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Just received an email stating that after Sept 1, Microsoft will no longer support the use of third-party email apps without use of 'Microsoft’s modern authentication methods'.

What does this mean for Thunderbird?

I can't setup a new Gmail account because (1) Thunderbird won't let me finish the setup until it tests the account at Gmail, but (2) Gmail won't let me finish setting until they they can sent me a setup email to me at my new address on Thunderbird. It's a Catch 22. What do I do? Thank you.

Hi.

Why every time i run thunderbird and if i leave it open too often it bring me the error message for all hotmail/outlook mail accounts i have???

What the heck is happening and how i can solve this?

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?

Hello.

I use TB on several laptops and desktops. Same (latest) versions.

Is there a possibility to copy the spam filter settings/rules from one pc to an tother pc? If so, what files are the name of the files i have to copy and paste. Or do I have to make rules and spam settings on each seperate installation of TB

On all my installations I have the same emailaccounts.

Thanks in advance and sorry for my (bad?) language (i hope I made myself clear) Henri

Microsoft sent me this: Various non-Microsoft applications will have their own steps for connecting to your Outlook.com email account using modern authentication methods. See our help article - Modern Authentication Methods now needed to continue syncing Outlook Email in non-Microsoft email apps. However, you may need to contact the creators of those applications to provide you with instructions. In many cases, simply removing and re-adding your account with the latest version of that application will configure it to use modern authentication methods.

Will Thunderbird continue to link me to Outlook? If so, how?

Thank you.

When attempting to send emails from any of my email account using 128.0esr - after pushing send, the email to be sent just sits there and never goes anywhere. I know that all the settings are correct for my email client since they worked fine with 115 (wish I could get back to 115.12).

I dual boot Win10 and Zorin Linux 17.1, and run Tbird on both of them, works great!

I copied my profile directory from Win10 to Zorin, and then renamed it to the name of the profile directory that the Tbird installation on Zorin had chosen. So both systems access the same 10 IMAP email accounts. I keep messages locally, so the profile uses a fair bit of disk space on both systems.

In fact, the profile originally came from a different Win10 machine, so I had to copy it to a (large) thumb drive. And that took several hours and encountered numerous problems. The structure and content of the profile directory tree is bewildering. But despite the errors that caused a few thousand items (of the 302,000) not to get copied, it seemed to work just fine(!).

It turns out that Zorin seems able to read and write NTFS filesystems quite well. So now I'm wondering if I can copy the profile directory from Zorin to the Win10 partition on the same machine, and replace it with a symlink to that NTFS directory? Does Tbird do funky low-level things to the profile that might not work as expected with Zorin accessing it on NTFS? There would be no risk of race conditions since only one system can be booted at a time. It's just the problems I had copying to the thumb drive in the first place that make me worry that Tbird does some kind of magic with the profile that might not work with linux accessing NTFS...

I guess I'll go ahead and try it (and report back here), but I'm wondering if I should expect problems.

Thanks!

In a mass email, I want to use a portion of a large graphic (.jpg) as a link to a web page. I do realize that I can use an individual graphic as a link, but is there any way to specify a region, defined by pixel row/column, to be used as a link? Thank you.

Can you configure Microsoft shared mailboxes, as outlined in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/email/about-shared-mailboxes?view=o365-worldwide, in Thunderbird. If so, can you tell me how? If not, is it on the roadmap?

I received this email from Microsoft. I use Thuderbird. Microsoft logo

Le 16 septembre 2024, les applications qui utilisent une technologie de connexion moins sécurisée ne pourront plus accéder à votre courrier.

La sécurité de vos informations est la priorité absolue de Microsoft Corporation. Pour préserver la sécurité de votre compte, Microsoft Corporation ne prendra plus en charge l’utilisation d’applications de Courrier et calendrier Outlook tierces qui vous demandent de vous connecter avec uniquement les nom d’utilisateur et mot de passe de votre compte Microsoft. Pour accroître votre sécurité, vous devrez utiliser une application de Courrier ou de calendrier Outlook qui prend en charge les méthodes d’authentification moderne de Microsoft Corporation. Si vous n’agissez pas, vos applications de Courrier Outlook tierces ne seront plus en mesure d’accéder à votre adresse de courriel Outlook.com, Hotmail ou Live.com le 16 septembre 2024.

Que devez-vous faire?

Si vous recevez ce courriel, vous utilisez actuellement une application de Courrier ou de calendrier Outlook qui se sert d’une méthode d’authentification moins sécurisée pour la connexion à votre compte de courrier Outlook.com. Vous devrez mettre à niveau vos applications de Courrier et de calendrier Outlook tierces vers une version qui prend en charge les méthodes d’authentification modernes.

Microsoft Corporation propose des versions gratuites d’Outlook pour vos ordinateurs personnels et appareils Mac, iOS et Android qui peuvent être facilement téléchargées et connectées à votre compte de courrier. L’utilisation d’une version mise à jour d’une application Outlook garantit que vous vous connectez de la façon la plus sécurisée.

Comment pouvez-vous configurer votre application de Courrier Gmail, Apple Mail ou tierce?

Différentes applications non-Microsoft Corporation comporteront leur propre procédure de connexion à votre compte de courrier Outlook.com avec des méthodes d’authentification modernes. Consultez notre article d’aide – Méthodes d’authentification moderne à présent nécessaires pour poursuivre la synchronisation du courrier Outlook dans les applications de courrier non-Microsoft Corporation. Toutefois, vous devrez peut-être contacter les créateurs de ces applications pour obtenir des instructions. Dans bien des cas, il suffira de supprimer et de rajouter votre compte avec la dernière version de cette application afin qu’il soit configuré pour utiliser les méthodes d’authentification modernes.

Under Account Settings, I went to synchronization&storage, clicked Advanced to be sure the files would be available offline. I exited Thunderbird & used File Explorer to go to my root directory to Profiles. There were 2 files, one with the ext of .default-esr which was a large file. The other with ext of .default which was a very small file. I copied both of these to an external drive. Under Account Settings I went to Copies & Folders & under Message Archives, I didn't know what to choose. I need to know how to copy to the Local Folders of the profile for each email account which is 2, Gmail & Hotmail or Outlook. Thanks.

I stupidly deleted Thunderbird and now i lost my addresses ad not sure i can get them back can someone remote and help me with it see this but too complicated for me for me i had a guy from Just answers do it he made a test profile and it took up of space and i saww all sorts of profiles so i thoughtit would work removing it but it did not i removed and lost all profiles

had to totally  uninstall and reinstall  and now  i an not  get it back