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In the Thunderbird windows menu list, below minimize and zoom, the message subject line is lost (says "Mozilla Thunderbird" only) for incoming messages, but not for replies. Where can I fix this? --- Using Thunderbird Desktop Version 128.8.1esr on MacBook Air M2 with MacOS Monterey 12.5

Hi - how can one changes the standard settings for "Organize folders" in Thunderbird. I have 100+ folders and I would like them all to have the same setting, e.g. after date, newest in the top and without tread combined. My Thunderbird is Danish, so maybe my translated settings word aren't correct - I'm sorry for that :-)

Best Max

Our emails suddenly stopped downloading on to thunderbird on Friday 3rd April. The final one being at 17.31. We have been in touch with our broadband provider who say they are unable to help us and it is an issue with thunderbird. We haven't done anything to cause this to happen, they just stopped. Can you help us please.

My email host Claranet has said to gain access to my account I have to change my security settings to TLS/STARTLS or SSL/TLS. I have tried this but Thunderbird won't connect.

I've been using Thunderbird for many years (since Eudora) and now I unloaded Beta version. My surprise has been that I loosed my Address Book. Beta version did not copy the non Beta one. How can I transfer my old addresses book to the Beta version without doing it manually?

Actualicé el nombre y la firma de mi cuenta y cada día vuelve al nombre anterior. Necesito que me ayudéis a encontrar la forma de cambiarlo y guardarlo de forma permanente.

I got a new PC with Windows 11. I installed Thunderbird, activated the private calendar, and entered events there. For events with a reminder that have a specific duration (e.g., Wednesday from 10 AM to 11 AM), I receive notifications. However, when I create a full-day event and want to be reminded, for example, 1 day before, I don't receive any notification. Additionally, events with a reminder are not shown in bold in the calendar overview (whether they have a specific duration or are all-day events). Can you please help me?

I just pressed Enter and the whole topic disappeared. Why? Why do you do this? This is my whole subject: Why do you do your things automatically, when I try to do manually? You have a great EMAiL-software: Thunderbird. Why do you want to screw it and the user? Computer usage should be reliable. I have lost so many EMAiLs since you broke the EMAiL paths logic with threads. Why? Why did you want to make it complicated? I had a good filing system with Thurnerbird for years. Why did you have to break it? Why didn't you even make it optional, but mandatory?

How can I get the old EMAiL-filing back without the Thread-Paths? Please help!

I didn't ask this immediately, but during the years, I have lost so many important EMAiLs (again today), that now I ask.

new computer, got my roadrunner email set on my phone but can,t seem to get a password reset on my computer, says I'm charter mobile.net

Until about a month ago, this was working perfectly: whenever I would delete an email message on my cell phone that action would be passed along automatically and update my Thunderbird desktop account.

And now it isn't working any more. So I have to delete unwanted messages twice. And I get a lot of messages.

Please tell me if you know of any system changes that may have cause this setup to stop working, and if possible, how I might restore this key functionality. Thanks!

Good day! I'm using version 137. How do I sort messages from fresh to old (from top to bottom), and not the other way around? My correspondence can be very long, and it takes a long time to find what I need. Previously, this could be fixed with plugins, but now they don't work.

Some messages do not appear in Inbox, and can not found by Filter (Ctrl-Shift-k). However, when I use Search (Ctrl - k): 1) They are found and 2) the Location is given as ... Inbox. These are recent messages.

How do I know they are there? I occasionally use a Webmail interface to access the account that Thunderbird is linked to and all messages are there. Also, when I get chided by others for not responding to their emails, I go looking.

I have tried Properties | Repair Folder on the Inbox.

Account | Synchronization and Storage settings are:

    Keep messages in All Folders on this Computer
    Synchronize all messages locally regardless of age 
    Don't delete any messages
    Always keep starred messages

Thank you for your consideration and suggestions.

Can Thunderbird provide a function to copy and paste a table or text as an image when editing an email, so that the recipient can directly view the content of the image.

