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OK, this is really complicated, and involves trying to rescue an old Eudora account to Thunderbird. If anyone wants the whole gory story, please ask and I'll tell all. ( I used Eudora Mailbox Cleaner and Eudora Rescue.) But the simple question is: is it possible to import a Thunderbird profile created on a Mac into a Thunderbird program on a PC? Thanks for any help.

Need to create a file with a list of all 'mail folder' names, just containing all the folder names displayed on the left-hand side of the main Thunderbird display. Thanks.

TB says I have 34 messages but none are visible. Version 115.13.0 Lately I've been having to click another folder like Drafts or Sent then click back on Inbox to get them to show. But now even that does not work

Hello all,

I just installed Thunderbird on a new computer today and migrated an account from an old computer. I'm looking at previous posts for migration issues.

The pressing issue right now is the color scheme in both Thunderbird AND Windows.

I installed Thunderbird (Version 102.15.1 32-bit because that's what I had on my old computer) and it had its standard colors. I was personalizing the appearance in the settings. I suddenly -- not when I was doing any adjustments to colors, fonts, anything at all -- got the most awful shades of pink and peach, and get this -- not only in Thunderbird, but in Windows! (Windows 10 Pro) I had changed absolutely nothing in my Windows display. I simply set up Thunderbird, moved to close it and did close it, and everything on my computer changed. The Windows taskbar is still my normal color, but buttons within Windows, borders and buttons on ALL of my apps such as my browser (Iron Browser), you name it ...... something happened within Thunderbird and to my entire computer. I can't get rid of it by changing the customize appearance in Windows.

I didn't do anything! Except maybe I did? I wasn't doing anything at the time within my Thunderbird settings when it happened -- I know that -- but it did happen while I was looking at Thunderbird's settings and when I closed it. Does anybody have any idea as to what I may have inadvertently done, and how to undo it?

Thank you SO much.

when i open thunderbird i get a box asking for a password for microsoft i remember this before and had to put in an app password but cannot remember how i found it

Hi, helping my 80 year old father to try Thunderbird because he has a massive amount of emails and folders/labels (literally thousands of folders/labels!!!) and Outlook can't handle it unless you Archive stuff which is annoying and cumbersome.

His email account is with Google Gmail.

So far, Thunderbird is handling attempting to fully sync with his Gmail account much better than Outlook.

However, after downloading thousands of emails into a large portion of the thousands of folders & sub-folders, Thunderbird stopped doing that.

If I click on an individual folder, it instantly starts downloading them, and I only have to click on each folder quickly and then Thunderbird will eventually downloading all the emails into all the folders I have clicked on.

However, my Dad has THOUSANDS of folders so even clicking on each one quickly would take a very....long....time.

I have researched this a bunch and I've verified the following:

Account Settings --> Synchronization & Storage --> Message Synchronizing --> Keep messages in all folders for this account on this computer = ON

Account Settings --> Synchronization & Storage --> Disk Space --> Synchronize all messages locally regardless of age = ON

I have also done the following:

Settings --> General --> very bottom right of list Config Editor --> mail.server.default.check_all_folders_for_new = changed to "true"

No luck so far.

If someone wants to switch to Thunderbird and has a huge number of folders, and wants to download all emails so that any email will show up in a search, there must be a better way to get Thunderbird to download them all in an automated way, no?

I have installed Thunderbird and want to set up an email account' . I enter: Name : Roger Keelingling@f2s.com pw : ******** (I have checked this visually and tried many times - must have got it right once)

I get the message "Thunderbird failed to find the setting for your email account"

According to f2s the settings should be as attached. I have tried manual setup with many options but nothing connects properly (or at all). On some attempts I get a message "The certificate for inmail.f2s.com is not valid for this server" (flashes up too quickly to read accurately). Any suggestions on account setup?

