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I wish to change my email address on thunderbird account, i have been getting a lot of scam emails from unknown sources and will be cancelling [edited] @tpg.com.au email and changing to [edited] @gmx.com and wish to change email address and keep contacts.

I have tried to reinstall Thunderbirds which I have used for many years. I cannot seem to get the Thunderbirds symbol on my list of apps or appearing at the top of my screen where I should be able to simply click on it to enable me to read or write emails.

Ken Drake

I've hit the refresh button 1000s of times to get halfway through my emails I'm still a few months from current it downloads 1-3 emails most of the time when hitting refresh all. And most of the help I found for this stuff is very out of date.

Since August 15, 2024, I have not been receiving emails on Thunderbird. I get a message saying the account is being processed and I must wait until the processing is complete before receiving messages. But it never is completed.

I am receiving emails from Thunderbird on my I-phone, but not on my computer.

Any ideas?

The folders and address lists exist in .thunderbird/5sdfwbvt.default /Mail/Local Folders

and in  .thunderbird/5sdfwbvt.default/storage/abook/mab  and abook/sqlite

How can I get thunderbird to access these resources??

I recently went away for a few days and shut down my pc. On my return I have had to recreate a new account through Thunderbird. Having done that I now find that I have lost all my local folders in my email. These are folders containing a history of emails received that I've needed to retain. I would like to get these back but don't know how to and cannot see any way of doing so.

When I create a new event I have to watch as the calendar it wants to save to in "Contacts" not my Google calendar. I have to select my Google calendar. Contacts calendar does not show up when I create a new event directly in Google calendar. I can turn off the Contacts calendar but I like that is shows my contacts birthdays. Is there a way to make my Google calendar default?

All of a sudden I cannot access yahoo mail via Thunderbird. I keep getting prompted for my email id and password, but that doesn't help.

This started August 28, 2024. OAuth2 has been enabled forever.

On the Yahoo help page, there is mention of an "app password" for third-party access. https://help.yahoo.com/kb/account/learn-generate-password-sln15241.html

Has anybody done this? What exactly does it mean? Do I substitute this generated password in the Thunderbird account settings for my real password?

Hi, I changed the gmail password, when I opened Thunderbird it asked for a password I entered the new password. I now get a message authentication failed and it ask to allow Thunderbird access to the google account

Hi everyone,

 I've been experiencing weird troubles with some messages. When I click a message in the list to open it, sometimes the message opened shows parts of other unrelated messages, including incomplete content, lines of base64 encoded strings,  boundary lines, partial html code, you name it. Looks like sometimes the program just mixes valid headers with parts of other random messages, starting on random lines. Sometimes the message content shows only the final line of the code of another unrelated message (the boundary end). 

 I'm attaching two captures to illustrate the issue. Only one folder is affected (well, unluckily for me, is the INBOX...), so I guess that file is the one broken.

 I've tried the "repair" option on the affected folder, to no avail. Sometimes looks like the problem is gone, but then another message that was ok before shows up broken. 

 Thunderbird version is 128.1.0esr (64bits), running on Windows 11 Professional (23H2). Profile size is 30 GB, INBOX database file is 16.757.000 KB by now, with 17.445 messages. I'm using IMAP as server, and no message is broken on the server (I've checked them on the webmail service). The machine is using a SSD, NVMe kingston RBUSNS8 239GB, if you want to know... It's ok AFAIK.
 
 If you need any other information regarding this, please ask and I will gladly provide it. As you may imagine, this issue is driving me mad! 
   
 Thank you for any kind of help you can provide to fix this weird issue.

I am not particularly tech-savvy. The solutions I have read are way above my head! 3 days ago it was all there with the icon showing on the desktop and today it has all gone. I need to use my email and I cannot lose all those messages. Please can someone tell me a simple way to get it all back? I am using different email address because, of course, you can't ask for support without logging in! So very unhelpful. Thank you in advance

Hello, One of my main contacts (my boss) has all of a sudden had his emails converted to plain text, and all attachments are coming over as .dat files. When I view them in a web browser program (Roundcube), they are fine with formatting, and the attachments are present in correct file formats (JPG, PDF, etc.). In Thunderbird though, no dice. And yes I have checked to see that the message body is set to Original HTML

I am updated to V128.1.1esr

Thoughts???

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

This is the second time my Thunderbird stopped receiving e-mails and both was after I tried to put on a spam blocker. Every time I open my Thunderbird it tries to receive e-mails. I see the line in the lower right working. Then it times out. My inbox screen halts 3/4 the way down not at the last e-mail. That has happened each time this has happened. All the things on line don't work. Reinstalling, Stop Norton, troubleshoot, clear cache. It seams that my password was changed or something like that. My phone, my other computers all still work. The last time it fixed itself I tried to put Mailbird on my computer. When Mailbird asked for info from Thunderbird to work. Thunderbird sent over incorrect log in info. I corrected it and then Mailbird and Thunderbird then worked. There must be a fix that Mozilla can help me with. Thanks.

All my Thunderbird incoming emails from June 2019 -last week disappeared. My sent email is still there. I read that it is a not uncommon problem but I cannot understand all the Help Articles. I am 70 years old and can use a computer but do not understand how it works. Our IT consultant retired suddenly and I am urgently looking for a new one. I am in San Francisco.

I called Support at Sonic, They checked and updated my settings but they were not able to restore the incoming email.

Thanks for your attention.