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Thunderbird 60 is just around the corner and will bring a Quantum-inspired UI (mainly square tabs and modern icons) besides many improvements: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/60.0beta/releasenotes/

I'm very happy to see this revived effort put into my favourite mail client!

Try clearing cache:

Press Ctrl-Shift-Delete (Mac: Cmd-Shift-Delete) Set 'Time range...' to 'Everything' Untick all items except 'Cache' Clear, then restart FF

If that fails, try disabling all addons.

If that fails, see if it misbehaves in Troubleshooting mode (TB menu > Help > Restart...).

If all fail, reinstall from https://www.thunderbird.net/

If that fails, un-reinstall. Un/reinstall should keep your profile (data).

If that fails, create a new profile (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-thunderbird-profiles?redirectslug=profile-manager-create-and-remove-thunderbird-prof&redirectlocale=en-US).

https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/e2ee/Tf112ee9f7e927e4c/how-to-view-old-encrypted-e-mails-that-used-to-be-readable

https://pontoon.mozilla.org/br/thunderbird/mail/messenger/openpgp/openpgp-frontend.ftl/?status=missing&string=214444

No idea how to access old (2017) emails now. Some people suggested to figure out a way to install TB68 and enigmail. Is that even possible or wont the boxes/folders be ruined by now anyways? Is tb68+enigmail still for download somewhere and will they open my 2021 profile?

I have no idea if the installer that they offer as a download at https://www.thunderbird.net/ is 64-bit or auto-detects that and installs the appropriate version.

Everything I see indicates that the installer they push out is for the 32-bit version. https://www.ghacks.net/2018/08/07/how-to-migrate-32-bit-thunderbird-to-64-bit-on-windows/ explains why that might be. It's dated 2019 but it still appears to be valid. It also includes info on how to get the 64-bit installer. All of this was found through Google searches.

Why don't you just try and load it in TB first? :)

You can see all the older versions here and download them here if your profile folder doesn't work with the latest TB version.

Thank you for posting this. I found a Mozilla changelog page saying, only,

> Thunderbird version 60 is currently only offered as direct download from thunderbird.net and not as upgrade from Thunderbird version 52 or earlier.

and I wondered why - why this was the case and why there was no explanation of why it was the case.

EDIT: so there's the beta and then the, what? unofficial gamma, unofficial release candidate? Fair enough though, perhaps.

> Mozilla has pushed only security fixes for years now.

This is incorrect in two ways:

1) For years now the community has been driving and shipping Thunderbird releases, and development, not Mozilla. See https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/

2) The community has been delivering more than security fixes in every version (38, 45, 52). Take a spin through the release notes and you can see the changes are significant. https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/releases/

Sort of. If you check out Thunderbird Beta, you can see that they are theming it to look like the new Firefox: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/channel/

However, under the hood, I'm not sure if there are going to be any significant changes like using WebExtension-based Thunderbird extensions.

I'm with you. Unfortunately there is no market for desktop search programs. You have X1, but it costs a fortune and I haven't seen a pirated version. You could try and find an old Copernic version.

More here: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2434.875

Disable Win indexing and use Everything. It's far faster and you can search content using

*.<extension> content:<keyword>

e.g., *.txt content:thunderbird

https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/searching/#:~:text=click%20Advanced%20Search.-,content%20searching,-Warning%3A%20content%20searching

I had the same thought recently but for the iOS platform. I’d love to see an open source mail client with built-in encryption for iOS. There have been interesting takes such as MyNigma/M and Letterbox. What remains is the ProtonMail iOS app which only supports the ProtonMail service and Canary Mail which is closed source.

IMO: IMAP providers should yoke together for an open source email client. It could tackle user loss to ProtonMail. ProtonMail is so attractive right now to users who are more on mobile than desktop and aren't familiar with email encryption. It would give those IMAP providers some counterweight.

But I think it is still likely that your user data is still on your c:/ (or d:/ if set up). User data should not be deleted upon upgrade, but it is possible that TB on you win7 located it in a different place to your new win10. A good small free program to search your disks is windirstat.

They have instructions for how to connect it to thunderbird here. Before you follow those, you need to download a program here for it to work.

