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Hi,

I make extensive use of saved searches in Thunderbird and find them extremely useful. However, I have not found a way of exporting/importing the searches, so when I set up a new install I have to start from scratch with the search folders. This can take quite a while.

Does anybody know a way to do this?

I have tried using the profile folders, but they do not seem to save the search properties.

Any help would be very welcome.

I try to setup thunderbird in new windows 11 PC and every time get the message that thunderbird failed to find the settings of my email account. As a result I cannot access emails on that PC.

Hi all, I'm trying to add my school's M365 account to thunderbird, but they use multi-factor authentication and have disabled SMPT as it's not secure enough, and I don't believe they have app passwords enabled. Is there any way for me to send emails from this address on thunderbird?

I have three e-mail account with same provider which had worked fine each sending mail under its e-mail account. Now two of the account receive the message below. The is another user setup on computer. They have two e-mail account and sending works fine Outgoing servers are setup identical for all accounts

Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because connecting to Outgoing server (SMTP) smpt.hughes.net failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections. Please verify that your Outgoing server (SMTP) settings are correct and try again.

We have 1000 clients network and most of the clients having thunderbird installed (latest version) and configured , since last few months we started getting complaints that some of the local folders not showing their content mail in the system , we tried to repair folder does not work, we tried renaming .msf does not work.. when we see the some of the local folders mail they appear in the list but if you try to open it it opens blank and after trying troubleshooting steps thoes mails getting disappeared.. please assist..

I ran the Repair function on a folder, and not only did it not restore the contents of the emails, it completely emptied the folder. Now I'm afraid to do it on any of my other folders. Is there any other way to restore the data?

I'm running the current version of TB on a Win 11 machine that just updated and changed the in-basket to which I've become accustomed. I got it mostly back but now cannot see all my accounts or get at Gmail All Mail folders or my other Gmail accounts.

In order to upgrade to Win 11, unfortunately I must do a clean install.

I very much need to know what I need to do pre disk wipe to preserve my settings, do the right kind of backup of my various accounts, and be able to access my previous settings and account data once I install Tbird on my new system. It is very important for me to be able to access my old account data for legal reasons.

Thank very much in advance.

Doc

A specific email thread has disappeared from both my inbox and sent folders. I was in the process of writing a reply to the sender, my hand twitched (this happens from time to time) and I must have triggered TBird to glitch somehow. Next thing I know, the whole thread is gone. I can still access it by logging in to the organization's Outlook client directly.

I did a search for the email in TBird and the results indicate it can be found in both the Inbox and Sent folders (it's not), and it doesn't show up in the message list pane. I can access it by clicking on one of the search results, and I can reply to it from there. I have closed and restarted TBird with no change to this issue. This makes me wonder if my twitchy hand caused it to become "hidden" somehow.

Any ideas to help fix this would be appreciated!

I have a new computer and had to reinstall Thunderbird. All my folders did not load in. I've searched everywhere with zero result.

How do I find/retreive/add folders to a profile?

I can drag and drop some existing email addresses from my address book into a new mailing group, but Firefox refuses to allow other email addresses to be dragged and dropped. It seems completely arbitrary as to which existing email accounts can be drag and dropped and which cannot. The online "HELP" instructions for this function are completely outdated, written for an earlier version of the software, and are no help at all. The whole process of creating a mailing group that has several (30-40 or more) existing email addresses in it is a giant task if one cannot drag and drop those into the group. It is as if whoever designed the mail group function did not expect anyone to set up anything but small groups. Please fix this function!! It's current usability is severely limited and a real pain to use.

Greetings My Thunderbird displays all of my emails in the top box. However, all of a sudden, even though the emails in the Inbox are displayed correctly in the top box, the content of the emails of 12/29/2008 thru 1/1/2025 are empty. They are empty both in the bottom box and when double-clicking the email. The emails prior to and following these dates display properly. The other folders seem to function properly. Thank you. - Mark