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Ever since I updated to Thunderbird ver 128.4.2 esr, I can no longer do a global search by electing to search "Local Folders" and include all subfolders in the search. For example, as a test case, if I search for all messages dated after 1/1/2024, no messages in my "Inbox" folder are listed. It is true that of the 20 or so subfolders of "Local Folders", there is one subfolder named "Misc". Messages in "Misc" and its subfolders that meet the 1/1/2024 test criterion are found and listed, but other subfolders of "Local Folders" are ignored. Instead, the search engine remains hung in a "....Searching" state until I manually close the search.

But also ... if I choose to explicitly name any one of the subfolders of "Local Folders" as the root folder of a search (and "include all subfolders" contained in that root, the test case above finds all messages in the named subfolder and it's subordinate subfolders.

Bottom line ... I have a lot of subfolders and sometimes I've forgotten where I have stored a particular message. In a pile of messages decades deep, this problem has become a major disability. Someone please help!

Some facts that might be important.

I had hoped the problem might go away with subsequent Thunderbird updates. I've updated my mac to TBird 128.5.2esr now: but I still have the problem

I'm still running the latest version of Big_Sur on my mac. (I don't have this problem on a laptop that's running a later version of MacOS)

I have a lot of filters that automatically move incoming messages to my myriad of subfolders. The filter engine appears to continue to work correctly implying that, the filter engine knows how to find all of the subfolders of "Local Folders" even though the search engine doesn't.

Hi, The drop down for open Email messages that is displayed horizontally across the top of the screen just contains blank boxes. The boxes used to display the related open email message when you click on it. Now the empty box just displays a blank page. Any new messages I open today, display correctly in a new box and open up correctly when I click on the box. All previous open messages before today appear to have lost their link. Is there any possibility of restoring the link to older messages? Thanks for any help you can provide!

FYI - I have not made any software or hardware changes in the past 6 months.

error messages saying: "Error on account rewrite@shaw.ca. The account rewrite@shaw.ca is being processed. Please wait until processing is complete to get messages."

I hope that not everyone receives 5 or more phishing emails a day like I do. The phishermen have learned that if they put a lengthy enough name in front of the email address that said address won't be seen unless the email is opened. The fishy looking email address is of course is the first tip off that the message is phishing. Some however manage to use a plausible tag in front of the @ and somehow use a legitimate xxxx.com after the @. I received two of that type this week from a phony Uber account. I've forwarded them to Uber.

The current Tbird release does not allow the user to add the "From" column to the list displays. That would be useful. Anything more that you could come up with would be be appreciated by many. BTW I am using the DKIM extension, and so far it seems to be helpful.

My wife and I are in our late 70s and both had careers in data processing. We are aware and careful. In another 10 years, who knows.

I have a new Thunderbird installation - IMAP account. I cannot see invite emails (containing .ics) in my inbox. I can see them on another Thunderbird installation, I can see them on outlook, I can see them when I go to full search, but they don't show in the inbox.

When received, I hear the audio alert - but the number of new emails messages does not increase, nor does it display.

(It's not in junk, I haven't deleted it - the main search shows it's in the inbox folder, but it's not visible on the inbox tab).

Hi,

Thunderbird tries to access many websites, even when it is in the background and apparently idle. In the last two or three weeks, it has tried to access about sixty websites that Little Snitch (Macintosh) reports by IP address, not domain name. Without knowing the domain name, I cannot tell what Thunderbird is trying to do, so I do not allow it to access those sites.

I know that Firefox does this also and that Thunderbird is built on Firefox.

In the Mullvad browser, built on Tor's browser, which is, in turn, built on Firefox, this problem is resolved by setting an option to use the user's default DNS resolver. I cannot find such an option in Thunderbird. Might there be one in a configuration setting? Or some other way to deal with this matter?

Thanks for any help.

Rick

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Occasionally Emails are duplicated. When this happens, deleting one of the copies, both are replaced with the date 12/31/69, 1900(7:00PM). How can I stop this? sometimes I lose important emails because of this. The last time, all of the email messages were duplicated, and when I tried to delete the message I described, The command was ignored. This is an ongoing problem. HELP!!

In the last few weeks when i look at the Washington Post "The Seven" newsletter e-mail there are words missing from the description of each item. Only the words that are underlined are shown. I have found that if I mouse select the text the missing words show up as white text on a blue background. But if I look at the same e-mail directly on AOL (my mail server) there is no problem. The picture shows what it looks like after I do the mouse select. I don't know how to fix this. Please help. George Mells

Hello I have been using Thunderbird for several years, but recently, it has not accepted either my email address or password for my BT internet address, which has worked fine in the past.

My BT internet *********@btinternet.com works perfectly with BT Mail or Outlook.

I prefer Thunderbird but I need it to accept both Gmail and BT messages.

