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For over a year when I start Thunderbird I get "Login to server pop3.frontiernet.net" failed and it asks me for a new password. I have no clue. I have no clue where I get that.

Years back everything worked fine and I had a long history of email saved, then it all went to hell. Frontier mail hooked up with Yahoo!mail. A Version change with Thunderbird caused it to stop connecting to my jboutet@frontiernet.net account for quite a while then it was working again but started giving me the Login Failed and asking me for a new password until it would finally connect without my having given it anything. What should I do?

John Boutet jboutet@frontiernet.net 585 328-4271 H 585 260-9579 Cell

I'm installing Thunderbird in a new computer and want to add "Subject", "Correspondents", "Date" and "Size" columns for the Inbox. How can I do that?

I read somewhere that "Columns" is listed under "View" but it's not.

Thanks for any help.

Thanks

I've been (mostly happily until 2 yrs ago) with Eudora. My usage model is to keep all (saved) email locally (20 yrs archive), access via POP. Unfortunately, the evolution of HTML, iso character sets, etc has been forcing me to move on. I tried TB about 2 yrs ago and abandoned the project for lack of time and urgency. I'm trying again, but now very serious. Anyway, I set up an install and did basic tests - all ok. But I can't seem to find config options to customize. I found some option to set my mail store to a folder of my choice (away from the system root -- C:\ - i use windows 10-11.) to something like E:\docs\tb. It created inbox, trash etc. right there. My previous install attempt (2 yrs ago) created these in a subfolder named for the email account (eudora calls 'personalities'). I do want to use multiple accounts each in their own 'garden', not in the same inbox, outbox, etc.. I can't find where to configure this - I can't even find how to configure my earlier choice to store them on E:. What am I missing? On some settings for copies and folders, it offers (eg) Sent folder on <email account>. I presume this is particular to IMAP and not relevant to my current setup.

That's enough to get me started, but I would like to eventually migrate my Eudora archives to TB, so a pointer to docs on this would be appreciated.

Tnx, Tom

Thunderbird is our e-mail client. We have a number of e-mail addresses. On one of our computers we can receive but not send on one of our verizon.net e-mail accounts. All of the outgoing server information (except the username is the same for both accounts. When we try to send e-mail from the one account it just hangs and never sends (I eventually cancel sending). We are running Windows 11 Professional on the affected machine. Thunderbird is successfully managing e-mail from multiple e-mail providers. When I had time I looked on-line for solutions, nothing I found worked. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Like a number of others, I'm getting a lot of IMAP errors when sending email or moving it between folders. It seems like the IMAP connection is lost after 15-30 minutes and the only way to recover is restarting Thunderbird.

This is happening with Pair.com-hosted email in my case, and does not happen with Seamonkey. It's only been a problem with Thunderbird.

When the fault is triggered when sending email, the outbound message gets hung on the "Copying message to sent folder" step. Looking at TCPView, I'm not seeing any TCP connections from Thunderbird to the IMAP server:

thunderbird.exe 22264 TCP Altais 60613 localhost 60614 ESTABLISHED 2,227 2,227 thunderbird.exe 22264 TCP Altais 60614 localhost 60613 ESTABLISHED 2,227 2,227

If I hit cancel to escape, I get the message: "Your message was sent but a copy was not placed in your sent folder (Sent) due to network or file access errors. You can retry or save the message locally to Local Folders/Sent-Personal Account (IMAP).". If I then save to the local folder, moving it from there to the IMAP Sent folder fails until I restart Thunderbird.

I've tried Troubleshooting Mode but it only recommends "Clear Startup Cache" and when I click it to reboot the program Thunderbird stills fails to load the Inbox file and Troubleshooting Mode again recommends the same "Clear Startup Cache" as a remedy. Not sure what to do to get Inbox file loaded in program. BTW the program does download new emails to the Inbox file but program is unable to load the file. During Thunderbird program restart the message at the bottom left of Thunderbird window is "Summarizing files for Inbox" which after 20 minutes program crashes ans asks for a reboot. Any corrective action recommendations is appreciated.

Thanks, Mike

About a month ago I began the process of upgrading from W10 to W11. In the process, several problems happened. One of the problems was with Firefox. After reading and trying many suggestions from the Mozilla site, as well as several other sites, and having no success, I posted my problem on this Mozilla support site and hope that there was someone who could help. There was. After several days of exchanging messages (suggestions, instructions and results - mostly about Profile), Firefox returned.

The other major problem is Thunderbird. I have downloaded a current version (128.5.2esr). I have run it twice and, each time, email was downloaded. So that part seems to be working. What doesn’t appear are the settings I have used and message folders I have created over several years. I suspect that the problems are Profile related.

Starting from Help in the Thunderbird menu, then Troubleshooting Information, then Application Basics, I see Profile Folder. On that line is a button labeled Open Folder followed by (Local Drive). I click Open Folder and File Explorer opens to a folder named ab3xaztm.default-esr. It shows that the folder contains 59 items, including 10 subfolders. All files and folders show a December date.

Following the path C:\Users\rsuth\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\, in addition to ab3x…, there is another folder nlys3gkl.default that contains only 1 file, times.json.

Because of my earlier struggle – and eventual win – with the Firefox problem, I think that the Thunderbird problem might also be fixed in a similar way: Profile.

