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"Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the fle system allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox."

After years of working fine, this message has started appearing whenever TB tries to retrieve messages. I've checked that there's enough space (there's many GB free). I've checked the authorisations of the email folders, they're all fine (Full Control in all cases). I found an answer in a forum suggesting that a rogue antivirus might be the problem, but I'm only using MS Defender.

In desperation I removed the entire Roaming/Thunderbird folder, uninstalled TB, reinstalled it (version 115.12.2), created a new profile for my email address (it's a Yahoo email address, and I can retrieve the emails directly through the Yahoo Mail website with no problems). But I'm still getting the same error message. TB tries to retrieve the messages, it says 'Retrieving message 1 of 105' for several minutes, then the error message popup, and nothing appears in the Inbox. (105 is all the incoming messages as of now since this started happening).

I'm completely stuck. Any suggestions?

"Sending of password for user joebernard@verizon.net did not succeed. Mail server pop.verizon.net responded: [SYS/TEMP] Server error - Please try again later"

^^This message comes up every time I try to send an email. It can be received outside of Thunderbird and to other addresses.

Right now I'm using 3 different email accounts on Thunderbird. All 3 of them are Office365 accounts. For some reason, 1 of the 3 accounts is prompted at least once a day, sometimes twice a day, to enter my password on the Office365 website popup that is used with the OAuth2 authentication process. It's very irritating, all 3 accounts are Microsoft Office business accounts. What would be the reason why it needs to authenticate daily? Is there no password manager to do this automatically once it's been entered once? Can I pick a different authentication method? What is the correct change to make so I don't have to keep typing in my password every day?

See the previous, now archive post about it.

If this option makes emails sent from Thunderbird to any other email client have arbitrary line breaks where the line changes in the view of the composer. Please explain to me like I am 5, why is this ON by default? I just spent hours wording and formatting a work email vital for my career just to find out it will most likely look like a poem to the person that reeds it. This mailnews.wraplength "feature" looks a lot like is there to signal to other non-Thunderbird users to use Thunderbird. I really really hope there is a good explanation for why `mailnews.wraplength` exists and is on by default.

I have over 35 email accounts, which I use Thunderbird to collect. Love Thunderbird for well over 2 decades!

I am wanting to have 2 of my email addresses to be downloaded before all the others. I have indeed successfully "moved" these 2 accounts to the top of my account list (Shift and mouse). However they are not downloaded in the order of the account list.

How do I accomplish this? Is it possible?

I created a ticket, and it auto-responded to run this by the Volunteer Community. I really want this to be handled by support, but welcome anyone to give me a solid answer.

Mark Robbins

This there a "Global" Message Filter Rule where you can change an Apply Filter When: to ALL your Message Filters?

Example: I'd like to add "Periodically, every 10 minutes" to ALL my current Message Filters. Currently, it looks like I have to Edit each and every one of them?

Thank you in advance.

When I launched Thunderbird today, it would not connect to one mailserver: imap.mailfence.com. At the same time, Thunderbird said to restart to update to 115.2.2. After updating, it still refuses to connect. There is nothing wrong with Mailfence and I do not find anything wrong with the configuration settings in Thunderbird. I even tried to set up my Mailfence email account again but it failed because it could not connect. Ideas? Thank you.

We had a storm and now email doesn't work. We are a business and have to have email. I've went in and changed the Mozilla password and when go back to email it won't accept it. Emails aren't coming through. Can't sign in. What do I do?

I get the pop up that includes Add Security Exception

 You are about to override how Thunderbird identifies this site.

Legitimate banks, stores, and other public sites will not ask You to do this. Location:

This site attempts to identify itself with invalid Information. Unknown Identity The certificate is not trusted because it hasn’t been verified as issued by a trusted authority using a secure signature.

 Permanently store this exception

I am in Australia and Optus is my email provider. They have checked all is working at their end and suggest I contact Thunderbird which is why I am here.

Thanking you for trying to help

Using TBird 115.10.1 64-bit on Windows 11. For ease of reading text in mail I am composing, I would like to select a large font size. In Settings | Fonts I chose Arial 18; but for some reason I get a small monospaced font whenever I start a new message. I can enlarge it with Ctrl-Plus, but it reverts to its old ways for the next new message. How can I make the change stick?

I love Thunderbird and it has replaced Outlook (classic) for me, but there's one feature I miss, AutoArchive.

In Outlook (classic), emails older than x days can be automatically moved out of the server folders and into local folders, freeing up server storage space and negating the need to pay for additional cloud storage.

Thunderbird has the ability to select a group of messages in any folder and right-click > Archive (move) them to the matching Local Folder: perfect! But manually selecting multiple messages older than x days in multiple IMAP folders and selecting "Archive" is a chore too far.

Thunderbird should natively have the ability to (optionally) iterate across all IMAP folders and "Archive" any message older than x days, according to the Message Archives setting in Account Settings > Copies & Folders. The Disk Space setting in Account Settings could be an ideal place to add an "Archive messages more than x days old" option, since it already has a "Delete messages more than x days old" option.

