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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

I have two email accounts. One is about 2% of my email sending and one is 98% of my email sending. One of them is the default choice when I create a new message to send. Guess which one is the default?

How the absolute F do I get TB to re-order these so that I am not sending so many messages from the wrong address?

Do I need to set up a completely different profile for TB and only launch into that when I am going to send from the lesser-used account? What the heck do I have to do?

- ray

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...