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I have been using Thunderbird for many years and have previously updated without problem. But upon updating to version 128.0.1esr I suddenly couldn't see my folders or emails (see attached image). However, if I search for an email I will get a list containing the relevant emails, but as soon as I click on an email in the list I go back to the blank screen like at login with no folders or emails.

I have trawled through related fixes and have tried clearing the startup cache, restart and reinstall Thunderbird but nothing helped .

I'm unable to connect Thunderbird to my icloud calendar. I was able to locate the calendar url through my icloud account, but I could not get the set up process to recognize my password. I tried using my icloud password, my email account password, and the app specific password for my email server. Not sure what else to try.

I'm migrating Thunderbird from my old Windows 10 computer to a new Windows 11 computer.

I've installed Thunderbird v115.12.2 and successfully moved all my accounts, emails, calendars, etc., to the new computer.

Several things are NOT working correctly, though:

1 - Settings will not open. Here is the message from the error console:

Error: No such tab mode: preferencesTab

   openTab chrome://messenger/content/tabmail.js:758
   openTab chrome://communicator/content/utilityOverlay.js:257
   openPreferencesTab chrome://communicator/content/utilityOverlay.js:295
   openOptionsDialog chrome://messenger/content/mailCore.js:628
   oncommand chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xhtml:1

tabmail.js:956:17

   openTab chrome://messenger/content/tabmail.js:956
   openTab chrome://communicator/content/utilityOverlay.js:257
   openPreferencesTab chrome://communicator/content/utilityOverlay.js:295
   openOptionsDialog chrome://messenger/content/mailCore.js:628
   oncommand chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xhtml:1

2 - Customize menu does not open

3 - The hamburger menu in the upper right corner does not open

4 - The spaces toolbar on the far left is missing

5 - Events and Tasks are missing from the menu

6 - My calendar is nowhere to be found - I can't find a way to access it (on my old computer, I clicked on the calendar icon in the spaces toolbar on the left side of the window)

Thunderbird on my old computer was also running v115.12.2 when I backed up the profile folder to move it.

I tried downgrading to Thunderbird v102. I had all of the same issues listed above PLUS all my accounts and emails disappeared. -- I've brought it back up to v115.12.2.

Could someone please help me get Thunderbird working correctly?

I asked Thunderbird to archive the emails from the first few months of 2024. It created a 2024 folder under the Archives tab. But there are no emails. They have disappeared! Is there any way to recover the deleted emails?

I use the Search Box on the top line of Thunderbird. I have been double-clicking the box to get to a full-page search entry (Duck-Duck-Go).

As of today (6-Aug-24), this no longer works. The only places to search are the address bar, or a very short search bar.

Did this change in the last update? Can it be restored?

Thanks, Lex Rutter Idaho

'Have enabled and disabled. restarted, both times. Tried troubleshooting mode, and cleared the cache. Could not find the setting in the config screen. Not sure I was looking for the right thing, anyway. Your help will be greatly appreciated. John Looze

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.

Hi,

I'm using Thunderbird 128.0.1 on Mac OS 14.5, and recently (not sure when exactly), none of the normal messaging options like reply, reply-all, or forward are available. I still can start a new message, though.

Thanks.

I update my Thunderbird yesterday afternoon to the newest version. Now when I click my icon to launch it it launches a second default gear icon with the hover text reading "thunderbird-esr". I purged the install and reinstalled with the same issue. I'm using Pop!_OS on Wayland if that helps.

Since we upgraded to 115, most of our PC cannot forward email larger than 5MB to team members. One or two PC can sometimes send without problem but not always.

We can press "forward" and the compose new email window comes up as it has always been. But when we press "send", it will stall for a while then responded "Cannot send email". Press "OK" and sometimes it will then respond "Creating email" or something like that. The sequence could be reversed (create first then cannot send). Cannot even save as Draft into the Draft folder on our own manged MDaemon mail server on our local LAN.

Thinking it is all due to the forwarded email being too big, tried many many times over weeks checking MD setting, LAN and individual local PC setting but still cannot resolve.

