Thunderbird : Issues

Getting & Sending Mail

• Cannot send mail; problems with outgoing server.
• Error message when getting mail: "This folder is being processed".
• Duplicate messages are received when downloading mail.
• I receive an alert saying I have new messages, but no new messages appear in my Inbox.
• When I forward messages, Thunderbird tries to forward the message in some weird sort of attachment that no one can read. It doesn't copy the message into the new message.
  • College students or others who use webmail interfaces tend to have this problem, as well as users of command-line clients like PINE and Mutt. The fix: Turn off HTML/MIME

Message Display

• No date is shown for messages sent/received.
• Cannot view images in messages.
• Incoming messages have a dot (period) at the end which was not typed by the sender.

Importing & Migrating

• Thunderbird shows empty folders after migrating my profile.
• Mail imported from Eudora is littered with html tags in the message body.

Miscellaneous

• Mail disappears from Thunderbird.
• When I create a new account, the account does not appear in the folders pane, and the mail for that account goes into Local Folders.
• When I try to launch Thunderbird, it says my profile is already in use.
• Thunderbird forgets my passwords.
• Some of my mail files are huge, even though they contain few or no messages.
• Messages reappear after I've moved or deleted them.
• Cannot delete IMAP folders.
• When using the global Inbox, message filters do not run automatically on incoming mail. They can only be run manually.
• Junk mail isn't moved to the Junk folder.
• Antivirus software problems.
• Some messages have strange characters in their body text when displayed.