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"Failed to connect to POP server pop.gmail.com"

I use Thunderbird 60.8.0 on Win10. For years I've accessed my Gmail emails via a POP server. Forwarding/POP etc in my Gmail settings, and the Thunderbird account was set up correctly. Suddenly, since ...
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Thunderbird and Gmail: how to disable annoying "credentials" popups when moving

I maintain a number of Gmail accounts (for various purposes). I use Thunderbird downloading all e-mails to my local computer (for multiple accounts), and of course for writing e-mails. (That's via POP ...
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Get Thunderbird email contents to show up in Windows 10/11 search

Has anyone successfully gotten the content of Thunderbird emails to show up in Windows 10/11 search? I have Enable Global Search and Indexer checked in Thunderbird settings and I have the Manage Store ...
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Export IMAP Email Folder into single CSV File with Dates

I've been trying to export an Email folder into a CSV/JSON with the default Email columns, text content and date. At first this seemed quite easy but when I used the Outlook export feature but it did ...
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Can I merge archived maildir "inbox" and "sent" folders to get a usable threaded folder with both?

Apologies if this is a bit vague but I have two large files from an ancient email backup, that has a "email" file with all the emails as a giant text file, and then a "sent" file ...
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New Thunderbird typeface, font and format

Somebody referred to it as GUI font rendering changed in latest update of Thunderbird, I don't know if this is correct, but for for sure it now looks different. Enlarges the display of the message ...
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Thunderbird wants to purge deleted messages from disk but I want to recover them - where are they?

A few days back I accidentally deleted several messages due to keystrokes being fed to the wrong application. However, I have hope for recovery because whenever Thunderbird starts I get this message: ...
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Thunderbid misses inline attachments when filtering by attachments

Thunderbird can filter by whether an email contains an attachment: Some people attach inline, others prefer non-inline attachments. However, TB only filters emails that contain non-inline attachments....
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POP3 + Mail client = no new messages on server (despite having new messages on server)

I'm using Thunderbird. I've used it forever. Today I noticed mail wasn't being delivered for about 2 days; after checking the usual suspects and confirming I see new mail in my server account's /var/...
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Thunderbird/email server slow when firewall is up

In short, I'm running Postfix and Dovecot on a server and everything is working. The issue is that when sending mail with the firewall up, Thunderbird hangs for about 10 seconds before sending a ...
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Office365 SMTP server extremely slow from Thunderbird on Linux

I've been using Thunderbird on Linux to access the Office365 email account of my company. Starting from last week, connections suddenly became extremely slow. I regularly wait for 3 to 5 minutes ...
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Syncing Thunderbird Profiles Between Win10 Ubuntu 20.04 on Dual-Boot Machines

Now that Thunderbird has fully integrated Lightning Calendar. Might someone be willing t post a definitive/updated guide to sharing an Ubuntu 20.04 Thunderbird profile with a Win10 Thunderbird client ...
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Statistical analysis of an mbox mail file

I have a rather large mbox mail file in Thunderbird, around 46.5GB. I want to do some analysis of it to see where the space is used up and what I might do to archive some mail separately. I tried ...
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Thunderbird SSL error with letsencrypt cert on dovecot / postfix

I am new to Linux and I have been banging away at this problem for 12 hours and admit defeat. I have iredmail (postfix / dovecot / roundcube webmail) installed and everything seems to work. -Web mail ...
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Thunderbird IMAP subscribing to folders: mail server responded "subscribe failed"

I'm using Thunderbird with 2 different IMAP email providers. I've been using them for months. Recently though, when I start Thunderbird, my IMAP folders (apart from Inbox) have vanished. When I go ...
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Change default encoding in Thunderbird compose email using Config Editor

It defaults to Western-1252, I prefer ASCII. Any way to get it to use that using user.js/about:config?
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Downloading via POP while keeping messages marked unread on server in Thunderbird

We have a problem with emails being marked as "read" on the server (cPanel -> WebMail) when Thunderbird downloads them via POP. Is there any way to prevent this? Use case and Scenario: ...
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Why can't Thunderbird decrypt messages made with Kleopatra?

So if I import a public key made by thunderbird into Kleopatra and use it to encrypt a message, then send an email containing that message, thunderbird gives an error and doesn't decrypt the message.
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Thunderbird template

I have just started to use TB. When I create a template within an email account, every reply or new message uses that template. I don't want that. Edit: it appears that even with the templates removed,...
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How can I best restore ancient text-file email backups into a more modern email format?

Like many of us, I have decades of email now that's sprinkled through my backups, often from when I would move to a new computer or migrate from one OS to another. I now have a bunch of ancient email ...
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Thunderbird/Outlook if mail not received last 24 hours

I have some routine emails that are sent every day, they are automatically going in some folders. However, if I don't receive the mail in the last 24 hours I want to have an alert, in thunderbird or ...
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Using Thunderbird 78.9.1, what must I do to display "Important" message in red backcolor?

In Thunderbird 78.9.1, I search to display some tagged messages with some specific backcolors. Using Options in Thunderbird application, it is only possible to set forecolors ! I have found some pages ...
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How set Default vs. specific outgoing server

I am using Thunderbird 78.9.1 and Win7. I have a few email accounts that are associated with my own web site. In TB: Tools | Account Settings | Outgoing Server (SMTP) I have 3 entries: ...
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TB 78 genreated key cannot be import into gpg

I generated a ECC key then save the private key to file. Then I can import the key to tb78. However, when I try to import it to gpg2, it failed: gpg: key E66BE8B832B7CE7A: "[email protected]" ...
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Why does Thundebird use ≈ 100 % CPU when transferring mails between different IMAP accounts (as well as other tasks)?

