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Why does Thunderbird not find by sender name in quick search bar?
I use Thunderbird 17.0.6. I have lots of mail messages in my inbox. Some of them are listed with sender name (anonymized) "thefirstname thelastname". Now, if I use the quick search bar to search for ...
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How to start up Thunderbird without restoring tabs from last session?
Thunderbird keeps crashing on start-up. No, it's not corrupted .msf files. I followed a link to a Thunderbird extension's homepage, which opened in a Thunderbird tab; it immediately caused Thunderbird ...
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Thunderbird - sorting by recieving address (not just “recipient”)
I have several aliases used with one account, e.g. jobs@mydomain.com, me@mydomain.com, spam@mydomain.com and so on.
I'd like to sort and group based on which address was used to receive a message, ...
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Increase Calendar Refresh Interval Beyond Defaults in Thunderbird/Lightning
Thunderbird/Lightning offers 5 different time intervals for refreshing remote calendars, between "Every Minute" and "Every 60 Minutes".
But, my work requires me to have over a dozen remote calendars, ...
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Drafts are auto-saved in the current folder instead of the account’s Draft folder
I have several IMAP accounts each with several identities in Thunderbird (17.0.5). I use the default "Local folder" as an archive for various mailing lists. Custom message filters move the mailing ...
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Create mailing list from email recipients
I use GMail (web-mail) and sometimes Thunderbird for advanced tasks. Last year, on Thunderbird, I reached to create an address list from emails recipients. Since, I have reinstalled everything, and I ...
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How to change default directory when adding new attachment in Thunderbird
Let's say I start a new mail, and I add attachment. By default Thunderbird shows Documents sub-directory from my home directory. But this does not suit me and I would like to change this default ...
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How to mark as read all existing messages with the same subject line in Thunderbird?
I am looking for an easy way to mark as read all existing messages with the same subject line as the selected message. It is important that no future mails will be marked as read by this actions (i. ...
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Is Rackspace email broken? Unable to put sent message in IMAP Sent folder with several IMAP clients [closed]
The company I work with has Rackspace (paid) email. It seems to work fine with IMAP clients at work at the office, but when working at home I'm not able to have sent messages go into the server-side ...
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In Thunderbird's models, how to have a signature set at bottom when changing identity?
In Thunderbird,
I have heavily use of models and i have also heavily use of account identities.
But when I open a model to send, when I select the identity I want the mail to be sent by, the signature ...
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How do I invite people to a chat room in Thunderbird?
Following instructions from this SuperUser post: Chat room in Thunderbird with Google Chat I created a chat room in Thunderbird using my Google Talk account.
How can I invite people to this chat ...
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Force Thunderbird to set up receive-only account
I need to set up Thunderbird without the ability to send e-mail. Meaning, I cannot send e-mail, using any outgoing server, in any way. (I'd rather not go into why, just stipulate that as my use ...
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Where are configured the folders icons in Thunderbird?
Something happened to my thunderbird profile: now every folder in the folder three pane on the left has the same standard yellow folder icon.
I mean that the special icons for INBOX, Trash etc. are ...
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how do i pause a huge download into Thunderbird?
I am downloading about 15000 emails into Thunderbird to store them. Anyone know if I can 'pause' the download so that I can work on my computer which is VERY slow and then 'restart' when I go to bed?
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Thunderbird and Gmail - Mail fetcher
Basically I want to use Thunderbird to manage all my email accounts. But I also want to retain the ability to use Gmail's mail fetcher for a select few accounts.
The thing I don't want to do is ...
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Thunderbird autocomplete keeps messing with addresses [closed]
Email address auto-complete in Thunderbird always puts the wrong address or renders them unusable by how it tries to fill out the To: field.
It keeps happening on Thunderbird 17.0.4 for Ubuntu ...
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Thunderbird with Send later send over and over again the same email. my mail account was blocked by provider
I use Thunderbird with Send later and Mail Merge addons.
I have mailing lists that have problems, dots or @ are missing, there are spaces. They are huge email lists and I cannot control them!
For ...
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How to hide mail account folders in Thunderbird without deleting them?
I have half a dozen mail accounts in my Thunderbird, gmails, hotmails, yahoomail, etc for work, personal, etc. I want to hide account folders that I don't use often to reduce the clutter. I know ...
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How to disable the thunderbird displaying attachments as inline?
Thunder bird display my attachment as inline attachment but other client like lotus note show them as just attachment not inline. I am not sure why i am seeing them inline on thunderbird? Does ...
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SSH rejects RSA passphrase for keys created with GPG/Enigmail [duplicate]
Last year I created an 4096 bit RSA key pair with GPG / Enigmail in Thunderbird. Enigmail lists me a primary key used to sign and authenticate e-mails, and a subkey used to encrypt e-mails. I exported ...
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My message quota is full; how do I delete messages?
I'm not receiving incoming messages and have the following message in Folder Properties:
Quota Root: "ROOT"
Usage: 321740 of 10236kB used
Status: 3143% full.
How do I empty this?
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Why can't I add a chat account in Thunderbird 17.0.4 ESR?
I can go through the whole process of adding a chat account without a problem (Edit -> Account Settings -> Account Actions -> Add Chat Account... &c., &c.); however, when I click "Finish" at ...
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How to make thunderbird save attachments as .html instead of .xht?
I'm encountering a problem regarding handling of attachments with Thunderbird (9.0.1, Win 7). I've set Thunderbird to open HTML files with Firefox. But currently, Thunderbird adds a ".xht" extension ...
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Thunderbird 17 - requires administrator rights on win7
Nutshell: Any time Thunderbird starts now, it requests privilege escalation.
