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Unadvisable to use UTF-8 for mails?
Thunderbird (in German) uses the charset ISO-8859-15 (or -1, can't check right now) by default for outgoing and incoming mails. (If you want to change the default, see Change Thunderbird default ...
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Which is the best way to sync and share contacts and calender between Thunderbird, iPhone and Android?
I would like to keep my contacts and a calendar synchronized between several desktops and cellphones.
Is there a way to achieve this without using Google or similar organisations?
I want to keep my ...
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Thunderbird configuration for James on localhost
I have an Apache James Server on localhost.
I know to configure its smtp, pop3 and imap ports.
I set them to 1025,1110, 1043 for now debugging.
I have a user user2
I can send mail through
telnet ...
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Thunderbird is not downloading all mail from the server
I have configured the Thunderbird client.
I have multiple folders configured on the server along with Inbox.
When I download mail from server, Thunderbird only downloads mail from the Inbox folder on ...
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Automatically create subfolder and filter for sender's email domain
A very common use case I've noticed in my and others' email workflow is to get email from a new contact that I need to create a filter for. This entails:
creating a subfolder for that domain
...
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Mozilla Thunderbird: New email, but I can't see it
Very often I see a tooltip on my desktop saying that that I have new email in my inbox, but when I bring Thunderbird back into focus (I have the program always open), I see that:
My Inbox folder is ...
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How to synchonise address books across multiple PC's
I am using Thunderbird 15.0.1 on two different Windows computers (Vista and Win 7). I maintain the email list for a local club, and often need to send out emails to all members from my home and office ...
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Use Alladin eToken with ThunderBird and other tool
I'm looking for an example on how to setup the eToken PRO Java device to work with Mozilla Thunderbird and with other Linux tool such as PAM logon. I installed distributed pkiclient-5.00.28-0.i386.RPM ...
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Script configuration of Thunderbird profile on multiple OS X machines
How can I script the installation of Thunderbird profiles and configuration of per-user account settings onto a number of network machines running OS X?
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Synchronizing Thunderbird15.0.1-Contacts with cardDAV-Server without using SOGO-Connector
I have my own server (running ubuntu 12.04) on which I installed ownCloud and were able to successfully synchronize my Calendar via CalDAV. But when trying to synchronize my contacts with CardDAV, ...
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How to open a web page in Mozilla Thunderbird (without using an add-on)
I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird (version 15, on Windows) as a RSS client (I know there are others clients; I've used some of them). The problem (for me) is that some publishers don't want to include ...
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Firefox and Thunderbird won't start
OK, I've got this problem again, only this time the problem only seems to affect Firefox and Thunderbird. Rebooted several times and tried resetting to the last restore point, but that didn't work. ...
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Thunderbird Progress Bar / Downloading Icon Always Spinning / Running on Mac
The barber pole icon in the bottom right is always running. I just installed Thunderbird, and have four mail accounts. I have not created any RSS or other feeds. My mail accounts are all with Gmail ...
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Thunderbird not checking mail automatically
I'm using Thunderbird 15.0.1 Windows 7 x64. I figured out the issue few updates ego.
Once I tried to turn off all add-ons, but its not helps.
I have only one POP e-mail account (and it is default), ...
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Automatically mark messages sent to myself as read
I like to BCC myself in all my replies so that it shows the entire chain of messages in my Inbox (Account Properties -> Copies and Folders -> "Bcc these email addresses").
But I dont like to receive ...
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How to sort Thunderbird by message count?
I am trying to sort the messages in my inbox by the number of messages from / to email address.
After having sorted by Sort by -> From and Grouped By Sort and then displaying the Total column, I ...
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Thunderbird Gmail imap does not immediately sync messages changed on another comp or mobile
This happens often in thunderbird and I do not know how to solve it.
I open thunderbird on one pc and sync inbox with gmail. then I do to laptop and open the same gmail imap in Thunderbird. I read ...
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Thunderbird profile folder gone
I posted yesterday about losing my Thunderbird profile. I'm trying to figure out what happened, and would like your help.
The "Profiles" folder has vanished from ...
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“Thunderbird is already running” error every time I try to start Thunderbird, even if it is not running
I cannot open Thunderbird. The process isn't running, but when I click on the icon, I get the the following error:
Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you ...
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Opening links in KDE: Broken Thunderbird or broken everything else
On Kubuntu 11.10, when I set the KDE default browser to /usr/bin/firefox then clicking links in Thunderbird opens them in a new Firefox window instead of the already-open Firefox window. However, when ...
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Thunderbird forwarding drafts
I have a filter on Thunderbird that forwards all my income email to my Gmail account. This filter is set up to:
"Match all messages"
Forward them to my Gmail account
Run on my inbox
Mark the ...
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Get LDAP Information For University Email. For Thunderbird
I am a Student at Northeastern University. They use G-Apps for email ids, so whenever I need to email someone, using university Id which ends with husky.neu.edu. I have to go Gmails compose mail, They ...
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Change the default feed account in Thunderbird
Being a strong fan of RSS/Atom feeds, I have a large amount of them in my Thunderbird. For organization's sake, I have two different feed accounts (one for work, and one for personal news). Since I ...
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How to configure Mozilla Thunderbird to read email from Microsoft Exchange? [duplicate]
How can I connect Mozilla Thunderbird to read email from a Microsoft Exchange server?
I have the address for Exchange server. Thunderbird asks for IMAP and SMTP server addresses. What do I put?
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Thunderbird 15 Chat Notification even if my window in minimized
This is my first post on SU.