Thunderbird frequently uses 90-100 % CPU on my modern machines when doing I/O-tasks, like checking mail or, what I have done a lot recently: transferring mail from IMAP account A to IMAP account B. ...
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Get thunderbird to set from equal to "recipient to" when replying to email

Is there a way to get thunderbird to set the "from" email address to the email address the email was sent to, when replying to the email. Example: I am using a google account, and if an ...
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Export Email FROM Addresses from IMAP Server as CSV

I'm a publisher of a newsletter and many of our subscribers have 'changed' their email addresses and what they have are 'replies' to our email with a friendly notice that their email address has ...
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Thunderbird 78: Line breaks are not applied correctly in plain text emails

I have updated Thunderbird to version 78.4 and since then I have a problem to display plain text emails correctly. I write my e-mails as plain text. Line breaks are created automatically starting at ...
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Cannot add email account in thunderbird 78

I cannot add a new email account in TB78, but can in 68. I tried 2 different ISPs. TB hangs checking the password. Help? Where would I start looking? I know this is vague but hoped to get at least a ...
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what is "ssl/tls protocol filtering" in Eset Internet Security, and do I need it?

Recently, Thunderbird upgraded to version 78.4.0, from version 68. After the update, I couldn't receive any email, from any server whatsoever. After considrerable reserach, I disabled "ssl/tls ...
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Is there a way to force Thunderbird to start with the default colums for the Inbox every time?

I have several elderly (75 and 80+) family members that are reasonably able to use a computer. (I'm actually quite proud of them that they got so far. They all never touched a computer until well in ...
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Microsoft Outlook .pst file equivalent for the Thunderbird Mail Client?

Thunderbird is installed MacOS: 5+ email accounts. The goal is to export one of the G-mail account's for a third party to analyze in a Windows instance of Thunderbird. Once the emails are exported to ...
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How can I prevent thunderbird to start if the profile is missing?

I don't want thunderbird to start if a profile (folder) is missing. This works in my "old" thunderbird installation (68.10.0), however on a new machine it automatically creates the missing ...
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thunderbird address book not working after cleaning folder

Since my email is IMAP, I did this in order to free some space, but now my address book is not working anymore. I lost some entries and I cannot add anymore new contacts to it, launching thinderbird ...
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S/MIME Email Encryption in Thunderbird

I set up a CA and issued it to Thunderbird. Now, I need to assign the public and private keys that I generated to Thunderbird. I'm in settings - Security - Then when I select Digital Signing or ...
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"This email is from an external mail server etc." <- can I get rid of this?

On many (but not all) of my incoming email messages, I see a message saying: This email is from an external mail server, be judicious when opening attachments or link My mail server is - ...
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Importing 9000 eml files to Thunderbird .78

Folder containing 9069 .eml files sent by Windows Live Mail. I need to add them to Thunderbird. I created sub-folder in Thunderbird Archieved items, selected all files in Windows Explorer and dragged ...
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Thunderbird keeps telling me my login information is wrong even while I can login using gMail on Android with same credentials

A week ago my Thunderbird stopped working. Today I made a full reset (uninstalling, removing all data from appdata etc) and installed the current version (78.1.1 x64, Windows 10, en-US). I'm unable to ...
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Thunderbird logs a lot (calendar) into journal taking up space

While looking at my journalctl -b (on Ubuntu 18.04) entries a substantial amount of them are from thunderbird.desktop and formatted in ics (calendar/lightning). I don't know why thunderbird logs so ...
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Where to find Thunderbird profile in macOS Sierra10.12.6?

I've used Thunderbird for ~7 years on a MacBook Air, which is now running macOS Sierra 10.12.6. The present Thunderbird version on that machine is 68.11.0. I am in the process of moving from that ...
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Always show full time stamp in Thunderbird

I would like to always show the full timestamp for messages in Thunderbird (eg in the inbox). The default settings only shows the time if the email came in the same day: Does anyone know the setting ...
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Can't send mail with Thunderbird 78.0b4

Anyone know how to remove the keys that Thunderbird 78.0b4 imported from my GPG keychain? I updated to the latest version of Tbird this morning and something got messed up. I get the below dialog box ...
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Running WebDAV server, but cannot publish from Thunderbird

I installed and have a running WebDAV server (Davical) and now would like to publish my calendar from Thunderbird (Lightning), as advertised here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/exporting-and-...
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thunderbird crash on start-up on Debian in libxul.so after opening /dev/shm

I am unable to get Thunderbird to start-up on my Debian machine. The thunderbird package is from "buster". I have never tried to get it working before -- this is the first time. Firefox works fine. ...
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Automatically remove tag when message is replied to

Is there a way to create/configure a tag that gets automatically removed when a message is replied to? Right now I'm using one of the two options which require additional manual work: Read mail, tag ...
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Thunderbird just deleted all my past mails

I have configured Thunderbird to synchronize for mails for last 90 days. It has gone ahead and deleted older mails from my server in GMAIL. I also used the compact option. I also configured the ...
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Postfix Dovecot Pi server cant connect to email client even though it can send and receive emails

I followed the sam hobbs tutorial for setting up a postfix dovecot email server on a pi and with quite a bit of research and trouble i got my pi server running (can send and receive emails), but i ...
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Problems while moving data of Thunderbird

I would like to move my Thunderbird settings and data to a new computer. I am using the method described HERE, and I remember I managed to do it before like this. It seems like everything is copied ...
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Can you configure the Thunderbird data root folder to be a different folder than %AppData%\Thunderbird\?

I am after changing the root of where Thunderbird finds all the user's data (profiles includes) Currently it is specified on Windows as %AppData%\Thunderbird\ At its root there is profiles.ini which ...
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Connecting email client to address on old server

I am planning on moving my client's web & email hosting to a different company (their current one is too unreliable). To handle their email, my plan is to: Register account with new hosting ...
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