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I want to get a new PC. My emails come in through GMail and are then transferred to Thunderbird. Once transferred they are deleted from GMail. I have several hundred emails in the Inbox of Thunderbird (one year I must delete the majority!) Also some in folders off the Inbox. How do I transfer them over to a new PC? Some are important that I wouldn't want to lose - eg my wife's name!!!!!

Any help would be greatefully received.

Just upgraded to a new system with Windows 11. Avast Security. Installed Thunderbird 128.5.2esr same as on old system. Migrated old emails using MozBackup. Worked great for a day. New emails, archived a bunch of emails to a local folder...

Next day after about 3-5 minutes Thunderbird shows the Hourglass and is not responding. Eventually will go to a greyed out window. I have to kill it with task manager. I noticed that in Activity Manager three calendars were syncing for a long time. Disabled all calendars.

Task manager shows CPU usage but 0 Network and 0 Disk activity. 3 sub processes but only one has CPU. Resource Manager shows CPU and 72 threads. Resource Manager - Analyze Wait Chain - reports "waiting to finish network I/O."

I've tried Troubleshooting Mode. Still froze during Troubleshooting Mode. I've tried moving a large local folder out of the mail folder entirely. I've tried clearing the startup cache. I've tried clearing the system temp folder.

I have a lot of accounts, saved emails and message filters. So I really don't want to start over again with an empty Thunderbird and reset up accounts.

Hi, I'm coming to you with a bit complicated problem. Please be patient with my long explaining.

My wife's parents have each their laptops. I had installed Thunderbird to them years a go. They never had a problem receiving their mails until last week. Now they can't receive emails but can send. On the other hand they can receive mails on their cellphones but not send (Android phones, not Thunderbird app). I have checked Thunderbirds setting on their laptops, everything was okay.

I have 4 laptops my own. I am going to give them numbers that you can follow me better. 1) asus (my daily personal pc) win 10 home. 2) Linux (my bussines pc) Mint 3 &4 ) Fresh windows 10 pro installed unused pc. Only Firefox and Thunderbird are installed as extra.

I load parents' mail account manually to Thunderbird on my pc 2, 3 and 4. Result is the same, I can send mails but cant receive. I have created another mail account for them (same provider), result was also same (for pc 2,3,4). I have an email account on same provider, I load my account, resul is the same (for pc 2,3,4). I tried my other email accounts from another provider, all of them works perfect (for pc 2,3,4). So, I thought that the problem was on provider side. I called them and explained the problem. They said that all is ok on their side and I should contact to Thunderbird support. The name of provider is "YouSee" from Denmark.

But....... As a last thing I add their email account manually to my laptop 1 Asus. Then I started to receive hundreds of emails from their account, so their account worked on pc1. Then I thougth, if I transfer my Thunderbird from my pc 1 to 3 or 4 then problem will be solved. But didn't. After I moved my Thunderbird from pc1 to pc3 and to pc 4 parents account and my account on same provider (YouSee) could not receive mails but could send. All my other accounts from different providers worked perfectly on pc 3 and 4 after moving.

In some way, something is disturbing communication between Thunderbird and provider YouSee on all 5 laptops. All Thunderbirds on 6 laptops have same last version. I checked firewalls, Thunderbird has been marked on all of them. I blocked windows defender and firewalls, didn't help. I also tried all possible imap, pop3, cofigurations of the provider. I installed older versions of Thunderbird and tried, didn't work either. It can't be windows updates because all Windows pc er up to date. Windows version can't be the problem because my pc1 and parents' laptops have same Win 10 Home. It can't be Thunderbird updates because pc1 has some update as the others.

Can anybody help me to understand the reason of the problem? An email account can't work properly on 5 laptops but work normaly on the 6th pc while all provider and Thunderbird configurations are completely the same? What should I try more?

Thank you all in advance. Peyman A.

I have uploaded my Yahoo email to Thunderbird and have now downloaded that to my desktop as POP. I see various folders as both "Mail" and Imap in my Profile on the Mac, with various subfolders as per my Yahoo email. When I open the various files, which are in detailed folders in the Imap folder, they are only visible as complex Text files. Is there I can open them with Outlook or Word, or something else easier to understand? Many thanks, Charles

The Reply command no longer shows when I want to send an email back to the person that sent it. There is a note at the bottom of the email that says: A unique identity matching the From address was not found. The message will be sent using the current From field and setting from identity Vince Hunter < omni232@telus.net> Can you give me instructions in laymans terms to fix this bug and return it back to the way it was?

I started a new email to which I wanted to insert a screenshot png file. When I 'pasted' the screenshot into the body of the email, it opened a new new email, (deleted the original draft text) and attached the screenshot. Not the result I was looking for. Is it not possible to embed an image into the body of an email?

Good morning, Regrettably, I cannot use Thunderbird for Adresses containing a German "ü" or other signs in UTF8. It is refused by "Senden der Nachricht fehlgeschlagen. Der lokale Teil der Empfängeradresse "ursula.hühn@arcor.de" enthält ASCII-fremde Zeichen. Ihr Server unterstützt SMTPUTF8 nicht. Bitte ändern Sie die Adresse und versuchen Sie es erneut."

