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Hello,

I'm very fond of Thunderbird (using it only for agenda, but a lot) and I think that a new practical function would be to be able to paste plain text (= without formatting) with the right click of the mouse into an agenda cell.

As I add a lot of events and text into the agenda cells directly from websites or documents, I'm always getting the original formatting that I don't need and can look quite bizarre.

Plain text could harmonize everything. I know I could select the text and reformat it in Thunderbird but it's adding unnecessary steps.

Thanks in advance for the consideration of my proposal, thank you developers, and have a good day !

Meeting notices are showing locally as being stored in my Google calendar, but actually are not.

I have four email addresses in Thunderbird, say one@domain.com, two@domain.com, three@domain.com, four@domain.com. I get Microsoft meeting calendar invites from time to time at each of these addresses. I accept them.

I want my calendar also on my Android, so have subscribed to my Google calendar, say at address calendar@gmail.com, through the builtin Thunderbird feature of a calendar on the network.

After accepting a Microsoft meeting invite, say at two@domain.com, it shows up correctly in my Thunderbird calendar as being stored in my Google calendar:

  Calendar: calendar@gmail.com

But actually it is not in that calendar when I check the calendar on the web. And so of course are not synced to my Android.

Is the problem that in the calendar properties in Thunderbird that I have my main email address "one@domain.com" selected from the "Email:" dropdown? Should I change that to "calendar@gmail.com"?

If so, does that mean I also need to add "calendar@gmail.com" as an email account to Thunderbird? I have not done so yet, because I don't need email from that account, I am just using it for the calendar feature.

Thanks.

I activated the sidebar of my calendar to display the events. It works fine, but I'm missing the data of an serie of events.

Example: I made an events from Nov. 1 to Nov. 3, entire day. The sidebar shows me only the first and the last day, but it hides the others days - in this example Nov. 2. See attached screenshot.

The "full calendar view" shows this event correctly on all 3 days.

Bug or feature or wrong setting?

When I create an event in the Thunderbird calendar and enter text in the “Details” field, the text appears the same color as the black background, making it unreadable, as shown in the attached image. However, red and blue text displays normally. It seems there is no option to specify font colors in the calendar. I would appreciate it if you could suggest a solution. Thank you in advance.

I have a number of calendars subscribed in Thunderbird, some external ones along with my own one, One is an Awareness Days one. That is one I like to glance at daily, but at midnight GMT/UCT the blasted thing causes a whole series of notifications to pop up, one after another, one for each awareness day the following day is - and some days that's quite a few. It's incredibly annoying when I'm in the middle of something and am interrupted by the notifications. i want the calendar for me to glance at when i want to; I do NOT want the notifications from this calendar, but do for e.g. my personal calendar so can't globally turn off all TB notifications,

I have:

1 in calendar tab, in the list of calendars clicked on the mute icon so it's showing a bell with a line through it and says it is muted on mouseover.

2 In its properties> Edit Calendar, unticked Show Reminders, have nothing under the Add notifications.

3 Following a suggestion from the Google AI, changed TB to use its own notification display rather then the Windows 11 one.

But no effect: every midnight I get the damned parade of notifications getting in the way of the 3D CGI art I'm working on.

So how do I stop the notifications from that one calendar (other than unsubscribing from it)?

TB 158.0.1, but this has been going on for a long time and a lot of TB versions. Windows 11 Home 26H2

I hate when I receive an email with a calendar event attached. This event automatically imports into my Calendar. I dislike this. Now I am getting spam emails with calendar events attached that are importing into my calendar. With so many calendar events it's not obvious I have junk events.

How do I prevent Thunderbird from automatically importing calendar events. I mean, Thunderbird has no clue whether the event is wanted or not. In fact, when I delete an event automatically imported without my permission, an email is sent out saying I declined the event. This is just not reasonable.

Can I turn off this automation because it caused way more trouble than it's worth?

Was unable to edit appointments attempts placed a previously unknown dialog box. Search for info found one person advised Select Calendar (tab), edit, calendar properties and uncheck the read only box.

In my case the box was already unchecked, checked it, tried it, same result. Unchecked it, tried it same result (not able to edit).

