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I've just recently started using Thunderbird email - is there an easy way to reply to all on an email? I tried to reply-all to an email I had sent to 3 people but it only went to one of them (and I didn't notice!)

dear all, thunderbird corrupted on my 2nd laptop. So I installed tb 128.5.2esr (64) new on this laptop. I Installed t-online accounts for 2 users -> all ok. tried to install web.de accounts for 2 users -> fail with both. I used the same settings as in 1st laptop. When I test the web.de account, I get the message, that the email account can not be identified. I activated thiss account anyway:@ I am able to send a message from klsgbkweb.de to klsgbk@web.de and receive it on my 1st laptop. Then the password should not be the problem. On my defect account on 2nd laptop there is however the inbox missing. I receive no emails at all. The same problem with my other web.de email account. I compaired the account setting several times and see no differences. I am lost and have no further clue. All are IMAP accounts: - imap.web.de : 993 - SSL/TLS - smtp.web.de : 587 - STARTTLS Do you have any idea, what else to check / to do? Thx

Hi there,

I am running Thunderbird 128.6.0esr (64-bit) installed on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS using excessive disk space. It is so bloated and does not represent my actual e-mail size. Snap is 52.9 GB and in Thunderbird the mailboxes show about the sizes and they are far lower.

Thunderbird folder .thunderbird/h2dghah5.default/ImapMail/imap.gmail.com/[Gmail].spd/ is 24.0GB and All Mail is 18.7 GB.

How can I reduce the size of this snap?

Many thanks,

Nicholas

I have two long-established email accounts, both provided by siteground. I've used both successfully for years. Now, one still works for sending and one doesn't. I've checked the SMTP settings for both and they are the same, except of course for Description and Server Name. Here's the error message I get.

Hello !

I'm having an issue loading my Thunderbird profile and looking for help. I copied my profile from C:\Users\phili\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles to D:\Thunderbird\Profiles I updated the profiles.ini located in C:\Users\phili\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird but it didn't work. When I launched Thunderbird, it asked to create a new profile and erased my updates in the profiles.ini

My Thunderbird install is located here : D:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe I'm running 128.5.2esr

I've tried moving back the aiedx66w.default-release to C:\Users\phili\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles but to no avail.

Can someone help me ?

Thanks Philippe

I'm new to Thunderbird so please excuse my ignorance (but everyone was new at one time, weren't they).

When I make a new entry for a business in the my Personal Address Book, all I have is the business name, no specific person.

I have entered the business name as the Display Name but do I also need to put the business name in the "First Name" or "Last Name" field or can I leave them blank?

Thank you.

Delete used to not work as TB seemed to be forever 'compacting', now appears resolved. THREADS, the display tacks a new email onto a recent thread-related or not. I did not ask for this and would like to remove it. Seems that since the People behind TB have now left us to the 'community' We are not impressed. ALAN alan@aloz.org.uk Using windows 7 and have been using TB for well over 20 yrs. but very disappointing recently.

So, I've been suddenly having a little difficulty with my native junk filter not moving all junk into the junk folder. This issue (which I'm not asking about) led me to repair my inbox to try and resolve it.

I haven't repaired my inbox in a while, so this repair proceeded to duplicate every email I've received since roughly 2 years ago. I think there were roughly 12,000 emails that repopulated into my inbox.

Searching through them, I found that they were all emails that had been filtered into folders using filters I'd created. It does not duplicate any other emails, only those touched by the message filters. And yes, the filters all MOVE emails, they don't copy them to the new folder. (These are folders I've created.)

I tried deleting the global-messages-db.sqlite file, but I ran another repair on my inbox yesterday and it duplicated every filtered email that's come in since the day before. I had been using Filtaquilla and thought that may be an issue, but I disabled it yesterday and ran the repair again this morning, and it duplicated emails from yesterday and today.

Is this a known issue? Anything I can do about this?

Thank you! Debbie

Hello!

I fell like since the last update of Thunderbird (128.5.2esr (64 bits) ), I have a problem when I filter messages. Only messages older than a certain date appear, the most recent ones do not appear. I have to go and find them by scrolling in the mail history. Is there a way to change the settings so that this bug is resolved?

