Questions tagged [thunderbird]
Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client. It is Ubuntu's default e-mail client since 11.10.
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Thunderbirds automatic mail deletion
Thunderbird will make me crazy. I am configured with an IMAP mail account, and the server automatically deletes mails after a period of 30 days.
I setted up my account this way :
right click on my ...
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How to integrate Gnome Contacts with Thunderbird?
I have contacts in Gnome Contacts and I want to integrate/sync them with Thunderbird.
How do I integrate Gnome Contacts with Thunderbird?
Note: Due to the replies received, I should mention that ...
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In Evolution, how do I attach my public key to a message?
If I'm writing a message in Thunderbird, I can attach my public key by simply selecting Enigmail | Attach my public key. (Rather than using the regular file attachment button to attach my public key ...
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Thunderbird Duplicate messages
I see duplicate messages in my Thunderbird where there are a number of active email accounts .. I have to delete every hour a long list of duplicate mails from each account inbox .. yesterday I did a ...
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Thunderbird Links do not open the page in chrome
With chrome as the default browser, when I click on a link in Thuderbird, it opens chrome, but always starts a new browser and just goes to the startup page and not to the page on the link. I am ...
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Thunderbirds profili.ini is empty. How to rewrite it?
the title says it basically. My profile.ini from thunderbirbird is empty. I don't know why, but I would like to rewrite it to access my emails - can I somehow recover or rewrite it with some copy/...
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Does Thunderbird automatically store emails so that they are accesible locally even after the account gets deleted
I have two IMAP accounts configured in Thunderbird (with some filters that move emails between remote folders, but without copying emails to local folders or similar). The emails are accessible when I ...
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thunderbird's v45 "integrated calendar" (lightning) is missing?
so, I updated thunderbird to v.45.
I read that from v.38 lightning would be integrated,to my surprise, there is no calendar anywhere to be reached from the menus, neither at preferences (it should be ...
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.thunderbird in my home takes up too much space
My home directory is nearly completely occupied.
/dev/sda7 28G 24G 2.1G 93% /home
disk analysis shows the top largest directory is .thunderbird. As shown in the screenshot. Is there any ...
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Can open thunderbird only as root (e.g. with sudo) to have access to my user profile? How do I regain my rights again?
I can only access my thunderbird profile, when using sudo in the terminal - otherwise I only can access the profile launcher and then I can't open the profiles, which are linked from there on.
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Clicking link in Thunderbird opens browser but doesn't enter URL
I'm trying to fix this behavior, which isn't the default behavior. Clicking a link in an email message in Thunderbird 45.5.1 under Ubuntu 16 opens my Chromium 55.0 browser, but doesn't enter the URL ...
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Install and use JOE Editor on Ubuntu 16.04
I miss Joe! I've been using Ubuntu since Ubuntu 8.04 (it was easy).
When I learned more about computering, I got JOE and had fun.
It was always hard to change my hardware or make a complete new ...
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Generated pgp keys to thunderbird enigmail
I generated a keybundle by gpg --key-gen. How can I find this keys and import them to thunderbird enigmail now? And shouldn't enigmail find them by itself? It only imported the public key.
I looked ...
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Why does my Launcher think that a Terminal is a Thunderbird window?
My recent Ubuntu 16.04 upgrade failed in the middle and required some repair before appearing to complete successfully. Ever since, however, Ubuntu seems to think that a new Terminal instance is a ...
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Migrating from kmail to thunderbird
I like the kmail interface, but I've had problems with it for years and in the last few days it has become unusable: it keeps locking up or crashing and there's no solution on the 'net. I won't go ...
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Thunderbird in Ubuntu 16.04: Calendar view disabled?
I'm running a clean install of Ubuntu 16.04 and I'm using the version of Thunderbird that came with it, plus updates (version 45.5.1). I've installed Lightning (4.7.4), which works, and I've set up ...
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How to open Thunderbird minimised at startup in Ubuntu 16.04 [duplicate]
I looked around for a solution that still works in 16.04. I found that previously offered solutions including the one which was accepted were for older versions of Ubuntu.
The results were ...
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How can I keep recent messages in Thunderbird without deleting them from the server?
I've just started using Thunderbird instead of web mail because I'd like the ability to view and send emails offline.
I currently have it connected to Gmail using IMAP, but in order to sync I have to ...
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POSTFIX: Can Not Send Mail To Other Domains Using Mail Client
I've configured POSTFIX using Ubuntu Help's Guide.
I can send and receive mails to any domain while I am using ssh, but when I use mail clients (like Thunderbird or iPhone Mail) I can just send mails ...
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Thunderbird 45.5.1 - not pulling specific inbox's new messages
By parsing through miles of pages on AskUbuntu I see that many have been dealing with similar issue, maybe even same, over the years. Most of similar issues have been resolved, but my is still present ...
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Complete Removal of Thunderbird 45.5.1 from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Done all steps suggested within How to completely remove Thunderbird? and still end locating:
locate -e thunderbird
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/thunderbird:thunderbird.desktop
/usr/share/app-...
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Is it possible to open mails in tabs for evolution?
Is it possible to make evolution open messages in tabs, like thunderbird does?
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Going back to Thunderbird from Evolution
When trying to export my emails back to Thunderbird I get to the step where it says go to /home/chris/.local/share/evolution/mail/local.
But I don't see any files with no extention on them. Because if ...
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Unable to send emails
being new to all this I am asking for help. I am using Ubuntu 16.04.1 and email via thunderbird mail (unknown version, how do I find this) I am receiving emails quite normally but when I try to send ...