Note: I know about the AutoarchiveReloaded add-on, but for something as important as shifting emails around with the possible breakage that could occur, and the possibility of the add-on being discontinued, native support would be very much welcome.

Another note: this has of course been raised on bugzilla,[1] but it's a 15 year old bug and seemingly unlikely to come to fruition.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536169

My many message filters were lost in updating to 115, and it has taken much time to reconstruct the new layout to be usable. If this was AI generated, it is a poor outcome.

I would like to remove the newly added listing "Local FOlders" from the Folder Tree and restore the Local Folders listing that was moved to the bottom (below All Folders) to its proper place, namely Above Local Folders. This group displays Sent Copies which I use frequently. The newly added 2nd display called "Local Folders" does not disply "Sent Copies" when I click on it in the folder tree. Thunderbirfd decided to move my original "Sent Folders" display to the bottom of the tree when updating to the latest version last night (early morning hours of 6/26/24). I run thunderbird in Windows 10 Desktop on Lenovo w530 using wired internet connection.

Hello. Some of my messages are not displaying in text or HTML as they should. I have tried changing settings to solve this but setting as Automatic or HTML or text, nothing solves the problem. I shall paste a partial email so you can see what I mean (I have deleted personal information):

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Dear James,

Thank you very much for placing an order with Rollercoaster Records!

Here are some order details for your reference:

Order Number: 5066

Detailed Invoice:

View

Date Ordered: Wednesday 26 June, 2024

Here is the list of products on your order:

       Product name
       
       
       Model
       
       
       Qty
       
       
       Total (inc)
       
          
           
                       
                     
           
           CRICKETS - The Alternative "Chirping" Crickets- Mono, Stereo & Remixed 
           
           
           RCCD 3081B
           
           
           1
         
           
           £12.00
    
       
         

This is the summary of your order with us:

           Sub-Total:

           £12.00
       
         
           Zone Table  (Royal Mail):

           £7.50
               
           Total:

           £19.50
       

As per your instructions we will deliver your order to the following address:

This billing address will be used for the invoice:

You have chosen the following payment method:

Your special instructions or comments were as follows:

Once again, thanks ordering from us! We will be in touch in due course to update you on our progress with it.

Please don't hesitate to contact us at  should you have any questions.

Kind regards,

The team of Rollercoaster Records --=_af7feabd2a6b651b4d3d6af10b5cde55 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<a href=3D"https://www.rollercoasterrecords.com"></a> = Rollercoaster Records - thank you for your or= der 5066 from 26 Jun 2024 26 Jun 2024 Dear James, Thank you very much = for placing an order with Rollercoaster Records!</= </p> span> <p>Here are some order details for your reference: <p>Order Number: 5066 Detailed Invoice: <a href=3D"https://www.ro= llercoasterrecords.com/account/history-info?order_id=3D5066">View</a> = Date Ordered: Wednesday 26 June, 2024 <p>Here = is the list of products on your order: = </t= r> <t= d class=3D"image" style=3D"vertical-align: top;width:100px;border-top:1px s= olid #e0e0e0;padding:5px 10px;"> </td> = <td class=3D"name" style=3D"font-size:14px;vertical-align: top;border= -top:1px solid #e0e0e0;padding:5px 10px;">CRICKETS - The Alternative "Chirp= ing" Crickets- Mono, Stereo & Remixed </td> = <td class=3D"model" style=3D"font-size:14px;text-align: center;vertical= -align: top;border-top:1px solid #e0e0e0;padding:5px 10px;">RCCD 3081B</td>= <td class=3D"qty" style=3D"font-size:14= px;text-align: center;vertical-align: top;border-top:1px solid #e0e0e0;padd= ing:5px 10px;">1</td> <td class=3D"price= " style=3D"font-size:14px;text-align: right;vertical-align: top;border-top:= 1px solid #e0e0e0;padding:5px 10px;">=C2=A312.00 Product name Model Qt= y Total (inc) </span></p> This is the summary of your order with us: = = Sub-Total: =C2=A312.00 Zone Table  (Royal Mai= l): =C2=A37.50 Total: =C2=A319.50 As per your in= structions we will deliver your order to the following address: James = Stathatos 18 Country Club Drive Red Hook NY 12571 United States= This billing address will be used for the invoice: James Stathatos 18 Country Club Drive Red Hook = NY 12571 United States You have chosen the following payment = method: PayPal Express API v2 <p>Your spe= cial instructions or comments were as follows: <p>On= ce again, thanks ordering from us! We will be in touch in due course t= o update you on our progress with it. <p>Please don't hesitate to co= ntact us at  should you have any questions. <p>Kind regards, T= he team of Rollercoaster Records Copyright © 2024 Rollercoaster Records Ltd. <a href=3D"https= //www.oscommerce.com">Powered by osCommerce</a>

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I can't sign into my Thunderbird account. I keep getting this message "Login to server imap.comcast.net with username mdbedard@comcast.net failed." I can't send or receive emails.