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I used to use Mailspring and loved it's combined inbox. Incoming messages for both of my email accounts would show in a combined inbox. I like Thunderbird and wish it had a combined inbox.Do we think it will ever happen?

I have no idea why, but TB is wonking out lately with strange errors?

The folder '[Gmail]/Sent Mail on me@mydomain.com' could not be compacted because writing to folder failed. Verify that you have enough disk space, and that you have write privileges to the file system, then try again.

I have a ton of space and have not changed anything on the PC?

Any ideas?

Receiving the following message. Changed nothing. Just stopped working. All other portable devices working fine.

The RETR command did not succeed. Error retrieving a message. Mail server outlook.office365.com responded: Server Unavailable. 21

Has anyone seen this or have a solution? Thank you.

When I compose a message in Thunderbird the text runs off the right edge of the screen. If I keep typing blind eventually the text will wrap but some text will still not be visible.

Is there a way to set Thunderbird to recognize the width of my monitor (slightly narrower than standard) or some other remedy?

After I finish I can zoom out and see what was hidden but of I type at that level of zoom the same thing will happen again.

Thanks.

Thunderbird 128.11.0 ESR 64 bit on Windows 10 PC

When I take pics on my Droid phone and e-mail them as attachments using Yahoo! e-mail on my phone to my Thunderbird account on my PC I use at home, the filenames change.

They used to show up with the filenames as 'date stamps', ie 20250527_01433 or something like that, which is what they show up as on my phone - which is normal, but NOW they download to my PC as a sequential filename such as 1000007145 - something that makes no sense.

You can look at the Properties of the pics and those show the date/time taken, but it doesn't help me when I am trying to easily track pics taken by date/time.

Yes, I can manually change the filenames once I save them - which is a real PITA, but what changed? Is there some setting somewhere that got changed with an automatic update that I can't find?

How can I get back to having them download to my PC using the date/time stamp as filenames?

Any help is appreciated.

Fred

I open TB and everything is fine = about 6 accounts. At some point, all accounts stop showing emails in the right pane. The navigation pane still shows the email count in each account and folder. A message in the right pane says there is no emails to show. The only way to get it back is to close TB and restart it. What is happening and how to fix it????????? W11, TB 1.38.0.0 x64

Please tell me how I can secure my email account that has been hacked. Can I change my password? My phone number is 970 461 3870. My email is ppmaslow@runbox.com. I also have pdmaslow@runbox.com. Thank you for your help. Pat Maslowski

I am trying to upgrade from 128 esr version to the new 139 version. I tried several ways to transfer data from the old version to the new version - I tried to export and import a the Thunderbird zip file. I also tried to open profile manager and creating a new profile that refers to a copy from my old version. Nothing has worked. In the old Thunderbird 128 version, if I select Help and Troubleshooting Information and then Open Folder next to the Profile Folder I get an error in Thunderbird that it can’t find my profile. I get the same error message when I go to Tools, export and select "open profile folder." This in spite of the fact that the old version continues to correctly display my contacts, tasks and events

After several hours of this, I finally decided to download version 139 using the standard Mozilla set up even though my Thunderbird 128 version is located someplace else. So, at this time I have two working versions of thunderbird on my computer – the old 128 version with all my data and the new 139 version with no data.

I think I need help figuring out which Profile has my contact, calendar and task data. Then I need help getting it to the new version.

Thanks

Luke

I recently got a new PC and was able to download Thunderbird and all my old received emails to the new PC. None of my old "sent" emails that I kept on my old PC downloaded and I am not able to send emails using Thunderbird.

Today I started getting this message and I can no longer access new mail:

"The RETR command did not succeed. Error retrieving a message. Mail server outlook.office365.com responded: Server Unavailable. 21"

Does anybody know how I can fix this?

128.11.0esr (64-bit) on a MacBook Pro

The 'Open With' option often, but not always, does not appear with email attachments. There seems to be no pattern with the type of files causing this. eg 'Open With' available for some jpeg files and not other jpeg files. Similar for other types of files. However I know if I copy files to desk top they will open - but then after opening on desk top, they WILL then open from within the email

I have two computers on which I use Thunderbird. I have never been able to successfully copy my email filters from one machine to the other, no matter what method I employ. It seems that this should be at least part and parcel of copying my profile to the new computer, but I find I have to rewrite the filters yet again. Please assist.

I'm unable to access any of my two email accounts. Within the past 12 months, I have donated to Mozilla three different times and each time my problems increased. I need help. SillySam@comcast.net

Hoping that someone can get me pointed in the right direction to sort out a problem I'm having.

I've been using Thunderbird successfully for a number of years on a few different PCs to access my email account. It worked just fine years ago with AT&T and more recently Frontier email servers. Several months ago Frontier discontinued their email service. But I had a "Free Email For Life" account which they automatically switched over to a Yahoo Email account which allowed me to continue using my long standing "@Frontier.com" address. The change over went pretty smoothly and Thunderbird was still working as expected. Until it didn't.

In the last month or two Thunderbird in two Windows machines will not connect to my Yahoo email account. I continually get messages indicating a "time out" issue when attempting to connect. But I can still access my email by logging directly into my Yahoo webmail account.

The two main Thunderbird installations, one on a Win 10 laptop and another on a Win 7 Pro desktop are the main problem areas with time-outs and no connection established. Oddly enough Thunderbird for Android seems to work just fine on my phone.

The only free tech help that Yahoo would provide was essentially to check my SMTP server settings, which I did again for probably the fourth or fifth time. I also changed my password which was a couple years old . . . just in case. But I'm still spinning my wheels.

Hopefully someone else has had a similar experience and can tell me what I may have overlooked. I don't want to switch to Gmail or any other server if I can avoid it. Yahoo offers their own 3rd party app but it seems a bit futzier and more invasive than Thunderbird. Somebody please point me in the right direction of where to dig in next.

This app comes with lots and lots of updates, and every time I have to delete the old start icon on the task bar and re-pin it. Please, fix it so that I never have to do that again. There is no other software at all including Mozilla Firefox that does this to me.

I tried to use Thunderbird today,.. to find the interface was broken, menus were blank, so no ability to look at anything., and error message inferring there was a menu config issue was all that was shown. I duly removed Thunderbird as a snap install, which took a long time as it seemed to be making a backup to somewhere. I then reinstalled Thunderbird 128.11.0esr (64-bit) on my ubuntu 24.04,.. having setup the isp email credentials,.. all seemed fine,.. I then proceeded to import what I assumed was my old local folders... And this is where things went wrong, as I seem to have lost all my archived 2025 emails,.. I say somewhere,.. as I don't seem to be able to find them, I have used the 'find' command to locate anything with 2025 in the file name,.. but without success. At the moment I have a multi-structured 'local folder' entry, but nothing with 2025 in? I anyone able to shed some light on what I may have done wrong Many tx