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I've just installed Mint 22.1 and migrated my .thunderbird folder from another Linux PC, which was running Thunderbird 128.7.0 esr. The installed version of Thunderbird on the Mint PC is Thunderbird for Linux Mint mint-001 - 1.0 Everything has transferred without an issue, all of my folders are there, the calendar entries are fine, the only problem is that web links in the emails do not open a browser tab. I can copy the link location, then 'paste & go' but highlighting links does not do anything, other than show the URL at the bottom of the Thunderbird window.

I have tried the 'Troubleshoot Mode' but that makes no difference. At first I thought it may be some kind of security mode on Mint, but I tried the version from the Mozilla repo and that made no difference. I have also posted on the Mint forum, but have no replies there.

App Version: Thunderbird 128.7.1esr (64-bit) Operation System: Linux Mint Xfce 22.1 Xia \n \l

How to make Thunderbird new message (email) window to appear with blank "From: account" field? I want this to force myself to always choose which account via the email to be sent!

I'm not afraid to edit config files if only that way it is possible! Or download addon which can help me in this!

PS. I too many times sent emails via my personal account instead of my public account which is annoying but it has been happening for more then a year to me so I gave up I ever manage to get used to check check which account is in the "From:" field. Please help! :'(

I apologize in advance for the language, I'm writing from a translator. Thunderbird on several accounts, every few days requires a password ... "login to the server failed, enter a new password". Just in case, I changed the passwords on these accounts (with the option to remember), a few days of peace and again the problem. However, logging in with the old passwords before and the new ones now on the server is no problem at all.

I reinstalled TB but unfortunately it doesn't help. The same on the stationary and laptop, what could be the problem? Currently, email is available only on the server, I do not have access to Thunderbird.

I understand that the working direction of syncing in IMAP is from the mail client to the server.

In a specific given situation, I would like to invert this working direction. I'm almost certain this can be done, but wonder how exactly?

Background I wanted to give Thunderbird a shot because I really, really got tired of Outlook and their shenanigans. About 2 months ago, I tried it a first time and had an issue that prevented me from sending emails from my Hotmail email accounts. I gave up after a week of troubleshooting.

Outlook has come up with more bugs and shenanigans, so I tried again, convinced that there had to be a solution. And I found one. If anyone is interested, I was getting the error "Login to server outlook.office365.com with username <...> failed", and the way I fixed it was by replacing "hotmail.com" with "outlook.com" in the server settings. However, not all is fixed yet.

Current problem I noticed that the messages in my Outlook mail (other than the inbox) are not syncing properly. When I start TB, it appears to sync folders because I have seen new emails in subfolders already. However, if new emails come in while TB is open, it only syncs them if they are in my inbox.

I have looked around already and found that when I right-click that email account and I choose "Subscribe...", it presents me with an empty list and I can't see or enable/disable any folder subscriptions (refresh does nothing). This is strange because of 2 reasons: 1. All my subfolders are there, and they seem to sync when I start up TB. But even if I immediately open the subscribe window, the list is empty. 2. I have a total of 4 email accounts configured, 2 Outlook and 2 Gmail. All except for 1 Outlook account show me the list of folders in the subscribe window, so that made me think it was something in my Outlook account settings. However, nothing I can find there seems to be helpful.

Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this? I'd rather not close and re-open my TB app each time I want to check for new messages. I really want to give TB an honest chance but it's not making it easy for me to like it right now.

I lost my address book and local folders when 128.7 got installed. I have regular file backups of my computer and have been able to get my address book restored. However, I am unable to find the subfolders under Local Folders. Should I look under AppData in Local, LocalLow, or Roaming?

I have suddenly lost emails from 1 December to 12 February and many of my folders are now empty. I backup my computer nightly so I am able to go back up to six months ago. I have tried exchanging the profile folder in Appddata > Roaming and Local but when I start Thunderbird it looks like a clean install with nothing.

Is there anything else I need to bring back from my backups other than the profiles folder?

I have just got a new windows 11 pc previously on my windows 10 pc when i typed messages it would capitalise first words of a sentence and after a full stop. I don't seem to be able to get it to do so now.

Problem It prompts "Unable to log in at server. Probably wrong configuration, username or password" when adding Gmail on my Thunderbird on Manjaro Linux. My Google account has 2FA and Authenticator enabled.

No google webpage asking for login popped out. (but Microsoft's webpage did popped out and asked me to do 2FA when adding an outlook account).

Tried to add and use "Google app passwords" but it didn't work for me.

All other of my emails worked well including outlook and several others.

Thunderbird info: 128.7.0esr (64-bit) Mozilla Thunderbird for Manjaro LinuxManjaro - 1.0 On KDE Plasma 6 Wayland session

This seems to be an ancient but long not fixed problem (?) 🤯 Could anybody here help a bit (?) Would appreciate that veeeery much!!! :3

Hello,

Moving from an older Ubuntu 18.04 machine where Thunderbird is limited to version 102 to a newer machine running Mint 22 where the current version is 128.6

According to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/upgrading-older-version-thunderbird This should work without issue but the latest version mentioned in the article was 115.