And more regrettably and astonishlingly, there is no single attempt after asking this or part of this very helpless error message. Hope You can solve this severe bug, and sorry for taking Your time. Best wishes Hans J. Holm

Mitten im Download der neuen Nachrichten erhalte ich diese Nachricht:

"Fehler beim Konto dieter.mez@t-online.de Nachrichten konnten nicht in die Mailbox-Datei geschrieben werden. Stellen Sie sicher, dass das Dateisystem Ihnen Schreibrechte einräumt und genügend Speicherplatz zur Verfügung steht, um die Mailbox zu kopieren."

Habe nun größere Mails gelöscht, hilft aber nichts. Ich kann mit der Angabe nichts anfangen, habe ja nichts geändert, daher verstehe ich das Problem nicht. Eben hat's ja noch funktioniert, es kann also nicht an den Schreibrechten liegen, sondern am Speicherplatz. Wie und wo muss ich da was machen?

Gruß Dieter Mez

Bonjour Suite a la installation de Windows 10 j'ai tous perdu sur mon ordinateur. avec des manipulations j'ai retrouvais mes mails par contre je n'ai plus mes contacts ni mon agenda . exit il des moyen de pouvoir les récupérer

je vous remercie par avance mon adresse mail [edited email and phone# from community support forum] merci d'avance

Hi,

first problem:

I need to find a way how I can export my emails from the inbox from Thunderbird to the inbox of t-online Unfortunatly I used a pop3 in thunderbird, so that after 14 days all the old t-online emails were deleted from the t-online server. But fortunately they still exist in Thunderbird.

second problem:

By transfering Emails from one computer to another via Wifi, the send messages file of my t-online account was not transfered to thunderbird. Is there a way how I can transfer the send messages from t-online to Thunderbird?

Thanks for the support

Guido

I have delited by error many attachments that I have sent a few days ago. they all appear as usual but they are delited with an X Please tel me how to reverse.if possible Thank you Denis gaumond86@videotron.ca

I was prompted to compact my inbox, and immediately lost all of my carefully curated tabbed emails. I rely on these to remind me of my work progress and obligations. Why do they drop off when I compact?

Chris

The latest version of Thunderbird does not seem to have a way to turn off automatic sending of public key and digital signature even when sending *unencrypted* messages. (Prior to 2020, I'm informed there was a way to uncheck "sign all outgoing messages" which I think might have addressed this).

Now letting everyone know my public key would be desirable, except bone-headed email systems -- such as Yahoo Mail -- seem to be more likely to consign my emails to the spam bin with these attachments to spam as being considered suspicious!

How can I have OpenPGP keys installed on an email account, set to not encrypt new messages, and NOT automatically send public key and signature attachments?

Perhaps I should mention that I am using the latest Thunderbird on Windows 11, via Proton Bridge, through the extremely infuriating Proton Mail service.

Thanks, Michael

With thunderbird I have uninstalled and re installed a few times and still keeps saying it is not responding when I click on anything I want to do within it. Is there any way to fix this?

This may be different than other posts. I had been trying out Waterfox for better security, but decided to remove it. I did two things: First removed Waterfox using REVO Unstaller. REBOOTED

I might have had RATAIL malware so decided to install Charter Security Suite since was free with my account. Rebooted.

At this point is when I wanted to check my email. Got profile error and Thunderbird will not load. Uninstalling , reboot and reinstalling does not help. I keep a backup of my profile folder in these cases. I really need this fixed as I have years of several profiles and email that I need. Thanks

Hi, The emails I get regularly from Rumble from the people I follow are not showing the picture content I normally see in the mail body. It has been replaced with a hyperlink that says 'thumbnail'. I have the View -> Message Body set to 'Original HTML'. When I change it to 'Simple HTML' it does not solve the problem. I have attached a screenshot of the email.

Thanks!

hello I am running thunderbird under linux mint. recently upgraded to the lastest version of linux. restored my .thunderbird DIR and everything works however its been crashing.

i found the crash ID. Crash ID: ⁨bp-027d32f5-5c07-4a04-8d14-6e4870250103⁩ is there anything else i can provide for assistance?

Recently upgraded my Dell computer with Ubuntu 22.04, and with that, upgraded Thunderbird to version 128.6. Since then (a couple of weeks!) I've been struggling to re-create something that I've been using since I started using T'bird about fifteen or twenty years ago, back when T'bird versions were in the low two digits in fact.

Until this new version, I was able to create a *GROUP* entry in the address book, one name (call it "Family", say), add multiple names & addresses, and save it under that name. Time to contact Family, I'd type that word into the TO field, T'bird would call up ALL the addresses I had entered into that Address Book entry, and I'd be able to send to everybody with a single Send command.

Not anymore! Now it's Nope, Can't Do.

How do I get that feature in this new version 128.6? Step by step, please. I've not been able to find this info on this forum --- the new format of which I admittedly find pretty confusing.