My Question is related to thunderbird 15.0.1 I configured the chat accounts which is a great feature, I was wondering whether I could configure or install any add-on if ...
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How to integrate Thunderbird with SpamAssassin running on the server?
I'm trying to integrate SpamAssassin running on a server with Thunderbird. Basically I need to be able to select several emails in Thunderbird and send them back to SpamAssassin for training, either ...
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how to forward outlook server to use thunderbird
my university created an outlook email for me username@university.com i can't see if the email uses pop3 or imap, i have only access to the mailbox, i sign it to it from hotmail.com, i don't want to ...
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Thunderbird 15.0 and Gmail Not Syncing Correctly
Just got done reading these articles:
https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-gmail#w_configuring-your-gmail-account
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Read only email archive
I have a big gmail email database and i want archive it, and use in read only mode. I want to use like thunderbird, but without structure modifying functionality or email deletion possibility, just in ...
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In Thunderbird on OS X, how can I disable seeing how many new messages I have when I cmd-tab?
The question pretty much says it all. When I do a ⌘+tab, the icon for Thunderbird shows me how many unread messages I have in my inbox.
It's pretty distracting if I'm not looking to check my email.
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Automatic highlighting of text in thunderbird
In days with large email influx, some emails tend to slip out of my attention. Usually these are email where I am not the primary recipient, but I am referenced at some point as having to perform some ...
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How to get Thunderbird to work through HTTP proxy server?
I would like to access my personal IMAP server through my corporate firewall. This is allowed provided I use the corporate proxy server, which is an HTTP proxy server. I cannot figure out how to ...
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How to set a keyboard shortcut to “Zoom” thunderbird window on Mac?
I assigned keyboard shortcut Cmd-. to "Zoom" a window for all applications, it works fine except for Mozilla Thunderbird, I guess that is because Thunderbird has a menu item View -> Zoom -> Zoom in ...
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How to move mailing list mails into correct thread?
I'm subscribed to some mailing lists and every day people reply to a wrong mail (or they don't reply at all), so that their mail lands in the wrong (or a new) thread.
I set the mail display in "View ...
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Thunderbird: export email account settings
I'd like to create a new profile for Thunderbird using the same mail accounts I already configured in my old profile. As it is quite a number of accounts, it would be great to have a way to ...
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Is there a Thunderbird plugin to show a message containing multiple replies/forwards in a more convenient way?
I sometimes get forwarded one or few emails containing a thread of multiple messages (often including duplicates). Sure enough I can simply read them bottom up, but is there an Addon to display the ...
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How can I get Thunderbird to automatically move messages?
I have Thunderbird 15. I'd like to automatically move messages from one folder to another.
My mail account is an IMAP account. My Blackberry is also connected to the account and when it sends mail, ...
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Disable Thunderbird “failed to connect” notifications
My network manager doesn't start until I log in, so for the first ten seconds or so after I login I have no Internet connection. The problem is that I have Thunderbird set to automatically start on ...
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Getting Thunderbird to open tel: links with Google Voice
On Thunderbird on WinXP, when I click a tel: link it asks me which app to use. How to I get it to call up Gmail with the Canadian version of Google Voice (you can only dial from within Gmail) and ...
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Thunderbird, chat extension, what about notification
As you may have noticed, Thunderbird's new version has now a built-in feature that allows you to use it as a chat client. For example, Google talk. So I initiated my own account. The problem is that ...
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How Should I Share Thunderbird-Lightning-Tasks Between Workstations?
I originally submitted this here, but I don't expect a reply.
After migrating a company from MS Exchange server to Google Apps, I had a hard time finding a comparable replacement for Outlook's ...
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Backing up gmail, alternatives to thunderbird? [closed]
Since mozilla thunderbird is not continuing to be developed, what other options are there to backup gmail?
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read localhost e-mail with thunderbird
What would be simplest IMAP server allow Thunderbird to read messages to user@localhost for Ubuntu Linux?
My assumption was that if mailutils could read mail with the "mail" command then IMAP or POP ...
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Export + Import complete IMAP mailbox using Thunderbird (or terminal commands)
I need to copy all data from an IMAP mailbox (including the folder-structure,...) into a local file and afterwards import the data into another mailbox.
How can I manage this, using Thunderbird, or a ...
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Odd symbols on Thunderbird folders
I recently had to reset my computer to "factory new". I made a complete backup of my hard drive first. I reinstalled Thunderbird onto my machine and downloaded email from my server. I then moved my ...
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methods to import outlook mail into thunderbird
I cannot import mail from Outlook 2012 into Thunderbird using Thunderbird's import wizard. I get this error "Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client cannot fulfill the ...
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Can't get LDAP/remote address book to work on Ubuntu 12.04 with Thunderbird 14.0
How to set up DavMail/LDAP in Thunderbird? is very close to mine, but not quite.
The DavMail LDAP directions are a bit vague and I haven't been able to get LDAP/remote address book to work despite ...
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Is it possible to use ActiveSync to access my folders in Thunderbird when using the new Outlook.com?
Originally, it seemed as if it was not possible to use Hotmail with Thunderbird in an IMAP (or IMAP like fashion) without some hacks (the WebMail plugin, etc.) and it seemed the best method was to use ...
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Using socks proxy for Thunderbird?
I am wondering whether it is possible. I tried with the same socks settings that I succesfully use for Firefox, but I get this error:
Sending of message failed.
The message could not be sent using ...
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How to recover from Thunderbird safemode?
Recently, I have updated Thunderbird to the latest version(14.0) on windows 7. And added some add-ons. As it said add-ons are not compatible with the version, I disabled all the add-ons. Since ...
