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Displaying Outlook Formatted Emails on other email clients

Our company sends emails out to clients from Outlook, which have inline images, tables, and other formatting. They display perfectly on Microsoft email clients, but when displaying in other clients ...
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Thunderbird keeps asking for Gmail login

I use Thunderbird to grab emails from various accounts as POP to keep them on my desktop. Other gmail accounts work fine, but one of them, pops up this form in a new browser window, every few weeks. ...
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Stop occasional Thunderbird sound notifications for junk emails

Sometimes, but not always, a new email notification sound plays when junk mail is received. So far it is only for a Hotmail account. It is possible that some junk emails first go to the inbox and are ...
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Request all folders with imap with thunderbird

I configured in the browser application of MS Outlook 365 a bunch of rules to filter emails before receiving them. As Example: If sender == Hans.Jochen move mail to folder "Hans.Jochen" If ...
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Thunderbird Message List Pane Size

Is there a way to reduce the number of messages listed in the Message List pane? I can drag the bottom of it down and increase the number shown, but if I drag it up, the least number I can display is ...
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S/MIME Certificate goes to 'Other People' tab in Thunderbird

When i try to import my S/MIME certificate into my freshly install Mozilla Thunderbird 115.3.2 (64-bit), it goes straight to Other People tab but no Your Certificate tab. This cert is proven to work ...
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Back up Thunderbird Calendars automatically

I want to back up my Thunderbird calendars somehow, but I'm not sure how without manually going to "Events and Tasks", "Export" and then choosing each calendar one at a time. I ...
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Thunderbird: Respond to an already-processed event

I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird 115.3.0 with several email accounts configured. Today, I received an invitation to a work meeting. When viewing the message, a purple bar appears near the top with ...
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Thunderbird calendar doesn't save events

I have a hosted email service that I access via Thunderbird. Currently, new events that I create in Thunderbird do not show in my calendar in Win11. I create an event:"New event">enter ...
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Cannot set Thunderbird as default app for "mailto"

I use Firefox and Thunderbird under Ubuntu for many years now. Since a couple of months, I cannot open a link to a mail on Firefox as, when I click on a link of a mail, it tries to open Chrome! I have ...
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Thunderbird app not opening when clicking on the notification in the action centre

After having received an email via Thunderbird, a notification is left in the windows' native Action Centre. When clicked, I'm expecting it to open Thunderbird. However, nothing happens. Is this an ...
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Can I edit memory usage of Thunderbird?

I have a bunch of emails (dating from 2005, and the advent of Gmail). Most of these emails have an attachment or more. The sum (mails with embedded content, and attachments) storage consumed is around ...
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How to freeze the Firefox (and Thunderbird) menu-bars?

Every once in a while I get a call from a user complaining, he can no longer find a certain menu in the browser -- or in Thunderbird -- and I have to painstakingly guide him on re-enabling the menu-...
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ThunderBird 112: Catch-all identity does not work with forwarding

I have set a catch-all identity in the ThunderBird email client. It correctly deduces the "From:" address to use when replying to messages but not when forwarding the message. Does anyone ...
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Restoring "Folder Type and then Alphabetical" Sorting For Folder Pane in Thunderbird 115

Prior to the Thunderbird UI refresh, the primary sorting key for the contents of the folders pane would be the folders' types (with alphabetical sorting of the folder names being the secondary sorting ...
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Filter emails by inbox and gmail folder

I would like to filter my inbox to see only messages with one or more specific Gmail labels on them. I can see emails in my inbox and the folder belonging to the specific label. How can I combine the ...
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Nested system folder in Thunderbird

The Yahoo server blipped when I was creating a custom folder in Thunderbird and somehow the folder got corrupted. It also moved the system Draft folder underneath the corrupted folder, which is nested ...
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Up-to-date list of all Thunderbird about:config options?

Is there an up-to-date list of all Thunderbird about:config options? https://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries is outdated, from 2017.
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Thunderbird saves new draft instead of saving over it

This seems to be an intended feature of Mozilla thunderbird (running latest version). The problem is, if you have auto save enabled to every minute, you can potentially have hundreds of drafts ...
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Deleting Gmail emails from server when deleted in Thunderbird

I came across several answers for this topic here but none of them seem to solve my issues. I'm running out of space on Gmail and there are some really unnecessary emails on Gmail that deserve to go. ...
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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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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 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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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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Why are some emails marked read and others unread on arrival using IMAP in Thunderbird?

On advice of my provider, I recently switched to IMAP on my desktop but left POP3 on my phone and elsewhere. Incoming email seems to randomly switch from read to unread when it appears on my desktop. ...
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Thunderbird keeps asking PGP key

Since this morning, Thunderbird keeps asking « Please enter the passphrase to unlock the openPGP secret key ... » in a popup every ~30 seconds. I don't really remember what I did to trigger that. Now ...
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Deleting attachments using Thunderbird + Owl/Active Sync Mail account does not work

I was forced to change from IMAP to Active Sync for an Exchange Mail server. While everything worked great with IMAP, since using Owl/Active Sync/Exchange, deleting a mail attachment deletes the whole ...
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Thunderbird notification only in workingshours

I would like to receive thunderbird notifications only between 9 to 5, when an E-mail arrives. But I can only enable and disable it generaly under Settings -> Serverkonfiguration. How can I ...
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Check Root Email on Laptop Running Ubuntu and Webmin

I am on Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 running Webmin 1.998, Postfix 9.4.1, Thunderbird 91.11. How can I use Thunderbird to read my root / webmin emails? Researching this, I can only find an old post whose ...
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Can anyone explain AOL Mail (Verizon.net) Sending Limits, and what we can do about them?

