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Hello I received always this message when i want to put my email address on mozilla thunderbird : The current comand did not succeed. The mail server for account for [email protected] responded: User is authenticadet but not connect . Why is this error ? Let me know

I have 2 email addresses. A personal one (outlook.com) and a business one (live.com). I have set them both up on Thunderbird and they seem to be coming through without any problems.

BUT, I am now the only one who gets the live.com emails (through to my laptop via Thunderbird). Yesterday I alerted my husband that he had a couple of business emails to deal with which he does on his ipad via the mail app, and when he opened it, he had absolutely nothing there where there are normally quite a lot of emails there due to all of the mailing lists that our business has ended up on.

He is not very happy about losing access to his emails and wants me to get rid of Thunderbird which I really dont want to do. Has anyone got any idea why this is happening please? I have spent hours reading about things that say to tick a box that says to leave messages on the server, but I feel I have looked everywhere multiple times and just cant find this box. Thanks in advance.

Hi, since some days i have an issue with the connection to my email provider Strato. I noticed that, when i delete a message from my inbox, it also has been moved from my webmail version in Strato. Which gives issues, since the provider is connected to several devices and programs. For private and business reasons i use both Outlook and Thunderbird on different devices. So, it is not wanted that the mail i handle in Thunderbird (looks like) being mirrored in action at the Webmail from Strato. As said, it lóóks like this happens. Do you know of any setting or way this causes this? I used the above method for many years and never had any issues. But since an update in the 1st half of this year, also due to IMAP settings i expierence issues. This situation is unwanted and Thunderbird should not create changes in my webmail from the provider. Please let me know what you need from me to see how this can be solved. thanks and regards Rob

- i've added pictures which shows the following: image1 Thunderbird: marked message in Inbox image2 Outlook: marked (same) message in Inbox image3 Provider Strato webmail: marked same message in Inbox image4 Outlook: message will be deleted image5 Outlook: message is deleted and moved to Bin image6 Provider Strato: message still in Inbox after resfresh image7 Thunderbird: message will be deleted image8 Thunderbird: message is deleted and moved to Bin image9 Provider Strato: message is deleted after refresh image10 Provider Strato: message is moved from Inbox to Bin

Hello,

I have 50 folders in my email account in Thunderbird. They are actually folders for different accounts that are synced as IMAP folders for my account. I occasionally want to check the emails in those other folders, but I only want to be notified of emails that come into my main Inbox.

This is especially annoying on GNOME.

Any tips?

Thanks!

When I opened my Thunderbird account today, on my Android laptop, I couldn't read most of my emails because they said they were Applemail. This happening even though Thunderbird is my default email provider.

Every time I try to send an email to Germany with address ending @yahoo.de I get an error message "AUP#Out-1120" I have previously sent to the same address with no problem.

Sometimes my email messages display lines of html formatting code and not the message mentioned in the subject line. For example, subject is "Is Letting Your Dog Eat Grass a Good Idea?" and message displays

                 
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I received on 2024-09-25 about a dozen messages from various senders in my Thunderbird mailer from the University of Calgary mail system, around 2 p.m. and at least 50 emails in about a 12-hour period starting on Sept. 19 at about 2 a.m. that had recognizable sender names and subject lines as well as time and date stamps, but were either replaced by text from emails sent years earlier or corrupted (encoded?) in some way. For example, the email below was supposed to be from "Physics and Astronomy general announcements" on 2014-09-25, 2:15 p.m. but note the date in the header. This corruption of new emails is happening at irregular intervals, and I would very much like to know why and how to stop it from occurring. It seems to me that there is replacement of the contents of new emails with old, possibly compacted, email contents, if that makes any sense. Emails read on my account at the University of Calgary webmail system shows no such corruption, so it appears to be a problem on my Thundermail mailer. Look I like to use Thunderbird as opposed to a clunky Microsoft system, so

any help would be appreciated.  Thanks for your attention.  

