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Hello. I went into my Thunderbird email account this morning and noticed that emails were further apart. If I choose to return listed emails to the previous format how can i do that? Thanks, Chris

After a minor laptop disaster, have lost the settings for my thunderbird account. I would like to restore the account, without losing the messages already there. The configuration settings were found in Mozilla ISP data base, but I can get no further. I would appreciate the help.Do you need any further details  ?

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   jrgpost@gmail.com

I wish to transfer my Thunderbird accounts (i.e. I have two different email addresses in one Thunderbird installation) from my 'old' PC to my 'new' laptop.

Historically I have backed up my emails by copying the Thunderbird folder from <user>/AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird and pasting it to my backup disk. This has worked well for more than 6 years. In that time, I've had to recover a couple of times by simply re-installing Thunderbird, establishing it with my main email account (ian_and_maureen@yahoo.co.uk), then replacing the newly established .../Roaming/Thunderbird folder with the archived one, thus recovering all my subfolder data in the Inbox of ian_and_maureen... plus a second email address.

I've tried to do this with the laptop, but I don't fully recover the historical data, all I get is the current Inboxes for the two accounts with no historical data. Can you advise me what I'm doing wrong? If this is the wrong way, what is the correct way? It seems essentially the same action as is described by the guide found at Moving Thunderbird Data to a New Computer | Thunderbird Help (mozilla.org)

My PC is running Windows 10 Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.4717) with Thunderbird Version 115.13.0 (32-bit). The Laptop is Windows 11 Version 23H2 (OS Build 22631.3958 with Thunderbird Version 115.13.0 (64-bit)

To avoid insurance junk mail, I created a filter for 'Subject contains' & the value 'nsurance' with the action 'Move to junk mail'. Whether invoked automatically or manually, it doesn't work. I tried several similar filters, on Subject or From & none work. Why? How can I achieve my objective?

I've set up two Thunderbird Profiles. One for all my work emails and one for all my personal ones. I've got two shortcuts on the Desktop setup with the following entries in the target

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -no-remote -P default-release "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -no-remote -P PersonalAccounts

They both work well but I'm struggling to work out how to pin the shortcuts to my taskbar so I can just click on either when the need arises.

I did try just setting it up to give me the profile manager "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -no-remote -ProfileManager but I'd rather save a click or two if it's possible.

Any ideas on how to do this? It's not letting me pin two Thunderbird shortcuts.

I did try following the Firefox method https://gist.github.com/jooize/5636b9eb975bde30c38b753e9f301de4 but got stuck at the line where it says "select the location field (Ctrl-L).", "Replace text with: about:config" lines.

Since that last update (128.0) I can hardly tell the difference between read and unread messages. Particularly when there are just a few messages of the same kind with no basis for comparison. I've looked through previous threads and found some solutions that involve modifying scripts. I had ChatGpt help me with the maneuver , but it didn't change anything. I would also be satisfied with another font in the headline or another background color - just something that ensure sure I do not miss an important mail in the stack.

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.

I changed my server today and now I cannot access IMAP SSL. Everytime I try thunderbird sends me this error.

The certificate for {$hostname} is not valid for that server. Someone could be trying to impersonate the server and you should not continue.

I have no options to accept the new certificate.

I am running Kubuntu 24.04 with a snap package for thunderbird. I removed from .ssh/known_hosts all signatures that where problematic when sshing the server. Don't know how to delete the signature in thunderbird. Have not found anything relating to this message in Google.

Any clue?

I just updated to the latest version of Thunderbird (128.0). My layout is set to vertical view. The layout on the list of messages (the middle section in between the list of folders and the message preview pane) looks very different from the previous version. The font is smaller and each message pane seems to take up more space (less dense). I wish I could describe the problem better by sending a screenshot, but I only know to do that in Firefox, not Thunderbird. I've tried to adjust the settings (either adjusting the density or zoom) but I can't get it to look the same as before. Adjusting the font size bigger makes each message take up more space so fewer messages fit in the message list. Can someone help?

My TB has created 2 INBOX subfolders named "archive" and "archives" by itself and they cannot be deleted. (location: imap://XXX@mail.XXXX.com/INBOX/Archive (XXX=PII redacted and location: imap://XXX@mail.XXXX.com/INBOX/Archives (XXX=PII redacted) TB also created a subfolder "Outbox" to Local Folders, (location: mailbox:///C:/Users/XXX/AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles/k0qhfwl3.default/Mail/Local Folders/Unsent Messages)

I even closed TB, went to the folder location and deleted the file - and they just came back.

Every time I want to fetch new mails, I have an Warning saying:

Error in account (my account) Could not write mail in mailfolder. Ensure that You have writing rights to the filesystem, and You have sufficient disk space to copy the mailfolder.

I have app 1,2 Mb mails on my system in mailfolders. I have 375 Gb free disk space. I have full rights to the filesystem and have tried to start Thunderbird with administrator rights.

I am running Thunderbird 128.0.1esr (64-bit)

I can't send or receive emails since Telstra changed the authentication. three different technicians from Telstra have given me three different addresses for incoming mail none of which work. At least with pop address it comes up with message below:

Login to server pop.telstra.com with username xxxxxxx@bigpond.com failed.

With an incoming stmp or imap address I don't get any response at all.

How do I fix this? Thanking you in advance Desperate

After listing incoming emails the following message is displayed: " The account ******.net.au is being processed. Please wait until processing is complete. But it never completes! A steady blue line appears on the right side of the bottom line while on the bottom line on the left is the message 'No emails to download".

Another message encountered: Sending of password for user ******@******..com did not succeed. Mail server mail6.hosting platform.com responded Maximum number of connections from user+lp exceeds (mail.max userip.connections=3)

Finally to close Thunderbird by pressing pressing the "X" in the top right corner doesn't work - have to shut down the computer.

I'm thinking the best solution may be to reinstall Thunderbird provided existing emails will not be lost, and help will be appreciated.

Gitlab adds a "X-GitLab-NotificationReason" field to the email headers, but only sometimes. I want to filter out messages that do not contain this header. How do I do it? The only operators I can see in the GUI are "contains", "doesn't contain", "is", "isn't", "begins with" and "ends with".

They don't take regexes or wildcards, do they? In that case maybe "is *" would work?