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Clicking on a weblink in an email will open a new instance of Firefox, and bring me to my homepage. It should open a page in an existing instance, and open the intended webpage, not my homepage. I might have made a change in preferences that causes this behavior, but I'm not sure.

Thunderbird Linux 102.11.0 Firefox Linux 113.0.2 Linux Mint 21.1

Every time I get a new message in my inbox I have to click it before it gets downloaded. My internet connection is slow, so I have to wait for 20-30 seconds before I can read it. Then I click the next one, etc. Checking email takes a long time. I'd love for Thunderbird to download messages for me automatically as soon as they arrive. How can I achieve this?

I am on 102.11.2

Already tried various settings with no success.

1) Under Account Settings > Synchronization & Storage > Message Synchronizing the checkbox "Keep messages in all folders..." is checked.

2) I set "mail.imap.mime_parts_on_demand" to false.

These things did not help.

I used to have no problem accessing gmail until they stopped allowing less secure app access. Every since then whenever I tried to access my gmail accounts with Thunderbird I get the message "Authentication failure while connecting to server imap.gmail.com". I have done research and made sure I have all the correct settings regarding OAuth2 and cookies and whatever in both Gmail and Thunderbird. But I have never been able to get it to work.

Then suddenly out of the blue I get this login screen for Google that opens in a new Thunderbird window that I haven't seen before. I mean I hadn't even upgraded or restarted Thunderbird for a very long time and it's just been opened in the background working away. So who knows what happened to make that appear. In any case, after I logged into my Google account using that Thunderbird window, and went through the million security notifications from Google about it, I was actually able to access my Gmail account at last.

The trouble now is that I have several Gmail accounts. And I can only access one this way. The others still give me that authentication error. I have checked to make sure that all account settings are exactly the same, and they are.

What can I do to get my other Gmail accounts working in Thunderbird? Is there anyway I can trigger Thunderbird into giving me that Google login windows for my other accounts?

I have had the same issues with TB freezing and locking up my PC that many here have had. For me, this has now gone on for almost 3 years. I have done everything I can think of, and everything I have read about online to deal with the constant freezing. I have: --upgraded countless times (now on Ver 102.9.0, 64 bit, Win 10, 32GB RAM, 3TB hard drive) --reinstalled Thunderbird many times --deleted various profiles and created new ones, deleted various config files as suggested. --reinstalled Windows 10, upgraded all associated files, drivers, etc. --started Windows in Safe Mode --disabled all add-ons and extensions in TB --reset all toolbars and controls in TB --started Thunderbird in Troubleshoot Mode --gave an exception to TB in my Windows Defender [and turned off Defender entirely] --ran MANY virus scans --disabled ALL virus software

Thunderbird is the ONLY piece of software on this PC that locks it up. It exhibits the same behavior that many here are seeing: freezes when I try to click on something; freezes when I try to reply to an email; freezes for no apparent reason. I can't MAKE it freeze up... it just seems to do it at random, constantly. Right now, it's open on another screen and has been frozen for about 3 minutes, and just unfroze. Most of the time, it freezes so that I cannot shut TB down. It is completely unresponsive. Sometimes it will freeze the computer so that I cannot do ANYTHING... I cannot open Task Manager and force a shutdown. Eventually, it releases and works again, only to freeze up a few minutes later.

I'm pretty much out of ideas, but I continue to browse online, looking for answers. As I said, three years of this is enough, and I see complaints about this going back even further. I love Thunderbird. I'm a longtime user and have not found any email client that comes close to the way TB works for me, so I'm VERY reluctant to leave. But I'm really tired of being a beta tester. And yes, I have donated many times over the years, and I'm happy to do so. I'm not concerned with the money. I just want it to work like it used to. If you have any fresh ideas, I'm very open to hearing them. But a warning, that I have likely already tried the fixes offered. I appreciate any input, in any event.

So, unless a miracle comes along, I reckon I'll have to cut bait and find a replacement for Thunderbird. Thanks for allowing me to blow off some long-held frustration.

best,

--john

I used to manage two large email groups. Now, I just need to add 12 new contacts to a small existing group. Each time I add one name/address, the screen goes back to square one so to speak. I must be doing something wrong! It shouldn't be this cumbersome. I just want to type in all the new folks and THEN hit okay once.

I may even have asked this question before, but I can't find anything about it in the help.

The entire INBOX disappeared. How can I get Thunderbird to show it again?

I have a Windows 10 PC. I just downloaded thousands of emails from my CenturyLink email server. The emails were apparently successfully downloaded, but I can't see any of them because the entire INBOX disappeared. When I open Thunderbird, all the other folders are there, but no INBOX.

How can I get the INBOX to show again?

Could this in any way be related to IMAP vs. POP. I used IMAP. I saw several people reporting problems with IMAP. Should I switch to POP?

My drafts folder on Thunderbird has gone blank. I cannot access them and the contents are not visible. When creating an email, its saying it cannot save the draft either, yet the number of drafts keeps increasing. Any assistance with this is most welcome!