Any change since the article was written? Do I need to install older versions to handle the migration to the latest?

Alternately would using the Export / import tools be better for this task than transferring the profiles?

Thank you

I am unable to print emails - the dialogue hangs at print preview screen where nothing is displayed apart from the circling wheel. Same for all accounts.

Fedora Linux 41 / KDE Plasma 6.2.5 / Graphics platform Wayland / Thunderbird 128.6.0-1.fc41

Thunderbird will not print to either printer (Epson Workforce Pro - WF-5110 or HPLaserJet P2015dn) rendering Thunderbird impossible to use fully.

Printers always:

• print a test page successfully
• print in all other apps including LibreOffice
• print web pages
• print same emails using Kmail client (installed as 2nd client if only to print emails as workaround)

Print using system dialogue does not work from Thunderbird (most options greyed-out including Print).

• reinstalling printers makes no difference
• reinstalling Thunderbird makes no difference

Cause: configuration setting or permissions issue or....

I'm out of options and can't think of anything else to try. As a long-term user of Thunderbird (>12 years) I'd really like to get this working. Thanks, Ric

Bonjour, lorsque je souhaite envoyer un nouveau message, Thunderbird affiche un message rempli de signes. Comment résoudre ce problème ? Je vous joins une image du "nouveau message" qui s'affiche. Merci pour votre aide.

____________ Hello, when I want to send a new message, Thunderbird displays a message full of signs. How to solve this problem? I attach an image of the "new message" that is displayed. Thank you for your help.

I use Thunderbird on two user IDs on the same Mac, which is running macOS 15.3.1.

I usually run Thunderbird updates on user 1, but this time I ran the it (to 128.7.0esr) on account 2, and I can no longer launch it on user 2. (Note: Neither user is an admin account.)

Steps: 1. On user 2, launch Thunderbird. 2. Get the dialog that there's an update to 128.7.0esr. 3. Click the Restart to update button. 4. Get the dialog that there's an update to 128.7.0esr. 5. Click the Restart to update button. 6. Get the dialog to enter admin ID and password for installing the Thunderbird helper. 7. Enter the admin ID and password and click OK. 8. Get a (surprise) dialog to authorize Thunderbird to discover my devices. 9. I choose to deny.

Expected result: Thunderbird relaunches, now with 128.7.0esr. Actual result: Get the dialog to enter admin ID and password for installing the Thunderbird helper.

10. Log off user 2 and log on to user 1. 11. Download 128.7.0esr from the Mozilla website. 12. Check the hash. 13. Install, choosing to replace the old Thunderbird in the shared Applications folder. 14. System Settings, About, System report, Applications 15. Verify the signature is signed by Mozilla 16. Launch Thunderbird

Expected and actual result: Thunderbird launches and I can use it normally.

17. Log out of user 1 and log into user 2. 18. Launch Thunderbird

Expected result: Thunderbird launches and I can use it normally. Actual result: Get the dialog to enter admin ID and password for installing the Thunderbird helper.

I'm guessing there's some manner of residual file that's preventing Thunderbird from launching on user 2. I've verified Thunderbird is in the system's Application folder and not in user 1's files.

How do I clear the pending install from user 2 so that Thunderbird will launch for user 2?

Hi,

I changed the settings on an email account in Thunderbird to imap from pop3 as well as with a different host. Now everything is gone.

Is there any way to get them back? :(

Thanks for any suggestions.

ginger

I have a new HD and installed Linux Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS. I installed Thunderbird version 2:1 snap 1-Oubuntu3. The program will not open Just get "Your Thunderbird profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible."

Use to be when I clicked a mailto: href my local Thunderbird would start with a new message in compose mode.

Sigh... Then I let one of my kids "send a quick message".

They have a Yahoo account, so now my machine is infected where mailto: href clicks land on login.yahoo.com rather than Thunderbird compose message.

Someone let me know how to get rid of the Yahoo login + return to starting Thunderbird.

Thanks!

Hello, I've just installed TB on a new computer (Windows11) and followed the directions given on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer to move data from the old computer to the new but when I open TB on the new computer it simply creates a new profile instead of the one I've copied into the C:\Users\...Appata\Local and \Roaming folders. What do I do to get TB to use the copied profiles? Thanks.

Do these plugins exist? If not, please make them, I need them!

1) The plugin lets you make filters for all mailboxes and folders, or for any selection of them, rather than for just a single folder/mailbox. Some things I filter for may arrive in any of several mailboxes, depending on the address I used, and it's a drag to create the same filter for each of them.

2) The plugin lets you search in specific mailboxes or folders, or for any selection of them, without having to wade through masses of irrelevant results from other folders.

3) The plugin shows you, in search results, what folder each email is in. Currently, when I do a search, each folder containing any results is on the list showing how many results it contains, and if I click on it I can see those results, but that's not the same - and it goes away when the results are shown as a list.

Thank you.