried the hyperlink on another browser Edge - still doesn't work o Temporarily stopped my antivirus sheilds - no change o changed Thunderbird email composition settings for using plain vs HTML - all option choice, no change o tried changing various Chrome security settings, nothing works o uninstalled or turned off my pop up blocker, no change

Any ideas? Thanks

Using the french version of Thunderbird 128.5.2esr (64 bits), I set, in the settings, the following options for one of my accounts (see picture): "Delete messages older than X days" "Always keep starred messages"

However, just after this setting change, I closed and reopend Thunderbird, and all messages older than X days are still there.

What should I do?

Can you retrieve an email from June, 2024 thru Thunderbird or have it resent? I have searched all file folders and cannot find the email. I contacted the email provide (Windstream) and they cannot recover the email. The sender cannot reforward the email.

I created a 2nd account years ago and it has worked since then. Now when I create a third account, it works well but when I disconnect I loose the account and have to recreate it again. How come?

I have an earthlink email account. thunderbird downloaded email for 2025-01-24 and 2025-01-26 but has not downloaded messages for 2025-01-25. There are messages there when I go online to earthlink and check the account using my browser. The messages for the 25th are also visible in my android earthlink app. I use thunderbird as my archive for messages so really want to get these messages downloaded.

My 'sent', 'All Mail', 'Spam'; and 'draft' and 'templates' folders in my gmail account in Thunderbird have suddenly disappeared My other account looks fine, as is my husband's account I have deleted the account from thunderbird and reloaded it but it remains the same. My gmail account on my ipad and iphone still have the all correct folders in place Can you help please - ?

Hello everyone,

I haven't really found anything that helped me with my issue on the web, so I hope it's okay to pose my question here. So I've been using Thunderbird on my laptop (currently Win10) for about ten years (latest version is installed). Over time, the folder in AppData\Roaming has been growing quite a lot, until it reached about 46 GB. Since I always had enough space on my hard drive, this never concerned me. At some point, however, it started to strike me as unnormal how much data has accumulated, since while I have indeed a lot of emails saved locally (the server type is POP, my email provider deletes the emails from the server after some time, but they are saved on my computer), most of them should only amount to a few KB.

I found out, then, that the automatic compression was not activated, so I manually compressed all my folders. This helped: The Thunderbird folder shrunk from 46 to 30 GB. It's not as much as I hoped, however. Even 30 GB seems wildly exaggerated.

So does anyone have ideas what I could do to reduce it further? I have analyzed the folder structure using WizTree and can see that by far the biggest files are the inbox files (I am using several profiles at the same time, the biggest inbox amounts to almost 8 GB, then there is another one with 3 GB).

What confuses me additionally (and might be part of the problem) is that there are more subfolders in th "profiles" folder than accounts that I'm using. Could it be that Thunderbird has created redundant folders (or there has been a problem over the years causing this)? And how can I find out which folders I still need?

Thanks in advance!

j 'en peux plus de ces nouvelles version, tu m'étonne qu' il risque de disparaitre ! alors mon profils est sur D depuis 1 milliard d années, je change de disque dur, je transfert le profil assigne la lettre D au nouveau HDD et hop plus rien à l allumage du pigeon ! je recrée un profil transfert les ancien dossiers ..ect... (comme j ai toujours fait depuis le paléolithique environ. mais niet, désinstalle , réinstalle, V128 marche pas , V115 marche pas..... ça souplesse était sont principal atout, ben alors on change..... je crois que je vais chercher une alternative ! en attendant si vous avez un conseil !! merci de votre aide

Hi, I am wondering why I have to close Thunderbird and reopen to get my emails. If I don't get emails for a few hours I close and reopen and there they are. I am running Windows 11, using Comcast/Xfinity, Port 993 and Port 465, SSL/TLS. What should I change or do so I get my emails immediately when they are sent to me? Thanks-In-Advance. Marc

Hello, I have read various post saying the profiles folder is %APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles\ but on my side I have many folder, and it can explain why when I use a backup tool, I loose all my e-mail. I have - C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Thunderbird\Profiles - C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles - C:\Users\Me\Administrateur\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles

And how to have only one ? I have tried to edit setting to use only C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles but the application refuse it.

When retrieving/syncing mail from my imap account, the counter for incoming mail is always wrong, it says it is retrieving 4 out of 2 or 8 out of 1. Already tried the repair function, but that didn't help. Any ideas?

Thunderbird v. 115.14.0.

I have 3 calendars in my Lightning calendar interface. Two are stored locally, one is labeled "Home", the other is "Recurring". I also have a Google calendar named "Shared". I can create and save events into any of these calendars and I can move events between calendars using the context-click "Edit". But if I receive an invite in email, when I accept it I am offered only the choice of "Home" and "Recurring". I cannot save it to "Shared". When I open the event, I am not offered a choice of calendar. I believe in the past I could accept invites into the "Shared" google calendar, but I might be wrong about that.

128.6.0esr (64bit) on Win11

I have a new laptop and I'm trying to set up my Thunderbird account. I have it all set up on my old laptop which I cannot not turn on. I can't access some passwords from the old laptop, etc. I use OPTIMUM as my email.

I am in need of "transferring" my T-Bird acct from my old to new laptop. Is it possible to bring over all the folder I have already created?

BTW, I tried to enter a new password on my new laptop but I get a 'failed' msg each time. It's all going in circles.

I hope my question makes sense.

Thank you! viggy1121