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Good morning, On 20/07 I noticed that Thunderbird duplicated all the defects. The option to remove duplicates does not work - no duplicates found. How can I fix this?

I have been using email filters to help me manage the tons of emails I receive. I just realised that I lost all my message filters (multitudes of categories, 100's of rules) when I upgraded my outlook email account with new authentication settings! (and I'd like someone to tell me everything is going to be OK...) I use Timemachine backups - is it possible to retrieve the file for the message filter rules and overwrite the blank new one? Hoping very much that that's the case, please could you tell me where and how I do this in a mac OS environment? Thank you in advance.

Further info: Thunderbird version 115.13.0, Mac OS 13.6.7 (ventura)

Since installing Thunderbird (on Linux Fedora) I have been really confused by and disappointed in the search functionality. I used Mac Mail for the last 20 years, I know that is pretty good, but I was told Thunderbird is at least function, if not as 'pretty' (some say).

I dont use the Quick Filter box as I have a ton of local folders and usually just need to find an email which could be anywhere, but i KNOW it's there.

I begun testing it. Noticed a few things so wondering if someone can advise if this is just me, or normal behaviour...

In the global search, I finally realised (i think anyway) that it does not actually search everywhere, far from it. For instance, I searched for emails many times and it said they don't exist, so i panicked thinking they were lost, but no, I dived into Deleted Items and there they were. I store deleted items for 3 months, and often refer back to them for past purchase receipts or similar in the rare occasion that I need it again for some reason.

- It doesn't seem to search (doesn't find anyway) in my Imap Deleted Items folder,. OR the Local Folders

- It isn't searching/finding emails in my Local Folderrs, which is a HUGE problem as 95% of my email is stored in those. Why wouldn't a global search find stuff in my local folders? I have tested it and confirmed it's not searching in any of them.

- I have ebay messages in my INBOX, from a username starting with perrie134 - I tried BOTH the quick filter and the CTRL K search, searching for 'perrie134' and then 'perr' and ZERO messages come up. Does the search not include 'from' info?

As far as I can tell, the search is not working at all. So I am hoping something must surely be wrong my end, but grateful if someone can comment. I can't use a program that can't find emails when I type in information included in 'from' and 'subject' areas, but at this point it's failing in every way.

Appreciate any advice/thoughts. Thanks

Ich nutze seit sehr, sehr vielen Jahren SeaMonkey Mail für meine Mailkonten mit mehreren Serveradressen beim selben Hoster. Jetzt werden auf meinem Win10 Rechner seit einiger Zeit die Mails von einem Server zuweilen automatisch abgerufen und dann wieder nicht und stattdessen mit der Fehlermeldung ZEITÜBERSCHREITUNG der Verbindung mit dem Server.... quittiert. Den gleichen Fehler erhalte ich immer, wenn ich versuche, die Mails manuell abzurufen. Die Postfächer der anderer Server werden anstandslos abgerufen. Zusätzlich habe ich nun Thunderbird installiert und dort genau das gleiche Problem. Am gleichen Netzwerk hängen noch andere Rechner, die ebenfalls mit SeaMonkey auf die gleichen Konten zugreifen und dort funktioniert alles einwandfrei, genauso auf meinem Handy mit K9 Mail. Ich habe gefühlt schon alles, was es zu googeln gibt ausprobiert, dieses Problem zu beheben, leider ohne Erfolg. Hat jemand eine hilfreiche Idee?

Whenever I am sending mail, i am getting below error. Please help me in resolving this.

Sending of the message failed. An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: VYVOsYQNqdrsd :: auth :: Message rejected for spam or virus content :: Please include this entire message when contacting support :: v=2.4 cv=RP54HJi+ c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=669d296f p=OPRUFPQGoh569WQFvXtSIobI15E=:19 p=oZkEvmyiyE/q2lV5arLpOMcd6ao=:19 p=YoCWD1gvAAAA:8 a=R81TTDdxhhbu9/LaLMjlEw==:117 a=R81TTDdxhhbu9/LaLMjlEw==:17 a=r77TgQKjGQsHNAKrUKIA:9 a=pO3NbfjJAAAA:8 a=Ekco8rQQAAAA:8 a=tkAKjkIJK8770bLqrmoA:9 a=3ZKOabzyN94A:10 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=WZyYJm0InvoA:10 a=7N2blkF-BilOjWizr1cA:9 a=LFcaivj14Dx4z3Je:21 a=6UIaq3Bcl8oA:10 a=_W_S_7VecoQA:10 a=lqcHg5cX4UMA:10 a=Ft5Y8w1vTaeTbtMMCXcA:9 a=KQqxNPgzF0kA:10 a=VEiTNn8F7TgA:10 a=zY0JdQc1-4EAyPf5TuXT:22 a=x4kM2YgO77k4yOJ0D7fG:22 a=3YVmFDEhSncCuBJjFP7s:22 a=8UvDbJo0RtOi9ExFFup5:22 :: 100.00. Please check the message and try again.