Since that last update (128.0) I can hardly tell the difference between read and unread messages. Particularly when there are just a few messages of the same kind with no basis for comparison. I've looked through previous threads and found some solutions that involve modifying scripts. I had ChatGpt help me with the maneuver , but it didn't change anything. I would also be satisfied with another font in the headline or another background color - just something that ensure sure I do not miss an important mail in the stack.

and I immediately began scrambling to get it back. I found this somewhere: "Don't Delete Files" is the preferred option because it saves the old profile's folder and allows you to recover the files to a new profile. So that gave me hope because that's what I had clicked (unfortunately, it was right before I saw the cancel button over on the right). That's what I get for being in a hurry I guess.

Anyhow, after 4 days of reading support forums and tons of trial and error, I'm no closer to restoring that profile than when I first started (although I've learned a lot about what does NOT work).

Btw, both my profiles have always been set up as POP3 at Gmail, although if I ever get this current problem sorted out I'll be shopping for a different POP3 provider. But that's another story.

I know how to create a new profile with Profile Manager. And I found the Profiles folders under both Thunderbird folder as well as ThunderbirdOLD folder. Have I been on the right track so far?

In the Thunderbird/Profiles folder, I don't see a folder with the deleted profile name (except the new ones (duds) I've since created ). On the other hand, I don't see the name of the profile that I did NOT delete either, but somehow it seems to be working just fine. Maybe it's the ".default" folder or ".default-release" folder? I've only ever had two profiles and I may have created the non-deleted profile first, so did that one end up being named .default? -shrug- I have no clue.

Anyhow, in the ThunderbirdOLD/Profiles folder, I also see ".default" as well as ".default-release" folders too. But in addition, I'm seeing a ".deletedprofile" named folder. So that's where I originally thought my several dozen email folders with several thousand emails and Address Book etc are hiding. But I've copied all the above mentioned folders into the several new Profiles I've created, on a trial and error basis but so far..... no luck. All I get when I open one is the new set up screen to set up a new pop3 account.... which I can do, but that's just starting from scratch without any of my saved data. I'm running out of ideas.

Where am I going wrong?

After uninstalling and reinstalling Thunderbird, two sound files now play sequentially whenever a message arrives. Formerly, only one sound file played. I can't find the setting to fix this.

After Thunderbird is running for a while, it "freezes" with a message saying it is no longer responding. When I click on shut it down it says it is reporting this to windows . After shutting it down windows 10 basically reboots (it takes a while) before I can click on the Thunderbird icon again. Been happening for several weeks.

Hi, My instance of Thunderbird keeps crashing. I've tried emptying the startup cache, troubleshooter mode, reboot windows, turn off anti-virus. Nothing seems to work. It freezes sometimes and needs to be killed, but most times it crashes, sometimes right upon startup. I am not sure how to debug. Thank you! -D

I can receive emails But I can not send emails Rogers rep said it is A Thunderbird Issue

How do I send a screen shot of SMTP Settings

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Security Settings: SSL/TLS OAuth2

Small padlock symbol has appeared on envelope icon and I cannot send or receive emails, can still access email service provider through internet and my mobile phone.

Dear Support,

After setting up a new laptop, I have tried to use Thunderbird to download the entire contents of my GMail inbox. When I'm logged into GMail via my Firefox browser, I can see 62,635 messages dating all the way back to July 2008. I installed Thunderbird and created a profile to access my GMail inbox via POP3. Then I set Thunderbird to download new messages. After a few hours, Thunderbird has downloaded 23,485 messages dating back to December 23, 2022. How do I get Thunderbird to retrieve the remaining roughly 40,000 messages all the way back to the first message from August 15, 2008? Can Thunderbird also retrieve messages from GMails Spam folder and drafts folder?

Best regards from Denmark,

Eric

I struggle with very strange function of shortcuts - when I try to CTRL + SHIFT + R. So far Answer to all recepients. But 1 year ago it works in that way that message disappears and the dialog window is shown with info and option: Mark messages as read from <empty_field> till <today's_date>. When I try to find the message which disappeared I can find it in search results and its location is archive directory. I haven't created this directory. When I try to use combination CTRL + SHIFT + R when chosen message moved to archive directorry (search results) message dissapears again but for good (of course dialog window as described before is shown again). Has any body experienced the same? Any clues what happened? Any new update? How to restore proper action for CTRL + SHIFT + R? Any ideas?