Message composing & address field

When I reply or forward an email (Thunderbird 182.12, MacBook Pro M3) with a keyboard shortcut and start writing right away, the initial characters are typed into the add… (read more)

When I reply or forward an email (Thunderbird 182.12, MacBook Pro M3) with a keyboard shortcut and start writing right away, the initial characters are typed into the address bar and then only the focus switches to the main composition field.

This leads to some some other email addresses being selected depending on what the first few letters in typing are...

Is there any way that the focus is always first on the composition window and not the address bar?

Thanks a lot Harry

Asked by Harry 11 hours ago

Last reply by Harry 11 hours ago

How di I get reminders to work in Tasks?

When I create a task, I set reminders for say 5 minutes before. But they never 'fire'. Reminders for calendar events work and I know Thunderbird treats Events and Tasks s… (read more)

When I create a task, I set reminders for say 5 minutes before. But they never 'fire'. Reminders for calendar events work and I know Thunderbird treats Events and Tasks somewhat the same, but I don't know how to get them to fire off. Thanks

Asked by Haig 11 hours ago

Lightning calendar reminders with 140.1.0esr

After the recent update to 140.1.0esr Lightning calendar reminders do not come up correctly (W11 if it makes any difference) Previously reminders worked as they should… (read more)

After the recent update to 140.1.0esr Lightning calendar reminders do not come up correctly (W11 if it makes any difference)

Previously reminders worked as they should, I have several daily, some weekly, fortnightly and as required, only the odd one comes up and one or two will come up but then disappear without my intervention

I have tried all the various settings to no avail

Someone in another thread suggested their old email address needed to be changed in Calendar properties, but I cannot find Calendar properties anywhere

I used to use Remindafox which worked better than Lightning but had to use Lightning when it was discontinued

Is there a fix for this as its totally unreliable at present

Asked by Arbuthnot 14 hours ago

New Folder ordering incorrect with version 140 (bug1973085)

I just updated to version 140.0 and now my subfolders are out of order. Is there a fix for this, short of fixing it manually? I miss how they were automatically alphabeti… (read more)

I just updated to version 140.0 and now my subfolders are out of order. Is there a fix for this, short of fixing it manually? I miss how they were automatically alphabetized. That went away when manual reordering was implemented. I can't grab a bunch at the same time and move them, since the order is so messed up.

Asked by David 3 weeks ago

Last reply by David 14 hours ago

How to restore inbox if you have att.com

I am guessing that my inbox messages disappearing had something to do with a Thunderbird update. Pay attention mainly to the lines that mention "key". Access your AT… (read more)

I am guessing that my inbox messages disappearing had something to do with a Thunderbird update.

Pay attention mainly to the lines that mention "key".

   Access your AT&T Mail using your favorite email apps
   Synchronize other account info, such as your calendar and contacts, to your email app.

Create a secure mail key

It’s easy to create a secure mail key from your mobile device, tablet, or computer. Have your User ID and password ready to sign in to myAT&T.

   Go to your myAT&T Profile. Sign in, if asked.
   Scroll to My linked accounts, select the email account that needs a secure mail key.
   Scroll to Secure mail key, select Manage secure mail key.
   Choose the email address that you’d like to use, if you have more than one.
   Select Add secure mail key. Enter a nickname for the secure mail key to make it easy to recognize.
   Choose Create secure mail key.
   Select Copy secure mail key to clipboard. Make a note of your secure mail key for further updates.
       For security purposes, the secure mail key only displays until you select OK.
       If you lose or forget the secure mail key, you can always create new secure mail keys.
   Select OK.
   Go to your preferred email app, replace the existing password with your secure mail key. For an IMAP account, delete the existing password for both the IMAP and SMTP servers. Replace them with your secure mail key.

Good to know: Each device you use to access your email will have its own secure mail key. Additional secure mail key notes

Access your AT&T email account without an OAuth mail app or secure mail key

You can always read and manage your email through a Web browser at currently.com.

A secure mail key won’t affect your AT&T email password

You’ll still use the same password for your AT&T Mail account in OAuth-compatible apps, myAT&T, and other AT&T products like currently.com and webmail. When you change your AT&T email password, you won’t need to get a new secure mail key.

Keep your secure mail key as long as you like

Secure mail keys never expire.

Create a new secure mail key for a blocked or locked account

For safety reasons, we delete secure mail keys whenever we have to lock or block your account. If that happens, you’ll have to create a new secure mail key for each AT&T Mail account.

Give your secure mail key a nickname

Create a nickname to identify your secure mail key, especially if you have more than one. It’s much easier to recognize a nickname, like Ari’s email or Kelly’s email, than the 16 random characters you entered when setting up your email. Last updated: March 12, 2025


When I went through this process, it showed a key from 2024.

I merely deleted it and from the same page created a new key. After that 500 emails from the last week started downloaded to my inbox.