Slightly before the upgrading from W10 to W11, I made a copy of my Thunderbird folder. I think if I replace the currently active Thunderbird folder with the one I have saved, my Thunderbird problem may be over. However, I’m not certain that will happen and I’m not certain about the specific steps to take to make the replacement. (With my Firefox issue, there were a couple of small important steps I had to take to make it work, and those steps were explained to me by the person who helped me with my Firefox problem. So, after all these words, can someone point me in the direction to solve my Thunderbird problem?

Thanks for reading.

I just upgraded my desktop pc from Windows 10 to 11, and before the upgrade I used the Tools Export function to export my complete Thunderbird profile, so I could import it after the upgrade. Unfortunately the export file cannot be read on my upgraded pc using the Import function - Thunderbird gives me error messages every time, that suggest the exported folder might be corrupted or invalid.

My IMAP emails are fine, as I have set those accounts up from scratch and the folders have now populated with all the emails - the problem is all my filed emails, dating back many years, which were all stored manually in a filing system under Local Folders.

I tried manually copying across the individual files from the extracted back-up folder into my live Thunderbird profile and then reopened Thunderbird...which worked to some extent...as in, all the folders are there, but no emails are showing! It shows no messages under each folder, even though if you look under the Profile you can see that the email files exist.

I tried various ways to bring them in, including zipping one of the folders and trying to import from the zip file (which also brought in a folder but no emails) but even though the email files are clearly there under my profile, Thunderbird shows 0 messages in all my Local Folders. It's as though it is unaware the files exist, so I suspect it needs them to be formally imported somehow?

I would hate to lose the emails, as they document important information and purchases etc over many years, along with archived emails for my charity work, social events, etc. As I said, I can see the files are there but simply copying the files to my profile has only worked to the extent the filing 'structure' is visible, Thunderbird doesn't display any of the emails.

I have included two images...one of my Thunderbird Local Folders as they currently look, and the other showing the backed up files existing in my Profile, which I hope are helpful.

Can anyone help please? I am running a desktop PC on Windows 11. Thanks, David.

Hello all,

I'm having trouble with a new Thunderbird install on a Win10 Pro PC laptop. I had to reinstall a perfectly working version due to a security upgrade/new profile at work.

The problem is that when adding multiple email accounts, the three accounts that are using the same service provider, i.e. @xfinity.com will install and validate properly, however the account inboxes all copy the Inbox content of the primary account and won't bring up the content from the individual account. I've added the accounts the same way as always (IMAP) and all of the server settings are correct for each individual account. Any idea why they're duplicating the primary account would be very helpful. TIA! (Install version 128.5.2esr (64-bit))

I recently applied the latest update and now I can see all the message headers up to the update, but no new ones. The headers displayed do not have any messages attached. I have confirmed that the problem is on this computer only as my laptop which does not as yet have the latest update applied, works as normal in terms of new messages and old messages are also there. This problem only seems confined to my inbox. I have tried re-downloading my messages, checked all the settings and so forth and that works but still message bodies in the inbox. I have checked my password. I have used Thunderbird pretty much since it started (also Firebox has been my primary browser for many years and still is.

The other thing I did around this time was to install the Thunderbird app on my Android phone. As part of this I generated a QR code to copy settings etc over to the phone. 

I can see that I have my 2 account headers on the phone, but nothing else.

I cannot login to my email account. Yahoo changed things, I called and reset my password, and thru yahoo I can login to my email. But I want to use Thunderbird to login to my account. It keeps giving me the error message: login to account XXXXX"@frontier.com" failed. I tried reinstalling, but I can't perform a complete uninstall to get rid of the old settings? Some settings I want to keep, like the address book and message filters. Please fix

I am going to change computer. I can not sign in to my mozilla Thunderbird mailprogram in the new computer. My adress is : evaochleif.olofsson@telia.com I got following message: Inloggning till servern mailin.telia.com med användarnamnet evaochleif.olofsson@telia.com misslyckades. Best regards Leif Olofsson

Over three days I retrieved 100000+ messages taking up over 9 gig of disk space. When I relaunched Thunderbird it asked me to set it up again which I did (probably unwisely). When it launched, the inbox was empty. It is fetching new messages but the old messages that I can still see on gmail.com are not visible.

Quando si apre la posta, il sistema si blocca su alcuni account ed è necessario chiudere e riaprire il programma. Quando si apre la posta durante lo scaricamento dei messaggi, si blocca e bisogna riavviarlo. Mentre si scrive un messaggio si blocca e bisogna riavviarlo. Spesso quando si riavvia molti messaggi in arrivo vengono duplicati

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The global search in TB is completely defective. I am now running 128.2.0esr and hoped that update might fix it. It hasn't. I just wonder, are there any older or non ESR versions I can downgrade/move to, where the search is fully functional?

Bonjour à tous J'ai essayé de toute sorte de manière de me servir de Thunderbird pour envoyer des photos avec le (menu contextuel, envoyer vers le destinataire) Il fonctionne avec Windows 10. Je peux faire fonctionner Microsoft Outlook, mais pas Thunderbird avec Windows 11 pourquoi? J'ai fait toutes les paramètres mise par défaut, ainsi que mail to.

Toutes mes choses sont dans Thunderbird et je l'aime plus que tout (connait plus). J'aimerais beaucoup si vous pourriez m'aider, je vous en remercie à l'avance.