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I have 3 gmail accounts and every day lately Thunderbird does not connect and retrieve mail like it has done for years. There is no indication of a problem. But after hours of no mail, I manually use a browser and log in to gmail and read the mail. To make it work, I need to delete the oauth passwords and reauthorize google. What has changed in Thunderbird or gmail in the last few weeks?

I have several email accounts, and use the Unified Folders view.

Up until the latest release (128.2.3esr), when I pressed the "a" key, it would archive the highlighted message and highlight the next one down.

Since this release, it sometimes still does this, but regularly shows a message saying there aren't any messages, even though there are still some in my inboxes. No amount of clicking on anything makes any difference, I can click on an individual inbox or the "Inbox" node at the top, and still get the same message.

If I restart TB, it shows the messages fine.

Anyone know what's going on? Whilst restarting isn't the end of the world, it's annoying to have to do it multiple times a day.

On Win11 with all latest updates if that makes any difference.

Thanks

Hello, I love Thunderbird, but my new Macbook Air keyboard does not have an insert key (for overwriting). Is there any facility within Thunderbird for Mac for me to toggle this mode? (For instance, Word for Mac has the overwrite toggle in its bottom menu bar)? For deleting characters forward, I must use fn + backspace, but an insert or overwrite mode would so useful for general editing. Regardless, many thanks, Nick

When I try to open some old messages in my inbox, they no longer open correctly, but appear as computer code connected with emails from other messages. The same messages open correctly in my phone and in my backup Gmail inbox so are not lost, but I am concerned that my laptop may be infected, though a Norton 360 scan shows no issues. Can anyone explain what is going on and whether I should be worried?

When asked to re-enter the appropriate password I enter the never ending merry-go-round......I have 6 addresses. Whilst it is possible to access then via their specific accounts held with Microsoft this is time consuming,hence the preference of Thunderbirdb which up until now has been trouble free for approx 15 years. This unnecessary development makes me wonder why I only need a user naame aand password to access via Microsoft. I have tried every method kindly provided by other users to no avail. Can anyone provide the correct server setting for both IMAP and SMTP? As I have said these 'new' authentification/s are in my opinion tantamount to using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut. I hope my explantion makes sense? Surely I cannot be alone?

Hello Experts,

I am a long-time user and fan of Thunderbird (various platforms).

I am currently using Thunderbird v 128.2.3esr (64-bit) on a 2018 Mac Mini (specs below). I do not use the Calendar or Chat features of TB. TB is configured to use the "macOS Address Book" (i.e. Mac's "Contacts") - and this is a critical feature for me.

I recently upgraded from MacOS v12.7.6 (Monterey) to MacOS v14.7 (Sonoma).

Now there is a significant delay of at least 10 seconds (sometimes accompanied with the dreaded spinning beach ball) upon starting TB. The sequence is like this:

1) Start TB 2) Primary Password Required dialogue box appears instantly 3) After entering the password and hitting return to sign in TB "Home" window appears but is blank 4) After a 10 second delay (sometimes with the beach ball appearing) the TB window completely opens, populated in the normal manner. 5) TB then seems to operate normally.

I have read article "https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1421395". I can confirm that if I "disable Thunderbird's access to Mac Contacts in Mac Settings" then there is no delay noted in step 4 above. So it seems the delay does result from having TB access the macOS Address Book.

BUT it is a critically important feature for TB to utilize the macOS Address Book (Contacts).

I sync Mac Contacts across devices via iCloud, so TB will have access to the current collection of addresses, and I need only use one application to maintain my contacts.

I can live with the startup delay, disappointing though it is, because I find TB to be the best email application.

I do not know if the same issue occurs with the recently released macOS 15.x (Sequoia) - and I'm not ready or willing to upgrade to that version for a multitude of reasons.

It would be nice if the wonderful developers would investigate and resolve this delay issue.

Comments, tricks, and pointers most welcome.

Thanks.

PS: Does anyone know if this issue persists with macOS 15.x (Sequoia)?

