Questions tagged [thunderbird]
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Searching messages for content contained in "Message Source"?
Anyone know a way to search messages for content contained within the Message Source of messages, using built-in methods or third-party extensions?
When I search for content contained within the ...
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Thunderbird: How can I modify the server name in the Saved Passwords list
I need to edit one of the mail server names.
I corrected the mail server name in [email account] > Server Settings > Server Name.
However, when I look at the server name in "Saved Passwords&...
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Pop3 using SSL/TLS fails since yesterday
I have several email accounts with a specific provider. Since yesterday both POP3 and SMTP fail silently on all accounts and all email readers (Thunderbird on Linux, K9 on Android).
Thunderbird's ...
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Thunderbird 114/115 reshuffled the interface again, how to fix it
Thunderbird is going through yet another main window UI reshuffling in version 114. They call this change supernova
(this is TB 114.0b6 ; TB 115 release is next month.)
My question: How can I get ...
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Simple and lightweight .eml html renderer on linux? [closed]
I'm testing various email utilities (neomutt, notmuch, mu) and productivity gains they offer are great, but being CLI tools none of them allow you to view rendered html email messages (e.g. .eml files)...
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How can I force Thunderbird to use a profile opened with a newer version?
I have recently used a beta of a newer version of Thunderbird, and my existing profile. Now, I want to use the previous, non-beta version with that same profile, but am getting an error message about ...
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Can I set a Thunderbird tag to be added for all new messages in a folder?
In Thunderbird I would like every message in folder X to have tag X when the message is added. It would allow me to synchronize Thunderbird tags with GMail labels.
I tried to create a filter but ...
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How to make thunderbird automatically encrypt emails if possible?
When I start to compose a new email in Thunderbird, I want it to automatically enable the Encrypt button after I type a recipient's email address into the To field, if I have that recipient's PGP key ...
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thunderbird - created a new profile - which files need to copy from old profile [duplicate]
I had a functioning thunderbird, but do to my host provider I had to change some of the configuration (had (owl) suffix). This left 2 profiles. The new profile wouldn't work until I deleted the ...
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Thunderbird shows public Google calendars, then hides them after a second -?
I am using Thunderbird (102.11) with a public Google calendar for German holidays. I have no Google account.
For some time, the Google calendar entries show up briefly after starting Thunderbird, then ...
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Can't send mail to more than 100 recipients on Thunderbird, error : Ratelimit "spambombing_limit" exceeded appears
I have the following problem : I cannot send mails to more than 100 recipients, I get the following message if I try :
Failed to send message.
An error occurred while sending mail. The server replied: ...
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Thunderbird sometimes renders decrypted content in its encrypted form when it is quoted in replies
I'm using Thunderbird with built-in OpenPGP encryption.
It works but I have a problem when I receive mail from specific accounts.
Usually, when I receive an encrypted message, it's decrypted on the ...
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Thunderbird - Have 2 gmail accounts - want to see each calendar independent of the other
Our company has just switched from exchange to GSuite. I already have my personal email and calendar and I use Thunderbird. I added my work email to Thunderbird. I would like to be able to open ...
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Prevent duplicate windows/popups in x11
For a very long time Thunderbird has had the issue of creating endless duplicates of the primary password prompt on start until you enter the password, and I don't know when anyone gets around to ...
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How do I remove the indentation and ">" character in quoted text of a reply message?
I am using Thunderbird 102.10.0 on Ubuntu 20.04.6. When I reply to an email, it quotes the original message but offsets it with an indentation and ">" character. I would like to quote the ...
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How to fix archiving folders by year?
Thunderbird stopped archiving by the year regardless the setting. It simply moves all mails to the archive root folder regardless of settings.
It last archived emails from 2022 correctly. 2023's ...
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@outlook.com email account in Thunderbird: "Your browser is currently set to block cookies"
I enabled two-step-verification for my Microsoft Account.
