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Hello. Through sfhowes' generous advice, my Thunderbird is now connecting to my hotmail/outlook accounts. However, something strange is happening. When I launch Thunderbird, I get the password prompt that I show in the images. The message seems to be coming from Microsoft. This happens for every account I have in Thunderbird. It's rather a nuisance. Then, after I enter the password, the pane disappears but I get the error/warning message from Thunderbird (I suppose) that I show in the second image. Does anyone, please, know what's going on and how I could fix it? Thanks, Barry.

Background: I've been using Thunderbird for desktop for a couple of years now, and had no trouble with it. I use it to connect to email inboxes from a hosting provider. In the past, one of them was going through Google Workspace email (linked to my own domain), but I decided to go with Thunderbird instead. I did connect to Gmail once (if I recall correctly), to download emails from there. Then, all the mail server settings were set to those of my hosting company/my domain and worked well.

Today, after starting it up, I received a notification of a Thunderbird update (new looks, new nesting of connected emails, card-like look of emails), and I received a prompt to log in to the long-defunct Gmail account. I closed the window and went searching for the reason. All my mailing server settings seem to be fine. In the Thunderbird settings, in the Privacy&Security tab, Passwords section, I found several saved passwords relating to said defunct account. I deleted them all in hopes of solving the issue. Unfortunately, this only changed the prompt: from asking me to sign in to the specifically-named defunct account, it's now asking me to sign into Google account in general while the popup's header still refers to the defunct account. I also went ahead and downloaded the newest update. My Thunderbird seemed already updated judging by the version number, though none of the new features seem to be enabled, and some note mentioned that it's not an automatic update but one that had to be downloaded. Unfortunately, it didn't help either. The PC had been restarted. The pop up appears shortly (~1 min) after the startup, and then at random points of Thunderbird being open.

I'm out of options and at a loss of how to get rid of that constant pop up, and I feel like I'm missing something obvious. I hope someone here might help.

Environment: Windows 10 22H2, Thunderbird 128.0.1esr 64-bit on two different PC's, "A" and "B".

Scenario and steps to reproduce:

(1) On "A", installed extension "remove duplicate messages" (version compatible with Tbird 128). Works fine. Profile on this PC is D:\Alice\Thunderbird\Main.

(2) Completely get out of Thunderbird on "A".

(3) On "B", launch Thunderbird accessing the same profile residing on "A" as mounted drive, "Q:\Alice\Thunderbird\Main". Mail, calendar, etc work fine. However, the extension is not available (No "Remove Duplicates" on context menu or Tools menu). On Tools :: Extensions and Themes, extension shows up with a blank (empty) icon.

(4) On "B", disable the extension, close the "Extensions and Themes" tab and completely get out of Thunderbird. Re-launch Thunderbird, go to Tools :: Extensions and Themes, and the icon has reappeared. After re-enabling the extension, it is active and works flawlessly.

(5) Then, completely get out of Thunderbird on "B".

(6) On "A", launch Thunderbird. It now exhibits the same behaviour for the extension: it is not available, and the icon is blank. Performing the same steps as in step (4) above restores the extension to its working state. And, you have probably guessed by now, it is no longer working on "B" !

Just to make sure this is not specific to this particular extension ("remove duplicate messages"), I installed another extension ("Quicktext"), and it behaves exactly the same (either singly, or with "remove duplicate messages" still installed).

So, it seems that you cannot use extensions from the same profile accessed via two different paths, one PC accessing it via a local drive and another accessing it via a mounted drive. I want to re-interate, before someone asks, that Thunderbird is completely down on one PC before I try to access the profile on the other PC.

Has anyone seen this behaviour on Tbird 128 ?

Thanks.

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.

Hi,

I have been using Thunderbird happily for a long time, most recently version 115.13.0 on my Ubuntu 22.04 partition. Recently I installed Ubuntu 24.04 on another partition, including Thunderbird 128.0esr, now installed as a snap package (it's a recent change in Ubuntu; instead of apt package previously).

The new Thunderbird correctly reads my emails (imap) but it cannot send emails, save drafts or mark emails as read on the server. So I have Thunderbird 115 on the old partition working perfectly, but Thunderbird 128 not working on the same GMail account (I also have the same problem with another non-GMail account). I checked the smtp settings carefully, they are identical between the two versions.

It's possible I made a mistake, but I'm at a loss about what is wrong. How can I diagnose and solve this problem?

