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How do I get my email messages imported to Android Thunderbird? Getting the accounts set up is easy but I cannot find a way to export my Tbird email messages so they can be imported into the Android Tbird program.

To me, this is something that should be included in both programs so they can be synchronized. What am I missing????

I see that there are a number of plugins that enable syncing of Google address book to thunderbird, but that doesn't manage changes. Is there a way of doing lookup of addresses in realtime from thunderbird to Google address book entries. I'm thinking like LDAP or similar.

Or is this just non-viable for speed or otherwise?

Thanks

I'm currently using Thunderbird 128.0.1esr (64-bit) on an iMac with Ventura 13.7.4. I have email correspondence in Archives on my Local Folder going back to 1998. On July 10, 2007, Mozilla phone support helped me get my Netscape mail into Thunderbird. For many years, I had no problems loading this old email correspondence in Thunderbird. I'm not sure exactly when it started, but emails from 1998, 1999, and 2000 no longer load. Also, I'm not sure, but it is probably all Netscape mail. I can still see the header information (sender, recipient, date, subject, etc.), but cannot open up the messages to read them.

Any solution?

I am new to Thunderbird and need to download 102,000 e-mails from my ISP. I have set-up my account as POP. All was working fine until I got about 58,400 e-mails downloaded and everything stopped. Is there a limit to the number of e-mails I can have in my In-Box? How can I get the remaining e-mails down? Thanks

I get bucket loads of emails in my Inbox. I have created Filters for many but not all. So I set the Inbox to Alphabetic sequence in the "FROM" heading so that I can delete say 100 emails from the same sender. This has never been a problem in the past! But now it will not delete the bulk 100 emails! Even though they have been "highlighted" in blue, when I press the "Delete" button it just changes the blue highlight to a grey highlight. So then I try deleting just one of the hundred emails and it deletes it ok! So then I try just 50 of the 100 and it will NOT delete them!!! So then I try 25 of the 50 and it still will not delete them!!! WHAT IS GOING ON PLEASE? THIS IS RIDICULOUS and makes the deleting task a massive time-consuming nightmare!!! Phil.

One of my TB accounts has two archive folders, one named Archive and one named Archives. The Archive folder has nothing in it while the Archives folder has several years of messages in it. How can I delete the non-functional Archive folder?

Are there instructions for setting up Thunderbird on a replacement computer? Older MacBook Pro to new MacBook Air. I guess that's "migrating Thunderbird to replacement computer" ? Thanks so much for pointing me in right direction.

I wonder if thunderbird (plus addons?) could help fight phishing in the following way. Say I need to check the authenticity of emails I get from Bob. Is there a way to

1) Get Bob to create digital signature (PGP?) and send it to me ahead of time in secure channel; I store this signature locally (on thunderbird?)

2) Bob sends me an email, with this signature

3) Upon receiving this email, thunderbird automatically verifies the signature against the locally saved one and confirms that the signature is correct

Note: I am looking for automatic verification of message/sender, NOT encryption.

If this can be done, do Bob also needs to use thunderbird (plus addons?), or is there a standard protocol for this (e.g. can this be done via gmail webinterface, outlook, etc?)

THANKS!

p.s. For (1), Bob can e.g. posts his signature on his webpage as well. But my main question is about (3).

I have several POP accounts from one email service each with its own profile, and several other (IMAP) accounts from another service that share a profile, which includes access to local folders that store saved email from all three accounts. I like the shared profile as I can see all accounts there by opening Thunderbird once, but I have no interest in seeing the email from multiple accounts in the same inbox for organizational reasons. Apparently I created the shared profile when I first opened those accounts. I am interested in combining the now separate POP accounts/profiles so that they all open at once in TB, but not in the same profile as those currently sharing a profile again for organizational reasons. End results two profiles one for service one and one for service two each of which opens showing all the accounts from that service and having local folders that are shared. Is it possible to do that? I expect there may be a problem with combining local folders which are currently in three separate profiles so the stored emails are accessible in the combined profile. In that event, I would plan to keep the separate profiles only to access those stored emails and disconnect them from getting new email using them only to access the local folder stores they already contain, and use the new combined profile to get new emails and store only new email copies locally.

Two or three times now I have requested that a message be moved from my inbox to another folder and nothing seems to happen. No complaint happens nor does the message get moved. I tried both the right click / move and drag and drop and neither did anything.

Logging out and back in does not fix the problem but doing a restart does.

