Thunderbird : Issues
From MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Before checking the following issues, you might want to check the official list of known issues for Thunderbird 1.0 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.
- Forwarded messages are not readable by the people I sent them to.
Message Display
- Cannot view images in messages.
- Incoming messages have a dot (period) at the end which was not typed by the sender.
- Some messages have strange characters in their body text when displayed.
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.
- Folder pane is not shown on the left-hand side of the main window.
- When I try to launch Thunderbird, it says my profile is already in use.
- Thunderbird forgets my password.
- 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.