Protonmail doesn't have IMAP and SMTP, you have to download a bridge, which translate from IMAP to their own protocol. This bridge is only available for paying customers, so if you use the free tier you cannot connect it to any email client, just their own.

127.0.0.1 is localhost, it means, that's your pc, it tries to connect to this bridge, do you run this bridge?

More info: https://protonmail.com/bridge/

Exporting the calendar to an ical file and importing it somewhere else can "synchronize" your calendar. But that is definitely not liable for a continuous synchronization.

Depending on how tech-savvy you are, you might get off by trying out Radicale.

I do not know for sure that it will work, but you should probably take a look at the SoGo plugins. They allow Thunderbird to synchronize with any CardDAV (and other DAV types) server. This (dated) article discusses using SoGo to sync with Google Contacts - Sync Google contacts with Thunderbird using CardDav.

By configuring your mail client as IMAP connections to the mail server rather than POP3, you will be able to see things like message labeling and starring on all computers logged in to the same account. For example, here are some results for how to do that with Thunderbird.

It's in the release channel, now, version 91.0.2:

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/91.0.2/releasenotes/

Preference for disabling the unread message count badge on Windows taskbar icon added: mail.biff.show_badge

I've been having similar issues. Works fine on first launch but then any new emails that come in during that session quite often don't work.

I've just updated to the latest version (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/91.0/releasenotes/) and so far, it's been working perfectly.

As I understand it, the beta has native support for Apple Silicon as of version 87.

I'll update if I can find any information about the release channel.

If you mean Movemail, it was removed in 87beta.

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https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/87.0beta/releasenotes/

This has nothing to do with upgrading from 68 to 78, and Thunderbird even says on their website that you can't upgrade directly from 68 to 78.

Maybe see https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/get-involved/#development

There is bug-filing, which maybe is used for enhancement requests too: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Thunderbird

If you just want cosmetic changes for your own local use, I think you can rewrite the CSS that Thunderbird uses in your local copy.

Using it for my work on linux and macOS, and at home on windows10 and no problems at all...

I am not advicing you to switch back to 60.9 like some others sa.. Lot a security fixes since the new version..

You should wait for the v76 which comes with a lot of UI fixes: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/76.0beta/releasenotes/

For the VERY latest (72.0b2 at the moment), https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/beta/all/

I download it and then:

# quit out of Thunderbird app sudo bash mv thunderbird-.bz2 /opt && cd /opt rm -fr thunderbird tar xvjf thunderbird-.bz2 rm thunderbird-*.bz2

Some things stopped working in newer versions. For example, Enigmail doesn't work.

Indeed, the release numbering and schedule of releases of Thunderbird has been this way for over 7 years. There are no plans to change.

Also, Mozilla does not maintain nor release Thunderbird - it's the Thunderbird community. https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/get-involved/

As for using beta, they are under constant change with absolutely no assurance of whether certain add-ons will work. If a beta works and is useful to someone then we love to see it get used and tested. If it doesn't work for someone, the only recourse is to not use it - use a release version.

Thunderbird version numbering is a bit confusing, because they follow the firefox version numbers, but stable thunderbirds are only released on top of firefox esr versions (esr= extended support release)

The current firefox esr is 68, the next firefox esr will be 78, so the current stable Thunderbird is 68, the next stable will be 78, so no 71 or 72 stables will be released.

I don't find any info on the numbering of beta thunderbirds, but I guess they are numbered as the current beta of firefox.

Only webextension based addons are available since 68, so every addon which works with 68 should work with any future releases. (until they change the addon architecture again... but it won't happen in the foreseeable future, webextension is a standard, also used for chrome and firefox addons)

More info:

You can see thunderbird version numbers are not sequential: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/releases/

You can see that firefox esr verion numbers are the same as thunderbird versions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history#Firefox_68.3esr

Going to Thunderbirds website https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

Clicking any of those shows v.68, so that must be a new version, that's dated to August of this year, checking Mozilla's blogs on both their site and Thunderbirds corroborates this, auto updates don't show anything for some reason.

I've very good news for you. Coming with 68.1.0 released today:

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>Offer to configure Exchange accounts for Office365. A third-party add-on is required for this account type. IMAP still exists as alternative.