New Computer--4 days old Have downloaded Thunderbird (twice, the latest version from Moz website) Thunderbird crashes whenever I leave the computer long enough for it to go into sleep mode Crash reason: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION_READ Troubleshooting gives no answers Now running in Troubleshoot Mode having disabled add ons (none, I believe) Not much running on new computer yet--Avast, DuckDuckGo [I had a browser crash & needed to reload it on day 2 of machine's life (DuckDuck)...which might mean it is a machine issue rather than Thunderbird?...] Help! bp-4f000aa4-9396-4686-9338-49b190250203

How can i refresh the Recent Folders pane without having to close Thunderbird each time. It doesnt make sense that i need to close the whole programme down each time.

I have been providing auto-configuration information for my users. It used to work well but at some point it stopped working. When I try it on 128.7.1esr and create a new email account, the debug console shows me:

The config file XML does not contain an email account configuration. 2 AccountCreationUtils.sys.mjs:474:17

   PriorityOrderAbortable resource:///modules/accountcreation/AccountCreationUtils.sys.mjs:474
   _notifyFinished resource:///modules/accountcreation/AccountCreationUtils.sys.mjs:313
   successCallback resource:///modules/accountcreation/AccountCreationUtils.sys.mjs:375
   _response resource:///modules/accountcreation/FetchHTTP.sys.mjs:334
   onload resource:///modules/accountcreation/FetchHTTP.sys.mjs:237
   (Async: EventHandlerNonNull)
   start resource:///modules/accountcreation/FetchHTTP.sys.mjs:236
   _fetchConfigFromIsp resource:///modules/accountcreation/FetchConfig.sys.mjs:197
   fetchConfigFromISP resource:///modules/accountcreation/FetchConfig.sys.mjs:107
   findConfig chrome://messenger/content/accountcreation/accountSetup.js:727
   onContinue chrome://messenger/content/accountcreation/accountSetup.js:618
   onclick about:accountsetup:1

Thunderbird queries my web server using this URL: https://christoph-haas.de/.well-known/autoconfig/mail/config-v1.1.xml?emailaddress=footest123%40christoph-haas.de

My XML file:

<clientConfig version="1.1">

 <emailProvider id="christoph-haas.de">
   <domain>christoph-haas.de</domain>
   <displayName>Christoph's Mail Service</displayName>
   <displayShortName>ISPmail</displayShortName>
   <incomingServer type="imap">
     <hostname>webmail.workaround.org</hostname>
     <port>143</port>
     <socketType>STARTTLS</socketType>
     <authentication>password-cleartext</authentication>
     <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
   </incomingServer>
   <outgoingServer type="smtp">
     <hostname>webmail.workaround.org</hostname>
     <port>587</port>
     <socketType>STARTTLS</socketType>
     <authentication>password-cleartext</authentication>
     <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
   </outgoingServer>
 </emailProvider>

</clientConfig>

I fail to see any errors in here.

I even tried with the reference configuration from https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration:ConfigFileFormat but it failed as well. (I just found that the <serverURL> tag is not properly closed but that was easy to fix.)

Has anyone here seen that effect as well? Should I file a bug?

Thanks for your time! …Christoph

My email which functions under Mozilla Thunderbird (which was created Jan 28, 2018 - yes that is 2018) has begun to "freeze". I cannot do simple filing of messages or delete batches of emails.

I went to HostCentric and cleared out the webmail version of all of my emails, hoping that this would "fix" my problem. It did not.

I do not know if my version Thunderbird should have been updated in the past or not. If I were to update my version of Thunderbird, would my existing email address remain in tact? Or do I have to back everything up in order to preserve my email "world"? I do NOT want to lose my email address and all of the inbox contents or sub-folder files.

My email is how I manage and communicate with my lawyer, accountant, summer rental property etc.

Help?

Nancy D

Hi folks,

Thunderbird 128.6.0esr (64-bit) on Fedora 41 Linux...

I'm trying to export all messages in a mailbox on an old Yahoo mail account and then import all those messages into another email account. I access both accounts from Thunderbird. I'm using IMAP protocol, and all email accounts keep the messages on the server.

I've exported the mailbox to a folder on my computer; now all the email messages exist as separate .eml files in that folder. But I can't see how to import them into the second email account.

It seems that exporting my entire profile won't help as I'm not moving everything to a second computer. But I cannot see any way to select just the one mailbox from the one 'source' email account that I want to import into the 'destination' email account.

Thanks...

I am trying to send a message with lots of MIME attachments from Thunderbird and I get this error message: "Number of MIME parts exceeds maximum permitted". Unhelpfully it does not say what the maximum is and I cannot find this information in Support. Anyone know what the maximum number of MIME attachments to an email is? Thanks in advance