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Hi ... I'm checking out Thunderbird as a replacement for Outlook Classic. So far, Thunderbird stacks up pretty well for my small office use. (Thanks!)

Looking at the address book, it looks like the automatic sync to Google Contacts doesn't preserve the contact label (e.g., "Neighbors").

Copilot is helpful ... it steers me to the gContactSync extension, which I see doesn't support recent Thunderbird releases.

Is there any other way to round-trip labels/groups between Thunderbird's address book and Google Contacts?

Thanks!

I usually browse my emails using saved search folders. Messages in these search folders are losing their tags. I tag the messages, and when I browse them later, the tags are gone. The same happens in regular folders and subfolders. If I browse the regular folders and tag messages while visualizing these folders, the same happens again. Any guesses?

Hello,

The new August 10 release tags every message in red when it's clicked on.

Now the messages I DID tag don't stand out because they're all red. I cannot find anything in Manage Tags to undo it tagging every message to no avail.

How do I stop every message from being tagged red on its own?

Thanks, Theresa

Hello! I'm having a problem where a specific tag keeps un-applying itself. I have a number of filters that look for specific words in emails, and tag them accordingly -- all of my other filters are working just fine, but one specific one has decided to stop working. It has exactly the same settings as the other ones, and when I manually run the filter, it correctly applies the right tag.

But, minutes later, the tag will un-apply itself, and I cannot figure out why. For some reason, an older message is staying correctly tagged with that filter, but newer ones un-apply the tag. This same filter and tag used to work just fine. Other tags on emails from the same source work fine, too.

Dobry den, vytvoril som si stitky - uhradene (zelena farba). Ked si stitkami oznacim spravy a potom sa prekliknem do ineho priecinka a vratim sa do toho predtym nazad kde som si to oznacil, zmiznu. Alebo ak zavriem program a otvorim nie su tam. Predtym ich pekne drzalo, teraz nie.

Since installing the last updates (153.0. / 153.0.1.), tags of incoming and newly tagged emails disappear automatically after approx. 10 sec. after tagging. The problem doesn't affect all tags but only a part of it. I can only solve the problem, if I delete the affected tags and create them newly.

Hello,

I have been using Thunderbird, but the tagging behavior has become erratic since version 153.

The phenomenon is as follows:

• Tags attached to messages are disappearing on their own.
• The tags disappear when I select a message or receive a new email.
• It does not occur with the default tags (such as "Important"), but only with the ones I registered myself.
• It also occurs in troubleshooting mode.

Is there a solution?

Regards.

Why do I see a green dot only occasionally next to some saved messages but not next to other saved messages? Important note: I have reported the police service in my Canadian city to the Alberta (provincial/state) government's Police Review Commission, and the Police Review Commission is conducting an investigation. Please ensure nobody from Calgary Police Services can access my Thunderbird email program. Thanks.

I would like to follow up on a query I posted earlier this year at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1565806

Briefly, I want to move some more prior years' archived folders and messages to TBird's Local Folders. My effort to simply drag and drop the archive to the new location ran into trouble because (as I understand) the archive flag was not turned off in the move, leading to anomalous results. Is there a standard approved way to move archived messages to local folders, or should I just drag and drop and de-flag again?

From my earlier query: > Installing the folder flags add-on showed me (as you said) that 2024 was flagged as an archive. I turned the flag off, restarted TBird and 2024 now comes after 2023 as it should. I expect I created the problem somehow when I moved the 2024 folder from the server to Local Folders; what is the proper way to do that?

Dzień dobry Mam taki problem, W programie Thunderbird mam skonfigurowane dwa konta obydwa na ....o2.pl Na jednym koncie co jakiś czas w folderze "Odebrane" znikają wszystkie wiadomości i po jakimś czasie pobierają się o nowa wszystkie nagłówki (co oczywiście trochę trwa) ale problem jest w tym że znikają mi zaznaczone etykiety. To bardzo utrudnia mi pracę z tym programem. Na tym drugim komcie nic takiego nie występuje. Sprawdzałem w konfiguracji serwera oba IMAP wszystko tak samo także w synchronizacji i pozostałe ustawienia takie same. Może ktoś pomoże ja w tych tematach jestem mocno w tyle :) Za pomoc z góry dziękuję Marek

Tags summary display has disappeared.

I can search for tags, but the convenient "tags folder" is gone. Please help.

Tried in safe mode with add-ons and toolbars/controls disabled. Error console is empty when assigning or removing tags.

Is there currently a way to add a searchable comment or text note to incoming emails? I often wish for a way to help organize and/or find notes about specific topics that aren't listed in the subject or body of the text. If there is not a field or other way to do this, can it be added? Thanks

Hello. How to display categories in messages (applied in Thunderbird for Windows) ? On Thunderbird for windows messages are displayed withe the color of the category. Best regards.

When I let thunderbird compress the inbox and other folders, the not read flags on all new emails get reset as if I have read all of the new emails. Compressing the inbox and other folders should have no effect on the flags showing a message has not yet been read. That only makes sense. The not read flags getting reset started happening several versions before 145.

I've come over from Postbox as that app is no longer being supported. In Postbox there was one file (panacea.dat) that controlled how many old locations you would see in the Move To menu. Once the number of items got to be a bit too muchj, I would delete that file and it would clear the Move To menu item. Is there such a file in Thunderbird that controls the Move To menu, or can it somehow be controlled by a setting in Thunderbird? Thank you.

I think I understand the difference between "folders" and Gmail "labels". So, I'm curious. When Thunderbird synchronizes with Gmail, does it create local physical folders for each of the Gmail labels in use, or does it use the Gmail label scheme locally? If a message in Gmail has two different labels attached to it, are there actually two copies of the message created locally in separate folders or not?