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I've been using Thunderbird for years and never had any major problems until a few days ago. But ever since you automatically installed Version 128.4.2esr on my HP desktop running Windows 11, all I can get from Thunderbird is a blank screen unless I go into Troubleshoot mode. Subsequent automatic installation of Version 128.4.3esr did not help.

Send / Receive died - it was working yesterday & is still working on my laptop I cannot see what's wrong & also as far as I can see the IMAP & SMTP settings are the same on both machines

When I attempt to send an email (Thunderbird receives emails just fine), a window pops up with my email address in Xfinity and requires my password. When I try to put in password, an error message comes up that says I'm not authorized on this page.

Here is a screen shot of my Thunderbird outgoing server.

I am in Windows 11 with Thunderbird 128.4 oesr

Joyce

Hello,

I'm using and working frequently alternatively on two different boots on my computer (Windows 7 x64 and Windows 11) because I have no other choice (for software compatibility reaons).

All my mail archives (more than 20 years) have been transfered trhough the years from several machines and softwares to one Thunderbird instance on the Windows 7 x64 system. I have also 12 differents active email adresses (personnal, business, associative, etc). Knowing that some emails are configurated with pop servers and some others with imap. And this could not change.

Ideally, I simply need to install another Thunderbird instance on the Windows 11 boot, and I would like this thunderbird to load and save all new mail data on the folders situated in the windows 7 x64 drive.

Or in the worst case, to create an exact copy of the windows 7 x64 thunderbird on the windows 11 boot, but I need that when I'm on Win 11, all my written mails, including all drafts, sent mails on pop accounts, every single data should be also synced permanently on the windows 7 thunderbird, such as when I'm working on the Win 7 boot, I get everything exactly like on win 11, and when I'm working on the Win 11 boot, I get everything exactly like on win 7.

Notice that I need to continue to use pop accounts in order to get emails archive saved into my hard disks, this system is far more reliable than imap for achiving from my +20 years experience.

I just want a permanent and integral sync between the two boots, or better, exploit directly all the contents on my windows 7 boot, without the need of copying everything and syncing everything and multiplicate the enormous amount of email datas on 2 hard drives.

Is there a simple solution for that ?

Forgive me if this is in the wrong place,.. as I cannot find a home for 'calendar' related issues. Currently running 128.4.3esr (64-bit) on ubuntu 24.01 release with all updates applied. Email and calendar have been working,.. what I have changed to break it I do not know For the last month or so I have had issues that I cannot dismiss any reminders,.. I have found the thunderbird console, but this alas does not give me any indication as to what the problem entry might be,.. I have seen threads with solutions etc.. but these all have other apparent causes. I have a route calendar,.. associated with my primary email address, and have linked in my gmail account and its calendar. As to which calendar event is the rogue one,.. I have no idea,..as it does not flag issues in the console. I have found the 'What went wrong? There was an unexpected type. This occurs often occurs with undefined or null values.' And run some of the code given in the console,.. but I have to confess,.. not sure what output is telling me.

I have wondered if exporting my entire calendar,.. then re-importing into a new database,. in the hope that this would act as a clean-up, or would this just take to 'bad data' with it, are there any clean-up tools I could use? Any help pointers will gratefully received.. KR

I had a session yesterday w/Mr. Med and he restored my (accidentally deleted) primary email account and its messages, but now I can send emails from that address because I get an error that the Thunderbird-supported address cannot be connected to the Comcast server. (My secondary Thunderbird-supported email address works w/Comcast just fine.) I spent the last hour+ on telephone w/Comcast and was told it was a Thunderbird connection problem. Please help.

What appears to be random, I get the message: The account myname@verizon.net is being processed. Please wait until processing is complete to get messages. Then about 2- 3 days later TB dumps days worth of emails from the Yahoo server (Yahoo services verizon.net). I also have a second email account on an old Windows 7 computer and I do NOT get this hang-up. The settings are IDENTICAL on all the TB accounts.

After the 128 update I only get a bar with minimize, maximize and close when opening TB, clicking Reply, when there are calendar notifications, clicking Help, etc. The bar is so faint I have trouble finding it, and it's tedious having to stretch the bar into a real window every time. I haven't found a setting that addresses this; is there one? If not, is my only option to revert to an earlier version? I'm on Linux Debian.

Сегодня при попытке настроить свою электронную почту, я столкнулся с проблемой, что thunderbird не может найти настройки для моей учетной записи, хотя всё настроено верно. Мне подсказывают друзья, что могут быть проблемы с моей геолокацией, т.к. я проживаю в Эстонии

I purchased a new computer from Apple. They transferred the data from my old computer to the new one.

My emails showing on the new computer are from March of 2024. It is now November 2024 and I have no idea where my emails are from March 2024 to November 2024. All of my emails are showing OK on my laptop which is in my bedroom. Just would like to recover my missing emails. Any help would be appreciated.

Email = marengodad@gmail.com

All of a sudden there is no option to open a jpg. attachment with photo in windows 10. It just stopped working all of a sudden. Checked setting and all you can do is save it.

thanks

Hello Dear Thunderbird and Lightning Community!

Microsoft is removing their local Outlook calendar from Windows OS at the end of this year, and have already started to remove the direct to accessing it through their regular updates.

As I am looking for a local, reliable Calendar that would be on top of that open source, I found out Lightning as a further add-on/extension to Thunderbird.

Given the general context I have mentioned in the beginning, this is an historical opportunity for the open source community to raise Lightning as a major alternative to Outlook Calendar (and not only Thunderbird globally).

Why not offering Ligthning also, as a pure STANDALONE, local (with online calendar for people who wish it), but at east as a local possibility without NEEDING to instal Thunderbird as a whole?

That would make a lot of sense.

Thank you very much and great Kudos for all your great work!!!

Cheers :)

I use gmail IMAP server with Thunderbird. I "save" attachments to my local drive and the "delete" them. The intention is to save space on the server. While Thunderbird shows the attachment has been removed (a line across the file name followed by the size "0 bytes"), on the sever (login directly with browser) I see two copies of the email, one with attachment and a second without it.

Same behavior if I try to "detach", instead of "save" followed by "delete".

It does not change even after I compact the folder (Inbox), nor if I restart Thunderbird.

I have tried to check/uncheck Message Storage>Server Settings> Clean up ("Expunge") Inbox on Exit. No difference.

Is there a way to accomplish what I need? It seems Thunderbird creates a copy of the original email with the attachment removed, but doe snot delete the original (except that locally it is invisible??) Thanks.

Is it possible to copy Tunderbird email files to the computer's documents. Our server uses POP, so they can only be accessed on my PC and not other devices. Thanx.