Full changelog here: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/68.1.0/releasenotes/

Yes, however auto update will work for 68.1

So if anyone want to update to 68 automatically, just have to wait

> Thunderbird version 68.0 is only offered as direct download from thunderbird.net and not as upgrade from Thunderbird version 60 or earlier. A future version 68.1 will provide updates from earlier versions.

Source: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/68.0/releasenotes/

Thunderbird releases are in sync with Firefox ESR. You could say that Thunderbird is by default ESR.

Check out the Firefox ESR release overview, then take a look at Thunderbird releases.

>There are about 3 or 4 different settings pages, from what I can tell. This is beyond unintuitive. You should always have one settings button for one application, then subdivide the different settings areas within it.
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>Agreed. But I hope you know that such a flattened organization is fairly recent design concept for many programs. IIRC Firefox for example only has it in the last year or so. Thunderbird will get there in due course.

In version 68 the new account confiration is getting a big refresh - beta in a couple weeks.

In version 76 we expect account and options will be unified. Beta for that perhaps late summer.

Probably Mac Bug 1425656 - Sometimes modal dialog open at wrong location, sometimes unusable (Mac) which should get better in version 68.

Beta available shortly.

You can just download the zip file from thunderbird.net. make sure you allow it to run with chmod. Then just add it to your /usr/bin and kde menu

I don't exactly know how your encrypted mail provider works, but as far as I remember, Thunderbird needs an email account to work properly. You can start Thunderbird without configuring any email account, but it will be a severely crippled program that will nag you to create an account.

But the key is there: you need an account. Any email account will do. So connect to your basic ISP-supplied email account or a gmail account and you will have a fully-functioning email account.

So basically, you would use your encrypted email program to download any eml file, then load it into Thunderbird. If you load just a single email to read it, then do it live and quit Thunderbird. If you want to save it (them) and eventually do other work such as searches, classification, etc., save them under the "Local Folders" hierarchy. At that point, they won't be protected locally (i.e. not anymore than the rest of your computer, but as they are in a local folder, they won't be saved onto Gmail or whatever other provider you are using.

If you also want local encryption, you can use some kind of encryption like PGP, but I am really not knowledgeable on this technique. Or you could use (hard disk) volume encryption.

By the way, if you decide to encrypt, say, volume F, you can either do some fancy work in Thunderbird to move your profile away from its default place or you can use Thunderbird Portable at https://portableapps.com

> You can use http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/ to backup the whole thunderbird profile.

Windows only, not under development since 6 years ago. "MozBackup is not being developed anymore. There are known issues and there is no time on my side to fix all issues and develop new features. Use MozBackup only on your risk. Thanks for understanding."

I think you can usually just transfer the whole C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird folder across (assuming it doesn't already exist on the destination) and it's worked for me in the past (I think).

Otherwise if you want a less-manual approach, you can use http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

Hi. I'm dealing with the same problem. I've just installed the latest Thunderbird version and was looking for something minimal like this:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/a-modern-thunderbird-theme-font

Are there any other alternatives to the one posted?

P.S. I'm on Windows 10.

https://www.dovecot.org/

• set up Dovecot on a local server

• note: AMD Ryzen CPUs are so good and so cheap right now, memory is cheap, SSDs are cheap

• intel plus optane works too

• import the mail hoard, index it

• he can use thunderbird to access it all

• it’s local, so fast

• it’s indexed, so it’s fast

Gonna cost a few hundred bucks

Also: security software to prevent malware . Sorry, but it seems this User might be susceptible to a good spear fishing attack (we all are, but this guy more then most?)

And off site ransomware hardened backup

You can sync Lightning to every calendar server capable of the CalDAV protocol you may like. On your Android, you will need an CalDAV-Client app like DAVx5 which will integrate into you calendar app.

> when I reinstalled it all of my e-mails and accounts were loaded like I had never uninstalled the program, which was strange considering I deleted items in the registry after uninstalling it to make sure it was completely erased, I guess I missed something.

You missed your user profile. However that would not be related to Windows 10 not allowing TB to be selected.

For information on user profiles, see https://www.amazon.com/Firefox-Thunderbird-Beyond-Browsing-Email/dp/0789734583 which explains profiles and how to transport your information between multiple installations.