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I am using Thunderbird version 128.7.0esr on Windows 11 Pro. I moved my Mail folder (and sub-folders) on my local drive. I re-directed each of 4 email accounts to their new sub-folder. The emails are downloading from the email host's POP3 server. New email messages are not visible in any of the inboxes. The counter shows the number increasing when messages are downloading. Global search does not find the new emails. The new emails show when I right click on any of the inboxes and select "Search Messages" (From/Contains."@"). I tried manually removing the Inbox.msf from one account, but did not fix when I restarted. I tried the Repair Folder button (right click Properties on Inbox folder), but did not fix. I know the emails are on my computer, but I cannot get to them without the very cumbersome "search messages" function. Suggestions?

I am trying to migrate my old Roadrunner (Spectrum) email account into Thunderbird. The auto create feature will not work with the settings that Thunderbird is finding. I have verified all of my information settings with Spectrum Support, and they tell me that Thunderbird has to supply me with some sort of special settings to make this work. Any help finding this info will be appreciated.

Hi - I have had gmail and my internet provider email accounts on Thunderbird working for years. Suddenly, a few days ago, I started getting certificate issues from Thunderbird warning me of the security risks. I chose to override. Now I am unable to download (imap) from either email server. I no longer receive the certificate risk dialog box. When I click on File>Get New Messages, message appear at the bottom of the page indicating Thunderbird is "connecting to the imap server" or "checking mail server capabilities", but nothing downloads. What do I need to do to correct this? Access to both servers stopped at the same time so I don't believe anything changed on the server end.

Thanks, Alan

Hi I have several mails with in my Thunderbird. For one of them I have unchecked all the server settings: "Check for new messages at startup" "Check for new messages every ..." "Allow immediate notifications..."

Thunderbird still keeps asking me for a pw at start and now and then. If possible I would prefer not to delete the account, but just have it as passive, so I can still find old mails there.

New mails from this old account, if any, are forwarded to another of my mails (another domain name), and then I move them manually down there, so it is easier to find. This was something my mail-provider arranged, so I should not pay 2x hosting for both domains. Alternative I can transfer the mails from the old account to a sub-folder with my active mail, but for organizational ease, is there a way I can keep a mail account as "passive" in Thunderbird, that is no check for new emails on this account and no ask for pw, since it is not really active anymore.

Dear filter specialists,

On a Windows 10 computer with TB Portable 128.6 and .7, folders can no longer be selected in the filters as ‘Run filter on’ or ‘perform these Actions’: the menu is greyed out. The phenomenon occurs with all accounts: POP and local. Various email providers, ESET virus scanner, Windows firewall, FritzBox cable router. The local account contains almost 30 GB of emails. The existing filters work as long as they do not affect the accounts or folders: for example, tagging e-mails works. Existing filters with folder-actions cannot be re-configured and no folder actions are possible when creating a new filter.

I have performed an update check and restarted Windows, changed the compression limit from 500 to 5 MB and changed a few minor settings so that the config is rewritten.

What could this be? How do I solve the problem? A workaround if necessary.

Thank you very much for your help.

I am using two profiles. The way I open it is open Thunderbird to start the default one, then I go through "help" > "troubleshooting" to get to the page that shows the link "about:profiles" and then I click that link so I can Launch the other profile. Not end of the world, but not fun either to go through all these steps.

Is there any way to create some sort of shortcuts that direct Thunderbird which profile to open?

Thank you

P.S. I tried playing with the Terminal as I found some references on how to use it to start the Profile Manager, but my Mac would not start any of that.

Typically if I experience a security certificate exception, thunderbird will popup the certificate exception box, I click to get certificate and am done.

Today I cannot get the certificate popup to appear. which is fine I know where the certificates are managed but I have not a clue how to add a certificate OR what information to enter into the "Add security exception" dialogue box

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Read Aloud is not producing sound in Thunderbird 128.7.1esr (64-bit), Windows 11 Pro. The app does highlight the text it is reading and progresses through the email, but there is no sound. I have checked various voices and tried to sound test the Piper voices. No luck. Windows Narrator (not ideal) will read the emails. I have checked every sound setting I can think of several times. I contacted Read Aloud support and they were unable to resolve my issue; they did confirm it worked in their Thunderbird app.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Monica

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'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.

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.

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 have 2 email accounts. I have been using [edited] @yahoo.com for a long time. At some point, I got [edited] @gmail.com for more official-type emails. I don't care for gmail and use it very little. Yahoo was just okay but they have recently made some changes I despise. A friend recommended Thunderbird so I downloaded it but needed a mozilla account. Google was an option so I used my gmail account. However, I am a long-time Firefox user. Do I now have 2 mozilla accounts?

I have just installed the latest version of Thunderbird in my new Windows 11 desktop. I have set up two email accounts with all the correct Charter Communications server information. It seems that when I enter the account user name for one account SMTP setting it migrates to replace the user name for the other account as well. Thus only one account can send emails! As an aside, when asked to enter passwords for each account I do not save them to the password saver. Any thoughts as to how to keep each account's user name intact in the SMTP settings would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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?

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?