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'''When are you going to add Categories to Contacts? '''

It is the only feature holding me back. I use outlook for Windows and I am able to sort my contacts by categories. In addition, I use a syncing software called Companion Link/Deja Office which syncs those contacts with those categories on either my iPhone or Android. This allows me to focus on targeting specific people for either personal or business use. Your software has that feature for calendar items. Why not integrate that same feature for the contacts which has a higher degree of importance. I see that a multitude of people have asked for quite some time already even offering to donate money if implemented.

Thanks so much :-)

I want to purge many years of "your package is on the way" spam. I don't know how to sort on two factors - first sender (amazon) and then the wording of the Subject. I want to keep the order confirmation and delivery confirmations.

Using TB 60.9.1, so if it becomes easy in a later rev let me know; I'd like to reduce the size of my files before upgrading to reduce the chance of glitches, but it if becomes simple...

Why do they spam you every few hours... Well, psychologically it keeps you thinking of that seller and supposedly likelier to buy something sooner...

Once collapsing email threads is chosen/enabled, how do we UNcollapse ALL threads in a folder OR globally for Tbird? Permanently...

I hate this feature - too much like gmail's email listing on an Android phone (which is very confusing).

linux 21.2, tb 115.5, under new contact i am not allowed to copy and paste what you show, but i need so much more than you offer---I need company, title, and several other fields that pertain to my business for that contact.....got a video address you could send me? I have far more fields in outlook than tb offers me...

If i could copy and paste i would---tb does not allow it on their own pages

Unbelievable - ANOTHER update and FIVE MONTHS ON and we still have this total nonsense of not being able to reduce the Message List Pane to less than ten messages. As a result, the message you are trying to view is sqeezed into less than half your screen, if there are pictures in the message it's totally useless - you can't see them properly.

Two months ago, somebody posted that they had a solution - then, NOTHING several 'updates' on.

I've been in touch directly with Wayne Mery, and he said the 'solution' had thrown up another problem. How can that be? You always used to be able to reduce the list to two or three lines. Why not just put the code back as it was?

Am I missing something? Is this some sort of conspiracy to force us to use the vertical format? I don't like the vertical look - I want horizontal!!

Loads of people have complained about this . . . .

If you add from & correspondent you get the same results. Shouldn't from show the second line with the actual email address? If not can this be done another way? Using version Version 115.9.0 if that makes a difference

Thunderbird 115's default UI is horrible in many ways. It would be extremely useful if the methods required to return it to how it was were assembled in one place, not just in dozens of individual questions.

What I want is a comprehensive list in one place. (If this new release had been done properly, there would be options to turn all these bad changes off and definitely no CSS should be required, but I gather it will be.) For a start:

• how to get the title bar back
• how to get rid of the ugly grey blobs behind the message counts
• how to get the grey background back in the mailbox pane
• how to get rid of the ugly, intrusive "CTRL + K" from the search boxes
• how to edit the tool bar to make the ugly search box go away altogether
• how to made the new message count less intrusive, preferably by putting it back the way it was (just bracketed, not in a bright blue circle)

Yes, we can search the internet for all these and many more, wasting hours of our time, but it would be much simpler if it was all in one place. Even better if it can be scripted.

I used to like Thunderbird, a lot. I've used it for more than 13 years. I have also contributed money - because I believe in paying for a good product. I think Thunderbird is quickly moving away from being a 'good product'.

I have two big complaints now with Thunderbird.

1. Apparently the 'developers' just can't stop themselves from adding more and more "stuff" (called "features"). All I want is a decent email client. The tabs to open PDF attachments was a nice feature, when it was added. However, the vast majority of so-called "features" that have been added over the past few years are useless to me. And it shows in how big the Thunderbird application has become and how long it now takes to load and display.

2. The 'threaded' crap is driving me nuts. It seems like every time Thunderbird updates it puts some/most/all of the folders back to 'sort by threaded' and displaying the thread column and star column. I hate 'threaded'. If you are updating the application why can't you import my 'custom' settings or at least just leave them alone. No, you reset all kinds of stuff with nearly every "update".

I guess I have two options: 1. I will quit updating Thunderbird (disable auto-update, if that's possible). 2. Find a new email client that is simpler, smaller, loads quicker, and is less cluttered with "features".

Thank you for taking a decent product and 'improving' the hell out of it - to the point where I am starting to hate it.

I have Outlook for business, and used to be able to use TBird for personal on Windows 10. When I changed computers (Win11 now, and Office 2023) and installed TBird, (and yes, UNchecked the "make default) on set up), TBird steals my default. This is when I am trying to email a pdf or spreadsheet, etc. where I click the email button and it generates an email with the file name as the subject. Rather than using my default Outlook (business account, mind you), the file opens in TBird. I've gone through every default in Windows, and cannot seem to locate a means of changing it in the INSTALLED version of TBird. I've uninstalled, and reinstalled multiple times ... all with the same results. Can anyone give me some insight, please? Teri HendersoTL@gmail.com

Pin "Favourite Folders" to the top of the folder list so when scrolling that pane for other folders, favourites will always be visible.

I don't know if there's any more I can say about it, just would be nice to be able to have "Favourite Folders" always visible when scrolling through the folder pane.

hows to i add https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools-ng/ thanks

My Thunderbird main window layout (View > Layout) keeps reverting to Vertical View even though I set it to Classic View. Is there any way of setting the default layout to Classic View in the Configuration Editor?

I have 3 accounts set up with a unified inbox. When I click "Get Messages" at the top it only checks the first account. When I click "file", "Get New Messages For", "All accounts", it only checks the first account. I must go into that file menu and click each account separately to check all my emails. That's 3 times. Why will the check all accounts check all accounts? Thunderbird 115.6.1 (64-bit) Windows 11 Home Version 23H2 OS build 22631.3007

Dear support,

I installed recently Thunderbird 115.5.0 (64-bit) on my laptop running Debian 12.

I have a problem with the font size settings in the message view.

By default, the font size is very small. I can increase it by tuning in the top Menu. Tuning the Font size to 26 pt I get a readible text, see Picture 1. When I move to the next message, the font size becomes small again. Picture 2 shows when I moved and came back to the same message. The menu is shown, and the Font Size appears to be 26 pt in both screen shots.

I have set layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to -1

I have a userChrome.css, but it does not fix the font size in the message view. I wish I could know how to do that!

Thank you in advance for your help! Eric CM

I am getting spam daily from the same person but the different emails like from outlook, gmail but the message is always the same.

How can I block these messages from coming into my mail box,

is there an AI I can activate in thunderbird? or plugin I can add?

that checks the body of the emails message that are all the same and block them.

This is just disgusting. I have informed google and outlook but it will not stop the spammer from creating new emails on those services.

My spam folders no longer appear grouped in the "grouped folders" view in TB 115.4.1. I guess this has to do with the different naming (or handling) of this type of folder by the mail providers, similarly to "trash/deleted". In my case, only 2 spam folders from 9 accounts are currently grouped. It would be nice to have an option to manually tell TB which folder it is, like K9-Mail does.

Hello, I want to customise the From address so it prioritises another address than the one it presently chooses. I tried the Customise button underneath, but after highlighting my chosen address, nothing happens. I switched TB off in case it needed to update its setting, but no luck. Does anyone know? (The easier and simpler the better please). Many thanks. PS. I use a Macbook Air Sonoma version, TB v 115.8.0