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I put the URL in there and it does not retain it and use it as signature image. It is a jpg. It browses in a URL on my browser and loads fine but T/B refuses to allow it.

Suggestions ?

I just installed Thunderbird on an up to date Windows 11 PC and unchecked the box Automatically mark messages as read, but it keeps marking all of my messages as read.

Help please!

In Thunderbird, how can I stop text in the previous emails in a string turning blue?

I have looked everywhere in Settings where colour is mentioned and everything is set to black text on a white background. Nothing is set to blue.

I do not want to see blue text anywhere.

Please advise.

154.0 (64-bit) on Windows 11

My filters are broken in Thunderbird. I have deleted and recreated some to no avail.

I moved some folders from Local to under my inbox and it said it would update the filters automatically, but noticed it didn't do this. Looking at the Filter Rules it just left either the first or second column of Perform these actions under the Filter Rules empty rather than updating them. I tried moving the folders back to see if the filters would then work, but it's a mixed bag. Some filter properly and others only go under say Newsletters, but don't filter into Newsletters > Adobe for example. Others just sit in the inbox. I've tried moving some rules to the top of the list hoping that'd give them priority to be run first, but it hasn't helped. I have a lot of filters setup to help me track newsletters, classes, meetings, job applications, etc. I've missed some responses for a couple of days because of this. Any suggestions?

So I don't miss anyone, thanks in advance.

HI.

I'm trying to increase the size of the text-entry pane that appears in the calendar event editing pop-up. I already know how to change the size of the overall window (i.e., the pop-up itself), but I can't determine the name of the css element that would modify it.

I enabled developer tools, but the Inspector function doesn't seem to want to provide the name of that css element. It would be along the lines of calendar-event-pane, but that's not it.

Is that text window even specified in css, or is it hard-coded?

Any pointers would be appreciated

I have Thunderbird 141.0 on Windows 11. It started showing new emails in source HTML. It is set to view message body in original HTML. -- no change from before. So I rebooted laptop. No luck. I replaced the Thunderbird folder with a recent backup. No luck. I uninstalled and reinstalled Thunderbird. No luck. John

On upgrade to 152.0, a pop-up asked for options I have not seen before. I cannot find info about what the net.thunderbird option is, nor why I would or would not want to click it? Any help out there?

Thanks!

had the need to start a fresh thunderbird profile.

now I forget which setting(s) allow for thunderbird to scan the local folders, NOT the internet, for new mail.

any suggestions?

thank you

Something happened that took away my 'get messages' button and my 'write' button and the others that used to be there.

I can find nowhere to add these back. When I try to adde them back in view-toolbar-toolbar settings, 'SAVE' is greyed out.

Either I am a real dumb user or this is a real dumb bug that cropped up today.

I have no way to get messages or write one now.

MACOS Tahoe 26, 140.3.0esr (aarch64)

I like to use "Table view". I can select it after I open thunderbird, but every time I start thunderbird, it starts in "Card view". I am using release 140.1.1esr on Windows 11. My email is lmpetrie@live.com.

In the older K-9, when one changed the active account, the inbox for the newly selected account would just be shown immediately. No need for any other operations on my part.

Now I have to tap on the inbox to get there. This seems an awful nuisance and offers little to anyone, I suspect.

Is there some way to get the old K-9 behavior?

Thanks!

I used to just have my Canon TS6350 do my printing. Great. Now Thunderbird seems to have taken over my choice of how I print for a long while and it's driving me nuts. It is a dreadful system. I have searched settings to no avail. Can someone advise a Geri Brit of 82 how to deal with the problem Thank you very much Kind regards Alan Jones

Hi,

In the Thunderbird email client, the subject line color of unread emails automatically changes from blue to black, even if I haven't opened them. This makes it difficult to distinguish unread emails, as both the sender's name and the subject line appear in bold black.

Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

Thanks, Yatin.

I changed settings to no threading, but it continues to show the thread column in all the folders and do threading unless I manually remove the threading column from each folder - very time consuming. How do I get rid of the threading column globally?

Hi Thunderbird community,

I have an issue with unified folders where one specific IMAP account keeps disappearing from the "Sent" and "Drafts" folder (this does not happen in any other unified folders that I have added the account to). The strange thing is that when I right click any of the unified folders it keeps disappearing from, go to their properties and click "Choose" both "Sent" and "Drafts" folders are already in there and when I click "Update" the account disappears from the unified folders panel and is properly integrated like it should be. It's quite annoying because I need to do this every time I restart the program.

In the attached screenshot you can see that the "Sent" folder is selected to be a part of the unified "Send" folder, but it instead shows up separate until I click the "Update" button in the unified folder's properties. Same applies to "Drafts".

Sadly I couldn't find anything on the internet so far, so I'm wondering is someone else has an issue like this an possibly knows a solution.

Best regards

After updating Firefox to the latest version (154.0) a short while ago, Firefox now insists on adding a “Firefox” icon to my Start Menu every time I open it. I do not need or want this additional icon, as I already have all the Firefox icons I want in exactly the place(s) where I want them. I am not finding a toggle for this behavior anywhere in the Settings menu structure, although I might be overlooking it. Is there a way to stop this annoying behavior besides rolling back to version 153?

(I am running Windows 11 on a desktop PC with all updates installed, and Firefox is set as my default browser.)

I have 1 computer that shows bars at the top and left side that I like. The one at the top shows Get messages, Delete, Reply, Reply All, and a few more items. The one on the left side shows icons that are for Mail, Address Book, Calendar, Tasks, and Chat. I have another computer that doesn't have those bars. I have attached a screen shot from that computer. Both are running T'bird 140.4.0esr (64-bit) and both are Win 11 machines. I've tried everything I can see to get the 2 bars to appear on the 2nd computer. I hope someone can tell me how to get them to show up. Thanks, Mike

Good morning, We are a company with around 10 employees and we use Thunderbird as our email client across multiple workstations. Some of our IMAP-configured mailboxes are used on several PCs and have grown quite large, causing local storage space issues.

I recently discovered that Thunderbird offers settings to manage synchronization more efficiently — for example, by limiting the download of messages to the last X days (e.g., 30 days), or by excluding certain folders from automatic synchronization. I’m referring specifically to the options under: Account Settings > Synchronization & Storage > Advanced…, and also the Disk Space section.

I tried changing these settings on an already configured account, but the changes don’t seem to take effect — messages are still being fully synchronized. I would like to know:

   If I’m doing something wrong in the process;

   If these changes only apply when configuring a new account;

   What is the recommended way to manage large IMAP mailboxes in a business environment to reduce local storage impact and improve performance.

Unfortunately, our email provider doesn’t offer alternative solutions unless we completely change the IMAP configuration, which we would prefer to avoid.

Thank you in advance for your support — I look forward to your response.

Best regards,

So many emails require me to scroll to the right to finish reading one line, back to the left for the next, etc. They hurt my head, they take fireever to read, and they hurt my right arm too. Thunderbird used to have an option to wrap messages, but it looks like it was deleted.

I tried adding the following tom my user css:

1. messagepane {

   margin-left: 45pt !important;
   max-width: 900px !important;
   margin-right: 45pt !important;

}

The margin-left works. It gives a spacer between the message pane and the folder list.

The max-width and margin-right don't work. The messages still require horizontal scrolling, and the scrollbar shifts left, right up against the text, so it doesn't give the needed spacer.

I use the spacers to avoid the parallax-induced migraines.