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Moved to New Question related to 'Sent' file size: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1485833

OK, I noticed my Sent mail folder has a file size of > 3 GB (3,224,360,399 bytes) Probably why it is not being read How can I reduce the size of this file (without being able to open it in Thunderbird)?

I need help on my Thunderbird email program! It keeps asking for my password. Ive tried several. It does not work. [edied] @bellsouth.net I could use some help. I`m 83 and this isen`t easy any more. Ralph Toler

I am trying to create two separate calendars in Thunderbird. I would like one calendar to contain holidays, birthdays, etc. The other I would like to contain a list of daily tasks to be completed. I started by creating the holiday/birthday calendar and was mostly successful. I figured out how to create a new calendar; however, I do not know how to make it blank so that I can start adding my to-do lists. The new calendar appears to be a duplicate of the first calendar, with all of the entries I had put into the first calendar, instead of a new, blank calendar on which to make new entries. How can I make a new blank calendar?

I am trying to create a personal calendar as a checklist for chores. Is it possible to make a list of tasks without adding a time to each task? When I try to print the calendar, the time stamp takes a lot of space and is unnecessary for my purposes. Also, I have added birthdays/anniversaries/holidays to my calendar, and these also require an unnecessary time stamp. Is there a way to add these without an associated time?

I have a block of emails in my inbox that I cannot delete. I can delete emails above the block and below the block. There are four emails received on December 24. They will not delete. I deleted the trash files from the profile folder and still no success. I also restarted Thunderbird in safe mode. I am using version 128.6.0esr

I just installed Thunderbird, linked it to my primary email account (ok!) and then tried to import one year's worth of email messages exported from my Apple Mail client as .mbox folders with an underlying folder structure (1 per month). Thunderbird went away for about 2 hours "downloading" and importing ( ... looking good!), but at the end my "Local Folder: Apple Mail Import" still shows no messages. Where are they and how can I access them in the Thunderbolt client?

Thunderbird will run and retrieve messages from account, but keeps crashing after 1-2 minutes each time. There are a lot of archived emails, and 1,500+ in Inbox, but sufficient disk space on the PC.

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I've searched in 'Settings' and on-line and cannot find how to set the line spacing in composing a message to single line. There are lots of answers but they all talk about the 'Composition' section in settings, which sounds logical, but it does not appear in Nebula Any help would be most appreciated Regards Greg

I reinstalled Windows on my PC along with Thunderbird. I can not find how to set the view to the way it was.

I added two jpgs to show the difference. (The way it is now and The way I want it to look.) Is there a way to change the way Message List looks ? ( I guess the Message List is the upper right part of the screen?)

I am using Thunderbird 128.6 in an attempt to get away from Microsoft Outlook. I still use an outlook.com address though through IMAP on Thunderbird. Each time I send a message I am getting two copies in my sent box. I understand this is because Outlook sends an automatic receipt for the email and this gets filed in my sent box along with the original message sent. The receipt from Outlook is always larger in size than the original message, presumably because of the garbage added on to the header ID. An earlier post suggested filtering out these receipts if one can identify a standard item in the receipt which could be used to filter. I have established that the receipts headers always end with, in capitals, 'PROD.OUTLOOK.COM' but the filters in Thunderbird appear not to permit the header to be used for filtering. Any suggestions how I can use this identifying aspect to automatically delete these messages as soon as they hit my sent box?

The 'Sent' file in my 'Mail' folder exceeds 3 GB (3,224,360,399 bytes) and is not being read in the TB Mail window. How can I reduce the size of this file AND save messages???

'Sent' message folder IS searchable!!!

Hello, I want to change first day of the week to Monday (who on earth would have Sunday as the fist work day??) Problem: All instructions online are useless since there is no "Options" / no "Preferences" / in Settings there is no "Calendar" or anything referring to Calendar. Under Settings there is only General, Composition, Privacy & Security, Chat and Export for Mobile. Nothing for Calendar. Also in Calendar view ... nothing to change days order. All online articles seem to be outdated (2021 and older)and don't apply anymore. Someone advised the reboot Thunderbird ... ? How to do that? Just close it down at the X?

Please help.

Thanks

After new installation of windows 11 and Thunderbird at 15.Jan 2025 the connetion to my e-mail accounts cannot be opened by saved passwords - every time I open Thunderbird I have to tip in my passwords. Very uncomfortably.

My wife's computer has problems printing from Thunderbird. Trying to print produces a message that says, "Your printer has experienced an unexpected configuration problem. 0x800706ba".

I thought the problem was related to her old printer, a Brother black-and-white laser printer, so I bought a new Epson ET-2800 series color printer, but the same message appears.

I have found a workaround. If I go to Settings in Thunderbird, clear the cache, and restart the computer, it will print on the next try, but later the same error message will appear on attempts to print. I have selected the "Clear cache at shutdown" option in Settings, but that doesn't help. The cache still has to be cleared manually.

I can print a test page with no problem, and I can print from other applications, so I assume that the difficulty is related to something in Thunderbird.

I might add that I use Thunderbird on my computer. Fortunately that problem has not arisen on it.

Suggestions for solving this problem will be appreciated.

Eddie Blick

Thunderbird. When I open an incoming email (double click) it goes immediately to single window in compose mode, with my name as sender instead actual senders email address. There is message at bottom “A unique identity matching the From address was not found. The message will be sent using the current field and settings from identity (my name)”

This happened just today (16 jan 2025). Previous email already received and read without any issue, also come up in the compose message mode.

I have win 10 installed on desktop. Thank you Steph

I'm using thunderbird for gmail account, and I struggle to mark some events notification as completed when they are deleted using gmail interface. They keep on poping up but when I hit `Dismiss` it gives me this error: ``` Status Code: 2147500037, The request cannot be processed.

Server Replied with 400 If you're seeing this message after snoozing or dismissing a reminder and this is for a calendar you do not want to add or edit events for, you can mark this calendar as read-only to avoid such experience in future. To do so, get to the calendar properties by right-clicking on this calendar in the list in the calendar or task view. ```

I don't want to make my calendar read-only because I'm still gonna use it but I can't remove these annoying pop-ups because of the error. Please help what can I do

Good morning,

I cannot delete drafts in my draft folder. I have sent the emails, but they are still in the drafts folder.

Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I now have 22 emails in my drafts folder. When I delete them, they immediately re-appear.

TIA, Leslie