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I am unable to send messages.

I get the following error message - which I have checked and it is correct:

Please check your SMTP settings. AUP#Out-1500. Please verify that your email address is correct in your account settings and try again.

On Linux Mint, latest version, thunderbird downloads mail from AOL. But not all the mail is downloaded. I can send a message to my aol email address and it will show up shortly in thunderbird on my linux desktop. But some email never download to thunderbird. The messages can be viewed on AOL, but they are not found on thunderbird..... No error messages show up at all.

I am puzzled why some messages cannot be found when I go to look for them on Thunderbird. Any help would be appreciated. Andrew.

When I opened Thunderbird to get and read my new email I received this error message after I could see that Thunderbird had found new messages.

"Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox."

I checked the hard drive space on all of my hard drives and I have GBytes of space and in PREFERENCES for the hard drive, WRITE is allowed. In fact all items listed in Preferences is set to allow.

I've rebooted the computer and even had Windows check my hard drive for errors and it found no problems. What do I now need to do? Thank you. Fred Berney

I have tried global settings and the settings in Thunderbird but whenever i reply to a message the text is very small. I can enlarge it but have to do it for each message... Help! Please...

I can receive e mails but unable to open anything contained within body of e mail. e.g. P & O Cruises will send an e mail advertising cruise but when it says click on open to view - It will not open up. many thanks

Thunderbird present a "compact folder" message (done many time over the years), so I said go ahead. My Inbox was "cleared" showing "no messages" icon. First, this realy is a SCARY thing to show when compacting a folder, but they normally all come back. You really should display some different message or show the message still there while compacting. This time I got an error (sorry I did not save the exact error message) but it was that the folder could not be compacted due to an error, possibly not enough disk space and to check and make more space available. I had 290GB free space on my C: drive where Thunderbird is installed in the standard "Program Files" folder. After dismissing the error, my Inbox still displayed "No Messages" - THIS is the BUG that needs fixing. I thought I had lost all my emails!

Fortunately, exiting Thurderbird and reboot my Laptop and restarting Thunderbird shows the Inbos with all its expected messages.

I don't know how to report a bug formally, so I am hoping someone that does can pass this along to the appropriate peope or file it in the appropriate bug reporting system.

Hi,

I would like to integrate the user's address book (or more specifically the contact details of the current user) into my own (c++) desktop (Windows/MacOS/Linux) application for the user's convenience.

Is this possible at all? If so, where can I start reading to find out how to do this?

(If it's not possible through an API, is the address book file format documented somewhere, so I can read it directly?)

I don't need write access. I just need to be able to read the user's contacts.

Cheers, James

I tried to enter new addresses *.csv via the import function, but I am not getting the desired result. Please provide instructions! The result is in the attachment.

For quite a while now, almost a year, when I delete an email, it deletes more emails than the one I was deleting. Why is this happening? Sometimes I loose an important email without realizing it. This happens on both of my computers, my desktop and my laptop. How do I fix this? Hope you can help and Thank you. Mark D.

I use Windows 11 and had successfully installed new Thunderbird for Admin and DKeing (without password). But when I tried to open Thunderbird at DKeing it told me "already open, close it". I tried to close it, didn't help. I desinstalled Thunderbird under Admin, I desinstalled Thurnderbird under DKeing, I deleted the folder in Program Files ("Mozilla Thunderbird). Then I installed Thurderbird another time, trieing to open it. But it told me: Already open, close it. And no reaction when trying to close it. Schoene Gruesse D. Kluessendorf

Recently, thunderbird has stopped sending email from my hotmail configured account a month ago. The problem is that I tried everything, went to all blogs but nothing is working for me. In the end, I did the following:

1. Deleted the hotmail account and added account again. 2. Deleting the old passwords for microsoft365 and inserting new in Thunderbird.

With the following settings as attached.

The incoming settings are good with IMAP the only issue is with the out going SMTP server and password settings.

I suspect the problem is that I am using other microsoft365 accounts open on my PC in other tabs, thats why its not working. This means, Thunderbird is not intelligent enough to see whether the outgoing request is for the configured account. It takes the system managed or 365 managed outgoing server settings and tries to put the password (which is a wrong password for this account), and everything messes up.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

cannot send/recieve emails. getting message, enter your password for ( my email address) on imap.tools.sky.com I do not know and cannot find password.

(1) In Thunderbird v. 128.5.2, I find that when I adjust the column widths for one mail folder, it changes the widths for all the other folders as well. This isn't a big deal for me since I want to have the widths the same in all folders, but what's the point of having the "apply columns to..." feature if one has no choice but to do that anyway?

(2) More frustrating is that if I try to increase the width of a column by dragging its right border to the right, it not only decreases the width of columns to the right as expected, but also decreases the width of columns to the left. Or if I try to increase the width by dragging the left border to the left, instead of increasing the width of the column I'm trying to adjust, instead it increases the width of the right-most column, and seems to make a multitude of adjustments to other columns that I don't understand. Is there a way to get the column sizer to work in the normal way? Any help would be appreciated!

Just what the subject line says. Go looking for something and Search doesn't find it. Even after I remember the email and find it, Search does not find it.

Why is this? It is un-usable, actually as it happens all the time.

For instance, putting in a company name like "walmart.com" will find some but not all the emails with walmart.com and certainly not the most recent ones specifically with a person's name.