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I have a new Thunderbird installation - IMAP account. I cannot see invite emails (containing .ics) in my inbox. I can see them on another Thunderbird installation, I can see them on outlook, I can see them when I go to full search, but they don't show in the inbox.

When received, I hear the audio alert - but the number of new emails messages does not increase, nor does it display.

(It's not in junk, I haven't deleted it - the main search shows it's in the inbox folder, but it's not visible on the inbox tab).

Hi,

Thunderbird tries to access many websites, even when it is in the background and apparently idle. In the last two or three weeks, it has tried to access about sixty websites that Little Snitch (Macintosh) reports by IP address, not domain name. Without knowing the domain name, I cannot tell what Thunderbird is trying to do, so I do not allow it to access those sites.

I know that Firefox does this also and that Thunderbird is built on Firefox.

In the Mullvad browser, built on Tor's browser, which is, in turn, built on Firefox, this problem is resolved by setting an option to use the user's default DNS resolver. I cannot find such an option in Thunderbird. Might there be one in a configuration setting? Or some other way to deal with this matter?

Thanks for any help.

Rick

Occasionally Emails are duplicated. When this happens, deleting one of the copies, both are replaced with the date 12/31/69, 1900(7:00PM). How can I stop this? sometimes I lose important emails because of this. The last time, all of the email messages were duplicated, and when I tried to delete the message I described, The command was ignored. This is an ongoing problem. HELP!!

In the last few weeks when i look at the Washington Post "The Seven" newsletter e-mail there are words missing from the description of each item. Only the words that are underlined are shown. I have found that if I mouse select the text the missing words show up as white text on a blue background. But if I look at the same e-mail directly on AOL (my mail server) there is no problem. The picture shows what it looks like after I do the mouse select. I don't know how to fix this. Please help. George Mells

Hello I have been using Thunderbird for several years, but recently, it has not accepted either my email address or password for my BT internet address, which has worked fine in the past.

My BT internet *********@btinternet.com works perfectly with BT Mail or Outlook.

I prefer Thunderbird but I need it to accept both Gmail and BT messages.

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks Patrick

Hello,

I try to create a TB account for a mail account *@outlook.fr ans something goes wrong. The mail account is not the mail id associated with the MS365 account of the current Windows session.

Everything is well set (joined screen capture).

To proceed, I refer to several documents : Following the recommendations of : [https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/microsoft-oauth-authentification-thu...] In this article I should get a panel (joined screen capture) which purpose is to allow Thunderbird to access to the mail box *@outlook.fr Nota : as described (french translation of the article) this panel can be accessed using the following url: « https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant-id}/adminconsent?client_id=9e5f94bc-e8a4-4e73-b8be-63364c29d753 » Then allow Mozilla Thunderbird to access to : "IMAP.AccessAsUser.All, POP.AccessAsUser.All, SMTP.Send et offline_access.

When I validate the connection parameters, I should get this previous panel but I get the unexpected "connect to an MS account" (see joined screen capture).

So, if you validate (giving the password and "connect") then you have changed the current account of the Windows session which cannot anymore operate in normal conditions (particularly changes the current user of MS365 applications).

This is not the expected behavior.

The nonsense of this behavior can be enlarged by this proposal : "Imagine that you have to activate several *@outlook.fr mail sessions, what could be the consequences ?".

In another way, as it is an IMAP account which is a "multi-user" function, several users are normally able to connect simultaneously which is opposed to MS account which cannot (must not - built for) be connected with several Windows sessions simultaneously.

Consequently, something goes wrong when you set up an outlook.fr mail account. It looks like the two connection with same id (*@outlook.fr) : 1- connect MS365 account (linked to and id by *@outlook.fr) for contextual use of MS365 applications 2- connect to *@outlook.fr mail IMAP account to manage mails are somewhere confused.

For now, I am unable to set up the configuration of mailboxes for a team where several are using Thunderbird as mailer and others Outlook, while everybody of the team must have access to the e-mail of the team which is an outlook.fr mail account.

Best regards, Trebly (trebly_auth)

Nota: I have set up the Outlook.fr account using Gmail on my smartphone without any problem.

Bonjour, J'ai eu des problèmes avec thunderbird j'ai voulu réparer, je n'ai fait que tout fermer. J'ai des mails dessus et je voudrai bien tout retrouver. Est-ce possible : mon adresse email est Jean-simof@laposte.net. Merci de votre réponse. Cordialement. Jean Golovine

When I try to add a new email account, I'm told that either my username or password is incorrect. This isn't true. I can log on to webmail using the same credentials.

