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Every now and then, TB decides not to show anything on the main tab. Please see the attached screenshot.

I restarted in troubleshoot mode, and I can see the folders and the messages in them. However, if I restart in normal mode, I get the blank main tab.

Sometimes it will sort itself out if I restart enough times, but sometimes it doesn't.

I don't have any add-ins.

Anyone any ideas? Thanks

I recently updated to TB version 128.0.1esr, and whilst looking around to see what's new, I noticed that you can set it to show the number of messages in a folder. This is probably not new, but I never noticed it before.

However, when I look at the folders, some show the number of messages, and some don't. See the attached screenshot for what I mean.

I use unified view, but I see the same issue if I look at all folders.

Anyone able to explain why this happens? I'd like it to show the number of messages for all folders.

Thanks

Hello.

We are using Thunderbird ESR v128 32bit. Windows 10 64bit.

Had some 14000 emails since 2012, all working good, incl. recent compacting 2m ago. Today there was another folder compacting running, possibly it didn't end as usual (no message, no error).

Since then we can see for about 6000 most recent emails only header, not the body nor attachments. Tried to repair the folder, it made 6000 headers disappeared completely.

When we checked Inbox and Sent mbox files in profile via text editor, last bottom entry/email there is from 2018 and the files are exactly 4 GB in size.

Is it possible that some 4 GB 32 bit Thunderbird limit was hit and that truncated the large mbox files?

Is there any way to find somewhere on local disk (some temp folder or files) the most recent missing 6000 emails?

Account is using POP and the files are not stored on mail server.

Thank you for any advice.

So, I'm currently testing the EWS integration and my email requires OAuth2. Unlike the 128 flatpak (which is all I can use on my main PC since it's immutable) where it would get stuck on Checking Password. My second machine has Ubuntu and I'm running the Daily from today.

It allowed me to create the account but will not pull down any emails, likely due to the lack of Oauth2. I've tried all of the other options for SSL/TLS Auth methods on the security settings for the incoming server. The only options are Normal Password, Encrypted Password, Kerberos/GSSAPI, and NTLM.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Hello, i have a problem to set up my A-Mail-Account (yahoo.de). I can fill the necessary fields (name, E-Mail, Password) and can choose imap-protocol. When i click on "done" a new window ist open. There i can fill the e-mail and password in the fields, then is shown "i prove if you are a robot". This will don't stop over a few of hours. Nothing goes on. I can only close this window. a screenshot shows the last status.

Last night I lost all email and contacts through Thunderbird. Using Thundrebird 128.1.0esr on a MAC OS Sonoma 14.6. Can't use software as it will not work after opening it up. Uploaded image of current status. Let me know how to proceed. Already deleted and reloaded software with same result.

When I first open my Thunderbird account in order to look at my mail account, I get a first page that says "No Message Found". This message holds for about 3 - 4 seconds and then switches to my mail account. Is there and way to eliminate the page that says "No Message Found.?

When I first open my Thunderbird account in order to look at my mail account, I get a first page that says "No Message Found". This message holds for about 3 - 4 seconds and then switches to my mail account. Is there and way to eliminate the page that says "No Message Found.?

I have Thunderbird installed on two Windows machines that I manually keep in sync. I copy my data files and profile back and forth between the two machines as I use each one, and I keep them updated to identical versions. Have been doing this for years with no trouble.

Last time I clicked on "About Thunderbird" on one machine (A) it offered to upgrade from 115.10.1 to 116.0 (auto updates turned off). But the actual update failed and now its offering only to upgrade to 115.14 esr. OK, but now I'm concerned the other machine (B) with the same update prompt (to 116) might not follow the same path, then I have the two versions out of sync and that is a real PITA to fix as I discovered once some years ago.

Why didn't I get the 116 version that was offered in the dialog, and instead switched to esr channel, and how can I be sure the other machine will switch to offering 115.14 esr also so I can keep identical versions? I thought of creating Windows restore point just in case so I can roll back but would rather not risk it.

Today while using the email got message to compact folder so i did and left it, after 30 min came back with a message that TB crashed, reopened it and found that i can see the emails subject but they don't open. Searched the form and tried the repair option but after it finished it deleted all the emails from 2018 till now and i can see the emails of 2017 only (the first year of usage) -i tried deleting the .msd file but didn't help

-Created new profile and copied the inbox folder to it but still can see old emails only.

-- i sent a test email from my mobile to my email and it received it but the emails on the server that was downloaded before the crash are not downloaded again - i did search on email address that iam sure that we communicated recently only and i could see all the emails in the search but when i try to open it its empty

Hi, I have a iMac with os Sonoma 14.6 and Thunderbird 128.1.0esr. I try to sign emails with s/mime digital certificates, but i cant. I have a personal digital certificate that i use on my mozilla firefox without any issue to login, sign docs and everything, but on thunderbird i cant sign or encrypted a message. The reason is that when i try to install certificates, it just dont put in on people tab, on Certificate Manager, but on Your Certificates. I try with .p12 format and with .cer format. When i try to import on Your certificates tab, i click import and it just select p12 certificates. If i choose cer dont work. And it import certificates just right. But it doesnt let me choose these certificate to sign emails or encrypt ( account settings - end-to-end-encryption - S/MIME area saying Personal Certificate for Digital Signing with Select.. buton and Personal Certificate for encryption. I just import certificates, it put on your certificates, dont leave me put any on personal. Then i click on Select to assign certificate to sign and says Certificate Manager can´t locate a valid certificate that can be used to digitally sign your messages with an address of . I check that the email address is the same of digital certificate, when i ask autorithy to give me certificate, that certificate, can be used and is associated with the email address i try to sign. But it dont work. Any help?

I suppose the best place to start is when/where I think this problem started. Approx three to four weeks ago my thunderbird program stopped downloading emails from my server (Spectrum/RR). I say Approx because the problem sort of sneaked up on me without me realizing it was there.

I was using W7 and my hard drive was pretty much full and I was constantly getting messages that my email could not be downloaded due to lack of space. I started deleting stored emails and emptying the trash, which sort of kept me up and running for the past couple weeks. All this time my Gmail account continued to work as it should, downloading every email that was sent to me, but the Spectrum/RR account was spotty at best.

So today I fired up a new W11 computer for the first time. One of the first programs I installed was Thunderbird. When I attempted to set up an account using Spectrum/RR the process failed. I typed in all of the correct information, Name, Email, and Password but the account will not finalize. Instead, I continue to get the same message that the Configuration, Username or Password is incorrect.

I have since successfully logged into my Spectrum/RR web mail, so I know the username and password I am using is correct. I have also talked with Spectrum Technical support, and they have verified that what I am using to log in is correct.

I hope I didn't ramble on to much and someone can help me !

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.

Strangely, I can't figure out how to add to someone else's post if it doesn't already have replies so I'm having to start my own thread. Anyway...

Thunderbird on my system is 32-bit on 32-bit Windows and a day or two ago it updated itself to version 115.10.1. Since then it's been slow at sending emails, receiving emails, applying filters and pretty much everything else. Is this being worked on? I saw a couple of similar reports from other people here but like I said, I can't add a reply to them.

And if it's not known about or being worked on, is there some way I can roll back an update?

When I open Thunderbird, it now shows me this screen for chat conversations. I am unable to go to the mail screen, and the options in the menu bar don't work. How can I resolve this? I only need to use the email functionality and not the chat functionality.

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.