Next I thought maybe some data location is not being changed. So I closed all files, shut down (not a restart) my machine, and restarted it. Opened Thunderbird and tried to change an appointment, did not work. Went to Calendar (tab), edit, calendar properties and found the read only box checked. Unchecked and all seems back to normal operations now.

Thunderbird is difficult to maintain consistent operation.

Periodically, the font color changes without warning, and your settings options is very limited and or 'WELL' hidden.

Making it virtually impossible to find out how to change various screen graphical settings, such as 'font color' or 'font size', etc.

This is not the first time my font color has changed, and I can't find out how to reset the font color in the Calendar editor for any particular calendar event, either creating and or editing a change to the calendar event.

So please, provide me with an instruction on how to change the font color in ANY calendar event, via your Calendar editor.

My Calendar editor in the comments block is set currently with a black background and 'black' font color. So I cannot read a darn thing in the comments block. FYI, when currently using the mail editor, I have a white background with black text, working OK. But NOT the calendar editor.

After all these years, you would of thought Mozilla, either Firefox or Tbird, would have provided a good help dialogue on screen to inform users on how to do things like this. You either have done so and kept it a trade secret, and or have NOT improved upon your terrible user guide instructions.

Thanks in advance.

Hi, I have Thunderbird installed and have been using it to do my email on a self hosted server and to connect to a google calendar account. This has been working for years, but now I'm finding when I accept a meeting invitation via email, its not being put through to the Google Calendar. I've reset the google calendar link a few time (deleted and created again from scratch). Its using the caldav interface to Google calendar. I'm also seeing this random message pop up (see uploaded image) - but there is no details on what to do. Anybody have any clues?

Evidently Thunderbird updated to 157.0.1 (64-bit) on October 1. If I select a reminder, from the list of reminders in the reminder screen, I will get the attached screenshot. I use to get a screen where I could delete the reminder. This screen has three dots. If I click on that there is an option to delete, but it does not work. The best I can do is delete it from the calendar.

I use to get the screenshot that shows selecting the event in the calendar.

Why does the "Delete" not work when I select the event from the reminder screen?

Was this a mistake, am I doing something wrong, or is this a new feature?

Is there a way to update existing calendar appointments by using an updated ics-file? We have appointments that are placed in the Calendar of Thunderbird, and there need to be modifications made over time. These appointments can be in the past, present, or in the future.

When trying to import a modified file, by just updating 'DESCRIPTION', and using the same ID, Thunderbird throws the error of: mail.import: : ID already exists for addItem

   onError resource:///modules/CalStorageCalendar.sys.mjs:203
   adoptItem resource:///modules/CalStorageCalendar.sys.mjs:220

CalendarFileImporter.sys.mjs:120:22

We need to be able to access the same appointment, and we do that from an external database.

Version: 156.0 (64-bit) snap on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Hi currently on version 153.3.1esr 64 bit

Bug

Refer to uploaded images for reference.

When creating a "New Event" I select "No reminder" save and close but reminder is still active and icon appears in the calendar next to the event.

I have to then edit the event and change the setting which has somehow changed from my selected choice of no reminder to custom.

Sorry - first post here - hopefully I followed protocol.

Hi, Why can't I see or find the calendar in Thunderbird anymore? Is it no longer appearing next to "New Message" like it always did? I have a lot of recurring events on it from the many years I've been using it, and I need to add more events. Please advise. Thanks

Getting an error message when i get a notification of an event...ie: birthday coming up... when i click on dismiss. I get this error message:

Server Replied with 400

If you’re seeing this message after snoozing or dismissing a reminder and this is for a calendar you do not want to add or edit events for, you can mark this calendar as read-only to avoid such experience in future. To do so, get to the calendar properties by right-clicking on this calendar in the list in the calendar or task view.

 I follow direction and make my calendar read only but it does not fix the problem.  I continue to receive the error message.
 Anyone have any ideas how to fix?

Thanks

I use Windows 10 with the task bar on the Left side with added tool bars for lots of quick links which makes the task bar wide. When I copy & paste in Calendar the paste window is under my task bar. Why do you have the paste window always placed at the 0,0 window position?? Can I change the position? I will be using Win 10 for along time. My other notebook is on Win 11 where I use StartAllBack enabling me to have the same left task bar.