I got an email from Microsoft saying my Live.com or Outlook.com email accounts won't be supported in Thunderbird UNLESS I change the settings to OAuth2 in incoming and outgoing server settings.

I even REMOVED the email account and re-added it making sure it was OAuth2.

But for my live.com & outlook.com email accounts I continually get prompts for passwords from Thunderbird. Sometimes I can't even click the RED X at the upper right to shut the prompt down. I just happens over and over until I give it what it wants.

I am tempted to shut down all Microsoft email accounts and switch to Gmail.

I have Thunderbird version 115.12.2 (64-bit) I used Windows 11 23H2 build 22631.3810 Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22700.1020.0

Any idea how to stop these prompts?

I like Thunderbird much more than any other email program I have ever used, and would like to keep it

I am running Thunderbird on OS Ventura 13.6.7 on a Macbook Pro. I have used Thunderbird for years to access my Yahoo email account, but today (again after having problems a year or two ago) I keep getting a window popup asking me to login. However it does not ask for a password and when I click on next it gives me an error saying I have to enable cookies on my browser (they are enabled). I can login online but I would much rather continue to use Thunderbird as I have a number of other email accounts as well. I read about others here with similar problems but don't know of any anti-virus in my Mac. Here is a screenshot of the error message.

I am currently on Ver 115.12.2 (32-bit), but I've had this problem over several versions. I recently downgraded from the 64bit version (for a different reason), it had the same issue.

Old messages in the Inbox are listed twice, including those that have been read. New incoming messages are not duplicated, messages where I've deleted the duplicates are not again duped. Messages that get filtered to or moved to folders are not duped. Old messages that are in folders are not duped.

I have several email accounts in TB, and I only see this on my most active- of course! I have compacted all folders many times and rebuilt the Global Database with no effect. I tried opening in Troubleshooting mode and they are still duplicated. It is a POP account.

I updated Thunderbird with software update on Friday July 19, 2024. When I open Thunderbird I get a 'blank' page saying "No Messages". Then mail is delivered as was normally done. When I try to delete unwanted messages the program seems to be working but doesn't delete highlighted message and doesn't open on the next message moved to. Also when trying to send a new message it times out, and I get an error message about SMTP. This is only since the new update was installed.

About 3 weeks ago, I stopped getting email from ATT in Thunderbird. I am able to go online to the ATT mail and see my email, so it is something with Thunderbird. I've looked online for other suggestions and have tried several. Between everything, I've really messed things up and not sure where to start now. Last thing I tried was to delete the certificate and now I can't seem to add a certificate. Not sure if I'm suppose to create a new one or if there is one on my computer.

This morning I found some steps on how to create one. It had me go to the End-to-End Encryption to generate a new one. I didn't see that option, so I created a new OpenPGP key (not sure why I thought that would help).

Maybe the best thing is to try and reinstall Thunderbird.

I'm open to any suggestions.

Thank you.

I had three unread messages and this showed correctly in my task bar icon. I click on one of the messages to read it and the counter showed no nread messages.

How can I fix this?

Thanks

suddenly no emails shown in 'in box' and 'sent',,,,tho the count for each file shows how many are in each file. no emails download fro AOL either. Lawrence Boland ljboland@verizon.net

I installed t-bird in my outlook folder. Now there are replicas of my personal email data with suffixes .sbd and .msf. What is their purpose and can I delete them?

bold textThis is for my dad he has 3 different accounts on his Thunderbird account his own my moms and a gmail account. it is a web based account through comcast/xfinity . he has it set up for pop3.. he is using 115 version. any way every time he would try to sign in to his account it would come up with my moms account he would put in the password he thought he had and it did not work. Had he was unable to send and receive from his own account. I had him go to Comcast/ Xfinity and change the password which he did and tried again to get into his Thunderbird account and it for the Primary password and he puts in waht he just changed in Comcast it did not /does not work. what can he do. He had gone away for a few days unplugged his computer but tht should not have changed any thing. thanks what can he do.

I changed setting for 'unsent message' from 'alert me' to 'no'. Suddenly 'in' for ljboland@verizon.net show no read nor unread 'in box' and the Sent messages do not appear as tho there are none but on top ' 2201 messages' is shown.

lawrence boland ljboland@verizon.net