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Gnome controll center online accounts and Thunderbird
I'm trying to set up my work-mail (Microsoft Exchange) on my laptop. It didn't work doing it in Thunderbird, so I tried connecting through Online Accounts in Gnome Controll Panel (already using this ...
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Thunderbird is missing local folders structure even though they exist in ~/.thunderbird
My imap and pop structures are correct and so it is clear that I have the correct profile. The data structure is found in
~/.thunderbird/sc3dr5b5.default/Mail/Local\ Folders/. for example in this ...
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Force Thunderbird to always use system default browser instead of internal to open links in emails [duplicate]
When I click hyperlinks in emails, sometimes they open in my system's default browser (Firefox), but sometimes Thunderbird opens them internally in a new Thunderbird tab.
I really don't like this ...
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Stop Thunderbird auto start after login in Ubuntu
I am looking for a way to stop my Thunderbird application auto start.
However I don't want to just remove the application, because may I need it in the future, and some important letters are only ...
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Thunderbird tray icon show new emails?
I use Ubuntu 16.04 with Thunderbird 45.4. When I receive a new email, I want the Thunderbird tray icon in the right upper corner to change (so that I know that I have an unread email). I saw somewhere ...
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How can I integrate Thunderbird Lightning calendar into the Unity message indicator menu?
Thunderbird provides Lightning, a proper calendar solution. In analogy to its "Contacts" solution, how can I integrate "Calendar" into the message indicator menu of Ubuntu 16.10 Unity?
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Recovering thunderbird files from quick formatted drive?
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How can I recover Thunderbird emails from a quick-formatted drive?
I have already re covered thousands of images using 'magicrescue', but wouldn't know where to start writing a recipe for '...
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How to turn off Thunderbird message "Thunderbird now has calendaring functionality..."
Since installing Ubuntu Mate 16.10, I've been getting the following message at the bottom of Thunderbird's window: "Thunderbird now contains calendaring functionality by integrating the Lightning ...
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Email couldn't send to Ubuntu email server
I have setup an email server at ubuntu. It was working fine. But last time when I send an email to my email server ([email protected]) from my yahoo email, I get the following error message at ...
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Thunderbird: History of seen Messages
Is there a way in thunderbird to step backward and forward in the history of last messages? Like in firefox: It has a history of the last visited pages.
I would like to have a history of the last ...
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Why do Thunderbird emails to a particular type of addresses consistently bounce?
Emails I send to people with gmx.de in the second part of their address consistently bounce, while these people don't seem to have a problem on their side: they happily send me mail and receive it ...
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Protecting thunderbirds logins.json
When I start thunderbird, it reads the encrypted passwords from logins.json and asks me for the master password.
But I feel that using a local master password for this file is not the right way.
Is ...
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Setup Office 365 Account with Thunderbird
I am having issues with setting up an IMAP connection inside Thunderbird with both of my Office 365 accounts.
Thunderbird's error dialog states that I have the wrong username and/or password - but I ...
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Emails in Thunderbird disappear on repair
I have a (large) number of strangly corrupted local folders in Thunderbird. As far as I am aware, all emails in these folders are currently displaying correctly. They are shown in the folders, and I ...
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Chromium crashes when clicking on a link in Thunderbird
I have a small problem, every time when i click on a link in Thunderbird or any other application (like Discord), Chromium opens then a new window and says that Chromium didn't shut down correctly and ...
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How can I hide quoted text in the Thunderbird compose window?
I would like to hide the quoted text while composing a reply in Thunderbird. Nevertheless, the quoted text should be included in my reply.
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Importing non-utf8 calendar file in Thunderbird Lightning
An online calendar file (.ics) that I am trying to import happens to be in the latin1 encoding rather than UTF-8. I added the calendar to Thunderbird's Lightning extension, but none of the events ...
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Blurred Firefox and Thunderbird Icons
I recently connected my laptop running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to an external display. Since then, only my Firefox and Thunderbird Icons are appearing blurred. After a lot of searching, this is what I have ...
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How to start Thunderbird minimized to Unity system tray on start-up?
There is actually a question that covers this same topic, but none of the answers worked for me, at least not completely.
The accepted answer is just a link to this forum thread, and based on one of ...
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Keep Chrome in the background when opening links from Thunderbird
Before updating to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, when I clicked on links in Thunderbird emails, the links opened in a new tab in Chrome and waited patiently in the background until I switched to the browser. ...
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How can I disable "Do Not Disturb" mode for NotifyOSD?
I use a number of programs in fullscreen mode during the workday. When I do this, Ubuntu assumes I don't want to be disturbed by notifications, so I am not alerted when people attempt to contact me ...
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How can I disable links in Thunderbird?
How can I disable clickable links in Thunderbird emails, that is, I want to copy/past every link if I need, but disable click-opening. Is it possible?
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Firefox is unable to locate profile
After reinstalling my NFS server S (Ubuntu 14.04.5 server which stores the home directory) and client A (Kubuntu 14.04.4 desktop) suddenly Firefox and Thunderbird complain about not being able to find ...
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Can't upload and connect to networks, network error(?)
I have several and strange network errors.
I can't send e-mail messages with attachment. Thunderbird stuck in loop during "sending message". I tried also with Roundcube, with the same result. In ...
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repeated OpenPGP passphrase popup when opening encrypted email
when I receive an encrypted email from one specific person, in both my enigmail setups on different computers, the normal "Please enter the OpenPGP secret passphrase" window repeatedly pops up - for ...
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Thunderbird and others acting strange under 16.04
This may be a bug report and, if so, I apologise for posting here but my problems seem to have a tangential similarity to various others reported here.
To give complete information:
A while back I ...