- Gene Milone encl.: "On 2024-09-25 2:15 p.m., Physics and Astronomy general announcements wrote: > --_004_a2e30ad69a88a96097bdb50ed206edaeucalgaryca_ > Content-Type: text/x-vcard; name="milone.vcf" > Content-Description: milone.vcf > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="milone.vcf"; size=456; > creation-date="Wed, 10 Jul 2019 21:37:05 GMT"; > modification-date="Wed, 10 Jul 2019 21:37:05 GMT" > Content-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > > YmVnaW46dmNhcmQNCmZuOkRyLiBFLiBGLiAgTWlsb25lDQpuOk1pbG9uZTtEci4gRS4gRi4gDQpl > bWFpbDtpbnRlcm5ldDptaWxvbmVAdWNhbGdhcnkuY2ENCnRlbDt3b3JrOjQwMy0yMjAtNTQxMg0K > dGVsO2ZheDo0MDMtMjg5LTMzMzENCnZlcnNpb246Mi4xDQplbmQ6dmNhcmQNCg0K >

Thunderbird stopped uploading emails 9/29/24. Webmail for same account still works so it's not a server limit there. Then on 10/2 it uploaded a few and stopped again.

I've updated, compacted, cleared some history. But still no email coming in to Tbird at home.

It wont send either.

pop and smtp settings look unchanged

How can I break the impasse and get emails flowing again?

JJ

Hi all, I am experiencing problems on and off with gmail, since the last update to Nebula a few weeks ago. At the beginning there was an error message, this morning they are empty, no from, no subject, no text.

I am updated with version 3.

Thunderbird used to work great before Nebula. I have repaired the folder in the past and it worked, although is a very time intensive process and my folder is quite big.

Please let me know if you have any ideas to help, thanks in advance!

Best,

Javier

Until very recently sending batches of emails, up to 250 at a time, using Thunderbird and data from a Microsoft Office spreadsheat worked perfectly. In the last three weeks or so all the data has been read from the spreadsheet and added to the email correctly apart from the email address. Where, {{Forename}} {{Surname}} <{{E-mail Address}}>, would produce, Joseph Bloggs <[email protected]>, I now get, Joseph Bloggs <"\"jobloggs26"@snailmail.com>. Any answers??

Graham Davies.

I recently received an email that I can't find now stating that Thunderbird is changing to something else. I wish I could remember. For the first time since that day, last week, I'm checking my address book, and suddenly there are no contacts in any of the various categories. Where did they go?

Whenever I add someone to a new mailing list, it replaces the previous one, so there is never more than one person in my mailing list. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

Why is this happening and how can I change this? Everytime my email account opens, over 10,000 messages downloads from ALL MESSAGES. It is really frustrating using Thunderbird now. Any ideas? I have shut down my computer and it makes no difference.

Hi Thunderbird Team,

Have recently encountered a problem with sending Virginmedia.com e-mails with Thunderbird. I was able to send e-mails up to 03 October but unable to send from 04 October. Mail account setup with Thunderbird defaults.

Windows edition: Windows 11 Home Version: 24H2 Thunderbird version: 128.3.0esr (64-bit) Outgoing Server (SMTP)

 Description: [email protected] 
 Server Name: smtp.virginmedia.com 
 Port: 587 
 User Name: [email protected] 
 Authentication method: normal password 
 Connection Security: STARTTLS 

I can send e-mails from within VirginMedia https://mail.virginmedia.com/appsuite/#!!&app=io.ox/mail&folder=default0/INBOX

I can send hotmail and gmail e-mails from within Thunderbird

I use Thunderbird because it gives me the convenience of seeing all my e-mail accounts on one page without having to log in to virgimedia etc individually.

Hope someone has the answer.

Richard Clark 07/10/2024 PS. have been advised this is not a 'bug'

I currently subscribe to six newsgroups, all under the same news server. The way things normally work, when there are no new messages for a particular group, the name of the group appears in my list unbolded and in black. When a new message comes into a group, the name changes to blue and bolded and a number appears to the right of the name in a blue circle indicating the number of new messages. When I click on the newsgroup, I can see the new messages because they are bolded, and when I click on the individual unread messages, they change to unbolded. At that point, the name of the newsgroup changes back to black and unbolded and the number goes away. That’s the way it works for five of the six newsgroups on my list.

But recently the sixth newsgroup has been behaving differently. It used to work just like the others, but recently it started doing something different. Again, if there are no messages, the name of the group is in black, unbolded. But for this group only, when a new message comes in, the names of the group changes to blue and bolded but no number appears to the right. This time, when I then click on the newsgroup, no messages are bolded and I have to figure out based on dates and times or my memory of the messages which ones are new. When I click on the new messages (and I'm not sure if it's one or all of the unread), the newsgroup color in the listing changes back to black and unbolded.

At first, I thought this was just some weird one-time thing, but it is now happening every time a new message appears in just that group. I have tried repairing the folder but it does not good. Any idea what's happening?