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Thunderbird wants verificationfrom gmail but there is no where i can click locked in page have to ctrl>alt>delete to get out. No where to click on continue. I think the page is too big and aI cant see the next or accept or any other button. Can't use thunderbird to send or to see address or anything else

Thanks for your help

Stu

I'm not sure what the threaded view / sidebar / panel thing is called (the thing on the right in the screenshot I took from it'sfoss). I quite like the view of that but I wish there was a way to have more lines of text displayed for each email. Currently it's cutting off certain emails, and I wouldn't mind it showing double the amount of text.

can't provide screenshot of the cutting off because it's showing my emails. But yeah, it's the highlighted section from the screenshot

There must have been an update for Thunderbird that screwed up the way I have been using Thunderbird for years now. I had sub folders under inbox. For example, I had an investment newsletter go into a sub folder under inbox labelled "inv". I had a filter set up to move emails that had the name of the newsletter in the title to go to that "inv" folder. In this new version of Thunderbird, those separate sub folders are gone. The filters are still there but the folders are gone. Now all emails just go into the inbox. Is there a way to roll back to a previous version?

TIA Eric

I understand that (at the time of writing this) "Thunderbird Release" is not ready for production yet.

But I'm confused why the Beta version doesn't have a notice then.

(I know what Beta means, but the average person doesn't)

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/all/

I’ve got a minor but annoying Quick Filter button issue which just cropped up today out of nowhere, and haven’t been able to find an exact match for all these symptoms in any other problem reports.

Toggling my Quick Filter button works as expected, picking up the individual active filter buttons. However, in some instances of launching TB its on/off status indicator always displays as active regardless of individual filter button status. Weirder still, in other cases it always displays as inactive. It’s an intermittent problem, which always persists in one way or the other.

Further details:

- Problem is also present in safe mode, with the single plugin I use (CardBook) disabled.

- General display settings are “Theme Simple” and “Variant Normal” (not “Dark”).

- There are no automatic filters configured in “Tools > Message Filters”.

- Individual filter buttons are all working properly, including correct status indicators.

- Running current TB version (128.7.0esr 64-bit) on Windows 10 with all OS patches up to date.

An example:

Image 1: “Show only unread messages” button is active, and the Quick Filter button also displays as such (both indicators are correct).

Image 2: All individual filter buttons are inactive, yet the Quick Filter button still indicates a filter is active.

I’m stumped, thanks in advance for any help!

I have thousands of blank emails in my spam folder that I can't delete. They all have no subject or correspondent, and the date is 12/31/1969 4:00PM. How can I get rid of them?

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...

I have 4 Suddenlink emails being checked with Thunderbird. I have been running my current Thunderbird configuration for year. I have not changing anything on my end. Two weeks ago, I started getting a login to server pop.suddenlink.net failed popup on one of my Suddenlink accounts. I have logged into the email on the web interface and changed the password on the web and in Thunderbird. I am still getting the login to server pop.suddenlink.net failed. I have rest the password on the web interface a few times, but still cannot get it to work in Thunderbird. The other 3 Suddenlink accounts are still working fine. I have Thunderbird running on a second computer at work checking the same accounts and I am having the same problem with the same Suddenlink account.

I am trying to send a message with lots of MIME attachments from Thunderbird and I get this error message: "Number of MIME parts exceeds maximum permitted". Unhelpfully it does not say what the maximum is and I cannot find this information in Support. Anyone know what the maximum number of MIME attachments to an email is? Thanks in advance

I have 4 messages in my inbox (IMAP not Gmail). They are all labelled "Later" and one of them has a second tag "Important". These labels just appeared after I started using Thunderbird as from last month (2025-01-01). I found out how they should be removed: "More"-"Labels"-"0 - Remove all labels" or just click to toggle.

Expected behavour: Click to toggle off, stay off. Choose "0 - Remove all labels", stay removed

Actual behavour: With the pop up window open the label is gone, but when it's closed or another message selected, the label is back again.

Please help

Attached images: 1: Message is selected, go to "More"-"Labels"-"0 - Remove all labels" 2: Label is removed - for now 3: click on another message, the label is back

Two mailboxes are involved. Mailboxes ar configured as POP3. The problem started just a view days ago, as far as I can see shortly after 128.7.0.esr. Currently 128.7.1.esr is active but the problem stays.

I have no clue where to look.

Hi, I hope someone can help me. I've been archiving my e-mail on my Synology NAS for a number of years now. However, my W10 desktop computer died last year and I've had to reinstall Thunderbird on a new W11 PC. I want to get access to all the archived e-mails on my NAS, that is, as they used to appear in Thunderbird under local folders year-by-year. I also want to be able to archive more recent e-mails to the same location. That is, I want to re-establish the same archiving process I had previously, complete with access to the old archives. I've tried to set up the same file path to the NAS under Local Folders in Thunderbird (as far as I can remember - I might not have it correct) but the old archives don't appear. in an attempt to identify the correct file path on the NAS, I've tried to archive a recent message as a test so I can see where it is stored - in Thunderbird the year folder appears under the NAS location under local folders as expected and I can see the message in the message window so it seems to be working but I can't see any new folders or files on the NAS - nothing modified or created with today's date. I'd be grateful for any assistance. Thanks, Kevin

This morning, none of our Thunderbird desktop email is working. We can't send or receive email at all. Our webmail works but we don't want to use that. I just upgraded to 128.7.1esr hoping that would fix the problem. It hasn't. Attached is an error message I get when trying to send an email. I have checked and all the settings are correct.

I am not a developer so if you have any suggestions, please keep it simple. Thank you!

New Computer--4 days old Have downloaded Thunderbird (twice, the latest version from Moz website) Thunderbird crashes whenever I leave the computer long enough for it to go into sleep mode Crash reason: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION_READ Troubleshooting gives no answers Now running in Troubleshoot Mode having disabled add ons (none, I believe) Not much running on new computer yet--Avast, DuckDuckGo [I had a browser crash & needed to reload it on day 2 of machine's life (DuckDuck)...which might mean it is a machine issue rather than Thunderbird?...] Help! bp-4f000aa4-9396-4686-9338-49b190250203

In new version of thunderbird Having tasks with start and end dates make days appearing highlighted in calendar. Is there a way to doesn't have this behaviour ?

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.