I don't want to give it that because it's downloading mail from the internet and is basically THE attack vector on the ...
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How do I create a private key when I have a certificate in a PKCS12 file?
I have client certificates for my email addresses from cacert.org and I have successfully stored themn as PKCS12 files and used them to sign emails in Thunderbird.
However, when someone uses my ...
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Thunderbird: forward emails to same recipient
I have several emails with large attachments that I want to forward to a particular email address. I can't forward these emails as attachments, because then the resulting email would be too large. How ...
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Switching from POP3 to IMAP
My email host supports both POP3 and IMAP retrieval, and for years, I've been using POP3 in Thunderbird to retrieve my email. I'd like to switch to IMAP so that messages can be easily stored on the ...
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How to hide e-mail signature in Thunderbird
I'd like to know if there is a way to auto-hide e-mail signatures in Thunderbird (setting or extension). Ideally, it should only show a line with some text like "Click here to display signature".
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What can cause an unusually large Thunderbird address book?
I think I got some sort of corruption in my Thunderbird address book file (abook.mab). I had identical symptoms described in this post, namely the error message "Unable to load addres book file ...
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Importing Google Reader feeds into Thunderbird
In Google Reader, I have five folders, in which are various feeds, and then about 20 feeds that aren't in any folders. I have exported Google Reader data using their data checkout utility. I get a zip ...
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Setting the font size in thunderbird
Im having trouble trying to change the font size in thunderbird. I can see that i can change it to "largeer font size", or "smaller font size" how can you set it as a number say "12px" or "12pt" ?
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Thunderbird on Imap with multiple users: all mail being marked unread.
My office just switched to Thunderbird from Outlook and we have multiple computers synced to view the emails. The problem I'm running into, though, is that I am not the only one checking emails, so if ...
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Warning: Thunderbird can allow you to get to your mail using the provided configurations. However, you should contact your administrator or email prov
How do I get past this when configuring an account in Thunderbird? I want to have separate SMTP and IMAP servers. So far I've found Thunderbird much harder to use and configure than Outlook Express.
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Is there a way to automatically remove all messages from conversation/thread in thunderbird?
Since latest releases of thunderbid I frequently use conversation view which is very handy (right click on a message -> Open message in Conversation). Is there an add-on that will allow me to delete ...
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Dovecot and thunderbird deleting and syncing
I want move towards using my own mail server, so I picked Dovecot. I plan on using thunderbird to retrieve my mail using IMAPS. I have never used either of the software, so my questions are a bit ...
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Chat room in Thunderbird with Google Chat
How do I start a chat room in Thunderbird with Google Chat? What values do I use for room and server?
Thunderbird 17.0.3.
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What happened to Unfied View in Thundbird 17?
I installed thunderbird 17 but I don't see any option to go to "unifed" view. Did they move it somewhere new or did they remove it?
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How to fix short event rendering in thunderbird lightning
When I add multiple 15 minute events in the same hour to lightning, it renders them as if the are overlapping (see image). On another pc, this isn't a problem (the events are the full column size)
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How can I compress an attachment in my Mailclient inside my inbox?
I got a lot of emails with uncompressed formats (like bmp, txt, ...) that I want to keep inside my IMAP-inbox, so I can access them from all my devices (Windows, Linux, ios, Android).
Those emails ...
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Google two factor authentication rejects login from Thunderbird
Since I turned on the two-factor login in googlemail, I cannot login from Thunderbird anymore. (Before it was all fine.)
What do I have to change in Thunderbird?
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Configured my company mail id to my Personal mail address [closed]
I have configured to make the mails from my company mail id to be retrieved in my Personal mail address(gmail).
Here I dont know is there any possibility for my management members to access my ...
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Thunderbird, IMAP, Delete a message and move it to local Trash
How can I AUTOMATICALLY move a deleted IMAP message to my LOCAL Trash instead of IMAP Trash?
Thunderbird 17.0.3.
[ Message Filters only work on incoming mail. Tools > Account Settings > Server ...
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Right click set rule context menu in Thunderbird
I can't seem to find an add-on or setting for this and it's not provided by default like it is in Outlook 2010.
Is there any way I can get this functionality? It's extremely useful as I create a lot ...
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Why does mail deleted in Thunderbird still show up in outlook.com?
I deleted about 2000 emails in Thunderbird, which is now nice and clean, but they are all still visible on the outlook.com web portal client.
I have Thunderbird configured using IMAP settings. I have ...
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Cannot send email through SMTP in Thunderbird
I have a school provided email (name@ins.edu) that is located on an outlook server (pod#####.outlook.com) that I configured in Thunderbird using the settings provided by the web-based outlook ...
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How to make Thunderbird suggest favorite contacts first when sending mails?
My Thunderbird client is connected to the rather large LDAP directory of our company. When I start typing in the "To:" field, it lists all matching LDAP entries alphabetically. This list is very long ...
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Keep folders local to machine when using imap on thunderbird
We have an email account that we use as a team.. team@example.com (running on google apps for business), we all connect to the account via imap, using a mixture of mac mail and thunderbird.
One ...
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IMAP constantly loses connection and seems unable to remember password
Outlook 2010 (and Thunderbird - see Update 3) has been working fine for a while, but all of a sudden it has been re-prompting for a username and a password and despite it being correct, continues to ...
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Converting/extracting Outlook Express .wab address book groups
Ok, so I'm trying for days now to convert an Outlook Express .wab to LDIF. I managed to do the addresses by importing from Outlook Express to Thunderbird in Windows XP, and then augmenting that with ...
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How to save attachments in Thunderbird on arrival automatically?
How can I save email attachment on its arrival in Thunderbird and save it to specific folder - by some rule of sender or subject of the email automatically?
