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How do I revert back to a prior version of Thunderbird? The latest update has a great user interface but it has wrecked a few things for me. For some reason, some of the emails I put into folder (not in the inbox) now look almost like code. Also, I was using an ActiveSync addon to get an email address to work but now that is not working.

I've been using the same web hosting and email service for over 20 years -- a long time such that I've been on their "legacy" server for a number of years now. I've hesitated to switch to a new service, because they said they are not able to transfer my old emails to the new account.

I called them a couple of days ago on a different issue, and they advised me to migrate my account to a new service, promising that they now have the means to transfer my old emails. Thankfully I asked them to hold off, because I later got an email from their "escalated support team" that apparently I would need to backup all my email content, as it will not be transferred if I migrate to a new service.

My question is: How do I backup my emails so that they are still accessible if I switch to a new email hosting service? I am not at all tech savvy so any help would be most appreciated!

Hallo, ich habe Windows 11 neu installiert, nun habe ich das Problem, das angeblich mein Mail Passwort nicht stimmt. Ich habe schon alles ausprobiert, die korrekten Passwörter von T-Online eingebeben, die Passwörter geändert, nichts hilft. Ich habe auch schon Thunderbird neu installiert, doch alles ohne Erfolg. Könntet ihr mir bitte weiterhelfen, das ich dieses wundervolle Programm wieder nutzen kann?

Hier noch mein System: i7 6700 K, WIN 11 HOME, GTX 970Grafikkarte, 500 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB Harddisk,

Danke im Voraus

Rainer

When I start up my Windows 10 laptop, Thunderbird tries to connect to my Hotmail email account, but it can no longer make the connection to the Outlook imap server (imap-mail.outlook.com) apparently because my password is no longer accepted. I just get the message box "Login to server imap-mail.outlook.com with username neil.january@hotmail.com failed - enter new password". There is no new password. I have not changed the password, and Thunderbird was connecting without trouble until a few days ago. What should I do?

Emails still get through to my Android phone with no trouble.

I used to receive my emails directly to my computer using Thunderbird. Then my service provider, Verizon, sold the email service to AOL and over night this convenience became a thing of the past. To get my emails now I have to login to AOL, suffer through unwanted verification challenges, security promotions, ads, and news feeds, before accessing my emails. It is so tiresome I only check for emails about once a month. How do I get my emails directed to my Thunderbird program? Suggestions?

I find myself having to go to AOL to generate a one time password for 3rd party apps whenever I have to reboot my machine or shutdown Thunderbird. Is this something going wrong on Thunderbird or AOL?

Hi, I would like to export my contacts in .vcf format in order to maintain the saved images. The objective is cleaning the contacts and import them back. Do you have any procedure to export all and single contacts in vcf? Thanks

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?

I am trying to update my Thunderbird settings to account for the new MSN authentication process. Everything worked fine checking the cookie settings and updating the authentication method for my MSN account imp server. When I went to update the outgoing server setting, there is no OAuth2 showing in the authentication box. Aside from normal password, there is encrypted password, Kerberos/GSSAPI and NTLM. I think my current version of Thunderbird, 128.1.0esr, is up to date. Are you able to explain to me what I need to do? Thank you for any assistance you can give.

Bonjour, J'ai passé Thundebird en OAuth2, en IMAP et en SMTP avec la nouvelle appellation des serveurs en office365.com. ça marche, puisque Microsoft m'en voie cette fenêtre qui doit être acceptée part Thunderbird. Il n'y a pas de lien, comment obtenir l'accord de Thunderbird. A moins que ce soit moi qui doit donner l'autorisation à Thunderbird ? Voici la fenêtre de Microsoft. Autoriser cette application à accéder à vos informations ? (1 sur 1 applications) Mozilla Thunderbird Thunderbird a besoin de votre autorisation pour : • Accès à la consultation et la rédaction de vos e-mails • Accès à la consultation et la rédaction de vos e-mails • Accès en lecture et en écriture via les Services Web Exchange • Accès à l'envoi d'e-mails à partir de votre boîte aux lettres • Conserver l'accès aux données auxquelles vous avez donné l'accès à Thunderbird Accepter ces autorisations signifie que vous autorisez cette application à utiliser vos données comme indiqué dans les conditions d'utilisation du service et la déclaration de confidentialité. L'éditeur n'a pas fourni de liens vers ses conditions pour vous permettre de les consulter. Vous pouvez modifier ces autorisations à l'adresse https://microsoft.com/consent. Vous ne devez accepter que si vous avez confiance dans l'éditeur et si vous avez sélectionné cette application à partir d'une boutique ou d'un site web qui vous inspire confiance. Masquer les détails Conditions d'utilisation Confidentialité et cookies Accessibilité : partiellement conforme

Comment résoudre ce problème ? Merci de votre aide

Hey, I am wondering: If someone has a Mozilla Account, would it be a separate account from Thunderbird? Do users also need a different username and password if they are also using Thunderbird, or does their Mozilla login work for all services under the Mozilla umbrella?

Greetings.

For lack of anything better I'm using TBird as an HTML editor.

I'm writing a rather long paper that includes many images. Backing up as I go, I use the 'Export Message As > HTML Format > Messages And Attachments' ... and it works fine and processes the images this way:

Anyway -- this is kinda hard to explain -- as long as I was 'working within TBird' everything was fine, but I ended up modifying my HTML via text editor to do a few things that were impossible to do in the graphical TBird screen (tweaking some math equations). So now my draft message needed to be updated with the new HTML. I use 'Insert > HTML' and paste in the entire contents of my paper and then Send it to myself. I get it back, open it and there's no images, just blank boxes.

But ... and this is interesting ... if I then take that message and save it again as HTML (as above) then if I view that HTML in FireFox, voila! It shows the images. So how can I take my HTML, import it to an email and then 'Edit As New Message' or whatever trick is needed to have the paper back with it's images intact? I hope that's not too confusing.

The new edition released today doesn't allow the Keyboard "Return" Key to accept the recommended spelling correction. You must now click the "Replace" Icon in the Check Spelling Pop-up. Is there a setting/other where this can be adjusted/modified so that the Keyboard Return Key works again?

Hello, I transferred my emails from online MAC to local folders on an external drive, then re-copied them as my local folders on the WIN laptop... Yet after re-starting, the emails subject only shows-up while the message shows 0 bytes, despite the Inbox file shows >8GB, but is not recognized/read by the app. (seems to me indexing was lost?). Tried to import the file from the app's tool, but it didn't work as the tool expected a profile or outlook file. Any help to migrate my emails in a readable format? Thx.