You probably want to do neither of things and use profile manager to choose your existing profile.
Yeah, thatās one of the very few things that piss me off about Arch: the rules for the AUR package submission are very vague and seem to be selectively (or at least, inconsistently) enforced.
But given the overall state of the world, itās only a minor gripe at the momentā¦ 
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Iāve been using it with only a couple minor most likely mostly my fault issues at the beginning. For one it didnāt want to launch through the menu, once I launched it from the terminal, the menu worked fine, so Iām guessing some kind of desktop file problem. The second was that it lost all my accounts and settings, but since I use IMAP, it wasnāt like I lost anything I couldnāt replace.
Sounds like it started with a new profile. If you ever have that again, try thunderbird -P to show the profile screen.
The thunderbird site, on the download page, says this:
Thunderbird version 102.0 is only offered as direct download from thunderbird.net and not as an upgrade from Thunderbird version 91 or earlier. A future release will provide updates from earlier versions.
I donāt think migrations work yet from 91. Iād bet that this is holding up the package and all itās language versions from appearing in the Arch extra repo.
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Using it and loving it. No problems.
Migrations work.
But: I always use the Profile-Manager because I have my private and a work profile, thatās why I didnāt have to select the right profile with thunderbird -P - itās the default for me.
Edited the post above to reflect that.
I think what they mean with that is: The internal update mechanism of thunderbird does not offer an update to 102 yet.
(btw. The internal updater is only available when downloading thunderbird directly from mozilla. If itās packaged by a distro, this option is usually removedā¦)
So far so good here, using thunderbird 102 but unfornatelly i seem to have this same issue too:
never mind, thunderbird got an update now and birdtray seems to be working fine, apparently i didnāt have thunderbird running thatās why i wasnāt getting notifications
Looks like birdtray got a PR merged to fix the unread-count issue, i believe i should switch to birdtray-git aur package to get these update change ?
There is major jump in TB from 90something to 102. Old profiles wonāt work as is without some intervention, I guess. At least not in some distros (afaik, Fedora excluded).
OT, but no, I am no longer using Thunderbird since I gave Betterbird a try. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=betterbird-bin
Same here 
More about BB here: https://www.betterbird.eu/
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Since we are slightly OT 
The BB dev fixed what Thunderbird wouldnāt
Do you get notifications with better bird closed ?
No. but I keep BB open all the time.
Being āclosedā is not the same as minimized.
BTW you can dock any application to system tray using KDocker.
In this particular case docking BB to system tray is useful for me
i switched to betterbird too, but sometimes (ex right now) it takes several minutes to load and send e-mails, this issue goes back and forth every once in a while
Thanks for the suggestionā¦
Just checked out BB and compared to TB ā¦ frankly, I canāt see a meaningful difference in my use case - with the exception of the multi-line message register. Not sure thatās a compelling need for me personally.
In the past Iāve tried to find a workable TUI email app. Mutt (with the benefit of mutt-wizard for install/config) seemed like a real contender ā¦ but the ability to easily read incoming HTML content in emails without having to open a separate browser became a real pain. Disrupted my email workflow routinely. Perhaps I just didnāt configure things properly within wmi3 tiling environment.
So, I seem to be stuck with TB for the time being. 