As an AV integrator, I overhauled the network for a small church, which barely understands the Internet. Now, whenever they have general computer problems, I get the call. I'm willing to help but I'm ...
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How to recover old emails in a Thunderbird local folder

All of this is on Windows 10, with Thunderbird 91.5.1. So, I was cleaning up an IMAP account that has a pretty low quota, and I selected a large number of emails and dragged them to my local folder. ...
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ThunderBird math equations

I just started using Thunderbird 78.14.0. I would like to put math equations into the email body. I can go to : insert -> math and type some latex equations. However, the end receiver if not using ...
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postfix/dovecot on ubuntu Thunderbird client can't save messages to sent folder

My problem is that TB can't save messages to the Sent folder In users home directories there are mail folders which in turn have Maildir folders so the actual mail directory for users is mail/Maildir ...
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Thunderbird - add CC when writing to specific contact

We have few customers where we are in contact with person responsible for communication with us at customer's side. It is required to send CC to this person's boss when we write an email to them. Is ...
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How to use MFA for Outlook365 from Thunderbird

I use Thunderbird as an email client. I also have an outlook account that must have MFA enabled. I can log into my outlook account via the browser using the microsoft authenticator mobile app. However ...
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Thunderbird over VPN is asking to authenticate every time

I just tried to run a VPN connection and then read my email via Thunderbird. For every account, it asked me to reauthenticate. I guess the servers are recognizing a different login location and are ...
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Thunderbird, view Microsoft Teams invitation as HTML and not as URL

I am using Thunderbird client and when I receive a Microsoft Teams invitation, I see it as an URL, and not as the typical Gmail view, with date, hour and meeting users embedded in mail content. How ...
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Disable confirmation emails in Thunderbird Lightning Calendar

How do I make Thunderbird Lightning Calendar stop sending confirmation emails? There is a closed bug report on Bugzilla, but I cannot find an option to disable confirmation emails.
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Searching Thunderbird emails

I use Thunderbird to handle 5 email accounts. When I use Global Search, I do not find a certain string. However, when I search through the Thuderbird data directory on on hard-drive, I do find the ...
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How to encrypt a mail in Thunderbird?

I have been using PGP for a long time now but recently Thunderbird replaced the Enigmail encryption-plugin with a native PGP solution. That's maybe good news, however, I cannot figure out how to ...
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Thunderbird on Ubuntu 18: "There was a prob including the file xyz.de in the message"

When I try to send an E-Mail with attachment, I get the error: There was a problem including the file filename.pdf in the message. Would you like to continue sending the message without this file? I ...
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Is there ANY way to automatically save the attachments in Thunderbird 78?

No extension seems to work with v78, be it FintaQuilla or anything else. Is there some way / some other way to get attachments on incoming email saved somewhere in automatic manner? Including even ...
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Thunderbird 78 doesn't want to connect to my courier server (IMAP), how do I make courier answer with TLS 1.2?

One of my customer just upgraded Thunderbird to version 78 and now he can't receive emails because it thinks that the IMAP connection is not TLS 1.2... but when I check with tools on the Internet, it ...
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Changing "From" but not "MAIL FROM" in Thunderbird

I have an e-mail account, let's say [email protected], which allows me to write and receive e-mails. I have also an alias, let's say [email protected], that redirects the e-mails written to this address to me@...
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How to: Import Office 365 emails into Thunderbird

I would like to download my emails from Office 365 into my local Thunderbird machine. I see from here I knew POP or IMAP would be my saving grace here but I couldn't find the settings for it anywhere,...
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Thunderbird 78 unable to decrypt multipart PGP email

A colleague of mine is unable to read GPG-encrypted emails sent to them by another member of our team via our mailing list, saying this1. The recipient, unable to read emails, is using Thunderbird v78....
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Thunderbird: how do I recover lost emails after sync

There was update on email servers and some of my emails were deleted. I logged through Thunderbird (where I store my emails locally) and it started to sync with the servers. I closed it asap, but now ...
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Is it possible to create shortcut icons for Thunderbird?

Is it possible to create shortcut icons for frequently used tasks in Thunderbird? For example, I would like to manually run a specific email filter. It would be nice if it could be a one click event ...
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Ask for key password when OpenPGP signing mail in Thunderbird 78

Thunderbird 78 has native OpenPGP functionality and I have imported my keys (after using Enigmail for many years). Upon doing so, it asked me for the key passwords and I presume it stores these ...
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thunderbird - show images from localhost

I have a local mail server which I use to receive emails sent from my web application on my development environment. In these emails I have images which comes from localhost domain, e.g. <img style=...
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