Happy again.

Bill

Asked by wh 15 hours ago

saving multiple email replies

Hi, I'm trying to save several msgs that have .jpg files within them (not attached) I save one by opening it, pressing M + H + Enter + A (to Save). Can I do this w/out … (read more)

Hi, I'm trying to save several msgs that have .jpg files within them (not attached) I save one by opening it, pressing M + H + Enter + A (to Save).

Can I do this w/out doing it for each msg?

Lots of work now.

Thanks.

Asked by DrDOS 1 day ago

Last reply by DrDOS 16 hours ago

Try to automatically isolate spam from a Yahoo.com (IMAP) email account

I'm an IT consultant trying to help out a poor client of mine who suddenly has been getting tons of nasty profane spam. Her email address must have gotten on somebody's b… (read more)

I'm an IT consultant trying to help out a poor client of mine who suddenly has been getting tons of nasty profane spam. Her email address must have gotten on somebody's bad list because this just started happening after years of relatively little spam. It comes in huge bursts.

We had turned to Thunderbird because it was supposed to be good at isolating spam. But no matter what I do, it won't move ANY spam to the Junk or Bulk folders. Yahoo uses Bulk so I told Thunderbird to use that folder. I also told it to use SpamAssassin. It is EXCELLENT at marking all these emails with the little symbol for SpamAssassin, but it doesn't automatically move them. And there's no rule system that can move them. I've tried it at the local level, account level, every possible setting, and the old ones stay in the Inbox and the new ones go directly to the Inbox. I've even turned off antivirus to see if that was interferring.

I really don't want to give up Thunderbird, but this isn't working and it's the reason we came to Thunderbird. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Asked by keith77 6 days ago

Last reply by keith77 16 hours ago

New update 140.1.0esr broke connection to my AOL verizon email - can't reconnect

New update 140.1.0esr broke connection to my AOL verizon email (##@verizon.net) Apparently AOL mail will not accept the password or something. Have tried lots of things… (read more)

New update 140.1.0esr broke connection to my AOL verizon email (##@verizon.net) Apparently AOL mail will not accept the password or something. Have tried lots of things (including 2-12 hour chat with AOL mail "tech support"). Exactly same thing on my wife's desktop install. I considered trying to roll back to previous release - but I had both set to not install updated without asking permission. So I assume if it roll it back it's just going to update again without asking for permission. HELP! I've spent at least 6 hours on this already.

Asked by paterae 1 day ago

Last reply by paterae 17 hours ago

Tbird is overriding background colors - can't change font color, newsletter's background is clear....

Please help! I have tried all the top level fixes, checking permissions, restarting, all the settings, advanced and otherwise. Troubleshoot mode. I have not reinstalled… (read more)

Please help! I have tried all the top level fixes, checking permissions, restarting, all the settings, advanced and otherwise. Troubleshoot mode. I have not reinstalled the instructions file - forget its name... is that necessary/useful? Or is there a way to find code that is overwriting improperly. It's not just for what I write now, wherein an attempt to, say, make a specific word appear blue fails. But what is stored and read through thunderbird also loses its color-switch.

Thanks.

Asked by jacoroos748 17 hours ago

Folders in TBird mail are corrupted. How to repair.

TBird maul ott corrupted. There are a qty of folders in the mail folder with similarr names. Can someone please tell what folders s/b there? Also have 5 TBird Local plus … (read more)

TBird maul ott corrupted. There are a qty of folders in the mail folder with similarr names. Can someone please tell what folders s/b there? Also have 5 TBird Local plus subfolders in my main mallboxo - how do I remove those?

Have tried and uninstalling to get a clean install - it doesn't work!

Sincerely HLA

Asked by GrandToDo 2 days ago

Last reply by GrandToDo 17 hours ago

Emails flagged as junk vanish

Emails from certain senders (big companies like Amazon, Twitter and YouTube), after having been received normally for some time, suddenly stop arriving. They are not in a… (read more)

Emails from certain senders (big companies like Amazon, Twitter and YouTube), after having been received normally for some time, suddenly stop arriving. They are not in a junk folder and nothing I have done has been able to get anything into a junk folder.

I also receive emails on my phone, and the problem messages ARE in a junk folder there. (I only just realised this.)

The problem seems to be that Thunderbird sees some messages as junk but instead of putting them in a junk folder it disappears them completely. From the evidence on my phone, nearly everything being flagged as junk is real email, things I want. If I could simply tell Thunderbird to receive everything it would be fine, but I don't know how to get these emails to download.

Looking at what is in my phone I see a load of important stuff that I really need, in my junk folder there. It's not anywhere in Thunderbird. How can I get this to download?

