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I'm using Nebula 128.5esr 64-bit on my Mac. Some emails in inbox does not opening; even in Troubleshooting mode... cannot be deleted / moved etc... even I restart Thunderbird many times result is same... recently it happened again and I was able to remove by chance (I tried moved, delete, restart etc..). but then some folders are got empty and hundreds of emails are lost... I can only mark as read - unread only.

I'm using 128.5esr (64-bit) in Mac. There was a email in inbox ; I can mark it as read-under but cannot delete, move; I tried many times delete or move but nothing happened. After several restart that zombie email left but also I saw many empty folders which must have hundred emails in it...

my last backup belongs to months ago, so I lost all important emails. How to recover it I do not know. Any advice ?

Default profile lost / hidden.

For the last few days, I have been getting certificate errors. I decided to move from Pop to Imap which fixed the problem. Somewhere in creating the new IMAP account, it asked me if I want to have messages moved to another account, to which I said yes, which would keep me from having to move all of those folders and re-create the inbox structure. Well, that somehow removed that default profile. I backup regularly, but just found out that the appdata branch is a hidden folder and did not get picked up. Okay, fine. However, my email folders are on a data drive and are fully backed up. I have all of the data, i just need to re-establish the profile. If I go to appdata .... profiles ... , that account is in there. I can't import it. I can't even import the messages. Can you guide me to getting my default account visible again. I'm sure there are already articles and answers, and I browsed but could not find the right one in the many, many answers provided. I'm very tech savvy, so I'm sure I can follow the guidance given.

I am preparing for a transit from MS and Outlook to Linux and Thunderbird. My outlook is set up in a way that all pop-3 accounts are in one PST file. I have almost no experience with Thunderbird, though I have set up Thunderbird on a test laptop and created one account as IMAP to test. this works nicely. I want to cancel my MS office subscription to not being forced into windows 11 in 2025! Office libre does the rest of the office app job.

BUT Outlook seems a different beast. Now, for the transition form Outlook to Thunderbird I will need to move over all PST files (the current one and all archives):

How can I import a PST file (which contains data of several e-mail accounts) into Thunderbird.

Does that work at all? If so, (I hope) how do I need to set up Thunderbird with all the accounts which are in the PST? What are the pitfalls? Should I use an automated (software solution) to be on the safe side or just not to not screw up?

Thanks a million for your tips and help

je ne reçois plus mes mails sur mon iphone 15... il semblerait que l'imap.free soit en cause........! que faut il faire

par contre sur mon ordi tout marche bien..

Merci

I NEVER use threads but somehow recent folders I create in my local folder for archiving off the imap cloud now automatically are threaded even though in my selected columns to display the thread option is not activated. It seems that a recent updated added this function to new folders I create. How do I turn it off? Thank you.

My Thunderbird had an automatic upgrade this week to 128.5.1esr 32Bit. Since then, I have not been able to pull down email for any of my accounts. When attempting to pull email from remote servers, the Thunderbird status message is "Checking server capabilities ....". This has gone for hours with no change, or the attempt just stops with no status update and no emails. This occurs regardless of VPN usage. What happened and how do I fix this ?!?!?

My inbox is showing as 96% full but there are only a couple of emails in it. It's acting like I have never deleted them even though I have & do. Yesterday it said 92% full. Sometimes the folders below it, sent, junk, deleted etc show as 96% full also, other times they don't. I have compacted the folders but each day it just gets more full. Please, how can I fix this issue? And please be specific, I'm not overly computer literate. Thank you. Jo

all of a sudden Thunderbird is just giving a message that says the server is reset and it won't connect. Nothing has been changed. This situation just started. I have made no changes.

When a reminder comes up on mine. There is a blank spot where I would think it would give what the reminder was.. So this box comes up with the reminder, the heading is there but underneath where i would think exactly what the reminder was about, is a blank area. Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere or something? thanks I can't do a screen shot that would help if the reminder hasn't come up

In the process of migrating away from Outlook to Thunderbird. Installed Thunderbird and connected to gmail using IMAP easy enough. Used ReliefJet Essentials to convert a PST file to MBOX. That process appeared to go well. Folders were created during the process and folder structures corresponded to the folder structures in the original PST. Each folder also contained corresponding *.mbox files. .mbox file contents looked appropriate when opening with notepad. Problem begins here. My intention was to access the those messages under "Local Folders." Under local folders account settings, I pointed Message Storage 'local directly' to the folder where the directories and .mbox files are stored. After a restart, Thunderbird sees the folders BUT NOT the individuals messages in the folders. What have a done wrong...?

When I transferred Thunderbird from my old computer to my new computer, my messages transferred but my email addresses did not. What do I need to do to transfer my email addresses.

I have used thunderbird for many years and have installed various versions on many different windows machines. I just got a new PC running windows 11 and installed the current version of thunderbird. The local folders show up but with no content (no subfolders and no messages found). My local folder (about 45 Gb) is located on a dropbox drive so that I can read and save emails on different machines.

I wonder whether it is related to this version? I have installed thunderbird on a different machine about one year ago and it worked fine (thunderbird is currently running this way on 2 other window machines and they are all OK). If this is the case, is there a way I can find and install an earlier version of thunderbird?

Thanks for your help.