I have five separate email accounts on xfinity: call them b, 3, 7, a, and p. All of them are set up in Thunderbird. Any attempt to send an email through Thunderbird on any of the accounts opens a window requesting the password for 7. The password for 7 is in Password Manager. If I copy and paste the password from the Password Manager or from KeyPassX I get the "Login to server smtp.comcast.net with username 7 failed" with an "Enter New Password" button in the pop-up. The password is correct and still current as verified by opening my xfinity account directly. This has been happening sporadically and randomly (correcting itself sporadically and randomly) for many months and for several updates. I have tried all the suggestions posted on this forum for other victims, but none of them have been successful for me.

I did not change outlook before May 24 and now I cannot access my randyrolfe@randyrolfe.com email. I cannot access it on the web either. Please help. I need someone to walk me through this adjustment. The GoDaddy people were not able to help and I can't get Microsoft or Outlook to verify the email either!!

If I get an email from anyone, I get it in my gmail and Thunderbird. Just what I want. If I send an email from my gmail account, I get a copy in TB inbox. If I send an email in TB, I get a copy in my gmail all mail folder. this also does the same if I use the reply option in gmail or TB.

David - Toad, I know you're sick of me, but I've no one else to ask. Need to get the missing mailboxes back into TBird. Will you please just tell me if I'm taking the right route, or if I'll screw it up more?

From USB drive F://Mail/Local (I see all the boxes there)

copy

To C://Users/Stacy/AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profile/Default-Release/Mail/Local

and I will be able to see/use them in the right place in the program?

Thank you. Stacy

The attached picture shows what my Address Book columns look like. I am unable to expand the list name column so that I can read all of the name.

When I hover my mouse over the list name column I get a thick gray line, but there is no way to get the column to move right.

How do I move that column to the right so I can see all of the name?

Thunderbird 102.11.0 (64) bit

System:

 Kernel: 5.15.0-72-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.8
   tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy

Machine:

 Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: B450M DS3H v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
 Mobo: Gigabyte model: B450M DS3H-CF v: x.x serial: <superuser required>
   UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: F50 date: 11/27/2019

Graphics:

 Device-1: NVIDIA GF114 [GeForce GTX 560 Ti] vendor: PNY driver: nouveau v: kernel pcie:
   speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DVI-I-1 empty: DVI-I-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 06:00.0
   chip-ID: 10de:1200

Hello I am a long time user of Thunderbird, I am on the update channel, I am a retired technical support consultant so hopefully I have tried many of the obvious things. Nine times out of 10 if I send an email from Thunderbird mail to a Gmail address it gets rejected. Quite often if I try a second time it's okay but just recently it's been getting worse and this afternoon I tried about eight or nine tries and finally gave up. The problem is definitely a thunderbird problem as if I use other email clients or send mail from the ISP's website to a Gmail address this problem does not exist. Thank you in ADVANCE, Martin

In the junk settings the “enable adaptive junk mail controls for this account” box is unchecked. But still some important emails continue being blocked and they do not appear in the trash folder. Is there another way I can prevent TB from regulating my email? I appreciate any help with this.

A problem I run into a fair bit is having legitimate emails going to my spam folder. I've added the email addresses to my address book and I've moved the emails into my inbox hoping Thunderbird would get the hint but neither has helped. I'm not sure how to address this and I'm hoping someone has a solution.

My ISP is stopping its email service (accessed via Thunderbird) at the end of June so I've set up a Gmail account (also accessed via Thunderbird) and created folders corresponding to those in the old account. I've located the profile folder for my old account, and tried to import my old emails from this via Tools > Import in my new account, but only the contents of one folder in the old account have been transferred. I've repeated this a number of times with no greater success, but what I do now have is a series of duplicate folders and 'Thunderbird Import' folders that have been generated in my old account (see screenshot).

How can I get my other old emails into my new account?

This beta update is really causing me issues and I'm rethinking using Thunderbird in the future. I am extremely frustrated my local folders are missing from this beta update and I am not sure where they are. I have found other profiles but I am not able to see the local folders anywhere. Please help. I am using windows 11

I have installed TB 102 on mx Linux 21.3. The profile folder, which-- to add confusion to peasants like me, the name is now XXXX.release-default-- but that is not my question. I noticed that the profile folder was HUGE (13 gb!!), and when I looked inside I found that under ImapMail there are FOUR different folders: Imap.gmail.com-1, Imap.gmail.com-2, Imap.gmail.com-3, Imap.gmail.com-4, each with approx. 2 gb or more. What is going on? In TB 78 the corresponding folder (with mail from many years) was approx. 4 gb.

  Please explain-- I like using TB, but it is a constant struggle for no good reason that I can discern.

Please excuse my unfamiliarity with the technical vocabulary.

Earlier this year I switched on Thunderbird to see what new emails had arrived. It started downloading ALL my emails from two of the five email accounts I have. I have a lot of emails as the accounts date from 2010.

Because I was concerned that I might exceed limits on the number of emails I can store on Thunderbird I spent hours going through the different folders and deleting as many of the duplicates as I could.

I switched on Thunderbird today and saw that the same process was happening again. In the time it took me to click on 'Work Offline' it had downloaded 263 emails I already have!

I would be very grateful if someone could tell me:

How can I stop it downloading the hundreds of other old emails? How can I stop this process ever happening again? Why is it happening at all?

Thank you for taking the time to read my request.

For obvious reasons I have unticked the 'Email me when someone answers the thread' so I may be a little slow in acknowledging any responses.