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Hi. I have a situation i my office like that: I have 5 multiple profiles on Windows 10, for 5 diffrent employees. Mozilla Thunderbird is my main email program. Each employee have configured 3 email accounts: Main company mail, sales mail, and specific mail with their surname and company domain. So the 2 main email accounts are the same for all of employees (and for all Windows profiles), only third is diffrent. I have many emails on main account, and small SSD drive. I think you all know, where it is going :) I want this two main email account to be shared for all the Windows profiles, because when emails comes, they are repated on disk 5 times (for all Windows profiles). I already tried to copy this two mail email accounts to a folder that can be accessed from all the Windows profiles, and set proper path in Thunderbird settings, but every time when I logged out form one profile, and logged in to another, Thunderbird started to recieve ALL of emails. How can I configure this two main emails to by shared accross the Windows profiles?

I am using Thunderbird Portable version 78.2.2 64 bit. i can open mails in new tabs by double clicking on them. However, Thunderbird immediately switches focus to the new tab. I find that very inconvenient. Is there any preference that can be tweaked to prevent this behavior?

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I don't use the calendar feature in Thunderbird. Up until the 78.2.2 release, it could be removed by disabling the Lightning add-on. That no longer seems to be an option. Is there a way to remove the "Today's Pane" option in the lower-right corner?

This seems to be an old problem but nobody else has reported this in Thunderbird 78.2.2 as far as I can see. Trying to do MailMerge, which I have used literally hundreds of times in earlier versions, I put {{Email}} (or whatever) in the To: field, and it says:

No recipients were specified. Please enter a recipient or newsgroup in the addressing area.

This is obviously nonsense - the whole point is that MailMerge INSERTS the email addresses. If this can't be fixed, Thunderbird will be useless to me.

Hi, I use The "Send Later" add-on with my TB68 installation. I can't update to 78 due to the add-on not being compatible :( I use the send later add-on to send recurring emails (most likely bi-weekly) to clients/customers. My question here is: Is there a maximum amount of drafts that Thunderbird can handle? I have over 100 now but that is steadily growing on a more rapid pace than i had thought. Any thoughts or knowledge of this?

While there are separate tabs for Email, Calendar and Tasks, the address book must appear separately as a separate box. This is odd because almost all actions handled in Thunderbird are interactions with other people. In addition, the search within the addresses is extremely rudimentary. For example, I like to write additional characteristics in the note field, such as "brother of...", or "met him in ...". But I cannot search for that. The note field is not included for the search.

Of course you can solve all this with the "Cardbook" extension. But what bothers me is that I don't have direct access to my address information, it is only synchronised.

In former times there was an extension "AdressbookTab", but this was not updated for the newer versions. Therefore I wonder generally why the default "Contacts" area is neglegted in Thunderbird.

Perhaps I should also mention that my addresses are synchronised with SOGO, Exchange or Google so that I have them on all devices. Thunderbird is unfortunately the weakest link here in the basic version.

After the update to 78.2.2 a couple of days ago, Thunderbird always opens a new mail with dark background and white text color. Before Thunderbird, even in dark mode which I always enabled, did open a new message with white background and black text color.

This 'new' feature of Thunderbird messes the whole purpose of using Thunderbird up. I mean why would I want to reply to an email when I can type and read my text but I am unable to quickly review the message I am replying to because it has black text color on dark background. Who implemented this? Who wanted this? Why is that?

For now I enabled Light Mode, which is a pain in the ass to work with during night. Dark pains with bright messages really is a relief, but it is also necessary to write on white background.

This is how it looks like now: https://user-media-prod-cdn.itsre-sumo.mozilla.net/uploads/images/2020-09-20-01-54-00-efbe54.png

This is how it should look like and how it looked like before the update: https://user-media-prod-cdn.itsre-sumo.mozilla.net/uploads/images/2020-09-20-01-56-37-33af6b.png

The new Thunderbird main window displayed with V 78.2.2 does not work for me. Most of the content is either not useful to me (Chat, Newsgroups) or redundant of toolbar capabilities (write, search messages). How can I restore the old window with Settings and Manage Filters prominent?

With Thunderbird 78, when you type in a name or an address, and it matches an address book entry, a pill forms.

Now, this pill has both the name and the address. How can I configure TB to only show the name on "pillification"?

Hi All

I redid my system yesterday and even with backing up my profile it seems that the newest thunderbird had change how folders look.

Is there any way to color the entire folder? I know I can change colors under the folders properties but that only effects the folder outline I would much prefer a solid color like a tan folder.

Is there any way to get a solid folder rather then just the outlines? Most add ons for folder color aren't compatible with the recent version of TB.

Also not big on the other icons and such any way to change those as well to either a different theme or just custom images?

Cześć. Przydałaby się bardzo opcja ręcznego sortowania kont. Ułatwiłoby to w znacznym stopniu korzystanie z waszego programu. Inne aplikacje tego typu mają taką opcję u siebie tylko u was nie ma czegoś takiego. Pozdrawiam.

Thunderbird 68.12.0 automatically downloads all email waiting in queue (POP). All server setting check-boxes for downloading are "un-ticked". Lots of spam gets in, anyway, unexpectedly.

It seems to happen even with T-Bird has been running (not starting up).

The idea that automatically downloading waiting emails is "normal" or unexpected seems to be, to me, presumptuous -- particularly when a push of F5 is all it takes to initiate downloading. Reading/processing email has a lot to do with workload and workday timing. Cleaning up spam is time-consuming and I have FireTrust Mailwasher to facilitate that, but if T-Bird downloads automatically, I never get to "wash" that email.

A mess.

Kindly assist. Lawrence Gold hereness@somatics.com

I have 3 email accounts and one of them shows 'from Geoff 2 Smith on MC1' when I receive a msg from him, in both the In Box and in the message. If I reply to him it is sent to the correct address (eg Geoff@Smith.net.xx)

I suspect that I have been responsible for entering something like 'Geoff 2 Smith on MC1' in some field in settings ... but where ? It all works as far as sending a msg to the correct person, but is terribly untidy and frustrating.

In 78.2.2, even with the config setting toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets, a userChrome.css can still change the UI font, and its point-size, but no longer has any effect on the spacing of rows.

I now have about half as many messages listed on screen than before, because most of the pane is wasted space.

Why has this option been disabled?

Is there another way of compacting the view of message rows?

I'm in sales and the company I work for uses Outlook Exchange for our emails. I've been trying to get them to open up SMTP so I can use superior sales tools on Gmail but I haven't been successful. One of the main tools i want to use is email sequence follow ups which almost all of them are exclusive to Gmail. Gmail won't connect via OWA or EWS but Thunderbird will. Can I use Thunderbird as an inbetween service for Gmail to the Exchange server. Basically can Thunderbird create it's own SMTP information that I can put into Gmail and then it will send through Thunderbird via OWA/EWS? So I wouldn't actually be accessing my emails on Thunderbird I would be using Gmail but Thunderbird would pass the emails both ways? Let me know if anyone knows if this is possible.

When you use the FileLink feature the link created is visually huge and very, very ugly to see. And if you need more than one link it's even worse, obviously. It's clear that the developers didn't put any attention to the aesthetic component in that thing. Is there a way to change that horrible html code? Maybe in the code somewhere?