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As everyone using Thunderbird knows, TB folders are displayed in a column down the left side. Four of those folders are named "New Folder With Items" (three with numbers appended to the name). Those folders are empty, and I have no idea how they got there in the first place. I've tried deleting them but they always remain as before. I've attached a screenshot of those folders.

This is not a "serious" problem, just an annoying one. Any ideas how to actually delete those folders?

I get lots of emails & like to reread some of them. I archive really important ones but nothing stays in my inbox more than a day or two, then they disappear. What's happening? I've changed no settings

i know that thunderbird for android works differently than desktop version, that's ok. i ask here to add to thunderbird-android function of backup emails to mbox-file, collect emails from selected server and make backup in mbox file which can than be opened in thunderbird-desktop. i must emphasize, i don't ask that thunderbird-android should be capable of handling mbox-files, this would be pure backup functionality.

When I print my emails and sometime view them I appear to have multiple lines of programme text (see attached) The text is also very small. Being new to Thunderbird can you tell me what settings I have wrong.

Bonjour, Depuis l'installation de la dernière version 139.0, je n'ai plus accès à mon agenda microsoft exchange. Le module complémentaire TBSync n'est plus pris en charge. Merci de m'indique comment procéder pour avoir à nouveau accès en lecture et écriture de cet agenda.

I recently installed Thunderbird on a new Windows 11 PC. I am using Thunderbird 128.11.0esr on another machine and it works properly. I attempted to clone my 128 setup onto the new machiine by copying the Profile folder without success. Some settings were transferred, enough so that the inbox was filling with my emails. I tried to send a message. It failed with the message: "Sending of the message failed The message could not be send because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.gmail.com times out. Try again" As far as I can tell the SMPT server settings are exactly the same on the two setups: Description: Gmail Port: 587 Connection security: STARTTLS Authentication methon: OAuth2 Username TMerrillH Sending GMail using the GMail app works properly. Could it be something in the OAuth2 system?

In composing e-mail text, for effective communications, i helps to be able to identify major divisions of text by using, for examples, ALL UPPERCASE, Title Case." Sentence case (another issue.)

I can't find it on this support site; (nor can your search engine.) It seems an odd oversight for an APP whose raison t'etre is communication.

Any help you can offer will be welcome. There are workarounds but all of them add to an already unacceptable burden of having to work around the workarounds that every Update to any software element of the system, however, minor, tends to generate.

Thanks, Jim R.

I'm having problems getting Thunderbird to install. I've used it for a number of years and very happy with it but now it's giving me fits. I made 3 donation last year and it almost immediately quit working for me.

Have not received emails for two days now and have tried everything and nothing works.

As I indicated above when I click the thunderbird icon, the screen reads:

Login to Account ? Login to server imap.comcast.net with user name olinger123@comcast.net failed

 Retry    Enter new password _____   Cancel

I hit retry, entered new password and hit cancel. I can only briefly get into the inbox and this message comes up.

I need my incoming emails. What do I do? Will it correct itself. I have restarted the computer several times and still no new messages and message regarding login failed.

Hello guys: In MANY YEARS of using Thunderbird, my Incoming messages have started collected in Trash INSTEAD of in the 'Inbox' Folder ALWAYS set in 'Inbox' Folder set as the default: I have spent a lot of times searching for the cause of this malfunction but I can't find to find the cause and the way how to resolve this malfunction. Can anyone provide an effective help to correct this problem please - many thanks, Tony H.

I switched from ESR to Release yesterday morning, and everything was fine for the rest of that day. But today, about 4 hours after opening Thunderbird, I've started getting login failure messages for my secondary email address. The popup says: "Login to account "maggie.jacobs@sonic.net" failed. Login to server pop.sonic.net with user name maggie.jacobs failed." I have retried multiple times but keep getting this message.

Release is set to check for messages every 10 minutes. I did not make any changes from ESR, and did not get login failure messages yesterday. I also didn't receive any emails for that address; as I said, this is a secondary address not used often. Connection security on this account is STARTTLS, unlike my primary account which is SSL/TLS. Authentication method is Normal password.

Because this started happening 24 hours after I installed Release, I suspect there has been an update to Release this morning which has caused a misconfiguration. Does anybody have any idea what is happening and how I can fix it? I will get your email responses, as they will come to my primary account which is still functioning.

"Connection to outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.rcn.com timed out". I called RCN support and they said my settings looked OK and I tried various combinations but nothing works. I tried turning off firewall but that didn't help. They suggested I contact Thunderbird.

This has been working for years but my last sent message was 4/27/2024. Obviously I don't use the account much!

Server smtp.rcn.com is OK and I tried both ports that RCN said should work. Connection security SSL/TLS (I tried others). Authentication method - encrypted password (I tried others). Username should be OK too - my name before the @rcn.com. That has been that way for a long time.

Any ideas? I can receive emails just fine.

I am on the latest release. 139.0.1 (64-bit)

Thanks!