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I would like to use a filter to forward emails to a list that I have created, allowing me to add to or remove addresses from the list for maintenance purposes.

I have tried the same syntax that works in the To, CC or BCC fields, but I always am told to enter a valid email address in the "Forward Message To" option.

As of sometime in July 2021 Thunderbird has begun to randomly (seemingly) tag incoming mail. I have no filters set to tag mail automatically. Thunderbird always uses the tag at the top of the tag list.

Has anyone else got this problem, and know how to resolve it?

Thanks, Adair.

Hello, I have a lot of problem when I try to find a mail with Thunderbird. I think that the problem come from me so I hope you will able to help me. I use the last version 78 but the probleme still exist from years. I'm often imagine to change my mailsoft for this. I all ready try resintall, rebuilt messagebox base, and use an other computer.

I start with the first way, looking for a mail with the "quick filter" search: The type of search filter is allready select and when I change it (the type or word), sometime it doesn't do anything in the search result. To avoid this problem, I choose multiple filter but the search become very long and not very efficient or just never end.

Most of the time, the search is long and during the search, the first result show is not the most recent. It's very annoying and not logical (I don't speak about the sort). Sometime when I tap ENTER, the search change to principal search and open a new tab. I don't know why.

For ending, the search is not relialbe. Sometime, it doesn't find a mail with the word or it find a mail with the searching word. So this function is very caotic for me. But, I never read problem from other people or a addon to correct this or a changelog concern this. I hope, you will explain to me what I doing wrong and why I seam to be the only user who hate Thunderbird search fonction.

Thanks for your help.

Regards, Daniel

PS: I'm french please excuse the redaction fault.

This is Horrible.... version 78.2 will now read the new profile and it does not read the old profile in Window 7. Now I can't even install the version 78.2 it comes us with (can not find profile or missing). It will not allow to set up a new account. This is same bullshit when we were required to switch to Windows 8.... As a customer show I not have the choice??? Why is Version 68 not available????? They give you this directory page..... how does this get installed???

suggestion for changing the ORDER of the listing of emails.

2) is it possible to copy the order (rightclick on date, adjust columns, to account x,y,z)

   and ADD an extra option: copy order to ALL accounts in ONE.

3) copy ALSO ▲ and ▼ (so the selection of the colomn and the direction of the selection) + REMEMBER !!

   now they are NOT copied to other accounts when doing 2)

Dear Support,

T-Bird program 78.12.0 (64 bit) OS Windows 10--is acting up once again as far as filtering goes. For some strange reason I am finding all my emails several days later in another folder besides going into the inbox folder. Now when I run the filter most of the emails in this particular folder does filter them back to their original folder some of them but not all them. This has happen before quite a few times and it is when the t-bird is updated; I've been keeping tabs on this so I know. This has become a huge pain for me to look for these emails days later in other folders which I do have many, many folders-- that is not going in the inbox, I do have everything set up correctly as far as filtering goes. Why does this happen to me? I also deleted this filter where the emails are going and they still ended up there in that particular folder. I compact emails several times a week I delete all older emails in folders within 30 days I have them setup that way. Does anybody know what the issue could be or what approach I could take to stop this annoying time consuming issue? Thanks-- David

HELLO,

I AM AFTER SOME HELP PLEASE - THANKS IN ADVANCE.

MY PROBLEM IS, SENDING E - MAILS, ON THUNDERBIRD, AND THEN, THE E - MAILS, ARE BEING "REJECTED", AND ARE CLASSED AS, "UNDELIVERABLE".

FIRSTLY, I AM NO COMPUTER EXPERT, SO I DO NOT GO AROUND, "CHANGING SETTINGS", OR SUCH...

MY PROBLEM, WAS NOTICED, YESTERDAY, 26 JULY 2021, AND IS STILL HERE TODAY, 27 JULY 2021.

