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I needed to migrate my account to another laptop and i was advised to use the the following method: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer.

However, all the emails dated prior to the move, come up blank now, only the headers can be seen.

Server type is POP

I cannot download them from webmail as for majority the previous server was IMAP which is no longer connected.

From what I can tell, there is no way to print the contents of a single calendar event. Calendar events may have important information in the event details, like program agenda or travel directions. Being able to print an event is really rudimentary...a person wouldn't really even think that it cannot be done. So, the work around is to use the Windows program Snip and Sketch to take a picture of the entire event and then print that. Just unbelievable at this stage of Thunderbird's development. Not being able to do print an event is kind of like a word processing program excluding the letter 'x' because it isn't used much. Seriously.

Thunderbird. Mails from my brother ends up in spam. Nowbody else I want mails from is in this situation. All other mails (outlook) my brother is sending is received as they should. I think I have tried "everything" - no succes so far. This problem is new. It was not the case some weeks ago.

bold textI keep getting these emails that I would like to put into my junk folder so that I don't get anymore of their emails in my Inbox. The message includes a box fro you that says "Learn More" and "Not Junk". This also grays out my ability to put it in the junk folder. Because of this, I keep getting more emails from them. How do I make it so I don't receive any more of their emails into my Inbox?

I cant opoen Thunderbird anymore i get a RUL runner error i dont know what version i have im using windows 11 and i cant even download it it says it failed what can i do thanks

Dear TB Support*ies out there,

I am writing to seek your urgent assistance regarding a critical issue I encountered today with my Thunderbird email client. I have been using Thunderbird since at least 2016, and today, I noticed that all my emails from mid-July 2023 until today's noon have disappeared from my Inbox folder from one moment to the other. Archive and trash are empty.

These emails are crucial for my ongoing work and communications. I am hoping you can guide me on how to recover these missing emails.

Additionally, please advise if there is a possibility to re-import them from my Gmail account, as this is my primary email provider.

Your prompt response and assistance in resolving this matter will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your support!!!

My Thunderbird was automatically updated recently, now when I type a name in the Quick Filter Search Bar, TB is "not responding" and it takes many seconds searching Messages, usually about 20 seconds.

Hi

I'm trying to circumvent the Windows path limit (260 chars), when using Maildir as storage for emails in Thunderbird (for IMAP-configured accounts).

The default path in Windows looks like:

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\jesvjtr1.default-release\ImapMail\xxxxxxxx.yyyyyyyyyyyy.com.pl\

which "consumes" 115 chars from 260 available (ok, I can edit profiles.ini, switch "IsRelative" to 0, and move the profile to C:\TB\user\jesvjtr1.default-release" for example, but this is inconvenient as I have to do for each user)

So I'm looking for other way - to make .eml filenames shorter - the current ones looks like: 00b201dac2f4%243f963bb0%24bec2b310%24@pw-xxxxxx.yyy.eml 00cd0e17-2810-4fa0-be24-aa612ae7aae2@victory-zzzzz.aa.eml

But You can ask why? Some of our users has complex folders tree, for example: Inbox -> Obecni KLIENCI -> ABCDEFGHI abcd xyz -> ABCDEFGHI abcd xyz France - Paris -> 2024 -> Oferty -> Zaakceptowane -> Dostarczone

The folders looks like: INBOX.sbd\Obecni KLIENCI.sbd\ABCDEFGHI abcd xyz.sbd\ABCDEFGHI abcd xyz France - Paris.sbd\2024.sbd\Oferty.sbd\Zaakceptowane.sbd\

(it all takes 242 chars)

then there will be "cur" and "tmp" folders inside the last one Zaakceptowane.sbd\cur Zaakceptowane.sbd\tmp

and when You want to store new email in the last folder (using filter), Thunderbird copied new email to tmp folder (using nstmp-xxx name), then move to cur with new name (00b201dac2f4%243f963bb0%24bec2b310%24@pw-xxxxxx.yyy.eml for example) and due to 260 chars limit it doesn't happened.

Emails are stuck in tmp with temporary names and when filter trying to do its thing again, the new nstmp-xxx files are created in tmp and so on - till the free space in disk are exhausted)

So I'm looking for settings that will make the names of .eml files shorter.

I'm curious, why Mozilla doesn't support long path names in Windows (using UNC paths "\\?\" and updating manifest file with these lines) <application xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">

   <windowsSettings xmlns:ws2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2016/WindowsSettings">
       <ws2:longPathAware>true</ws2:longPathAware>
   </windowsSettings>

</application>

Why does this message appear when checking incoming emails,even though the emails are downloaded. Login to server imap-mail, outlook.com with user name ------- outlook.com failed 'Try again or enter new password'

Hello Community, I have installed Thunderbird Ver. 128.1.0esr (64-bit) for the first time on an iMac with Intel. An account is set up (approx. 4100 mails). The start of TB takes almost three minutes until it works. In comparison, Mac-Mail starts immediately. What can I do to use TB?

Kind regards Peter