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Hi, I don't remember exactly from which release it started, but for a couple of months, quick filtering has not been working properly. For example, when typing the sender's name, the results show emails from other senders, and the sought name can be found in the 'Copy' field or in the message text. However, quick filtering works as before, fully correctly in Troubleshooting mode 😳 Attached screenshots with quick filtering results shown when opening TB in 'Normal' and in Troubleshooting mode.

Hi, I must have mis-filed an email. I can see it in the "All Mail" folder, but how do I find out in which folder I mistakenly put it?

- I've tried right-click, with no success - I've added 'location' to the list of columns displayed but they all show ..... dohhhh! .... "All Mail"

There must (mustn't there?) be a way of finding out where I put that dratted email!

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.

I am a very retired programmer (K&R C mostly starting in early 70's. Not C++ or .NET stuff). About 20 years ago I became legally blind - low vision, only very center of one eye, loss of most color perception and need high contrast. Dark mode is usually better. For years I used WordPad to take notes with large font etc., but WordPad is no longer in Windows 11. I rarely save the notes, it is sort of my large print Post-It note - more than phone numbers, messages for wife, etc. For small stuff like that I use my 8x10 white board with dry-erase marker. I switched from Outlook to TB about 2 years ago. Wonderful. But it appears that it insists that I save as DRAFT etc. where I usually don't want to save it (or retrieve it by selecting from not large font list of items in the DRAFTS folder. Life expectancy for sheet if preinted is measurered in hours if I want/need to print it. Is there a way to make use of the TB editor as a standalone? Forget Word with its unfriendly ribbon etc. Ditto for OpenOffice, LibreOffice, NotePad++, etc. They are all to heavy, awkward to launch/start up, etc. I don't need TO:, SUBJECT: etc. I don't need multi-documents at once.

I use TextPad and ZoomText (magnifier/reader with all sorts of enhancements such as full-screen cross hars to help me find the cursor / mouse pointer) for recreational programming etc., too many features etc. to launch or get out of.  No, I don't want a copy out on OneDrive - not on my phone, not on my tablet etc.  Although speech recognition would be nice, but then again that could be disruptive in home environment.  My wife is not a fan of Alexa.

Perhaps find a way to grab WordPad from somewhere? (I doubt that I have media for, say, W7 or earlier. Then there's compatibility issues, ... )

Lastly, I apologize for all of those 'etc.' - this question would have been a lot longer without them.

Thanks, Nick

My computer had to be reinstalled from scratch. Old messages are in Thunderbird2022, Thunderbird 2023 and Thunderbird2024 folders. They were each year's local folders saving place, regularly copied for backup. Each of them include lots of folders and their subfolders of type .sbd and .mozmsgs and files of type .msf and same names without any extension.

Now I need to get these messages active again, but there seems to be no choice or tool for importing them. Nothing I tried helps. I browsed some documents and found an unknown feature "profile", which I have never used. Are my old messages now somehow locked because of this and is there a way to bypass it or is the only option now to switch for example to a Microsoft mail product to get the messages?

Hi my email address book was hacked on Thursday. Numerous scam emails sent out..

Now I note that any email sent to me goes straight to deleted items. How can I resolve or fix this PLEASE? I cannot get any support from anywhere

My phone number is [edited phone# from public community support forum]..email address is [edited] @sky.com Kind regards Terence Mullins

Recently in my German thunderbird client one of the most important context menu entries for emails (e.g. in the list of emails) just vanished: The item was in German "in Themenbau anzeigen", which is probably something like "show in topic tree". Why is it gone? How can I get it back? I need the menu item all the time to understand the whole discussion of multiple emails belongin together (but I do NOT want to have a list of trees only).

Using thunderbird v128.5.2 and can't sign-in to att.net. It worked untill Dec 6th then quite working. I can sign-in on line or through Outlook but all I get in thundrbird is "Login to server inbound.att.net with user name (my email) failed"

When receiving replies to an email sent to several people - I seem to now be getting the replies under only one of the recipient's heading, rather than from each person individually like I did previously? How can I make sure I get replies from each person individually?

I tried to create what I thought would be a backup of my local folders in Thunderbird on a new drive. Instead everything is now completely gone. My last backup was in July so I'm good up to that point, but is there anyway to get back the 5 months of saved emails? I'm guessing not and I realize I should have done a backup before changing anything. I thought I was creating a mirror image outside of Thunderbird. Thanks for any help

Dear All,

I am going to save my maild from IMAP INBOX.sbd to my new PC's Local folder. What is the most simple way to do it? I have Thunderbird 128.5.2esr and in my new PC there is ImportExportTools NG addon installed.

Thanks Peter .

HI ,

I hope you are all well. Yesterday i was trying to send our yearly email to our customers , for the first time though, we are not allowed to send any further emails since yesterday.

Could you please let me know how this could be resolved as we are a bussiness and trying to send a cristmas email ?

Thank you in advance.

Kind regards Konstantinos Zervos

1. When I start Thunderbird, the first thing that comes up is the "misinformation" "No message found". Only some time later is the inbox with the new messages displayed. The initial "misinformation" is annoying.

2. When I open a message, I have to constantly click backwards until I get back to the inbox. Why is there no button for this?

Please reply to delloc@gmx.de

Kind regards Dirk E.

I'm not sure but westnet have thrown me to "messaging company" that I now have to pay for and that may have caused a glitch to the works It was OK yesterday maybe I should be patient and wait for the morrow

Installing my Gmail's address book should i import it? should i use my Gmail address? to identify the address book? for example: When writing an email i must type the recipient's email address. Thunderbird is not referring my gmail's address book.

I would want to be using my personal address book that is in Gmail.

Gmail is already sync'd to Thunderbird and appears to be functioning correctly except for the above issue. thanks for any guidance, DW

Trying to install T'bird on a new computer. Already have it installed on three PCs and two tablets. Server setting is POP.centurylink.net but T'bird only gives the option for POP3.xxxxx. Using POP3.xxxxx won't let me configure the account. How do I fix this problem? Thanks,

I have downloaded an update from Thunderbird about a week ago, and since then I have been unable to send emails. when trying, a box appears that tells me i MUST ENABLE AUTHENTICATION TO USE THE EMAIL SERVER? My provider ,SLINGSHOT.CO.NZ cant seem to help at this stage. I did find while searching Thunderbird that the recent down load w as not completed,why, I dont know. But I desperately need Thunderbird to get my outward mail operating. Thank you, J. Tresidder c/o-email. --johnnyripper@slingshot.co.nz.