How can I solve this problem?

How to permanently set line spacing to "Single Line Spacing" in emails, any online solutions do not work in Thunderbird version 128.5 64 bit.

I used to able to do this easily and effectively but with the new version of Thunderbird I don't seem to be able to get it to work.

Any working solution would be most appreciated. Thanks.

When I insert an image into a mail message it is displayed too large. For example, a 200x200 pixels image to be 400x400 or more. I select Actual Size, and Thunderbird says the dimensions are 200x200, but what I see is obviously much larger.

Hello,

I have recently noticed that all my email in Thunderbird between August 26, 2024 and early November has gone missing. I have not changed anything in my Account Settings.

Coinciding with this, Thunderbird has lost all my emails in the Sent and Drafts folders (except for recent ones from December). Oddly enough both folders show data is in them, even though no emails appear. The Sent folder has 119 mb and the Drafts folder has 62 mb shown.

In the account settings for "Copies & Folder," I have "Place a copy in Sent folder" checked. The same goes for the Drafts checkbox. I do not see anything out of the ordinary. I have also run a repair on the folders, but that did not help.

So: How can I recover my emails from August to early November? How can I prevent the emails in my Sent and Draft folders from disappearing?

Adding a Google Calendar causes Thunderbird to be non responsive!

I have added several other calendars, and these all work fine, just this one Calendar causes the problem.

The calendar seems fine when viewed in Google itself. It is a busy calendar with events going back several years and forward at least 2 years.

I am using the Provider for Google Calendars. I am on the latest stable version of Thunderbird.128.5.2esr on Windows 11.

Closing Thunderbird and restarting does not remove the issue; TB stays unresponsive.

Is this a known issue? How can I diagnose the issue with the calendar.

Thanks in advance.

when my messages or incoming mail comes in to Thunderbird it is in blue ink font. How do i get it ti shoe up as black ink or font. it does after it has been read but I would like it to be black as it come in. How do i do this without messing up my Thunderbird account?

When splitting up a home, what needs to be done to separate the access via the nonmobile devices? There are two people and thunderbird is what I/we have used for file structure. One person can access both Gmail accounts files, folders, etc. on the in-house, or non-mobile system, but the other person cannot. On our mobile phones, neither can access folders other than their own.

How to completely separate the email account access, without creating confusion?! Ian pretty sure both email accounts are set to IMAP and not POP. So what is the easiest way to learn and complete this task?

Thanks, Steve

After I did the 128.5.2esr update, none of my email accounts can get email with SSL/TLS on. It won't even try the server with SSL/TLS on. If I turn it off, then it can get mail. When I try to change to STARTTLS it will just hang showing checking server capabilities. Some accounts are imap and some POP3

Running Windows 10, version 22H2 updated 12/10/2024 OS Builds 19044.5247 and 19045.5247

Gmail works fine. I've tried the just about all of the things I have found online, but no luck.

Any suggestions? In the past I rolled back to a working version and that fixed it, but it hasn't worked this time. Would removing all of the certificates fix it? Didn't want to take that chance until I threw it out out here!

Thank you!

I am just a non-computer-literate old woman. I have tried to follow advice from the community forum. All that SMTP stuff is Greek to me. Since the last update to Thunderbird, I can't reach my daughter or my neighbour. One uses Hotmail and the other Yahoo. sometimes after about 4 days my neighbour will tell me he finally got a message.

Please change this. The only way I can reach them is to leave Thunderbird for webmail. It's a nuisance. Can someone please advise.

carolynn@teksavvy.com

I use Microsoft Outlook for Windows from time to time and discovered it is possible to sign/encrypt emails with an S/MIME certificate even if the email on the certificate does not match the "From" email address. Although this is disabled by default, it can be enabled by following these steps: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/troubleshoot/outlook/how-to-turn-off-email-matching-for-certificates

I wonder if there is an equivalent mechanism for S/MIME and/or OpenPGP certificates imported into Thunderbird, whether by changing settings in the config editor or otherwise?

Just wondering if this is a bug or user error/misunderstanding. See attached images. I have entered the address for a contact and listed the gmail account as the default. But when I start typing the name you can see that the sbcglobal account comes up first.

What' up?