Had issues with Comcast emails. They were set up with POP settings. Was on the phone with Comcast and uninstalled 3 email addresses and reinstalled using IMAP settings. I did not delete the message data leaving that box unchecked. After about 1.5 hours on the phone with Comcast was able to get the reinstalled Comcast email addresses to pull all of the emails off Comcast website. But there are emails that are missing from each of the inbox and sent folders for each of the 3 Comcast email addresses.

I do an incremental weekly backup using Acronis True Image 2020 Home Edition. I see the folders in the path but since they were saved last Saturday under POP settings, the backups I will need to try to recover are in 3 of the Comcast folders in the "MAIL" folder and not "IMAPMAIL" folder which listed 6 folders from imap.comcast1.net through imapcomcast6.net.

What do I need to copy from the correct Comcast folder called "Profile" where the izpoojy7.default is? Within this izpoojy7.default is the folder mail.comcast-1.net which has 1 of the 3 Comcast email addresses I need to recover the inboxes and sent folder emails. Please see the attached photo of the contents of this mail.comcast-1.net folder.

Do I just copy the Inbox.mozmsgs as well as the Sent.mozmsgs files? Or do I also need to recover more of the files within the respective mail.comcast-1.net folder? Thank you for any assistance you can offer on this matter.

Nedajú sa mi vytlačiť prílohy v .pdf priamo zo správy, z tlačiarne vychádza len prázdny papier. Ak správu uložim inde, napr. na plochu, tak ju vytlačí. Mám W11, donedávna to fungovalo. Attachments to a message will not be printed directly from Thunderbird. For example, a message in PDF format after being read with PDF reader.

I am on a macbook pro using a Logic MX MCHNCL Keyboard and it worked fine in all applications until a few days ago, when I returned to my desk after lunch, in 128.9.1esr (64-bit) Thunderbird (latest version) the space bar seized to work and instead the composition window would highlight in blue. I am able to produce a space between words by holding down the option key while hitting the space bar. Keyboard works fine in most other apps.

While on a website using Firefox, in one online form the subject line field also did not respond to my space bar but pressing down the opton key made it work, just like in Thunderbird.

Maybe it would help if I went back to the former version and avoiding using 128.9.1esr (64-bit)

Anyone having a fix for this?

Thanks, Mikael

I am running Thunderbird 115.18.0 (64-bit) on Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia (base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy). My goal is to create an offline copy of a 13 GB gmail account in local folders and then delete all the custom IMAP folders to regain some free space in gmail storage.

I am achieving this by: 1) Setting up an IMAP account in Thunderbird for the gmail account. 2) Enabling local storage of all folders (in Settings and set config flag, etc). Changed gmail settings to unlimit the number of IMAP downloads. Set Thunderbird account concurrent connections to 15 (gmail max). a) Edit/Preferences/Advanced/General/Config Editor: mail.server.default.check_all_folders_for_new = true 3) Click on each IMAP folder in Thunderbird to initiate download of that folder. I don't see this documented anywhere but it doesn't seem to download the messages in each folder until I do this. 4) Turn Thunderbird offline and ask it to download all emails before going offline. 5) Copy all folders from the gmail account in thunderbird to local storage. 6) Turn Thunderbird back online. 6) Delete custom IMAP folders in Thunderbird gmail account to clean up gmail online storage.

In my mind, step 2 should be enough to force a download of all emails in all IMAP folders. I added steps 3 and 4 because it's unclear when this process is complete. Especially given gmail IMAP bandwidth limits: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1071518?hl=en

My questions relates to step 3 and 4. In step 3, I don't really have any way to know when Thunderbird has finished downloading all emails from all the gmail IMAP folders. I'm experiencing the typical gmail login issues and throttling due to too many concurrent connections and given this it could take days if Thunderbird can even keep track of which messages downloaded and which got errors back from gmail.

How do I know when Thunderbird has finished downloading messages prior to going offline? Does it notify me with a dialog or do I just have to keep hovering over the Offline toggle periodically until it actually says offline?

Any constructive tips on how to confirm everything is downloaded or process improvements, etc.

Thanks, pi