MY SYSTEM IS, THAT I HAVE, "THUNDERBIRD", SET UP, ON MY, DESKTOP COMPUTER,

 -  I  DO  NOT  HAVE,  THUNDERBIRD,  "ON",  ALL  THE  TIME.
 -  I  ONLY,  "CLICK",   THUNDERBIRD,  "ON",  WHEN  I  WANT  TO,  READ / SEND / WRITE,  OR  FIND  AN  E - MAIL.
 -  WHEN  I,  "CLICK",   THUNDERBIRD,  "ON",  IT  THEN,  "CHECKS",  FOR  NEW  E - MAILS, AND  THEN,  DOWNLOADS  THEM,  ONTO,  MY  DESKTOP  COMPUTER.
 -  IF  I  AM,  "STILL",  USING  THE  THUNDERBIRD,  PROGRAMME,  I  BELIEVE,  THAT  THUNDERBIRD,  "RECHECKS",  FOR  NEW  E - MAILS,  EVERY  10  MINS.

I HAVE THUNDERBIRD, SET TO, "ASK ME", IF IT IS, OK, TO DO AN UPDATE, AND WHEN ASKED, I THEN, CLICK "YES, UPDATE NOW" = I CANNOT REMEMBER, THE LAST TIME, I SAID, "YES" TO AN UPDATE.

IN THE "HELP TAB", THUNDERBIRD, TELLS ME, THAT I AM USING,

 78.12.0  (32 - BIT)

WHEN I SEND AN IMPORTANT E - MAIL, IMPORTANT TO "ME", I ALSO, SEND THE SAME, TO "MY" E - MAIL ADDRESS, WHICH "PROVES", THE SENDING OF AN E - MAIL.

YESTERDAY, I SENT AN E - MAIL, TO THE COURTS, = @justice.gov.uk , THIS E - MAIL, WAS, "REJECTED", AND MARKED AS, "UNDELIVERABLE",

 =  On 26/07/2021 3:01 pm, Microsoft Outlook wrote:
 =  Microsoft Outlook <postmaster@outlook.com>
 =  "Your message wasn't delivered because the recipient's email provider rejected it."

I THEN TRIED, TO SEND A SELF TEST, TO MYSELF, THAT IS, I SENT AN E - MAIL, ONLY TO "MY", E - MAIL ADDRESS, USING "MY", E - MAIL ACCOUNT, AND THEN, SENT IT,

 =  IF  ALL  IS  OK,  I  WOULD  NORMALLY,  JUST,  "RECEIVE",  THE  E - MAIL  BACK,  IN  A  MINUTE  OR  TWO,
 -  THIS,  SELF  TEST,  WAS,  "REJECTED",  AND  ALSO,  MARKED  AS,  "UNDELIVERABLE",
 =  On 26/07/2021 3:02 pm, Microsoft Outlook wrote:
 =  Microsoft Outlook <postmaster@outlook.com>
 =  "Your message wasn't delivered because the recipient's email provider rejected it."

I USE, THE MICROSOFT PROGRAMME, "OUTLOOK.COM".

I WENT ONTO, THE MICROSOFT WEBSITE, FOR "OUTLOOK.COM", AND SENT A SELF TEST, FROM "MY", E - MAIL ACCOUNT, TO "MY", E - MAIL ADDRESS, FROM THE "OUTLOOK.COM", WEBPAGE,

 =  THIS  WAS  RECEIVED,  ON  MY  DESKTOP  COMPUTER,  VIA,  "THUNDERBIRD".
 =  I  ALSO,  REPEATED,  THE  SAME,  SELF  TEST,  TODAY,  27  JULY  2021,  AND  AGAIN,  THIS  WAS  RECEIVED,  ON  MY  DESKTOP  COMPUTER,  VIA,  "THUNDERBIRD".

NOTING - THAT AT DURING THESE PAST 2 x DAYS, I HAVE ALSO, "RECEIVED", OTHER NORMAL E - MAILS, FROM OTHER SENDERS, UPON MY DESKTOP COMPUTER, VIA, "THUNDERBIRD".

HOPEFULLY, I HAVE EXPLAINED MYSELF, CLEARLY ?

THANKS FOR YOUR TIME.

