Thunderbird email problems
Did your ability to receive mail suddenly stop?
- Check the service status of your ISP. (Many ISPs have a status or alert page on their website.) They may be having technical difficulties.
- If your ISP provides a web-based email interface, try to log in and view your mail. If you can see your messages, the problem is probably related to your account configuration.
- If you cannot log in to your ISPs web-based email interface, your password may have changed. If so, it must also be changed in Thunderbird. To change your password:
- At the top of the Thunderbird window, click the , or click the menu button menu and select
and choose .
- On the panel, click on the tab and then click .
- Click on the relevant account and then click .
- Close and re-open Thunderbird. You will be prompted to enter a new password for the account.
- At the top of the Thunderbird window, click the , or click the menu button menu and select
- If you recently updated Thunderbird, the firewall component of your Internet security suite may have blocked access of the new version of Thunderbird to the Internet. When this happens, IMAP folders may also disappear. There is some basic information about antivirus products and their known bad interactions with Thunderbird.Remove Thunderbird from your firewall’s list of trusted or recognized programs, then add it back manually (or when prompted). Otherwise, consult the documentation for your security suite / firewall / antivirus product for instructions on how to modify the firewall component of that product.