Today I tried something completely different. Instead of "forwarding one large email", I tried to attach large attachments like .jpg etc and found that it is the "attachment process" that is causing the problem. If I attach a larger file, say 10MB, it is problem. If I attach several small files, it sometimes go through even the total file size exceed 10MB. The I tried attaching just a few attachments, save to draft folder, close the compose window, re-select the draft email and then add more file. Repeating this several times I managed to be able to save to draft folder on the server and then send out an email of 49.9MB. I keep on playing with it for hours but I could repeat and can only managed to do something like 10MB/11MB.

This is still much better than trying to "forward an email" (as attachment or in-line) which we can only do up to about 5MB max.

Please help to resole this problem.

Im trying to put my email (prkirby@sky.com) on to thunderbird (version 115.12.1 64Bit) running on a windows 11 computer I have 2 other emails which run perfectly All my settings are correct, pop 3 incoming pop.tools.sky.com port 995 outgoing smpt.tools.sky.com port 465 both my username and password are correct, all these settings work when using outlook 2013 pro plus on a computer running windows 7 username and password also work when signing in to emails on different computers When I create the account the message I get is password/usename incorrect Any help will be gratefully received Phil

Have no clue what I am doing. I have downloaded Thunderbird so I can access my bt internet emails (webmail is having issues)and have fallen at the first hurdle! I need someone to put in easy words what I am to do please. I have inputted my email address and password and it says unable to log in at server.

Hi all, I am a long time Thunderbird user on all my Windows machines. Today I installed Thunderbird 128.0.1esr (64bit) on fresh Win11 machine. I successfully added my gmail account to Thunderbird. I have issue with my other account - the SSL cert is issued not for this specific domain and I get warning about this but I can't accept this as exception - it appears again right after clicking "accept exception". I know this is about SSL cert but I want to accept this exception.

On another Win machine I had configured both accounts for ages - it stopped to connect to this server right after upgrading to 128.0.1esr.

Disabling SSL scanning in ESET or disabling protection at all is not helping. When I change configuration from "STARTSSL" to "NONE" it then connects to the server. The issue is with accepting exception in Thunderbird. Do you have any suggestions?

Kind regards Daniel

I use thunderbird on two desktop computers that are linked via google. Last year or maybe year before I started getting a duplicate email problem. If I send an email from one of the 5 email addresses that I use the email is sent to the intended recipient but, it is also sent to the inbox on the other computer. This week because I was having a signing in problem I have reinstalled mozilla thunderbird on both computers and also deleted the email addresses and re-created the accounts for them. The sign in problem seems to have been cured but not the duplicate problem. Anyone have any ideas about this? Andy

I suggest you stop recommending Mailfence. I have had some issues recently with my emails and presume it is to do with various updates, but the Mailfence account which i was going to close at the end of the term, remains blocked and i can't recover anything from them. Thb stated it was free when i subscribed, only it wasn't free for Thb platform users. They are not a fit company

128.0.1esr (64-bit) portable in w10 Windows 10 Enterprise 22H2 latest update as of 6th Aug 2024

Since I have updated to 128.0.1esr (64-bit) portable

I have been experiencing unusual and extremely slow rss feed and other email check & downloads

I have 3 gmail accounts & 1 microsoft and many rss feeds

unless I click on update/get messages for each gmail or microsoft or spesific rss feeds it just hangs

whereas when I click update/get all at once in the previous edition

I have never had such slowness or problem

I don't believe you need further info

please fix the slowness / and or not getting the new messages at all

I like to have all folders displayed - also if they are not 'subscribed'. The reason is that we have shared e-mail accounts and colleagues may create folders which I will not see until I know that I have to subscribe to the new folder. Every time I recognize this I do a Google search to find the checkbox 'Show only subscribed folders' and uncheck it. Would it be possible to put that in a more prominent place than 'Advanced...'? Or even better a global setting that all new accounts I connec inherit the setting "'Show only subscribed folders' unchecked".