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Why are there directories called Local, LocalLow, and Roaming under \Users\<username>?
I have a workstation running Win2008 that's logged in an AD domain and I have a dual boot with Ubuntu Linux. When running Linux, I'd like to be able to use the same Thunderbird profile I use under ...
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How to move Thunderbird account settings to a new computer
On PC A, I have Thunderbird (3.0) running with several mail accounts.
Now I want to move one account (with settings and stored mails) to a new PC B.
I found no functions in Thunderbird to export ...
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Change the default sorting order in Thunderbird
Thunderbird (2.something here as 3 is still not stable and had some nasty bugs last I tried) sorts mails by date by default. This is fine, however, it sorts them so that the newest ones are at the ...
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How do I set Thunderbird to notify me of new emails in only certain folders?
I use Gmail with Thunderbird, which is working great, except for the part where I get a new email. It shows me the new email twice when notifying because it appears in both the inbox and All Mail ...
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Change Thunderbird default encoding for composing messages
Whenever I compose a new email message in Thunderbird, it defaults to the Western (ISO-8859-1) encoding, and I have to manually change it to UTF-8 every time.
How do I change the default?
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Does Thunderbird work with Exchange account
Has anyone got Thunderbird working with an Exchange account?
I downloaded and installed it yesterday and entered in my credentials and it failed. The advanced setup has options for IMAP and SMTP but ...
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How To Make Thunderbird Compose Mail With “Body Text” As Default?
When I compose message it composes by paragraph as default.
How can I make it compose without paragraphs but regular body text?
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How to Export Thunderbird Mail Accounts?
I have about 5 email accounts (of different people) backed up on my computer using Thunderbird.
I need to be able to somehow send a zip file (or anyother format) to these users so that the file ...
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How to Sync Thunderbird Contacts with Gmail Contacts
I have thunderbird 3.0 with the Zindus plugin. However it seems that Zindus syncs one way.
For example I type a new email address into thunderbird and then go to my gmail account and it has no record ...
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Why would Thunderbird regularly hang for 10 seconds
I've been using the Thunderbird e-mail client for years on three different operating systems: XP, Vista, Windows 7.
On all of these operating systems, it has always had the problem of e.g. I'll be ...
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If 'To' and 'From' headers are the spammer's email address, how did I get this email?
I tried to check header 1. I see my email address in "Envelope-to: my_email@my_domain.com" but not in To/CC/BCC
how sender is able to do this?
I think I'm not a BCC recepient because Thunderbird ...
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Configure Thunderbird to never send (or even try to send) HTML emails
Where can I tell Thunderbird always to send emails as plain-text, and never as HTML-formatted messages? I hate HTML-based email, and always do everything possible to send my emails as plain text.
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Removing duplicate emails in Thunderbird
I need to stop the duplicate mail (which is already in my mail box) in Thunderbird or any mail box.
Are there any filters for this?
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How can I train Thunderbird's spam filter?
Thunderbird spam filter works pretty well but for some reason, mails from "Approved VIAGRA Store" continually get through and are not marked as spam even when I continually mark them as junk.
Is ...
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Convert a Gmail account from POP to IMAP and keep folder structure?
I currently use POP to access my gmail through thunderbird, but I would like to switch to IMAP so that my folders are mirrored on the server, and my sent emails are also available through the web ...
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How do I sync Thunderbird across two computers?
I have a computer (laptop) at work that I have installed Thunderbird on and set all of these rules, created contacts, and updated calendars on. I don't want to have to go through all of that process ...
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Thunderbird: moving email from local Junk folder to IMAP folder yields “Message contains invalid header”
Whenever I try to move an email from a local Junk folder to an IMAP folder in Thunderbird, I get the following error message:
The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: ...
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Thunderbird 3: see size of folder?
In Thunderbird 3, how do you see the size of a folder? I.e. the total size of all emails in a certain folder?
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Office 2010 to Thunderbird migration
I've been reading a lot of things on the internet about this but can't get it to work. Also tried the Mozilla forums, did not get anything useful out of that.
What I could do is importing the PST ...
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Fix or replacement for thunderbird Buttons! plugin
I have been using Thunderbird Buttons! plug-in for years with Thunderbird 2.0, especially it's nifty Archive feature that lets you archive the message to one of the pre-set folder with a single mouse ...
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Export Email from Thunderbird to Microsoft Outlook
Export Mail from Thunderbird to Microsoft Outlook
There is no default export feature in the application
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Remove “deleted” flag from IMAP messages
I use a Microsoft Exchange 2010 email server and a Mozilla Thunderbird client. One day I selected a large part of my inbox and mistakenly pressed a keyboard shortcut which (I presume) marked the ...
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Changing Computers - Transfering email in Thunderbird [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to move Thunderbird account settings to a new computer
I am changing computers and would like to take the email I currently have in Thunderbird (this includes local ...
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Is it possible (anymore) to open and send Yahoo! emails in Outlook, without a plus account?
I have a variety of emails accounts, all of which I frequently use (Yahoo, Gmail, School..) What's frustrating, though, is when I need to frequently consult an account, such as my two Yahoo accounts. ...
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Can Mozilla Thunderbird show sent replies in threaded view?
I would like for Thunderbird to show replies to threaded messages in with the received messages. Is this possible, even with an extension?
The desired behavior would be something like how Zimbra's ...
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Thunderbird “undo send” feature (like in Gmail)?
