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Delete used to not work as TB seemed to be forever 'compacting', now appears resolved.

THREADS, the display tacks a new email onto a recent thread-related or not. I did not ask for this and would like to remove it. Seems that since the People behind TB have now left us to the 'community' We are not impressed.

ALAN x@xx.org.uk [address edited for privacy]

Using windows 7 and have been using TB for well over 20 yrs. but very disappointing recently.

Bonjour, J'ai effacé par erreur un dossier et ses sous-dossiers directement dans ma messagerie Orange. J'ai ensuite installé Thunderbird qui voit ces dossiers dans la poubelle mais ils restent désespérément vides des mails qu'ils contenaient. Est-il possible de les récupérer malgré tout svp ?

dear all, thunderbird corrupted on my 2nd laptop. So I installed tb 128.5.2esr (64) new on this laptop. I Installed t-online accounts for 2 users -> all ok. tried to install web.de accounts for 2 users -> fail with both. I used the same settings as in 1st laptop. When I test the web.de account, I get the message, that the email account can not be identified. I activated thiss account anyway:@ I am able to send a message from klsgbkweb.de to klsgbk@web.de and receive it on my 1st laptop. Then the password should not be the problem. On my defect account on 2nd laptop there is however the inbox missing. I receive no emails at all. The same problem with my other web.de email account. I compaired the account setting several times and see no differences. I am lost and have no further clue. All are IMAP accounts: - imap.web.de : 993 - SSL/TLS - smtp.web.de : 587 - STARTTLS Do you have any idea, what else to check / to do? Thx

I frequently copy images into my emails. When I do, they invariably end up very large. Other than grabbing the corners and dragging them smaller, is there an easy way to resize them? Is there an easy way to put images side-by-side rather than on top of each other?

Hello! I recently got the update to Thunderbird 128 on my PopOS laptop via sudo apt update/upgrade. I don't know what the previous version was. Since the update, Thunderbird will spike my CPU to 120 - 140% (per command-line "top") if I have an interaction with it (e.g. reading and then deleting an email that was received) after the program has been sitting idle for several minutes. After a few minutes of loud fans, things calm down again so I presume Thunderbird is doing some sort of maintenance routine that completes successfully.

I do not have the global search index thing turned on. I did not change the default mailbox db idle time. I do have rather large mailboxes that are synced via SMTP, from three different providers. There are dozens of folders (not hundreds) containing thousands if messages (but not tens of thousands). Hopefully that gives an idea of scale .. I don't have a massive overload of untended email history but I do have a quantity of historical emails that the system has to deal with.

I followed the excellent directions online to obtain a profile during one of these high-cpu sessions. It is available at https://share.firefox.dev/4dAmyAz

Please let me know if there is anything further I can do to help diagnose this issue, such as generating more specific profiles. The high-cpu state is a pretty common occurrance now.

I have a Dell XPS 13 with a 13" diagonal 4K (3840x2160) display. On every single email I have to hit Ctrl-++ at least three times to get the email large enough to read - EVERY SINGLE EMAIL!!!! I don't have this issue with other applications, as the screen settings I have were configured to make all other applications comfortable to view without having to make continuous changes.

I saw a post early last year that was archived complaining about the same thing, and the only useful suggestion made was to change the zoom steps to fewer with larger spacing. This is not a solution to the requirement to have to resize every single email!!!! Yes, it does take it from three clicks to maybe one, but it is still every single email!

When will a setting be provided to allow the default zoom level to be set to something other than "1"? This is not rocket science, and clearly several people have bothered to post that they have to deal with this very annoying UI "feature".

When I try to send an e-mail from norman@rosleythorns.uk I get the message below. I have two other accounts and sending from them (norman.r and norman.ryding) is not a problem. I receive at all three addresses. I can find no reason for this.

Have now managed to send Onetel e-mails from laptop via Port 587. Thank you. Still unable to send from iMac desktop (have tried Port 587). Will keep trying, wondering if I need to re install Onetel.

Thank you David.

I have two long-established email accounts, both provided by siteground. I've used both successfully for years. Now, one still works for sending and one doesn't. I've checked the SMTP settings for both and they are the same, except of course for Description and Server Name. Here's the error message I get.

I have my own mail server and use different addresses for different services. When I reply to an email it always changes to my default address (myname@mydomain.com). When I receive an email to servicename@mydomain.com I want to reply with the from address being servicename@mydomain.com, not myname@mydomain.com. I can edit the address manually, but sometimes I forget and I end up sending replies with myname@mydomain.com. servicename can be variable per email.

Current faulty situation:

   Receive email incoming to servicename@mydomain.com

   Reply from address should be myname@mydomain.com

New wanted situation:

   Receive email incoming to servicename@mydomain.com

   Reply from address should be servicename@mydomain.com

This was built into Thunderbird for a while now.

   Go to Account Settings

   Enable Reply from this identity when delivery headers match

   Enter your domain prefixed by a wildcard (*), for example *@yourdomain.com

   Close/confirm all your changes

   Open an email that was sent to one of your catch-all addresses and click the reply button.

   The FROM field should be the catch-all address and not your general address.

But it has been broken for a while now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/a0uqtl/use_to_address_as_from_address_when_replying/

Hello, I'm using both orange mail and Thunderbird. Usually I first get my mails thourgh Orange mail, then they appear on my thunderbird mail box and simultaneously disappear from my Orange mail box, but today, after I saw them on Orange, they seem to have disappeared and are nowhere to be found on my thunderbird box.

Does anyone have any clue and could help me with this ?

I'm talking about 100 business e-mails, so that's a real big problem for me, and a terrible way to start the New Year...

Thanks a lot for your help and advice.

My mail provider requires the usage of portnummer 143 together with encryption method SSL/TLS. Thunderbird automatically uses encryption method STARTTLS when port # 143 is entered. This is according to the recomended usage of special port numbers, but I need no correction from thunderbird, when my stupid provider wants to use ist differently.

I have five email accounts connected to my thunderbird profile, two outlook, two gmail and one more obscure, all of them had correctly set-up outgoing servers and all had an identical error message of 'Sending of the message failed' with no further details. Every account can receive emails perfectly fine and only sending of emails (and saving drafts as the same message appears if I were to try and save a draft) appears to have been affected.

I opened the browser console in an attempt to diagnose an issue, however I am simply not knowledgeable enough to understand what its telling me.

I suspect a component was lost when I resized the partition, however a reinstall of thunderbird and a wipe of my profiles has not changed the issue and as such I am lost. Could someone more knowledgable than I please point me in the right direction before I reinstall ubuntu trying to fix this.

Many thanks Hawk.

I have been having problems with my email. It stops responding regularly and I have not been able to download messages since 01/04/2025.

Right now it is trying to download over 2000 messages from July. I deleted about 5000 messages on 01/04 to make more space.

No matter how many of the older messages that are trying to load and I am deleting, it doesn't seem to help or lower the number of messages that are trying to download.

I can't get to my new emails, except when using ComCast email.

Hey, i use Thunderbird as mail client for Gmail, yahoo, Hotmail and i cloud mail. I use the single password too to open my emails. Thunderbird asks me frequently to inter the password of icloud mail and i get a message that says something like: could not log in to me.mail.com. i should generate an app specific password every time to read my icloud mail. how can i make Thunderbird stay logged in into my icloud mail? what are the settings that i have to adjust if any? Thanks in advance