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I got an email from Microsoft saying my Live.com or Outlook.com email accounts won't be supported in Thunderbird UNLESS I change the settings to OAuth2 in incoming and outgoing server settings.

I even REMOVED the email account and re-added it making sure it was OAuth2.

But for my live.com & outlook.com email accounts I continually get prompts for passwords from Thunderbird. Sometimes I can't even click the RED X at the upper right to shut the prompt down. I just happens over and over until I give it what it wants.

I am tempted to shut down all Microsoft email accounts and switch to Gmail.

I have Thunderbird version 115.12.2 (64-bit) I used Windows 11 23H2 build 22631.3810 Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22700.1020.0

Any idea how to stop these prompts?

I like Thunderbird much more than any other email program I have ever used, and would like to keep it

Hi

I've been using Thunderbird for years with no issues. It's set up using IMAP and downloads emails from the web from my ISP. I have several different email account with my ISP. They are all set up to download to Thunderbird. All but one is working fine.

My primary email, however, is only downloading intermittently. It downloads all my emails on start up, then doesn't download any more unless I close Thunderbird and re-open. This is a new issue. Nothing has changed in my set up which is configured identically for all my email address (and the others are working fine).

I recently did a system recovery on one of my HP Windows 7 Pro notebooks and afterwards installed Thunderbird 115.12.2 64-bit on it as I have on another identical HP Windows 7 Pro notebook. I had exported the address books from the working notebook and when I imported them into the new system they show up under address and when I star any of the addresses contained in them Thunderbird completes the auto fill. However if I try to get the autofill to work by starting the names of the actual address books Thunderbird doesn't recognize the address books. Also, if I make a new address book and add names to it it will not be recognized with autofill. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I regularly send to the recipients of the address books. Thanks James

I installed a new hard drive and reloaded my win11.Before I did this I followed the instructions to save my email. after all was done i tried to follow the instructions to restore my email. Am not sure what happened but it looks like I have lost all of my email. any suggestions or places to go for help Roger

I (jlmiley@comcast.net) cannot send or receive email. It says it can't connect to server email.comcast.net. Thank You!

my storage size shows 89% so how can i get a bigger storage or can i get som folders out and save on my pc ? i am not a computer specialist so please give me an advice in simple steps

I normally have TB set to check for updates and allow me to choose to install them. This has in past releases broken some add-ons that are important to me; either because the developer hasn't caught up or has given up maintaining it/them.

I see from the Addons compatibility checker that a couple of them, specifically QNote and ImportExportTools NG are flagged as currently incompatible with 128, and if these stop working before being updated, I will endure serious problems, especially with ImportExportTools, which I use to save and archive critical correspondence.

I would therefore like to be able to turn off update checking of any sort, so that my current version of TB and relevant add-ons continue to work. When the compatibility checks tell me that the add-ons are now updated to 128 (and upwards) compatibility, then I can take off the update check block and carry on with updating. That is, until this particular problem recurs.

I imagine this is something in config, but it would help and save me time if anyone could advise me.

I am using Thunderbird 128, and by default if a message has a tag it just shows an icon in the Cards view - how can I change it to show the actual tag name(s)?

I can enable a column for this in Table View, but I prefer to do this in the Cards View.

I am receiving incoming emails in earthlink's webmail, but they are not coming to my Thunderbird account. I just had to change my password today and it was after that I am no longer receiving emails at Thunderbird. Can you help?

The messages could not be moved or copied to folder 'Trash on jmor444@gmail.com' because writing to folder failed. To gain disk space, from the File menu, first choose Empty Trash, and then choose Compact Folders, and then try again.

Cox just transferred all customers' email systems to Yahoo. After my e-mails were transferred to Yahoo, Yahoo tried to help me when I was getting error messages saying that log in to server smtp.mail.yahoo.com with my user name (my e-mail address) failed. The Yahoo rep told me that my problem is that "Whenever the generated app password from Yahoo is entered, sending emails works, but it only stays like that until the computer gets restarted. The app password is not saved." The rep told me that many Thunderbird users who had their email systems transferred to Yahoo are having the same problem. Has anyone had this problem and been able to resolve this problem? Thank you! Cyd

Hi,

When trying to implement the OAuth for a live.com account the Thunderbird system seemed to lose everything. There was no sign of any emails the view was as the image. The help page we used

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/microsoft-oauth-authentication-and-thunderbird-202

There were no errors or information.

On going back to the conventional settings of using a password we got information that emails were arriving via app poppups etc but still the view we get is the same as in the picture. Nothing at all in the view.

We have uninstalled and reinstalled Thunderbird and are now on v 128