Asked by Morag2 2 days ago

Last reply by Morag2 18 hours ago

Bug after update

Good evening! After updating the update to the latest version of Thunderbird, the address book stopped working. Reinstalling the program did not help, rolling back to the… (read more)

Good evening! After updating the update to the latest version of Thunderbird, the address book stopped working. Reinstalling the program did not help, rolling back to the previous version - swears that changes in the profile do not allow the application to run. Deleting abook.sqlite, abook.sqlite-wal, and abook.sqlite-shm did not solve the problem. After deleting all the files, logging into the program and trying to create a new address book, nothing happens, only these three new files are created in the profile. The address book is local

Thunderbird email needs to be reset - not working on computer, but working on phone

I have been using Thunderbird email for years, and when I bought a new computer, everything transferred over perfectly. Now, I've suddenly lost all incoming and outgoing … (read more)

I have been using Thunderbird email for years, and when I bought a new computer, everything transferred over perfectly. Now, I've suddenly lost all incoming and outgoing use on my computer, but still receiving (not able to send) on my android phone. All my settings on the computer are now messed up and I don't know how to fix them. I had all the settings saved on my backup external hard drive, but that has now gone bad and I can't access any photos where the settings were kept.

Asked by kumasan9 19 hours ago

Randomly can't move messages in search panel

As per subject. The first search will generally work fine and I can group email and move then to a relevant folder by dragging or using the Move facility in the Search … (read more)

As per subject.

The first search will generally work fine and I can group email and move then to a relevant folder by dragging or using the Move facility in the Search pane.

If I should perform another search, I cannot move even a single email by dragging or using the Move facility.

Even closing and reopening search does not help. I will have to close down Thunderbird and start all over.

Any ideas of what's I'm doing wrong?

Asked by Mike 1 day ago

Thunderbird won't recognize password.

On Thurs Aug24, TBird stopped recognizing my password for my email server. It stopped downloading new email messages Error message= Lgin to server pop.broadban.roger… (read more)

On Thurs Aug24, TBird stopped recognizing my password for my email server. It stopped downloading new email messages

    Error message= Lgin to server pop.broadban.rogers.com with username summerby@rogers.com failed
     Rogers mail server sends email to my mobile email.

It won't send email...problem with smtp.broadband

Asked by summerby 1 day ago

(Calendar) events processing eating up 100% cpu; tbird effectively useless

Environment: Ubuntu 22.04 Thunderbird 128.12.0esr Background: Yesterday (7/25/2025) Ubuntu ran an auto-update and appears to have updated tbird. At the time this… (read more)

Environment:

  • Ubuntu 22.04
  • Thunderbird 128.12.0esr

Background:

Yesterday (7/25/2025) Ubuntu ran an auto-update and appears to have updated tbird. At the time this did not affect tbird as it was up and running with the old version of code.

Today (7/26/2025), upon starting tbird and clicking on the Calendar tab tbird goes into 100% cpu utilization.

This issue appears to be related to changes in how recurring events are now listed under Calendar as individual events. For events with no ending date this new 'feature' now generates entries for the next 100 years (eg, 26 July 2025 - 26 July 2125).

Steps I've performed in an attempt to address the 100% cpu utilization issue:

  1. shutdown tbird, renamed calendar-data/local.sqlite (effectively erase all calendar events), start tbird, click on Calendar tab ... little/no cpu utilization; great, cpu utilization is back to normal but my calendar is gone
  2. shutdown tbird, put calendar-data/local/sqlite back in place, started tbird, do NOT click on Calendar tab, [menu] Events and Tasks -> Export -> saved all calendar events to an external *.ics file; shutdown tbird, renamed calendar-data/local.sqlite (effectively erase all calendar events), start tbird, [menu] events and Tasks -> "Import" -> import all (202) calendar events from the *.ics file; tbird goes into 100% cpu utilization for about 5 minutes and then becomes unresponsive
  3. repeat of previous bullet up until the Import step; at this point I imported a single recurring event (happens once a month with no end date); tbird successfully imported the 1 recurring event and upon clicking on the Calendar tab ... I'm presented with 1200 individual event entries -> once a month up through July 2125
  4. upon creating 1 event that repeats on a daily basis, tbird goes into 100% cpu utilization for a few seconds while it generates more than 36,500 individual events (up through July 2125) under the Calendar tab

At this point it appears (to me) that tbird's 100% cpu utilization and unusable UI is related to tbird having a hard time managing my 202 calendar events (most of which are recurring events - mostly monthly but there are several daily and weekly events, too).

This latest update of tbird is unusable!

Please rollback this behavior of expanding recurring events into individual events, or at a minimum give us a setting that keeps tbird from expanding recurring events into individual entries under the Calendar tab.

In the meantime, since tbird is running in a virtual machine, I'm rolling back to a previous snapshot and disabling Ubuntu's automatic updates of tbird software.

Asked by markp 1 day ago

Last reply by markp 1 day ago