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So, I had to delete my wife's email account (and I know people cringe when that's done), because no matter what, I could not get in with any password and Thunderbird was acting strange in general. I created a new account but no matter what it will not take any password I put in. It just continues to circle and goes no where! How do I create this account easily, as I have done in the past, and what do I do about Thunderbird not accepting ANY passwords? As I said.....no matter what I put in, the the password section it doesn't take. Its like this: Name: Email address: Password: Once I put in whatever password I'm using it just continues to spin (or think) and goes no where. Can someone please help me here? I would so appreciate it. I'm not a computer dummy, but Thunderbird is sure making me feel like one!! Thank you in advance!

Something similar to what happened in Nov 2023 happened again today. "View" seems have to changed so that how when I see message headers listed in my inbox, I have to double-click on message to see it in a separate tab -- while previously I could just click on the header once, and the message text would appear below.

That previous problem SEEMED to be fixed by solution offered by David - Press [F8] to return to "Classic View". That doesn't work now. was solved. Attach Screenshot seems to indicate that I AM in "Classic View" but it's very different from what I'm used to.

I never understood clearly in Nov 2023 what caused the appearance to chance without any conscious action on my part. I'm equally baffled now. Any help anybody can offer would be appreciated.

Thanks for your attention.

MY thunderbird email comes from my comcast email. My wife email account will not allow a login. This account has been working for many years with no issues.

The error is login to server imap.comcast.net with username vimills@comcast.net failed. It also requests a new password at times. The passwords are correct and have not had problems until now

I am having problem loading messages at all, plus whn I can access the header the content will not load. Plus the unified folders are now seperate accoring to e:mail address. When deleting messages it no longer shows the deleted message. Ihave therefore no clue that they have been deleted. Also one time when I signed in a lot of messages I thought I had deleted months ago suddenly reappeared.

I forgot my email password and am not able to sign into my "secondary email" lotsof families@comcast.net. In trying to reset my password I managed to delete all messages in this email inbox!

Will this work: 1. uninstall TB 2. Install TB and let it automatically set up my five (5) Hotmail email addresses using oauth2 3. Import my TB profile OR copy my profile folder (with all emails & address books) into new installation and still have oauth2 in server settings? OR will it revert back to old non oauth2 server settings?

Thanks in advance & God Bless

Thanks for the help with the screenshots David. Here are the 3 screenshots 1.) Error message on bottom right. 2 & 3) Incoming and outgoing server settings. Looking forward to solving this issue!

I keep getting error messages like below..... up to 50 a day where my Thunderbird is not syncing with my hotmail email. I can not force it but just wait until it happens to automatically sync. It keeps getting worse every week and I just got a notice from Microsoft that they will no longer accept third party programs that do not support modern authentication after September 16. I love my Thunderbird. What can I do to ensure access to my hotmail with Thunderbird?

I'd mistakenly said that the Inbox's other emails are hidden when I click the X on the tab of an open email; that was wrong; they disappear when I press Del when viewing the tab of an open email. Dave

Since you sent me an email asking if I have any questions, I'll try a third time with my question. Frequently, when I close an email--either by selecting it in the Inbox and then pressing Del, or by clicking the X on the tab of an open email, the remaining emails in the Inbox disappear for awhile (progress in re-displaying them is shown by thermometer at lower right). However if I click another folder, say Drafts, and then re-click the Inbox, all are instantly visible--except of course for the one I wanted deleted.

Any thoughts?

Regards, Dave, a monthly contributor

I moved some emails to a folder from the inbox and now they are not displaying. when I search them I am able to find them and can be read, the search indicates that they are in "the new folder" all mail and important. This has happened before and I have not been able to resolve I am assuming there must be a setting I have activated/deactivated but I've no idea what. I am FAR from tech savvy so please give any answers in as simplistic form as possible. Thanks Matt

Hi, I believe in the past I was able to read an email by clicking on it and it would appear on the left of the main page. However, now whenever I click an email it opens in a new tab. This makes reading them take considerably longer. Is there any way to switch back to having them appear on the side instead of opening a new window/tab?

cox migrated their email system to yahoo but i dont believe yahoo uses usernames anymore, just email addresses so i cant set up my email to thunderbird since it requires a username and like i said i dont think one exists anymore.

When checking email, Thunderbird's status bar at the bottom will report x number of emails received (e.g., "received 1 of 1 messages"). I have not had difficulty receiving email and those messages displaying in the Inbox--but there have been a number of instances where the status bar will report one or more messages have been received, but none display, despite the fact that I do not nor have I ever had filtering in place. Since I continue to receive emails that display when received, the only thing that concerns me is that there could be messages that are being lost, and I have no idea how to correct the problem and be assured that each and every email is retrieved and displayed. Thank you for your assistance.

Hello

I created an Archive directory within Local Folders, and within that have stored years of emails.

As of yesterday, when clicking on any given sub directory within the Archive, Thunderbird says that there are 0 messages to display.

All of the .sbd and .msf files are present when I browse the Archive structure in my user profile in Windows Explorer.

The problem seems to be that Thunderbird can read and display the directory structure, but cannot display the emails contained within it.

I do not have a backup of the profile directory (yes, I know!).

Can anyone offer a solution that will allow Thunderbird to display messages that seem still be present ?

With thanks in advance