I was wondering if there exists a thunderbird addon that gives similar functionality as Google's "undo send" feature? This basically just delays the sent message for a few seconds allowing the user ...
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How to combine filter rules in message filters in Thunderbird to create more advanced filter criteria?
In Thunderbird one can choose either Match all of the following or Match any of the following for a given set of filter rules. There's no way to mix OR and AND logical operators freely to create more ...
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Outlook and IMAP - Outlook doesn't allow the Drafts and Trash folders to sync with the respective IMAP folders
I'm using Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 against an IMAP server (the problem exists across many, like Gmail, you name it). Outlook lets you set your Outlook "Sent" folder to map to the IMAP server's ...
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Thunderbird: possible to change selected email highlight color (when no focus)?
Is it possible to change, in the message list of Thunderbird 3.0, the highlight color of the selected message when the list does not have the focus?
The highlight color for the selected row is blue ...
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What does it mean to “subscribe” to an IMAP folder?
I'm using Thunderbird with Gmail IMAP and there's this "Subscribe" option for folders. What does that mean?
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Is there a thunderbird plugin to modify IMAP emails?
Sometimes I receive emails with subjects like "As discussed" or "(empty)". At that point I know what it is about but for later reference I'd like to change the subject into something slightly more ...
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How to get Thunderbird to archive messages automatically
I want Thunderbird 3.1.1 to automatically move old messages to archive. The definition of "old" should vary by folder. E.g., messages in the "Meeting minutes" folder should get archived after 7 days, ...
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importing a outlook.pst file into thunderbird
trying to import my outlook.pst into thunderbird, but it seems my computer has to have outlook running on the computer to do this import.
I have the outlook.pst file, can't I just point thunderbird ...
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Open Pst in thunderbird
I have a pst file which contains all my outlook backups. I want to import those mails into my thunderbird in Ubuntu 10.10. Though I can import it using Evolution mail client. But i like to stick to ...
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Meeting request in Thunderbird
I will receive meeting.ics (VCS/ICS calendar attachment) from my manager , previously I had some add-on in Thunderbird which was working fine . After some updates the meetings.ics file become as ...
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How to copy all email addresses from an email in Thunderbird
Is there a way to automatically copy all the email addresses from an email's To, Cc, Bcc headers etc in Thunderbird? I am currently right clicking and doing "Copy Email Address" for each one but this ...
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Inverse Thunderbird's Quick filter selection?
Thunderbird 3.1 has a quick filter bar, very convenient. You click 'starred' and only the starred messages are shown.
Is there some trick or way to also apply the inverse filter, for example show all ...
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How to display the size of single emails?
I would like to be able to see the size of every email in my Thunderbird. I know how to check the size of a mail folder but not for a single mail.
How can I accomplish this?
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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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convert .dbx (outlook express) mail files to a mbox format (for thunderbird) w/o Windows?
Recently, my hard drive crashed (click... click... clickly clickly click click...). I was using XP and do NOT have my install discs (lost them 3 moves ago...).
i make backups regularly and only lost ...
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Edit subject line of received email in Thunderbird 3.0
Is there a way to edit the subject line of emails you've received in Thunderbird? I use email a lot for work and it would be a lot easier if I could change subjects to make things easier to find ...
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Is there a way to read Hotmail mail with Thunderbird without using the WebMail pluging?
Some sites tell me Hotmail has POP3 access now, but with Thunderbird it doesn't seem to work. The only solution (which I didn't test yet) is a WebMail plugin that helps Thunderbird to read data from ...
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Blacklist for To/CC in Thunderbird
I have Thunderbird set up to auto-bcc my account for all emails, and disabled the 'Sent' folder.
Unfortunately if I'm in an email threads and Reply to all I get double-copied:
once by Reply to all;
...
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Converting Outlook Express csv adress book and dbx files into Thunderbird on W7
Recently I changed my OS from XP to W7. I made backup of any Outlook Express messages (the dbx files and adress book as CSV). On W7 I want to import that data into Thunderbird. There is option for ...
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Is it possible/safe to downgrade from Thunderbird 3.0 Beta 4 to Thunderbird 2?
I wanted to try out the Thunderbird 3.0 Beta 4 because I have some issues with Thundebird 2 that I know are fixed in 3.0.
The question is, is it possible to downgrade from Thunderbird 3.0 to 2.0 or ...
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Thunderbird: Mails are not visible in inbox or appear twice?
Thunderbird Version: 2.0.0.23 (20090812)
Some mails appear twice in the inbox. Other are not visible at all but can be found when searching for their subject (which requires to know the subject in ...
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How to set up DavMail/LDAP in Thunderbird?
I've got DavMail running in Linux Mint so Thunderbird can access IMAP/SMTP/LDAP/CalDav. I've got everything working at this point except LDAP. Basically I can't figure out what the base DN should be. ...
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Thunderbird does not delete messages from the POP server
Thunderbird does not delete messages from the POP server.
I am a Yahoo Plus user and I can download messages from the inbox in Thunderbird from the Yahoo POP3 server.
However, I want to delete read ...
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Merging threads in Thunderbird
Is it possible to merge threads in Thunderbird?
I recently got into a discussion where one person was consistently not using "Reply", but starting new threads. I'd like to merge all such emails into ...
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Forwarding email as inline messages and not as attachments in Thunderbird
When I forward messages in Thunderbird 2.0.0, the forwarded message is sent as an attachment.
Where is the setting so that forwarded messages are copied inline in the new message?