Thank you in advance for your help :)

Hi all! I got to Thunderbird as Microsoft got rid of the Mail & Calendar app which I had been using for quite some time as my calendar on my Windows laptops (both personal and from work). What was really good about it was the capability of connecting my calendars from work (Office) and personal (Google) in the same place on my Windows laptops. Once again, I was really satisfied with the Calendar from the Mail&Calendar app from Windows. The main feature that I really liked was that it had a multi-week view and that I could scroll through the weeks and view the current week on top. Weirdly enough it is not a feature so common in calendar apps. Because of that, I did a little research and Thunderbird had that feature, so I started using it, but unfortunately I run into my main issue (and an additional one): - In my work calendar I have set some recurring events happening on the "last working day of the month" for several months. Unfortunately when I get access to my calendar on Thunderbird (by using the Provider for Exchange ActiveSync and TbSync extensions) I get the event repeated on all the working days of the last week of a month (as in the picture included image, where it should be only on the 31st - case of march 2026), which is pretty annoying. Is there a way to fix that?

As a note, the same happens in my Android phone when I get the calendar information from Outlook in my Google calendar, which is also pretty annoying.

Finally, as an additional issue (which I think is related to Google unfortunately, but I might as well ask), the Birthday calendar (which I have set as extracting the information from Contacts) is getting duplicated in my main calendar when I sync to Thunderbird. Therefore, I get see twice the birthdays: one in the Birthday calendar itself, and other in my main calendar. I would appreciate a fix for that as well.

Thanks in advance for the suggestions. Kind regards, Vicente.

I recently got a new PC for my wife and migrated T'bird over. Unfortunately now every time she attempts to open T'bird or to send a message she MUST enter her password. We never before had this issue. What do I need to do to have it remember the password? Is this a Password Manager issue? Never used it before.

Thanks,

I had to restart Windows 11 on PC & now my Thunderbird Email program will not Download or does not appear to download. When I click Download al that appears is the Donate link. When I check my Download list it does not show up there. This has happened on the FireFox Browser & Microsoft Edge. Wierd! There maybe some permission that is not showing up on my pc so if so I have no idea how to access the setting.

Emails are failing to populate on one of our computers. Emails stopped loading around 4:30pm on 1/6/25. Did a system reboot/refresh and new emails are coming through, but there is a gap. No emails from 4:30pm on 1/6/25 until 9:30am on 1/7/25. Missing about 16 hours. They are visible on other computers that are logged into the same account. Any suggestions?

I can’t receive email in my Thunderbird app on my desktop computer. It happened all of a sudden, and may have coincided with a disruption of service by my ISP. I worked with tech support from my ISP and nothing worked to fix it.

I have my own mail server and use different addresses for different services. When I reply to an email it always changes to my default address (myname@mydomain.com). When I receive an email to servicename@mydomain.com I want to reply with the from address being servicename@mydomain.com, not myname@mydomain.com. I can edit the address manually, but sometimes I forget and I end up sending replies with myname@mydomain.com. servicename can be variable per email.

Current faulty situation:

   Receive email incoming to servicename@mydomain.com

   Reply from address should be myname@mydomain.com

New wanted situation:

   Receive email incoming to servicename@mydomain.com

   Reply from address should be servicename@mydomain.com

This was built into Thunderbird for a while now.

   Go to Account Settings

   Enable Reply from this identity when delivery headers match

   Enter your domain prefixed by a wildcard (*), for example *@yourdomain.com

   Close/confirm all your changes

   Open an email that was sent to one of your catch-all addresses and click the reply button.

   The FROM field should be the catch-all address and not your general address.

But it has been broken for a while now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/a0uqtl/use_to_address_as_from_address_when_replying/

Hi,

When I receive emails with links, nothing happens when I click on them. I have other profiles in Thunderbird: it works for them. I click on a link in a messge, it opens my default browser and opens the link in it. But not for my main Thunderbird profile.

Thanks a lot for your help,