Hello everybody,

my name is Chris and it would be great if there is someone out there who maybe knows a solution for my problem with the E-Mail-Program Thunderbird. This is what happened and I really don't know why:

I have createt a new subfolder in the sent-folder. The idea behind this was, I will safe my sent e-mails in an extra folder and so the sent-folder stays empty. After I had created the subfolder and named it "Safety Folder Sent E-Mails" I have selected all E-Mails in the sent folder and moved them in the new subfolder. It took a moment and then I checked the two folders with this result: the sent-folder is empty and the new subfolder is ... what?? It's also empty?? How is that possible?? And why?? ... What?? - Now all Sent-E-Mails are gone. I can do what I want, they are gone. Even the click on the "Repair"-Button in the properties has no effect in both folders. If you take a look at the properties of the original sent-folder then there appears "0 E-Mails - File Size: 386 MB". The properties from the new folder are "0 E-Mails - File Size: 0 MB". So I opened the Windows-File-Explorer and checked the original sent-file on the computer. Ok, it's there and the size is the same as in the folders properties. And if I open it with the Windows Editor, then you can read only the first and the last E-Mail. The text between them both looks like this: "kwjgflkjwgjkrwguhqwukjgkj23gnvirorghnefoihrflo ..... ".

Does anybody know what has happened and how I could solve this matter? Because I don't understand it ... I was sitting there and I couldn't believe my eyes. All my sent-e-mails are really gone ... all ... I almost freaked out ...

The version from Thunderbird I use is the newes 78.12.0 Plattform is Windows 10 with newest Updates

It would be really great if somebody knows what to do.

Thank you very much for your help Regards Chris

I open several emails. I use Ctrl-1 and Ctrl-9 to go back and forth.

I deleted C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\9azxazfvuzfa.default-release\session.json as I couldn't remove the last session when I closed TB.

Now I sometimes get blank tabs along with blank emails.

Delete the file again? Did I mess myself up somehow?

Thanks.

Hi, I was not aware of the option that was active: that the newly installed IMAP conversion of what was a POP account had a setting that was following the server's settings. When I opened TB, I saw that messages were being deleted from the trash folder. I tried the repair function but I'm guessing that made it worse in the end? Because the file in the location was smaller in size after that.

Is it still possible to retrieve the messages? I copied them from the old POP account into the new IMAP account by: CTRL A and then moving them to the designated folder. Which was in this case the same, trash.

One might think why is that so important if it was the trash folder, well, it is because it was not yet reviewed properly of what emails really could go and what should be kept or the contents partially copied into a text file or so.

Are there steps that can be taken still? Thanks :):)

Dear all,

I find that the folders other than "Inbox" are not automatically synchronized therefore the new messages are not notified. In the "Folder Properties", I already checked "When getting new messages for this account, always check this folder", but the new messages are only checked manually.

I guess that this is related to the PUSH notification of my IMAP account. I wonder whether there are ways to make this automatic. I use "K-9 Mail" on my Android device which checks these folders automatically if properly configured. I don't think that this is a deficient of PUSH notification.

Best, Frank

I had to downgrade my thunderbird from the 78.12 to 78.10 due to general slowness that was making thunderbird absolutely unusable. I tried to recreate index, compact folders and disable some graphics options but none. I'm running on a Thinkpad with Intel i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz with 8,00 GB and a M.2 SSD on a licensed version of windows 10 pro. With 78.10 thunderbird runs fine again.

Bye, Vittorio

Last night I opened Thunderbird and had a forced request to sign in to the caldev calendar. I don't know why it suddenly popped up, but I cannot get past the screen to make and settings adjustments. I tried my Thunderbird credentials to login, but they don't work.

Note that I use Yahoo mail and I am able to signin to yahoo directly and use my email account.

How to I resolve this error? The attachment shows the error.

My email trash folder, which has always been there, has disappeared. I need it so I can view previously deleted emails to look for those I might have accidentally deleted. I've looked all over for it. I can't find it and I can't find any provision for restoring it.

When I insert an inline image to a Thunderbird email message it only displays a white box. I can only attach images. How can I display an image inline in the text of the message?