For anyone using Thunderbird with Ubuntu as I do, I have a question I
hope you can help me with.
I recently had to confirm to AOL's new standards on a couple of my email accounts. I was having difficulty making the settings changes in
Thunderbird (wouldn't save the settings changes even if closed and reopened), so deleted two accounts and started over in Thunderbird. When
I deleted, I made sure to select "remove account information" and NOT "remove message data." Upon recreating these two accounts, they are
now working, but the emails are no longer in the inbox. I need them.
They should still be present somewhere and how do I get them to show
again in the inbox?
Thanks in advance.
For anyone using Thunderbird with Ubuntu as I do, I have a question I
hope you can help me with.
I recently had to confirm to AOL's new standards on a couple of my email accounts. I was having difficulty making the settings changes in
Thunderbird (wouldn't save the settings changes even if closed and
reopened), so deleted two accounts and started over in Thunderbird. When
I deleted, I made sure to select "remove account information" and NOT
"remove message data." Upon recreating these two accounts, they are
now working, but the emails are no longer in the inbox. I need them.
They should still be present somewhere and how do I get them to show
again in the inbox?
Thanks in advance.
On 1/19/22 8:23 AM, Juan S wrote:
For anyone using Thunderbird with Ubuntu as I do, I have a question I
hope you can help me with.
I recently had to confirm to AOL's new standards on a couple of my
email accounts. I was having difficulty making the settings changes in
Thunderbird (wouldn't save the settings changes even if closed and
reopened), so deleted two accounts and started over in Thunderbird.
When I deleted, I made sure to select "remove account information" and
NOT "remove message data." Upon recreating these two accounts, they
are now working, but the emails are no longer in the inbox. I need
them. They should still be present somewhere and how do I get them to
show again in the inbox?
Thanks in advance.
I don't see anything I sent in the outbox either for these two accounts.
For anyone using Thunderbird with Ubuntu as I do, I have a question I
hope you can help me with.
I recently had to confirm to AOL's new standards on a couple of my email accounts. I was having difficulty making the settings changes in
Thunderbird (wouldn't save the settings changes even if closed and
reopened), so deleted two accounts and started over in Thunderbird.
When I deleted, I made sure to select "remove account information" and
NOT "remove message data." Upon recreating these two accounts, they
are now working, but the emails are no longer in the inbox. I need
them. They should still be present somewhere and how do I get them to
show again in the inbox?
Thanks in advance.
If I highlight this problem account and then choose "edit SMTP server",
under the security and authentication section, "user name" keeps
changing back to one of the other accounts. If I change it to what it should be, everything works fine... I can send and receive emails to myself. If I close Thunderbird and reopen, the user name has changed
back to one of the other accounts again. At no where else does this
show up. Under "server settings" it is showing the correct server and
user names and the same if I go to the "outgoing server (SMTP)" settings.
On 1/19/22 12:41 PM, Ralph Fox wrote:
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Thanks, but fortunately I was able to retrieve much of the existing emails from a recent back up. However, there is a
problem I'm still having and maybe you can help.
I have three accounts and two are working fine, but one is not. It is showing the following behavior:
If I highlight this problem account and then choose "edit SMTP server", under the security and authentication section,
"user name" keeps changing back to one of the other accounts. If I change it to what it should be, everything works
fine... I can send and receive emails to myself. If I close Thunderbird and reopen, the user name has changed back to
one of the other accounts again. At no where else does this show up. Under "server settings" it is showing the correct
server and user names and the same if I go to the "outgoing server (SMTP)" settings.
I scratch my head with this, so would appreciate any help here. I don't want to try just deleting the account again and
starting over as that is where I had problems not being able to locate existing important emails earlier. Thanks in
advance.
Juan S wrote:
If I highlight this problem account and then choose "edit SMTP server",
under the security and authentication section, "user name" keeps
changing back to one of the other accounts. If I change it to what it
should be, everything works fine... I can send and receive emails to
myself. If I close Thunderbird and reopen, the user name has changed
back to one of the other accounts again. At no where else does this
show up. Under "server settings" it is showing the correct server and
user names and the same if I go to the "outgoing server (SMTP)" settings.
That setting is saved in the prefs.js in the profile folder. I'd check
to see the is a write issue with that file.
Whenever you create a new account in thunderbird is creates a linked
outgoing SMTP server, even if the same SMTP is used for outgoing mail
for more than account. What I would do is in the account settings window
is navigate to the bottom of the left panel to Outgoing Server (SMTP).
Then create a new enter with what settings you need. In description give
it a easy identifiable name like "Fix this f'ng server" then go to the problematic account and from Outgoing Server (SMTP) dropdown then select
that newly created SMTP server and test. Close TB and see if the setting sticks.
On 19/01/2022 22:45, Juan S wrote:
On 1/19/22 12:41 PM, Ralph Fox wrote:
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Thanks, but fortunately I was able to retrieve much of the existing
emails from a recent back up. However, there is a problem I'm still
having and maybe you can help.
I have three accounts and two are working fine, but one is not. It is
showing the following behavior:
If I highlight this problem account and then choose "edit SMTP
server", under the security and authentication section, "user name"
keeps changing back to one of the other accounts. If I change it to
what it should be, everything works fine... I can send and receive
emails to myself. If I close Thunderbird and reopen, the user name
has changed back to one of the other accounts again. At no where else
does this show up. Under "server settings" it is showing the correct
server and user names and the same if I go to the "outgoing server
(SMTP)" settings.
I scratch my head with this, so would appreciate any help here. I
don't want to try just deleting the account again and starting over as
that is where I had problems not being able to locate existing
important emails earlier. Thanks in advance.
Try running "thunderbird -ProfileManager" to delete the account, and
mark the checkbox that chooses "Don't delete files"
You can then ceate a new user, pointing at those files
.
This *might* help
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