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My "computer" folder in my Thunderbird mail account has disappeared although it is in my settings under Profile with all it's recent mail. How do I restore it into Thunderbird in its original place?

I used troubleshooting mode and now my fonts and columns settings are gone. I had replaced Recipients column with From and Recipient in all my mail folders (I have lots). And everything looks different now. Different fonts and smaller text size everywhere.

How do I get my previous settings back?

BTW, the Troubleshooting Mode dialog is confusing. It didn't seem to do any thing until I checked a check box which followed the blurb about making the changes permanent. So I may have accidentally asked it to make them permanent. Not sure because the UI was unclear what it was asking me to do. Why are there 2 separate dialogs popping up? Do I have to tick something to make it enter TbS mode? Not clear. (I am technical but not about the internals of TB.)

I do have backups of my TB folder but I would need direction as to what files I would need to restore.

Thanks!

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?

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

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!

However, when using this method, only the first instance opening the calendar has modification rights. Need further explanation of what this means if want to share TBird calendar

I'm using latest Thunderbird version set with IMAP on W10. It works fine and the PC is on 24x7. Every now and then Thunderbird stops sending Mail claiming it cannot contact the SMTP Server but the Server is correct and it works fine. I have to reboot the PC in order to make it capable of sending Mails again. CPU, RAM, SSD and Net values are almost Idle. I'd like to identify what causes this issue. I've checked the Windows Application Log but there's anything that helps. Where can I start troubleshooting from? Thanks.

Hi, I use Dark Mode in TB. The Unread messages in the Inbox show bolded in White (not that easy to identify) and I would like to have them show a different bolded color .... until they are read.

Any ideas welcome ........... & thank you for your help ............. Joe

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?

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

My freenet account cannot send emails with Thunderbird. What is set up wrong? I set it up according to the template provided by freenet customer service. screenshots are attached. I have blacked out my name and email address.

It takes several seconds, when I write the first letters of a contact from the adressbook, before the full adress is propose. In this time thunderbird is frozen, I can do nothing else in thunderbird (Notebook Asus, WIN 11). The problem is noticed since some months, I didn't succeed with safe-mode or new installation of TB. What can I do? Kind regards Michael

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

My thunderbird has not been able to connect to my gmail account. I don't get any error but I do get the notification "connection to server imap.gmail.com timed out".

I have checked all the settings for Thunderbird and Gmail as specified on the Mozilla web site and have re-installed Mozilla with not change.

Any ideas on how to fix this please?

Regards Roger

Greetings When I go to my sent folder I'm not seeing all of my emails. Currently I'm only seeing 25 going back to Dec. 2024. I know there's many more. Anyone know why?

Hello,

my Thunderbird account doesn't retrieves my mail correctly. I have four accounts with the provider Mail.de. Since round about three weeks Thunderbird retrieves all these mails just over night. During the day I receive them just sporadically or not at all - even when I try to retrieve them manually. Also Thunderbird will not synchronise my mail accounts on my phone, tablet and notebook. When I log in with my mail provider I have no problems. The mails are there and I can open and read them. But Thunderbird will not retrieve them. I'm able to send mails but they are not copied into the sent folder and/or I get a error message that they could not be saved in the sent folder or not be sent at all. So I'm never sure if they are sent or not. My google mail account has no problem. With that one I can send and receive mails with Thundrbird without problems.

I contacted my mail provider Mail.de but they said, with my accounts is everything allright. So the problem has to be with Thunderbird. The selfdiagnosis of Thunderbird shows no errors.

I hope very much that you are able to help me. I have Thunderbrid since years and I'm very happy with this program. When you need further information for the bug-fix let me know please.

Sincerely

When I try to create new accounts manually to my own imap server. It fails when I try to configure the server in Thunderbird mobile. When trying to connect to the server, I get the message: "unknown error unexpected character *(42)" There is no * in the fields I introduced in the configuration. The problem appears with the second account I try to add. The first (to the same server but a different email address and login) worked fine.

How can this be solved ? Is it a bug in mobile thunderbird ?

Hi... i finally got to grips with tags. however, i did something that caused all the tags to appear at the bottom of the email/inbox list in blocks (still in date order though)... how can i get them back embedded in the main email/inbox list according to date received... this is what i mean by 'embedded'.... i hope this makes sense to someone? thanks in advance