Mac Mini specs: 3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Gmail is making everyone change from Password Authentication to OAuth2 Authentication. It worked on one of my Window 10 laptops, but not the other. I have matched every single setting that I can find, but the new computer will not connect to Gmail - I get a 400 error.

I noticed that even though I selected SSL/TLS under "Servers and Settings", in the "Outgoing Server SMTP" menu, it lists STARTTLS for the Connection Security - using port 587, on the computer with the error. On the computer that works both places list SSL/TLS - using port 465.

Is that the problem? If so how do I fix it?

If not, what can I do? I have uninstalled and reinstalled Thunderbird on the second computer three times now.

I also spent hours with the Google Workspace AI - checking every possibility that was mentioned and nothing helped.

Please help me. Thank you!

I have set up Syncing on Firefox and it was simple but I can't figure out how to do it in Thunderbird. I am recovering from a PC Reset and want to ensure I do not lose anything if I have to have my Iaptop sent away to be repaired.

I spent a long time looking for an email today. I sent it earlier in the day so was looking at the latest messages with todays date. I eventually found it after srearching for the Subject. The message was threaded but the message showing was from a few days ago. That was when I noticed the little arrow. That was when all was revealed. The version of TBird I used until I Reset PC last week did not have settings like that.

Please hep me.

I didn't know which Topic to choose so if its wrong please change it.

Hi,

When I add my Zoho account, which is using a personal domainname, to Thunderbird the addressbook is discovered and added, but none of the contacts are synced.

If I add a contact in Thunderbird to the Zoho addressbook, the contact appears in Zoho's webmail contacts page, but is not counted in the number of contacts. When I edit the same contact in Zoho's webmail contacts page, the contact disappears from Thunderbird.

the URI I am using is https://contacts.zoho.com/carddav/my_email/default/contacts/

Where my_email is my account email address.

I'm using an account specific password, IMAP, SMTP and CalDAV work (though not calendar discovery - I have to add each calendar individually) and my DNS records have SRV records for all the services on Zoho.

I'm running Thunderbird 128.2.3esr Flatpak from flathub on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

Any ideas why this isn't working - I've seen a number of people having success with Zoho and Thunderbird.

Thanks

Alan

depuis la mise à jour du 20/09/2024 le compte "eddy.attia@orange.fr"ne reçoit plus de messages, et il m'est impossible d'en émettre - pouvez-vous m'aider ? merci

Hi there,

I'm using Thunderbird beta (currently 131.0b6) and since the penultimate version, no mail appear in the list of mails anymore. The count of new mails is displayed but not the mails themselves. (Last mail to date: 18/09/2024 at 15:33 – more than 40 mails received since that date, all having been counted but never displayed)

What I checked:

- imap configuration - message filters - deletion of .msf files (with thbd closed) -> all old emails disappear - forced sync of trash and junk folders - displayed unread folders, including 'Show / discusions / ignored' - created empty profiles in the beta version (Debian 12 and Windows 11) => same issue - opened a ticket on Bugzilla (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1920376)

 I created an empty profile in the stable version (128.2.3esr on Win11 & Debian 12) => no problem

Thanks for any hint you could provide me with

After updating Thunderbird per yahoo recent instructions (deleting email account & reinstalling), my received emails display in yahoo but not in Thunderbird. Thunderbird displays it is receiving emails and the account receiving the email, but does not store them for display.

One of my gmail account inboxes got a message "Authentification failure while connecting to server imap.gmail.com". I tried to repair the inbox and now all messages are gone. My other gmail accounts are receiving new messages.

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Win 10 - latest version Linux Mint Cinnamon - latest version

After each restart of Thunderbird, many email tabs appear with empty blank content. Imagine having many open tabs with emails and having to manually search for these emails and reopen them and close the blank email Tabs after every restart to see the content. It's simply hilarious.

And I've had this problem for a year now. Even after a complete reinstallation of e.g. Linux Mint. I have already switched to a Thunderbird fork on Windows, which does not have these problems.

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