Blue arrows I think are forwards. Purple are replies BUT regardless of the colour. If the arrow points down to the left it is a reply and down to the right is message forwarded.

Matt said

Blue arrows I think are forwards. Purple are replies BUT regardless of the colour. If the arrow points down to the left it is a reply and down to the right is message forwarded.

Blue arrows: I dont think so. I have looked at forwarded messages and none have the arrow. It looks more like it has to do with not sent or delivered

bertvz said

Blue arrows: I dont think so. I have looked at forwarded messages and none have the arrow. It looks more like it has to do with not sent or delivered

That statement is simply wrong and would be misleading to leave it uncorrected.

While the arrows do disappear on some IMAP servers that do not support the reply and forward flags. Thunderbird still puts them there initially and their possible subsequent removal is not germane to this support topic. Otherwise the question would not be what are they, but why do their disappear.

You are apparently looking for a yes/no answer when the real answer is maybe or not always. Email is actually a complex topic with few black and white answers. What the arrows mean is actually one of them.

I suggest you post your own question expressing what it is you think is the issue rather than offering plainly incorrect information to others as a solution to their questions. That is a behavior that can not be tolerated, regardless of how well meaning the intent.

Based on your past question I am guessing you are not getting replies to email and either are assuming they were not delivered or that they were not sent. I suggest you approach your mail provider. Those that operate the server. They have logs of what mail they delivered to what servers, or what delivery attempts failed. My guess is you may either have been blacklisted as a spammer or your emails look like spam to the receiving server. But it is always possible that your provider simply made no attempt to deliver your mail once it got to their SMTP server, or your recipients have simply refused delivery of further mail from your address. None of those things can be cured anywhere but in consultation with your mail provider.

bertvz said

Blue arrows: I dont think so. I have looked at forwarded messages and none have the arrow. It looks more like it has to do with not sent or delivered

That statement is simply wrong and would be misleading to leave it uncorrected.

While the arrows do disappear on some IMAP servers that do not support the reply and forward flags. Thunderbird still puts them there initially and their possible subsequent removal is not germane to this support topic. Otherwise the question would not be what are they, but why do their disappear.

You are apparently looking for a yes/no answer when the real answer is maybe or not always. Email is actually a complex topic with few black and white answers. What the arrows mean is actually one of them.

I suggest you post your own question expressing what it is you think is the issue rather than offering plainly incorrect information to others as a solution to their questions. That is a behavior that can not be tolerated, regardless of how well meaning the intent.

Based on your past question I am guessing you are not getting replies to email and either are assuming they were not delivered or that they were not sent. I suggest you approach your mail provider. Those that operate the server. They have logs of what mail they delivered to what servers, or what delivery attempts failed. My guess is you may either have been blacklisted as a spammer or your emails look like spam to the receiving server. But it is always possible that your provider simply made no attempt to deliver your mail once it got to their SMTP server, or your recipients have simply refused delivery of further mail from your address. None of those things can be cured anywhere but in consultation with your mail provider.

I dont understand your response? The answer to the original question was "I think the blue arrows are forwards.........." and I replied that I dont think so as it was not the case with me. At no point did I make ANY assumption about anything. Nobody mentioned anything about arrows disappearing! Why not just answer a question that has now been asked by two people and we still dont know what the blue arrows mean?

bertvz said

Why not just answer a question that has now been asked by two people and we still dont know what the blue arrows mean?

They have changed appearance over the years, but blue is still blue. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Icons_-_Thunderbird_2

And you did not ask any question. you outright made up something.

I dont think so. I have looked at forwarded messages and none have the arrow. It looks more like it has to do with not sent or delivered

So in the interests of not spamming the original poster further with your posts or mine I will lock this topic for further discussion. Ask your own question if what is here is not enough for you.