Now Thunderbird fails, and Microsoft emails me to suggest using an app-specific password. No! All I need to do is change Thunderbird to use ...
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How to read email within a PST compacted by Thunderbird?
After running out of space on gmail, I downloaded all emails to the desktop using POP3 with Thunderbird as the client application. Whilst downloading the emails, on two occasions Thunderbird asked to ...
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Automatically move replies to folder containing parent email
The following process quite often happens:
I receive an email
I move it to a folder for organization
I reply
The person I replied to replies to me
The reply ends up in my inbox
The reply gets ...
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In Thunderbird, how to save an attached email directly to a mail folder?
In Outlook, if I receive an email that has another email as an attachment (e.g. sender did "Forward as attachment" on an email, or an email attached to a bounce message), I can save a copy ...
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Thunderbird : moving emails from a "virtual folder" to my "local folders" does removes those emails from server
I want to archive emails (IMAP) from year 2021 - which means I want to copy them to a local folder, and have them removed from my Gmail account.
I've setup a virtual folder on all emails from my GMAIL ...
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Thunderbird unread badge on Windows -- show for messages marked as unread
The taskbar icon of Thunderbird correctly shows the unread count for incoming messages. However, if I manually mark a message as unread, it will not show up on the badge. Can I make it show?
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HTML email: cannot increase width
In Thunderbird, plaintext emails are displayed normally: when I open the email in a separate window, and increase the window size, the text fills the whole width.
All HTML emails have fixed width, and ...
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Thunderbird: What is the difference between "Apply Columns to" and "Apply current view to"?
In Mozilla Thunderbird, what is the difference between "Apply Columns to" and "Apply current view to"?
Using: Thunderbird 112.0b4
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How to subscribe to task list assigned from a Google Chat space from Thunderbird?
Thunderbird can subscribe to task lists provided by Google from the Tasks tab as separate calendars. However, those task lists won't include tasks assigned from a Google Chat space. How can I ...
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How to create case-sensitive message filters?
The message filters certainly are case-insensitive by default — this obviously limits their potential to some degree.
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Thunderbird IMAP - Keep the emails when the account gets closed OR back them up
I realise the solution exists out there but I'm confused by all the vocabulary.
Situation: I have two email accounts that are about to be closed (professional email accounts, end of contract). I would ...
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Open links from Thunderbird with non-default browser
I would like to open links from Thunderbird in non-default browser.
I came across this old post here, but even after setting network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http AND network.protocol-handler....
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How can I set up Thunderbird on my laptop to retrieve old emails from my home computer/server
Hi I'm running out of space (200GB) on my Gmail account and don't want to move up to 1TB. But I have emails back from 2009 when I first moved to Gmail. I don't always nee access to those old emails. ...
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Keep Thunderbird from fetching emails that were imported from user profile as duplicates
I just imported my Thunderbird user profile from my desktop PC to my laptop PC, everything was fine until I started receiving a hundred thousand emails that already exist in my mailboxes (I'm using ...
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How can I configure Thunderbird to prevent it from automatically deleting messages from its local mailbox when they're deleted on the server?
I've got a scenario where I need to retain a backup of an IMAP email account in Thunderbird when it even has email deleted from it on the server. In other words, I just always want it to keep ...
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How to sync local Thunderbird contacts with CardDAV (eg. Gmail Contacts)?
I have discovered that Thunderbird has at least two types of address books for storing contacts:
local address books: Collected Addresses, and Personal Address Book
remote address books, eg. Gmail or ...
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Where is the Thunderbird Adaptive Junk Mail Log located?
I have located how to display the Thunderbird Adaptive Junk Mail Log but there is NO Search option available to look through the hundreds of filtered messages for the ones I am concerned about.
I ...
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Can I configure Thunderbird/Enigmail to use encryption only for sending/receiving, not for local storage?
I'd like to use email encryption only for the transport, not for local storage (for reasoning, see the end). I want to have all my email decrypted locally (in Sent, Deleted, Inbox, etc.), but ...
