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I've been using Thunderbird for many years, and its up to date. I've had more and more problems with choppy response times lately. It "freezes" for short periods where the interface stops responding for half a minute, or a minute or so before I can do anything. It always comes back (never crashes, shuts down). Today was some of the worst where it was minutes before I could start using it.

My junk and trash folders are empty, and I've done a compression and run the cleanup operation on a bunch of folders. My Inbox is empty. I only have 2 pop accounts. Its not when its retrieving or sending email though.

On Wednesday 12/11 at approx 4PM PT, Thunderbird stopped being able to log in to my sbcglobal.net POP3 account. It had been receiving emails routinely up to that time. There are two error messages associated with this. One happens if TB has been open and I ask it to download new messages using the little cloud symbol or “Get Messages”: “The account xxx@sbcglobal.net is being processed. Please wait until processing is complete to get messages.” Or if I open TB and it just starts with the login process, the error messages is a popup: “Connection to server inbound.att.net timed out.” TB manages two other accounts, both of which are functioning normally. One of them is also an sbcglobal.net account, and both sbcglobal accounts are set up identically: Port 995, SSL/TLS, Secure Mail Key (rather than OAuth2). Version is 115.18.0 32bit, Windows 22H2. Logging in to the server shows many emails that have arrived since the problem started. I have gotten nowhere with ATT/SBC, they don't seem to want to provide any support anymore if they hear the word Thunderbird. Can you help?

Occasionally I will get distracted between starting Thunderbird and entering the primary/master password. This is usually due to not having my password manager open, and/or problems with the PW manager, or getting an important phone call.

Thunderbird asks for the PW, but if I don't enter it "in time" it will go ahead and try to access my email accounts online, but without having access to the application passwords/tokens. This causes a slew of errors, requests for authorizations and other problems. I usually end up canceling the task - because just closing Thunderbird doesn't stop the insanity.

If I have a primary/master PW, Thunderbird should WAIT, and not try to do anything, until that password is correctly entered. That would solve a bunch of issues.

Thunderbird: 128.5.2esr (64-bit) Release notes Thunderbird for Linux Mintmint-001 - 1.0 Updates disabled by your system administrator

System:

 Kernel: 6.8.0-51-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc
 Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.2.9 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.2.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0
   Distro: Linux Mint 22 Wilma base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Hello! Seriously considering Thunderbird after the recent refresh and am super delighted to see your collective contributions. A big thanks at the outset! I handle about 100 emails a day (both in and outbound) and have to keep going to the sent box towards the close of the day to delete all emails which i had to respond to but have no future use for. Could you introduce a feature in Thunderbird where the user is asked whether he/she wishes to save the email just after sending it? A "yes" retains the email in the sent box while a "no" does not. That way, i dont have to go to my sent box and go through numerous emails at the end of the day to keep my mailboxes clean.

Secondly, could you introduce the ability to compose signatures within the application itself please?

Just wanted to leave these two thoughts here. Wishing you the best for many more iterations of a truly wonderful outlook alternative!

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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

Somehow, I have a second copy of one of my email accounts. They are mirrored, so what happens to one, happens to the other which makes deleting one not acceptable.

Any way to get to the mirrored account?

Thanks, Sue

Bonjour Les messages ne s'affichent pas en mode 'normal' Je dois me mettre en mode 'DEPANNAGE' pour les afficher ?

pouvez vous m'aider Merci

Version thunderbird 128.5.0esr 32 bits

I saw People posting for over a year about the "geeksquad" FAKE emails. This still hasn't been Corrected, and I am getting them Also from the criminal enterprise. They all pretend to be from Best Buy/Geeksquad they all have Click buttons with the SCAMMER website rxvtom.com within the email. Block this Junk, please, before any more people get hurt

I will provide FULL HEADERS Directly to Support Staff i don't want to Post them here since someone might inadvertedly Click on them and get Malware from rxvtom.com Malware site.

Protect your Users.

I was able to point thunderbird to my local drive where I have a folder full of mbox files (email folders).

The folders are empty, now that they are mapped, is there a final step required to import all their contents?

Impossible d'enregistrer mon compte "hotmail.com" dans thunderbird. "erreur identifiant ou mot de passe" alors que ceux ci sont justes (vérifiés sur le site outlook). Quelle solution ? Merci

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 a large amount of email stored on an IMAP server. Would like to reduce that by moving most or all of it to a local disk drive. Am looking for a (hopefully simple) guide to doing the transfer. I don't see a Local Folders entry in the left-hand pane; not sure if that matters. (Presently running TB 115.10.1 64-bit on Windows 10 and 11.)