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I have not changed my email accounts or my Google & Microsoft usernames or passwords. A few days ago when I started Thunderbird, two Google pop-ups arrive reading "Mozilla Thunderbird Email wants to access your Google Account" demanding that I deny or allow it. Why might this be happening and how do I stop it? This does not occur with other email apps such as Outlook for Windows.

i did not know how to set up the e mail from thunderbird. i want to get a seperate e mail and not use the e mail from google. i have set up an account, i dont now how to set up something like jaustin@trunderbird.com

can you help me to that.

bold textI share an info@ ..... e-mail with colleagues. We used to be able to mark = colour e-mails so e.g. I could colour blue to my colleague an he could colour green for me.

My two colleagues can still use this function but I can only use it on my own laptop.

What can I do to make the marking seeable for my colleagues as well as myself? We have tried updating and restarting which does not solve our problem.

David, thank you. I think with your help, I have it fixed. I only had one prefs.js. (I had to go look for the file.) Anyway, just the one file. It was dated in 7/x/2023. No files named prefs-1.js or ........ prefs-46.js. So I checked the properties of the prefs-js file. It was marked read only. I unmarked read only and closed Thunderbird and reopened it. Twice now. The account I wanted to delete did not reappear and the account I wanted to add came back!! I am very pleased the solution was so simple but I would never have found it without your help and clues.

I just bought a new laptop at Best Buy; and asked the Geek Squad to transfer everything from my old Lenovo to the new one. Re: my Thunderbird email: on my old laptop I have about 10,000 emails in my in box. I also have previous years' emails stored in local folders, by year. When the transfer occurred, only one month of "inbox" emails show in the new laptop, which is receiving new ones as well. I cannot find the local folders containing the previous emails. Although I brought the laptops back to Best Buy, the Geek Squad rep was unable to find a way to transfer successfully. They suggested that TBird might be able to download directly from the server? I have looked thru the suggested transfer methods using USB to copy and load,, essentially, onto the new device but am wary of attempting, not wanting to screw up the records . on the old laptop. I have limited tech experience. Can you advise as to how I can get my new laptop to accept the same setup as old, with all the stuff intact? FYI: there is a TB Profile Backup folder on my old laptop that was created during the Geek session; it is 21 GB zip folder. Any help / guidance much appreciated. Kathy Ormosi kormosi@verizon.net

After the latest Thunderbird update to 115.18.0 I can still receive emails but can not send. When I try to send, the following message appears in a box:

Sending of the message failed. An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: <martin.peros@bellnet.ca> sender rejected. Please verify that your email address is correct in your account settings and try again.

I have verified my account settings and all other data.

Hello, (I'm french and not very good at english, please excuse me). Since Microsoft changed the protocole for email with hotmail, I can't receive or send messages from thunderbird on my computer (W10). Is there a solution? Could you explain the steps to configure Thunderbird with hotmail? Thanks for answers. Best regards Maice

I use Mailwasher to see incoming emails waiting for me at my ISP. That way I can delete iffy emails before they get on my pc. Over the last few months I have been having occasional problems where emails I have accepted can take a long time getting onto my pc when I get Thunderbird to download them. Sending emails can also sometimes take a long time to go.

My unreliable memory tells me I have asked about this before, but have had no response yet. I would like to trace my old questions to remind me exactly what I asked (or just think I asked). How can I do that?

PS I'm not sure I have picked the best topic for this

Thankyou

Hello, Having to change computers, I made a backup of my profile. When I wanted to restore it on the new computer, I had the unpleasant surprise of discovering that this ZIP file was unusable because it was larger than 2 MB, this limitation not being announced during the backup. My old computer having been reformatted, I can't recover anything. Is there a solution to be able to find at least the address book on this backup? Thank you for your help.

I have a calendar with a CalDAV connection through my hosting service. The CalDAV connection is fine, because it is working properly on my phone. However, when I try and add the calendar in Thunderbird I run into problems.

I have managed to create the calendar and Thunderbird did accept my login credentials. The calendar appears in the calendar menu, but it is not enabled. When I try and enable it, it immediately jumps back to "not enabled". What could be causing this, and how do I get around it?

Thank you sincerely, Rasmus

I'm having trouble taking the contents of TBird and IMAP-ing it to a Gmail account (~60,000 messages). I have added the Gmail account as per the instructions on these forums including Advanced Config for IMAP and OAuth2, but no messages appear in GMail. Am I missing something obvious? Do both accounts have to be the same UserID? I don't want to mistakenly transfer the contents of an empty GMail account to the TBird account wiping out 20 years of messages. (I do have exports of all messages, btw) I'd be very grateful for any breadcrumbs that point me in the right direction. Thank you in advance. aj