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Hello thunderbird friends!

After what feels like a break of over 10 years, I have a computer again and have returned to Thunderbird. After setting up several mail accounts, I'm wondering how I can switch between them in the view. I only see one account at a time. I don't know how to get to the other account.

My second question is, how do I create a mail overview in which all emails from all mail accounts can be seen? I have this function in my Mail app on the iPhone and I find it very useful. Is this also available in Thunderbird?

Thank you and best regards from Germany

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edit: I have found the option to change accounts. At least I can now switch between the mail inboxes. To do this, activate view/window layout and account view. My problem now is the following. I have a laptop and the display is quite small. With this type of display I now have 3 columns open. The account selection. The inbox of the respective account and on the right the email view. Everything is very small.

I would still like to have a single folder in which all emails can be seen. It would also be nice if there was a button at the top, for example Accounts, where I can click on it and a drop-down menu opens with the respective account.

Another thing that bothers me in the long account list is the long scrolling. Because I have drafts, trash, spam archive, etc... in every account. If I want to retrieve emails from my 5th email account, I have to scroll for a long time until I find the inbox. I hope you understand what I mean. It would be nice if there were favorites, for example only from the inboxes. this would reduce the clutter to a few points and you wouldn't have to scroll so much.

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Every time I turn on my email account it asks for the imap password. I have tried every password I have and nothing works. Keep getting message "Mozilla Thunderbird (Not Responding) and I cannot use my email account. Today I have found I have 2 accounts, same email address on the same account. Where and how this has come from I don't know. I have tried to delete the second account but it will not delete. It says it is loading 286 messages and at present 40 mins later is still going this is on top of the original account I have. Can you help??? How do I get my email account running smoothly so I don't throw the whole thing out the window. I hate turning on my computer. My kindle works better than my Mozzilla account (not computer savy). HELP

While opening thunder bird this below error " The RETR command did not succeed " coming so user not able to work please suggest

The RETR command did not succeed. Error retrieving a messsage .Mail server outlook.office365.com responded:Server Unavailable.21

I'm having difficulty setting up my mail.com account with Thunderbird. My account is old and not premium. The instructions are for early Thunderbird: https://support.mail.com/premium/imap/thunderbird.html. Please help me with the server settings.

I have received an HTML-formatted message, which arrived with a red background colour. When I reply or forward that message, the message composition window appears with the same red background colour, and with black text. The resulting black text on a red background is hard to read.

How can I change the background colour of the reply or forwarded message which I am composing? How can I override the background colour set by the sender in the original message?

Note that I am asking about the background colour of a message which was set by the sender. I am not asking about how to set the default colour of messages I compose from scratch. Nor am I asking about how to set the background colour of Thunderbird windows or UI elements.

Thank you in advance.

Hello

I would like to add my mail info thunderbird using imap to check incoming e-maila to my own server. But if i want to add account i have to setup also SMTP service which i dont have available outside of home łan network. How can i add ONLY imap for receiving mails without SMTP for sending them?

How do you view full headers, these days? Supposedly View > Header > All, but in my version, View > Header does not exist, either when viewing in list format, or even after opening the actual email.... Thanks.

A few weeks ago after an automatic update I ended up having Thunderbird version 131.0.1 installed, I have no idea how this happened. On opening I get a message telling me I shouldn't be using a beta version and that I should revert to the latest general release version (128.4)

Today when I had some free time I downloaded 128.4 and installed it. On opening it it says that I can't use a profile file from a later version with the earlier version. Is there a way to recover from this WITHOUT having to set up the whole profile again from scratch.

Meanwhile I have done a system restore so I am back with 131.0.1 It has not given me any problems so far. Is there a new general release version imminent that will get me back on track?

I would appreciate any help I am not a computer expert, just a user, and find Thunderbird a very good email client.

David Gould

Many thanks to David for helpful advice on getting my new Thunderbird installation to read the email text and attachments by right clicking the old MSF folder and repairing. It worked.

Sorry, but I can't seem to find the original request and response, but here it is. Thanks a million! Russell

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Is this something that Thunderbird is doing, or is the gibberish the actual message? I've only bee using Thunderbird for a few months, and don't recall seeing anything like it with my previous email program (Opera). I'm using version 115.7.0 (64-bit) on OpenSUSE Linux.

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Is there a guide or an app to do this? The Message Filter is probably the most important thing I need to do.

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Hi there,

I have looked for hours on your site on how to get thunderbird sending emails, I have attached this to my outlook account and used all the correct IMAP/Port/Server settings that are displayed.

For some reason when I go to send an email, it says to me that "login to server smtp.office365.com with username ****myusername**** failed" THEN it says "Unable to authenticate outgoing server (SMTP). Please check the password & verify the 'Authentication Method' in account settings, Outgoing Server (SMTP)" I have done all the above multiple times, I have even tried other settings, and it STILL DOES NOT WORK.

I would greatly love some help with this as it is now becoming very tasking and frustrating. Please can someone help me out ASAP as I would love to start making use of Thunderbird.

Thanks - Max!

For some reason, I was obliged to change the password on one of my external email box. I made a mistake creating a new mail box in Thunderbird with the same name and the new password, instead of just informing the new password on the existing mail box. I have now two mailboxes with the same name in Thunderbird. One is enough, but I can't find the way to remove / cancel the second one...

Thank you for your help