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What does the presence of two different msf files to the same mbox file imply?
I have set up an IMAP account in Thunderbird version 102.8.0 on a Windows 10 pc. A folder named A has been created in this account in Thunderbird, containing several mails. Accordingly, an mbox file ...
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Will email(s) be restored by the IMAP sync process after removal of the corresponding message file of an IMAP account from a Thunderbird profile?
If one did the following on a client pc with an IMAP account:
In Thunderbird: Have the synchronisation button (see "Synchronization & Storage" menu) of this account toggled on (so all ...
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Configure CPanel / Horde calendar and Thunderbird
I'm trying to configure Thunderbird (102.8.0 32-bit/Windows 10, up to date) in order to synchronize it with my CPanel/Horde calendar.
When I log in to my email account on my server, I can add a new ...
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How to mark new feeds read by default?
Thunderbird marks all entries a feed contains unread when adding a new RSS or Atom source. Since I track subsequent items, practically every time I manually mark the fresh feed folder read (select ...
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How to completely enable remote content in Thunderbird?
I have seen this being discussed at multiple places, however the most obvious answers do not work for me.
I have Thunderbird 102.7.1 (64-bit) with Allow remote content in messages option enabled, but ...
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Thunderbird - Emails disappear when transferring between accounts
I am currently transferring all my business-related emails from my personal gmail account to a new business gmail account using Thunderbird.
While this worked well with some emails/folders, at other ...
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Thunderbird has started to leave automatically flame-market junk in inbox instead of moving it to Junk folder. How to fix?
Thunderbird used to move mail that it marked as junk to the junk folder, but now many messages that have been automatically designated junk (with the flame marker) are left in the inbox. What's the ...
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How to set the default event status in Thunderbird Calendar to Confirmed
Each time I create an event with Thunderbird Calendar in a CalDAV calendar (hosted on an Nextcloud instance for what it matters) its status is not set as seen in an export of the event:
BEGIN:...
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How enable the junk filter only in INBOX?
As the heading says: Is it possible (or at all necessary) to enable Thunderbird's junk filtering only in INBOX, i.e. disable it in all folders except INBOX?
Please note that I am not sure whether TB ...
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Need help removing tooltip in Mozilla Thunderbird
This annoying tool tip occurs every time I play around with the quick filter options. The problem is, I can't figure out what the element is called in order to disable it via userchrome.css. As soon ...
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Thunderbird Email Client: Error 53000, "You can't get there from here"
I have been using Thunderbird to access Office365 emails for a while. Part way through today, I got the following error.
I'm a bit surprised that Thunderbird doesn't use Firefox as its internal ...
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Thunderbird intermittent connection timeout with Office365
Our company has recently switched from Kerio Connect on-premises email server to Exchange Online. We had been using Thunderbird and had no problems previously.
After switching to Exchange, Thunderbird ...
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Open email folder in Thunderbird (v102.7.1) using the windows command line
I'm trying to open a specific email folder in Thunderbird (v102.7.1), using the command line arguments.
I already found out that using thunderbird.exe mid:<MESSAGE-ID> will open the email with &...
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DNS server settings differ between 'Device Info' & 'DNS'
My Sagecom (TalkTalk) router Primary & Secondary DNS settings differ depending on where one looks.
Under 'Device Info' Primary is 79.79.79.79; Secondary is 79.79.79.80.
Under 'DNS' Primary is 208....
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How to restrict local address books used for recipient lookup
Using Thunderbird v102 on Ubuntu 20.04 (Elementary OS).
I have synced my address book with Exchange and I have now over 18k contacts. I like the fact that virtually anybody will be in it, however it ...
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How to send email with thunderbird without configuring an incoming email service
I'd like to set up thunderbird for outgoing email only. I have no incoming email service I want to use with thunderbird.
I set up an outgoing email connection through account settings, but when I go ...
