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Probably after the last update I am not able to simply do "Folder Maintenace" by File > Do Folder Mainenace. After doing this the process gives an error message:

"You cannot maintain the "Recycle Bin in xxx@xxx.net" folder because you cannot write to the folder. Check that you have enough disk space and write permissions to the folder and repeat the action.

This started to happen simultaneously on all my devices (two PCs, one notebook), all with updated Windows 11 and with last version of Thunderbird (128.5.2esr (64 bit) and also both in my personal and working mail domains. All of them are IMAP.

If I try to maintain only the trash bin separately, it takes a long time and finishes without any error message. But trying after that the complete maintain again fails.

I tried to delete trash files from the account profile on the disc and then it work. But only until I deleted any message. Then the problem ocurred again.

I am not sure whether I am doing good or bad to maintain folders regularly, but it was okay and without problems yet around month ago, not now.

Thank you, Michal

I recently re-installed Windows 10. When I installed TB on the new version, both address and (home) calendar data were missing. Not concerned with address as most were probably obsolete anyway. From the information on this forum I opened my TB profile and found the SQLITE files from calendar-data and also the same from my Windows.old file (see image).

Is simply replacing the 4 SQLITE files from .old into the Profiles likely to restore the calendar data?

The files in the backup folder in .old has only SQLITE file - local.v22.sqlite which was last modified in 2021.

Thanks.

Thunderbird on my wife's windows 10 pc opens but hangs trying to communicate with ATT/Yahoo server. When none of the obvious troubleshooting steps helped, I thought the Profile might be corrupted. I recovered only the 2 day-old Profile folder from my Retrospect backup set, renamed the current Profile folder, and pasted the older Profile in its place. Thunderbird then started, logged into the server, and downloaded emails. However, nothing about Firefox looked familiar - no the local options/folders, etc. were there. How do I get the original Thunderbird look and feel back for her (very important)?

Due to a birst central heating pipe I had to move my computer system to another room. When I tried to re-login to my e-mail accounts on Thunderbird, I had no problems with my gmail account.

But I had problems with my other account: gerard@cict.uk. The server name is outlook.office365.com. One of my outgoing server settings is: smtp.office365.com. The e-mail address gerard@cict.uk was bought from Namesco, who appears to be using Microsoft, presumably Outlook. Unfortunately I didn't make a backup of Thunderbird (just saw that it is possible), although I do have backups of my work up till 15 december 2024. Can you help? When trying to get back into my gerard@cict.uk system I changed some passwords. Strangely, having changed them I couldn't log in (incorrect password).

I am depressed. I can of course continue to live, but I received about 100 emails a day. So reconstituting my system for gerard@cict.uk will take considerable time.

My calendar won't save a new entry (and has no entries). How do I remove and reinstall (refresh) the calendar? Thanks for any help. My Thunderbird is 128.4.4esr (64-bit). My OS is Ubuntu 24.04.1

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

Bonjour, je n'arrive pas à me connecter à ma messagerie depuis mon PC. On me dit : Echec de la connexion depuis le serveur Imap.orange.fr avec mon nom d'utilisateur marie.rath13@orange.fr ?

Buenos dias, he instalado Thunderbird Movil, pero los emails tarda en recibirlos con respecto a otras app como Gmail o a Spark. No lo hace inmediatamente. En Spark y Gmail me lo notifica y Thunderbird aun tarda mucho en hacerlo, al configurar las cuentas el tiempo mas bajo a escoger son 15 minutos. No esta la posibilidad de inmediatamente como en otras app. Como veo que otra app me lo ha notificado, entro en Thunderbird y lo hago de forma manual y entonces me entran. Un saludo...

Dzień dobry,

Od dłuższego czasu nie dochodzą do nas wiadomości mailowe po wyłączeniu komputer. Gdy następnego dnia włączamy pocztę nie ma nowych wiadomości (chociaż wiemy, że do nas przychodzą). Są też takie sytuacje, że poczta z tymi samymi danymi logowania działa na 2 komputerach i na 1 stanowisku dochodzą maile a na 2 stanowisku nie. Co w tej sytuacji zrobić?

Hello,

I added a new Outlook account to Thunderbird and it is not showing in Thunderbird. I added the new email account to Outlook client, and the email is comign in fine. So, its a Thunderbird issue.

I used the default IMAP settings when addding the new account.

I gave it the required/requested "permissions" as promoted.

This use to work fine in Thunderbird, as I have added several Outloook acounts prior which are coming in fine, but it seems it is no longer working now.

"Move To" and "Copy To" often do NOT work.

Only works if I exit and reopen Thunderbird.

Lousy performance!!

There are No Images to upload because when these operations Fail nothing happens!!

My trash account is auto-deleting messages over 30 days old. I WANT TO STOP THIS, I only want to delete what ***I*** want to delete. The setting on my trash folder is set to "don't delete any message", yet IT IS STILL DOING THIS!!!

I am thinking it may be that my messages are staying on the global server, and only shows what is saved there? In previous versions there was a setting for downloading and removing messages from the domain server, and it would store them on my HD. However, I cannot find any such setting now.

In any event I NEED to keep my old messages and do not want to create another folder just for that purpose. (Half the time I don't know what I need until the actual need arises, upon which time I can search for it and find it.) Can someone please help??

Is it possible to have the number of unread emails in the Inbox show on the Thunderbird icon in the Windows 10 Taskbar? This would be very convenient and avoids the need to keep opening up TB to check. I recently tried eM Client, which had this feature, but, returned to TB to avoid other dislikes I found in eM. Thanks in anticipation Robs

I wrote an email then clicked on "Attach" (same happens if I click "Add attachment"), I got an error message that stated that a completely unrelated directory did not exist. There was no way to get round this, so I could not add the attachment. I eventually worked out that the directory had been used for an attachment on a previous unrelated email. That directory had since been deleted. I created another directory of the same name and the attachment process worked. When attaching, Thunderbird seems to default to the most recently used directory, if it no longer exists the attachment process fails and there is no way round it.

I had Thunderbird and switched to Outlook when I purchased Office. I liked Thunderbird better so I switched back. I exported my Outlook calendar and imported it to Thunderbird. The calendar works, no problem.

The problem is that when I open Thunderbird and select the calendar for the first time Thunderbird hangs. If I check the message indicates that Thunderbird is busy. After a period of time everything works. The only time this occurs is when I start Thunderbird and select the calendar for the first time. Can you tell me why?

If it makes any difference when I imported the calendar I did not realize how Thunderbird worked and I imported it creating a new calendar with the name of the imported file. I had a Home calendar with nothing in it and my imported calendar. I decided to export the calendar that was created during the import. I then imported that file to the Home calendar and deleted the original imported calendar.

I recently tried moving a backed up Thunderbird profile to a new computer, and everything transferred over perfectly, except that when the app tries to connect to my Outlook account, the OAuth window that appears is completely blank, with nothing to click or input (just a grey background), and so I essentially can't use the account.

I have used the same backup on another computer successfully (the Outlook OAuth window appeared correctly), and my other Gmail account that is part of the backup and also requires OAuth works fine on this new computer. I've also tried starting Thunderbird without the backed up profile, as if I was just connecting my Outlook account from scratch, and the window appears correctly there too, but I'd really rather not have to reconfigure everything from scratch...

I'm guessing something in my backup doesn't play well with OAuth settings on this computer, any idea where I should look? Thanks for any input!

I have a long-standing problem with items in my Mozilla calendar sometimes disappearing after I open my Outlook calendar on my cell phone. The items continue to show in the Outlook calendar on my phone and in Google Calendar online, both of which are connected to my Mozilla calendar. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks in advance for the help!