Questions tagged [thunderbird]

For questions relating to the email client from Mozilla Messaging.

Thunderbird is the free email client provided by Mozilla Messaging (under the umbrage of Mozilla Foundation) and also includes a feed reader.

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Cyrus: In practical terms, how do end users administer their shared mailboxes?

Let's say we have four customer service reps: Billy, Bob, Joe, and Tom. Tom is the department manager. There's a shared Customer Service mailbox on the Cyrus server that they all have access to. Tom, as the manager also has administrative privileges…
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Migrate From Groupwise to Thunderbird

I have successfully set up sending and receiving email in the Thunderbird for my Groupwise account. But, I am missing the feature that suggests contacts when I start typing their name in the To field (or cc or bcc). Is there a way to connect…
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Outlook and Thunderbird connecting to IMAP server where mail has been deleted

Have a rebuilt IMAP mail server which is missing emails for a time period. I have tried to search but only found articles about migration. Question is, will outlook and thunderbird etc sync such that it deletes locally the mail which it no longer…
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Can't send an email via E-mail client for Postfix/Dovecot

On my server with Postfix, Dovecot and Postgresql I can receive email flawsly, but not send them. Via Thunderbird. When trying to send it, I see this in the logs of Postfix: postfix/qmgr[14391]: B63131F952: from=<>, size=2376, nrcpt=1 (queue…
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Thunderbird on Windows 10 very slow Dovecot

A client have following set up - Dedicated CentOS 6.x server running Postfix + Dovecot 2.0.9 in some data center. 5-6 Windows 10 client computers with latest Thunderbird (IMAP) Some Windows 7 client computers with latest Thunderbird (IMAP) Windows…
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Postfix/Dovecot: Thunderbird can't move to sent

I have a small mail server set up using postfix and dovecot. All is well; I have proper certificates, multiple isolated users, etc. However, when sending a message from Thunderbird I get an error: "There was an error saving the message to Sent…
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thunderbird.cfg trust ca root certificate

We have just started using Thunderbird autoconfiguration and find it really useful for automatically creating the company standard imap, smtp and ldap accounts for every user that launches the mail client. However, the company ldap server (actually,…
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I use postfix, why does my Maildir contain 14,000 files?

As I am about to drop a server, I thought, I should clean up my Maildir directory, just in case. It may contain some emails with password and such so I do not want those to be readable by others. I used the following command line: find Maildir/…
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354 End data with ., mail not sent

I know, there is already an answer to this smtp-status, but sorry: i don't get it. A Customer of mine sends a big amount of mails and some can't be send cause of: This is the mail system at host mailserver.blabla.local. I'm sorry to have to inform…
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Thunderbird STARTTLS fails connecting to Cyrus-IMAP 2.2.13

Today all of a sudden my Icedove mail clients (38.7.0) ceased working using STARTTLS after I renewed the server certificate. Plain text IMAP works fine. The server logs STARTTLS negotiation failed for each TLS connection attempt. Analyzing the…
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How to configure MAILSERVER so that MAIL CLIENTS can automatically find settings

I have a mail server: postfix; dovecot; mysql; ssl cert. That is work. But, how to configure my MAILSERVER so that MAIL CLIENTS (thunderbird, apple mail, outlook) can automatically find settings ?
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AD Domain: Deploy Thunderbird Gmail Settings

In our (small) organization, we are using Google Apps (aka Gmail for business) as an email service. We found Thunderbird to be a good client for Google Apps and wish to keep using it. Now, we are about to install new Windows 10 computers. They will…
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Out-of-date IMAP back-up - restore emails from Client?

The IMAP server just died (Dovecot with Maildirs). The back-up is 1 day old. The missing day of emails is available on the Thunderbird local client. If the IMAP server is restored from backup, on sync, will the local email on the Thunderbird…
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Lockdown Mozilla Thunderbird on Windows Remote Desktop Services

I've installed Mozilla Thunderbird 31.3.0 on a Windows Server 2012 R2 which has the Remote Desktop Services role. I want to configure the Thunderbird program and set each user's email account etc and then I need to lockdown the program, so that…
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Thunderbird and Dovecot, INBOX is not synchronized on multiple pcs

i have a little problem with Thunderbird mail and Dovecot. I use the the latest stable from Thunderbird and connect my mail account about the IMAP protocol. Now i have an office PC and a Notebook, on both systems are the same Thunderbird installed…
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