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I notice that in dark mode highlighted text and color text are rendered as normal white text. This behaviour broken UI experience because those style are used to give more importance to some text and in this way this intent is totally lost.

I attach some example switch from dark to light mode.

I think that is useful adding an option to use dark mode without overwrite this type of colors

Hello,

My email server has been absorbed into another company. I do not want to continue with the new company and need to keep my current Thunderbird account active and uninterrupted. Can I do this directly with Thunderbird/Mozilla? In other words, do I need a separate email server or can I just continue with Thunderbird for my email account?

If I am able to continue directly with Thunderbird/Mozilla, what needs to happen next?

Thank you, Edward Fleming

I believe this is because Plusnet are transferring me to Greenby, and I am now required to sign in using my full email address, i.e. ***@madasafish.com. I can't figure out how to change this, it will only let me change my password. Please can anyone help -urgently!

Good Day,

When sending email to a list in my address book, I get the error stating that its not a valid email address and to verify it is in the User@Host format. However, if I right click on the list name and choose EXPAND LIST and it then correctly displays all the email addresses and names, and it sends completely fine and without issue ?

Any ideas have to fix that issue ? Thank you in advance for your assistance.

I have just starting using Thundermail and one thing I am trying to understand better is Address Books in Desktop Thundermail in Windows 11.

I now have the following under address books: All address books (assume that this is just everything in all the address books), Personal Adress Book (empty), Contacts ( not sure where it comes from, probably 1 or both of the 2 emails of mine I have connected), Contacts (not sure where this came from but looks suspiciously like it comes from my gmail email or emails? as it is a long list), Thundermail Address Book (empty), Collected Addresses (looks like it picks these up from emails I send or receive).

I am interested in understanding what forms this initial list of address books, do they continue to reflect changes in the original source address books from outside or are they a once only transfer?), how I can manipulate them, probably to end up with: All address books, and other address books continuing various subsets for convenient access to a smaller list of contacts under these sub address book names.

Can I easily copy or move addresses between address books? Documentation already answering many of these questions may already exist? Thanks for any help or advice you may be able to provide.

Stop the Inbox from minimizing when I use the Search box. I have t open Settings for the InBox to be found again. Is there a newer version? I have 158.0 (aarch64)

Since Friday I have not been able to use thunderbird. I can open it but it wont connect to Virgin.com I have checked all settings (click on test connection it states good) then every five minutes when it try's to connect I get the following message (email address removed)

Login to server pop3.virginmedia.com with username ******* failed

I still get mail on my phone so it's down to a Thunderbird issue I believe. Tried to reinstall same issue, tried a new account and wont allow me to authenticate.

PLEASE can someone help - have a load of work to do but can't get on. Thanks in advance David.

Since Thunderbird Meadow the calendar in broken in dark mode. If one tries to edit an entry, one is greeted with black letters on black background. Prior to this it was at least in white letters and changed to black in light mode. Wonder when this will be corrected??

I'm using Thunderbird 153.5.Oesr (64-bit) on a Linux machine (Zorin OS).

Most of my email addresses use POP, but with a new email address, I decided to use IMAP. When I'm disconnected from the internet, that particular email address keeps checking for new emails and saying it can't connect. I don't WANT it to connect. A message pops up every few seconds or so and is very annoying. I need to unplug my ethernet cable/adaptor periodically, since it seems to overheat, so keeping it connected to the internet continually won't work.

I have un-selected the boxes in Server Settings to check for messages. See the images below.

Any ideas? Thanks!

I have now the version 158.01 (64-bit) with Windows 11. My Gmail account has stopped sending emails. This started a few days ago, while I had the version 158.00. The error message is that connection to the outgoing server smtp.gmail.com times out. With the help of AI, I have created a test profile, and it sends mail, though it is a bit slow in saving them to the Sent folder. With the help of the AI, I have tried maybe 30 things to troubleshoot, but none worked. I have many accounts on Thunderbird, and re-installing all of them would be time consuming. Any suggestion?

Bonjour,

Depuis plusieurs semaines, je ne peux plus du tout joindre de pièce à mes mails.

Pourriez-vous m'aider à résoudre ce problème, svp ?

je vous en remercie par avance.

Bien cordialement

Example why question is being asked:

Three separate GMX email accounts, each with its own unique password, and NOW Application-specific password for Thunderbird. Aliases are not used or desired. Three different separate accounts that should each have its own outgoing server.

Worked fine until updates to Thunderbird and changes to the GMX server, and Application-specific passwords became a requirement to send and receive email.

Seems like updates to nearly every program and/or app that may be released with the intent to resolve an issue or include a new feature breaks something else. M$ is horrible with updates and labels nearly everything as a critical update so it gets pushed through even when updates are turned off or supposedly permanently disabled by a registry hack; Windows 11 being the absolute worse ever. Why I only have one computer with M$ while all the others are Linux. Problems all the time with M$ while Linux simply continues to work.

Regardless, can setup each GMX account but the default email account name must be used as the user name on the other two GMX accounts on the outgoing server in order to send email. Then the recipient sees the name for the default account rather than the name assigned to the other two accounts, and the Application-specific password for Thunderbird must be changed to that of the default. Then attempting to pull down email for the other two pop accounts comes to a halt, and email messages can only be viewed by going to the online account.

Two separate accounts for yahoo, two for gmail, and one for Charter work fine, each has its own name and outgoing server. Should be the same way for GMX but is not because Thunderbird requires one of the three GMX accounts is set to Default.

Appears by having a Default email account, users are not only restricted by the default account, but email that is sent is done so with he incorrect name, The purpose for three different emails is for email segregation and better management; personal correspondence, business related, and Internet stuff.

Instead of having a 'Default' email account, makes more sense to use a valid email to register Thunderbird after downloading and installing, and then using that email for Support, Boards, assistance, etc. The default email requirement causes too many frustrating unneeded issues that should not occur, along with wasted time, stress and grief. Computers were suppose to make our lives easier and allow us more time for the real world. Biggest lie told since the Bell Labs created the transistor.

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Computer OS:

 Kernel: 7.0.0-38-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc
 Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.9 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.6.3 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0
   Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

When I want to insert images into an email, I use the "Send via email" option. I am then prompted to "Select image size," after which I click "Attach." At this point, a Thunderbird window should open with the files already attached—but it doesn't. What am I doing wrong?

When I open Thunderbird to my ninja@globalnet.co.uk account it will not sign in and is asking for a new password. When I enter the old password it fails to recognise it when I enter a new password it will not let me log in. Therefore I can not access anything in Thunderbird on my ninja@globalnet.co.uk account. Please send any reply to 52bland@gmail.com.

I have a laptop with win 11. Thunderbird gives the "managed by an organisation message" which seems to be related to bitdefender, which i don't have on the laptop and don't even know f I ever did - maybe I copied it over from Thunderbird on my PC?

See screenshot - the programme Everything flags up various bitdefender stuff, but won't let me delete them. What should I do?

If Desktop Thunderbird has been around for many years, why does it still have so many problems? I am having no end to the problems in trying to connect my to Gmail accounts effectively. This should be simple?