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Hi all.

I have just installed Thunderbird on my laptop, due to ongoing issues with using Outlook.

I have an MS Access database that I built using macros (I know, but it works perfectly fine for what I need!) I send emails with a signature and PDF attachments, or sometimes through a gateway (email to SMS), to inform guest about booking details at my small hotel.

Previously with Outlook, when I hit send on the database, it would pop the Outlook email window for me to review the mail before confirming send. Now I fin in Thunderbird, it doesn't display over the other apps, so I'm having to minimise or close the DB window, to review and send the mail.

I have already set Thunderbird as the default app in the setting menu, for all mail tasks and file types, and can't seem to find any other setting to allow it to display on top.

I was therefore wondering if anyone else has encountered a similar issue, and if they have, whether they were able to solve it before pulling out too much of their hair!

Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.

Mick Courcier

Hi,

I changed my laptop and moved all my Thunderbird data to the new one. Everything works fine except for the hyperlinks, which do not work. I tried all the solutions suggested on this webpage: https://www.data-recovery-solutions.com/blog/hyperlinks-in-messages-are-not-working-in-thunderbird/.

Unfortunately, nothing changed. I would be very grateful if someone had an idea to fix the problem.

I really appreciate any help you can provide. Adrien

Good afternoon since several days, it is impossible to send or forward mails by Thunderbird from all type of provider free, hotmail or gmail Sometimes one is correctly sent but it's very imposssible to know if it wil work thank you for your help Gilbert.tusseau@free.fr Gilbert.tusseau@hotmail.fr Gilbert.tusseau@gmail. com

I have two accounts with the same email address that have different names that show when you send an email. The main name (1234@5678.XX) is the same but what shows after is different (1234@5678.xx (name 1) vrs 1234@5678.xx (name 2)). How di I delete one of these accounts without deleting the messages from the other? I get the same emails on both so I don't need both. Thank you

I've recently had my pc worked on and the hard drive was changed. Now, I've lost my thunderbird emails. I can't seem to sign in using my (what I thought was my) password. Over time, I've never had to use my password. I tried to change, but I keeps saying my email address isn't recognized. So, I started again to ask for help.. stuck in the fast lane, thank you

My email provider appears to require a unique password for every device (I think is locked to the MAC address).

I have a new version installed from the android play store yesterday.

The QR code method of creating a account from my Ubuntu Thunderbird app does not work. Importing a working account from google does not make any sense on a new device (the MAC address for the original device will be different)

How do I manually edit of enter the configuration so that i can use my android phone as an email client?

Hi,

E-mail has always worked perfectly (Hotmail/Outlook.com), but my Calendar is still empty (it is not downloading the items I know that are in it). No idea what to do to get it synchronized. Provider for Exchange ActiveSync is installed and enabled.

Thank you

Hi,

E-mail has always worked perfectly (Hotmail/Outlook.com), but my Calendar is still empty (it is not downloading the items I know that are in it). No idea what to do to get it synchronized. Provider for Exchange ActiveSync is installed and enabled.

Thank you

I am trying to install Thunderbird to Windows 7 (32 bit). I have no trouble in receiving emails but I am having a major issue in being able to send emails. The error message = Unable to connect to Server (Certificate issue, user, or password). It is confusing why receiving emails works perfectly while sending emails is a different story. Any assistance will be appreciated.

no ribo ningun mail desde el dia 27 de febrero. no se que paso,de ninguna cuenta enviarme a este mail.

el problema es info@hantontravel.com.ar

                      sabrinarinaldi@hantontravel.com.ar

no se que paso es mi trabajo.

When I print my emails and sometime view them I appear to have multiple lines of programme text (see attached) The text is also very small. Being new to Thunderbird can you tell me what settings I have wrong.

I use 128.7.1esr (64-bit) on Windows 11 23H2. OS Name Microsoft Windows 11 Home Version 10.0.22631 Build 22631 I use two monitors: Monitor 1 is physically straight in front of me, and Monitor 2 is to the left, so in Settings > System > Display the box on the right is numbered 1, and the box on the left is numbered 2.

Since the latest TB update, each time I switch on the PC in the morning, TB (and FF) open on Monitor 2, even though I closed them down on Monitor 1 the previous night. This behaviour used to happen occasionally, now it seems to happen every time. Also, occasionally during the day, the TB Reminders window will jump to Monitor 2 while it's minimised.

