Forum communautaire Thunderbird for Android

Dear All,

         At its release I set up thunderbird for Android. I am very happy with it apart from the fact I have struggled and been unable to set up archive folders as I have on my desk top version. 
  I find this a great boon in keeping my inbox uncluttered and accessing old information easily.
   On my desktop I have folders to archive by year and by specific entities.
  I am sure I am missing something very obvious so any help would be appreciated.
   Kind regards Ian

Thunderbird Android v8.2 / Pixel 6a / Android 15 (Feb 2025 security update)

IMAP Push in use for Inboxes only on 3 mail accounts (2 Comcast; 1 Gmail)

  - Enable Push: "on"
  - Enable sync: "off" (for Inboxes; on for all other mail folders)

Installed TB in November 2024 and experienced no problems until recently. Beginning in early February 2025, inbox push/update stops working every ~24 hours. If I go to Android settings and force stop TB, clear cache, then restart TB, Inboxes immediately sync with servers and again function fine for approximately 24 hours (not exactly).

Using TB for 3 e-mail accounts. Only the 3 Inboxes have push enabled (and sync disabled). All other mail folders on each account set to sync every 60 minutes. This configuration was set up on initial installation and worked without issue until recently. The only system modification made in this timeframe was installing the February 2025 Android security update.

Anyone else experiencing similar issues? Any suggestions?

Thank you.

Change request. Hi, With Thunderbird for Windows I can free-type a From: address that is different from the account email address, and I would like to do this on the Android version too. For the avoidance of doubt, I don't want to use another account's email address, I want to free-type whatever I choose.

For example Yahoo allows me to create up to 500 email aliases in the form alias-anyword@yahoo.com

As this feature has always been available on the desktop version, is it something you could incorporate on Android?

I have not found a way to print an email from Thunderbird for Android. There are several occasions when that is important for me. Now I have to leave Thunderbird and log into a web client to be able to print a copy of an email.

I have always found being able to archive messages in thunderbird very useful whether by year or to a specifically created folder, eg " committee business".

  I am finding this impossible in thunderbird for android. How do I create specific new folders / archives. I am sorry if I am missing something obvious. Thank you for your help
    Ian

I am having problems with Thunderbird not downloading all messages from my icloud account.

It has only download back to November 2024 but I have emails back to 2012. (I have 10000+ emails as I keep them all as an effective records database.

I have adjusted the Thunderbird settings to include all emails of any size and date and set the number of emails to all. My settings are the same as my desktop Thunderbird.

I am running the latest version 8.2.

Does anyone have a solution?

Hi,

In Settings for an IMAP account, Fetching mail, there's an option "Erase deleted messages on server" that has 3 options: Immediately, When polling, and Manually. I get the first 2, but what happens when I select Manually?

Thanks, Mike

I've been trying to add Shared Outlook Office 365 Mailboxes to Thunderbird Mobile, but using the recommended method that is used on other email apps using a backslash "myaccount@example.com\sharedmailbox@example.com" doesn't seem to work in Thunderbird. Is there a different method that I am missing?

I am a novice in Thunderbird on Android (version 8.2). I have uploaded my settings from my desktop, where there is

       <value key="sentFolderSelection">AUTOMATIC</value>
       <value key="subscribedFoldersOnly">false</value>
       <value key="syncRemoteDeletions">true</value>
       <value key="uploadSentMessages">true</value>

So, I expect that the emails I send will be stored in the folder where there is the message I reply to.

But unfortunately, they are not there. I tried to find them in Sent, Archive... but did not succeed anywhere.

Kia ora. I have just downloaded Thunderbird for Android - I always used it in the past, when I had a 'proper' laptop, so was really pleased to see that it was now available. I use a Bluetooth keyboard with my tablet, which transforms using the tablet into something like a laptop. However, my shortcut keys don't seem to work with Thunderbird, like they used to. I can't create bold or italics (there's nothing like the little icons at the top of this box, for example), or move up and down the screen with keystrokes. I can find nothing in the help about this topic. Please can someone help me, or is the Thunderbird for Android of very limited utility?

Thank you in advance.

Annie