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I am trying to move TBird from a Windows PC to a new Windows 11 PC. When I download and install TBird in the new PC, and look in the Profies folder,everything is stored under a sub-folder with a name like 3umcbvht.default-esr

Is this right or amI doing something wrong please?

Dave Martin

Hi, I am writing on behalf of an elderly user who sometimes closes Thunderbird windows when making their way to other Thunderbird windows or Tabs which are open. This sometimes leads to the situation where, in the Windows taskbar, there is no blue Thunderbird icon visible, but there are Thunderbird Write icons visible (the black-coloured fat pencil icon). The problem is that the "Launched" or "Home" icon can vanish from the Taskbar even when the Thunderbird program is open, such as for writing an email.

This person's workflow requires the blue icon to be stable - it should never disappear from the Taskbar, even if certain Thunderbird windows are closed. I have tried explaining the logic and what to do, but after decades of using "forever stable" email software and their permanent "stable Home icons are always to be found in the Taskbar" I am unable to change the users' expectations about usability.(I am providing family IT support for my elderly parents and others.)

I would like to implement a script or install an add-in which ensures that the blue Thunderbird "Launched" or "Home" icon is permanently welded to the Taskbar, like a limpet, in all circumstances.

This "Sticky blue Home Thunderbird icon in the Taskbar" would be an acceptable usability outcome even if it means computer performance is degraded by allowing users to open multiple instances of Thunderbird.

Put plainly, they want it more and if performance is the price to pay, they will accept that price.

Is any such script available? Is there a switch in the coding I can change to enable stickiness? Is there an Add-In which can achieve this outcome? Is there any other path to the desired solution?

Thank you for your time considering this and solutions.

I'm no longer able to signon to Thunderbird on my laptop. I can signon to gmail.com server to view email. 2 iPads and 2 iPhones also provide email. Just can't get Thunderbird signon to work on my laptop. I suspect this somehow involves Google. When I try to get msgs in Thunderbird, a panel pops up "Enter credentials for Google". Message indicates Signin to continue to Mozilla Thunderbird email. Then asks for a password. What password? Google or Thunderbird? Neither works. Not sure what to try next. Any help would be appreciated.

In Outlook, when I navigate to a folder and reply to an email in that folder, the email I send is automatically categorised into that folder, and no other copy appears elsewhere (such as in the 'Sent' folder).

Is this behaviour natively possible in Thunderbird without resorting to an add-on?

I realise there is the option to 'Place replies in the folder of the message being replied to' in the 'Copies & Folders' settings of the email account, but this places a second copy in the 'Sent' folder. I tried experimenting with the radio button options '"Sent" Folder on' and 'Other' in the same settings section, but no combination seems to place one and only one email corresponding to the email I sent in the folder I emailed from without creating a copy in the 'Sent' folder of the account.

I gathered all my mailboxes under Thunderbird and saved my passwords. All of them work except my Outlook email addresses (live) because I have to re-enter the password several times (inaccessible server message). Can you help me

When I did the last update for Thunderbird, it kept asking for me to sign in to my Google account, but rejected my password. Contacted Google and they said I'm already signed in???

Environment: Windows 10 22H2, Thunderbird 128.0.1esr 64-bit on two different PC's, "A" and "B".

Scenario and steps to reproduce:

(1) On "A", installed extension "remove duplicate messages" (version compatible with Tbird 128). Works fine. Profile on this PC is D:\Alice\Thunderbird\Main.

(2) Completely get out of Thunderbird on "A".

(3) On "B", launch Thunderbird accessing the same profile residing on "A" as mounted drive, "Q:\Alice\Thunderbird\Main". Mail, calendar, etc work fine. However, the extension is not available (No "Remove Duplicates" on context menu or Tools menu). On Tools :: Extensions and Themes, extension shows up with a blank (empty) icon.

(4) On "B", disable the extension, close the "Extensions and Themes" tab and completely get out of Thunderbird. Re-launch Thunderbird, go to Tools :: Extensions and Themes, and the icon has reappeared. After re-enabling the extension, it is active and works flawlessly.

(5) Then, completely get out of Thunderbird on "B".

(6) On "A", launch Thunderbird. It now exhibits the same behaviour for the extension: it is not available, and the icon is blank. Performing the same steps as in step (4) above restores the extension to its working state. And, you have probably guessed by now, it is no longer working on "B" !

Just to make sure this is not specific to this particular extension ("remove duplicate messages"), I installed another extension ("Quicktext"), and it behaves exactly the same (either singly, or with "remove duplicate messages" still installed).

So, it seems that you cannot use extensions from the same profile accessed via two different paths, one PC accessing it via a local drive and another accessing it via a mounted drive. I want to re-interate, before someone asks, that Thunderbird is completely down on one PC before I try to access the profile on the other PC.

Has anyone seen this behaviour on Tbird 128 ?

Thanks.

I just installed the newest Thunderbird client on my Windows 11 PC but I am unable to add any email accounts to it. My Gmail account hangs forever checking the password and my custom domain account hangs forever after it says Password OK. Both have messages like the following on the status bar at the bottom of the screen:

"Mail for user@host@emaildomain: Sending login information"

Nothing else happens. It just sits on this forever. If I Cancel, my email addresses are not added to Thunderbird.

I'm not sure what else I can do. Even trying to set the servers manually does not fix the issue.

Great update today! I like seeing the sender's email address, not just the name. BUT:

Now I can't send email. How do I fix this? Are YOU fixing this? Seems like this is a "you" problem, not a "me" problem--I haven't changed anything on my end.

TIA!

TB 128 - pop up notification is in dark theme (white and grey text on black background) even though selected TB theme is light and appeared as light in TB 115. Is there a way to fix it - or is it a bug?

For some silly reason when I changed my email password Thunderbird cannot connect to server either setup password or user incorrect. I am so sad because I love Thunderbird. I have tried everything I can think of. I chatted with Optimum and they said I needed to contact you. When I try to ping my server it just times out. My servers are pop.suddenlink.net and smtp.suddenlink.net. what could be wrong?

I have looks at the forum. I noticed that my problem is very common. Have this issue of not saving to sent folder been solved? Please do so in the next update PLEASE.

Would it be possible to reduce the size of files generated? Perhaps by splitting them into smaller files.

As a home user with a not very fast upload (~10Mb/s) it takes a very long time to transfer files to my cloud backup provider.