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I can't understand how to get it to work when I get the emails from the online account and they are in Thunderbird, if I go into Thunderbird they are visible to anyone who would go in! Even if the person does not know my email password, they can just cancel out of the password box and all the emails stored on computer are available!

Also, I read some online post saying that Thunderbird does not store the emails in any encrypted way on the computer!

Multiple people can use a computer, or the user may be wary of whatever kind of access somehow, simply want it secured.

Is there no way for Thunderbird to do this after so many years? An extension or anything? I want to back up email account from online account, store on computer in secure private way but this program seems against that!?

Thunderbird has stopped loading my incoming email and ask for a password, but then says password is wrong. Is there any way to change the password for imap-outlook.com?

A new Thunderbird icon appeared on my Windows desktop. I unpinned the icon in the bottom pop up bar, and dragged the new icon to the bar. When I clicked on the icon, Thunderbird ran me through a new account set up routine, and when I got through that, all of the local folders - in which I had stored a virtual library of emails from different sources that I use for reference and education - had disappeared. No, I do not have a current backup of the folders... Is there some other way to retrieve these, or are they simply gone forever? Thanks for your input, Jeff

None of my drop down menu's show options or preferences . The other solutions I have read usually say go to options first but I don't have this. Clicking the 3 bars on the right hand side does not show them. Ultimately I am trying to get my unread emails to list in bold.

can you assign a combination of keys to replace commonly used text such as email address - as you can do quite easily on an iphone. eg when you type xx& your email address is inserted in your message.

After updating Windows 11 machine to Thunderbird Nebula, I am asked for a password when trying to subscribe a public nextcloud network calendar. I have installed this same calendar dozens of times on our school staff's desktops, so I know how to do it. I am pretty sure the upgrade broke it.

Hi, My instance of Thunderbird keeps crashing. I've tried emptying the startup cache, troubleshooter mode, reboot windows, turn off anti-virus. Nothing seems to work. It freezes sometimes and needs to be killed, but most times it crashes, sometimes right upon startup. I am not sure how to debug. Thank you! -D

OK, this is really complicated, and involves trying to rescue an old Eudora account to Thunderbird. If anyone wants the whole gory story, please ask and I'll tell all. ( I used Eudora Mailbox Cleaner and Eudora Rescue.) But the simple question is: is it possible to import a Thunderbird profile created on a Mac into a Thunderbird program on a PC? Thanks for any help.

My desktop lost power, I went to restart and opened Thunderbird. I think it went to an updated version. The usual page that I had to confirm and enter password were not there, at least I didn't see it anyway. I noticed a tab for "create new account". So I did that, which it opened all new emails, but my old ones were gone and I don't have any of them saved to a folder. Is there a way to migrate the old emails to the new account? Thanks in advance

I use pop3 for all my emails. I am setting up a new computer (not copying over old email backups) and trying to get my msn.com and live.com set up. It keeps telling me my username or password is incorrect. I can sign into the microsoft email directly, so I know they are correct. In thunderbird I add email and password for the msn email. click on pop3 - it auto populates the info. but when I click done - it states: unable to login at server. probably wrong configuration or username and password. (I did try imap with the same username and password and it worked - I just prefer to keep everything on my computer)

On my email account - keith@mediafivecorp.com - sometimes ALL my SENT emails are shown, but at other times only a about 15 or 20 show up...and from a wide range of past years. How can I get ALL my sent emails to show up all the time? Thanks.bold text

Hello,

Ever since I updated to the new Nebula version, fonts in some of the emails I've been getting are this weird flat/fat font that I have no idea what it is or why this started happening.

How do I correct this? (see attached screenshots for examples of this font in red boxes)

Thank you.

Having just installed the new update 128.0.1esr on two different computers running on Windows 10, we have the new problem that when composing new emails the text does not wrap to the window.

Changing the message format (Automatic, plain, HTML) does not make any difference.

Changing the wrap length to 0 in the Config editor does not make any difference either.

This is actually a real nuisance of a problem and we'd be very grateful for help. I suspect this is a bug in the new update but in until it gets sorted out we basically are going to go mad trying to write our emails. Is it possible to revert to the earlier version of Thunderbird, and if so, how?

Many thanks for any suggestions.

Hi, This is a problem that has been occurring with Thunderbird for a while now. I thought I'd previously found lots of posts on this topic and I wanted to check them but I can't see to find them now. I use Thunderbird for my work email account. I receive invitations to Teams meetings through email. When I use Outlook on my phone I can see an attached .ics file. When I use the web based email client provided by my ISP I can see an attached .ics file. When I use Thunderbird there's a message that says: "No writable calendars are configured for invitations, please check the calendar properties." and it claims there are no attachments. I don't care if it can't find a writable calendar, I want to download the .ics file. Where is the .ics file? I can download it from the other two clients and then import it into Thunderbird calendar fine. But that's a complete pain in the neck, having to log into a seperate email client to do that. If it's attached file, as the other two clients treat it as, why won't Thunderbird let me download it? Windows 10 Thunderbird 115.13.0 (64-bit)