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks Patrick

Hello,

I try to create a TB account for a mail account *@outlook.fr ans something goes wrong. The mail account is not the mail id associated with the MS365 account of the current Windows session.

Everything is well set (joined screen capture).

To proceed, I refer to several documents : Following the recommendations of : [https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/microsoft-oauth-authentification-thu...] In this article I should get a panel (joined screen capture) which purpose is to allow Thunderbird to access to the mail box *@outlook.fr Nota : as described (french translation of the article) this panel can be accessed using the following url: « https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant-id}/adminconsent?client_id=9e5f94bc-e8a4-4e73-b8be-63364c29d753 » Then allow Mozilla Thunderbird to access to : "IMAP.AccessAsUser.All, POP.AccessAsUser.All, SMTP.Send et offline_access.

When I validate the connection parameters, I should get this previous panel but I get the unexpected "connect to an MS account" (see joined screen capture).

So, if you validate (giving the password and "connect") then you have changed the current account of the Windows session which cannot anymore operate in normal conditions (particularly changes the current user of MS365 applications).

This is not the expected behavior.

The nonsense of this behavior can be enlarged by this proposal : "Imagine that you have to activate several *@outlook.fr mail sessions, what could be the consequences ?".

In another way, as it is an IMAP account which is a "multi-user" function, several users are normally able to connect simultaneously which is opposed to MS account which cannot (must not - built for) be connected with several Windows sessions simultaneously.

Consequently, something goes wrong when you set up an outlook.fr mail account. It looks like the two connection with same id (*@outlook.fr) : 1- connect MS365 account (linked to and id by *@outlook.fr) for contextual use of MS365 applications 2- connect to *@outlook.fr mail IMAP account to manage mails are somewhere confused.

For now, I am unable to set up the configuration of mailboxes for a team where several are using Thunderbird as mailer and others Outlook, while everybody of the team must have access to the e-mail of the team which is an outlook.fr mail account.

Best regards, Trebly (trebly_auth)

Nota: I have set up the Outlook.fr account using Gmail on my smartphone without any problem.

Bonjour, J'ai eu des problèmes avec thunderbird j'ai voulu réparer, je n'ai fait que tout fermer. J'ai des mails dessus et je voudrai bien tout retrouver. Est-ce possible : mon adresse email est Jean-simof@laposte.net. Merci de votre réponse. Cordialement. Jean Golovine

I've been (mostly happily until 2 yrs ago) with Eudora. My usage model is to keep all (saved) email locally (20 yrs archive), access via POP. Unfortunately, the evolution of HTML, iso character sets, etc has been forcing me to move on. I tried TB about 2 yrs ago and abandoned the project for lack of time and urgency. I'm trying again, but now very serious. Anyway, I set up an install and did basic tests - all ok. But I can't seem to find config options to customize. I found some option to set my mail store to a folder of my choice (away from the system root -- C:\ - i use windows 10-11.) to something like E:\docs\tb. It created inbox, trash etc. right there. My previous install attempt (2 yrs ago) created these in a subfolder named for the email account (eudora calls 'personalities'). I do want to use multiple accounts each in their own 'garden', not in the same inbox, outbox, etc.. I can't find where to configure this - I can't even find how to configure my earlier choice to store them on E:. What am I missing? On some settings for copies and folders, it offers (eg) Sent folder on <email account>. I presume this is particular to IMAP and not relevant to my current setup.

That's enough to get me started, but I would like to eventually migrate my Eudora archives to TB, so a pointer to docs on this would be appreciated.

Tnx, Tom

I don't seem to be able to get threading to work for me in card view. I have downloaded the add on and i am still having challenges. Can you help me understand what i am missing?

When I try to add a new email account, I'm told that either my username or password is incorrect. This isn't true. I can log on to webmail using the same credentials.

How can I solve this problem?

Hello,

I am in the process of linking my mail account via Thunderbird on my computer. However, I can no longer see my normal folder structure. However, if I link my account via my Android phone using the Thunderbird app, I have the option of selecting so-called special folders (see attachment screenshot 1). If I then select INBOX, my usual folder structure can be accessed again in the linked mail account on my phone (screenshot 2). Why don't I have this option in Thunderbird on my computer? Perhaps I thought I was using an outdated version of Thunderbird on my computer, but I cannot see the version number and cannot check whether I can update Thunderbird or not.

Best regards, Dr. Jan-Christian Raabe

How to permanently set line spacing to "Single Line Spacing" in emails, any online solutions do not work in Thunderbird version 128.5 64 bit.

I used to able to do this easily and effectively but with the new version of Thunderbird I don't seem to be able to get it to work.

Any working solution would be most appreciated. Thanks.

When I insert an image into a mail message it is displayed too large. For example, a 200x200 pixels image to be 400x400 or more. I select Actual Size, and Thunderbird says the dimensions are 200x200, but what I see is obviously much larger.