(I know that I could reinstall Thunderbird with the apt package, but I assume that the snap package should work too and I would like to understand the cause)

I'd be grateful for any advice

after i have suddenly upgrade to newest version my autocount can't send the mail by mapi system integration in software. i use that program is inside autocount called 'send by email (Ms Outlook compatible)'.

it appear error msg failed to send msg.

how i can solve it.i have try downgraded to old version and set default apps in default apps windows also can't.

thunderbird 115.13.0 how do i see my all folders with ALL of the emails? When i go to unified folders sent/inbox it flips the most recent email to the bottom, how do i flip it back, are there any videos, anywhere, that i could watch and learn from????? i can save us both a lot of tme if i could watch a video on how to do this? thank you...b³

for example: also how do i make a directed screen shot of a page? as opposed to the whole page?

Having downloaded TB version 128, the details for TbSync via add-on manager states that it is not compatible with this version. My questions, as a first timer with TB are:

1. Can I still go ahead and use TbSync with version 128? I need it to get contacts and calendar from Outlook.com

2. Will the planned native support in 128 for Exchange ActiveSync allow for easy switch from TbSync?

3. I thought I would download TB 115 which TbSync works with, but all download buttons seem to point to 128 and I can't for the life of me find the actual download link for TB 115.

Thank you. Sep

After an update a few months ago, all installations of thunderbird always open the calendar tab when the program starts. Previously, calendar tab only opened if I opened it (or maybe if it was left open when last shut down, idr now, sorry). This is only a nuisance, having to close the tab each time I start tbird.

I didn't post about this immediately, as I figured others would experience the same issue (or related) and devs would fix the problem. But it has been several months now and this does get to be annoying. I know that merely clicking a close button shouldn't be that big a deal, but I don't understand why this would become the default; moreover, why there doesn't seem to be any way to disable the calendar or at least modify this new behavior.

I've been using tbird for at least a decade and found it to be reasonably simple to use. I use the calendar function, but only for some installations. I would appreciate being able to change the behavior of the startup or maybe just disable calendar altogether where it isn't needed.

Thanks.

I am currently on Ver 115.12.2 (32-bit), but I've had this problem over several versions. I recently downgraded from the 64bit version (for a different reason), it had the same issue.

Old messages in the Inbox are listed twice, including those that have been read. New incoming messages are not duplicated, messages where I've deleted the duplicates are not again duped. Messages that get filtered to or moved to folders are not duped. Old messages that are in folders are not duped.

I have several email accounts in TB, and I only see this on my most active- of course! I have compacted all folders many times and rebuilt the Global Database with no effect. I tried opening in Troubleshooting mode and they are still duplicated. It is a POP account.

Last night all my messages current not received and saved and received disappeared. at one time my pharmacy came up but when I got out and went back in they disappeared, I did try to empty basket on junk mail but couldn.t

Booted my computer this morning and eventually Thunderbird. New mail downloaded, but does not appear. All messages gone from midnight to 11:53 AM. Messages are on the server, but not my client.

I just updated Thunderbird to the latest version (128.0.1 esr 32 bit), and now a repeated event shows all of the repeats in the list. Is there a way to remove that from the list? I liked it better the old way.

Dzień dobry, mam problem ponieważ komunikat z załącznika pokazuje się co minutę , oraz przy każdym wysyłaniu wiadomości muszę się logować. Utrudnia to pracę. Proszę o szybką odpowiedź i naprawę.

Suddenly last night Thunderbird had copied several folders within one of my accounts. I discovered that the copy versions folders all were empty (while the original folders had the saved post. So I decided to move the empty folders into trashcan and then empty it. However I discovered after a reopening of Thunderbird that the original folders also were deleted, so I missed all my post within the many folders. Now I like to ask : Is there a way to recover such deleted folders, since as far as I know my C-drive has a backup while the program is functioning on my D-drive . So is there a way to recover deleted TB files from my d-drive by doing something in the TB program om my C-drive.  ??

Hi there team,

I am using the Thunderbird in my MacBook Air M1 2020 and there are times that it don't work. Also, it will take days for the mails to actually load. And when I encounter the error. It prompts "Connection to server time out". And the email will keep on loading and I cannot receive new emails or send one. But sometimes it also works. I do not know what seems to be the problem. Please note that my internet is also always good. My mail settings are also correct. As Ive said, there are times that it is working however, it is always not working. How can I always make it work. I am a new macbook user. But always an iphone gal. Please see attached images for your reference. Thank you so much in advance for your help.

Does anyone know how do I can get my feeds back? I hope all my saved feeds are still stored somewhere as I use them for research. I just went to look something up and the whole heading is totally gone!