I suppose the first question is - is this a TB/FF problem or a Windows problem? I'm thinking it must be a TB/FF problem, because this behaviour only seems to be happening with them.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

I'm trying to restore my Thunderbird mailboxes from my old (essentially dead) computer's backup to a new computer. My first attempt failed. I need to understand what went wrong and how to correct it.

I installed Thunderbird on the new computer and used Profile Manager to create a profile in the location where I want to keep it (in the Documents folder, to simplify backup). Then I found the place where the mailboxes were kept and copied my old mailboxes there from the backup.

Then I started Thunderbird. Instead of displaying my old Inbox and a list of mailboxes, it displayed a screen that prompted me to define my email account. OK, that's fair; if the account information wasn't in the files I copied, Thunderbird would have to do that. After I defined the accounts (there are three), I quit and restarted Thunderbird, and it displayed my Inbox and mailboxes.

But not quite as I expected. I expected to see the mail that was on the old computer when I last backed it up. Then I planned to download mail to get everything that came in after that. Instead I found that Thunderbird had erased everything I copied over, then downloaded the new mail without me asking it to.

Now what? The new mail is still on the server, so I can repeat the whole process if I have to. First, though, I need to understand what went wrong.

Owing to a price rise in MS Office, I had been looking to move to free software. Unfortunately for email this isn't working. I have downloaded Thunderbird and have tried to transfer my Outlook data there. I started two weeks ago and on average believe the process has been running a few hours a day, for much of the time when I look occupying 0% of CPU capacity, and most of the time not rising above 1%. The import has been stuck at 33% for that time, which I assume means that it imported Accounts and Settings or Address Books quickly and is taking a very long time to import Mail Messages. (It imported the couple of month's worth on webmail quite quickly.) Likely this is owing to the size of the Outlook file, 5 GB. Does this essentially make the transfer impossible? For how large a file could Thunderbird do a successful import?

Hi,

I set up my email accounts using POP3. I now realize I should have set them up using IMAP. Since I originally set things up using POP3, all my emails have been downloaded to my computer, and have been deleted from my provider's server. I have now created a new email account using IMAP. Is there a way to import the emails from the POP3 Thunderbird folder, into my newly created IMAP folder?

I have a custom email that I use for work and I was not able to get it working on Thunderbird. When I add the email/password, it detects the settings and then says it cannot confirm the password.

To workaround this, I only add the email, and then when it detects settings, it asks me to input the password. And when I do that, it adds the account and attempts to read my incoming STMP server. I get an error that it times out. And when I try to send emails, it says it cannot access the outgoing STMP.

I use cpanel and when I access my email via roundcube, it shows me my messages. I have cloudflare set up via namecheap with the correct DNS records. My other email clients (gmail/outlook) work fine. I have reinstalled thunderbird so Im not sure what else I can do

I have an e-mail account at work that goes through gmail. So how do I set up Thunderbird to access it? I have tried many times.

Let's say I have the following:

Full Name: Billy Budd E-mail address: [edited] @acme.com password: [edited]

I access this account though gmail. So how do I set up this account in Thunderbird so I can get all those e-mails and attachments on my local computer?

Thanks in advance.

Hello, I did just make a clean reinstallation of Thunderbird and while going through the setting I have notices that at Passwords / Save Passwords / `Show Passwords` my Account Passwords can be access with less effort.

My question now is, why is this even a feature?

In my mind, this should be by default off. Or at least informed me at the first account setup that my passwords are visible in the Settings, and if I want to set up a Master Password as well.

Is there an option to have the Button `Show Password` disable? Or if a Master Password have to be, then set it for only access `Show Password` but not for the login in to Thunderbird.

How do i change the highlight color of line items in my inbox? I just installed the program on a new computer. It is showing a pink color in my INBOX and want to change to blue. Thank you

I am looking at my email. I open one message into a tab on day 1. I leave the tab open. I do this again for two days. I now have three tables open. They are in the order:

Inbox day1msg day2msg day3msg

So, the message I opened most recently is ... farthest away? Is this intuitive to someone? Can I reverse the sort order here so that the messages I have most recently interacted with are most visible to me?

I want:

Inbox day3msg day2msg day1msg

I have looked for a config name and in the forums here, but am not seeing it. I am not sure what it would be called. Perhaps "tab order". But it is not message order and that is what _all_ of the posts are about.