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I have lost the toolbar on the new messages page. The toolbar that allows you to change fonts, resize, bold, italics, underline, and more. I have looked for hours to find out how to restore this toolbar. Can anyone help me?

I want to send messages I delete to a Trash folder on my laptop, rather than the Trash folder on the server. Is there some way to do this? I'm looking at:

Server Settings > Security Settings > When I delete a message

This only gives me the option save deleted messages somewhere on the server.

(I have given up all hope of convincing Thunderbird to download all my messages, but fixing the Trash problem will make the program at least useable, from my POV!)

is there a way to prevent HTTP Basic Authentication dialog from stealing focus in about:config? It can be really annoying if a site logs me out randomly while working in another tab. Chromium browsers does not do that

The "Threaded view" option doesn't work, or at least not in the way I expect it to.

I've attached two screenshots of the same conversation, once of thunderbird and once of proton mail. Proton does chain the email thread properly, but in thunderbird it's completely detached.

Email conversations get really painful without proper email chaning/threading, especially if a replyee's client doesn't attach a quote ("> ...") at the end.

I've recent moved to Linux and Thunderbird from Win/Outlook. I have a singifcant message base that I've successfully migrated to Thunderbird, most in bound email but witha chunck of outbound too. This all appears in Local Folders, with the outbpund stuff in Sent Item sub-folders.

Card View suits my well, however when I look at the Sent Items local folders, I always see the from address (i.e. me) rather than to "to" address. This is pretty useless, however I can't see any way to influence if it shopuld the from or to address in Card View with local folders. Am I missing something?

Card View within a 'normal' email account shows either to or from as you'd expect, and therfore works fine.

Thank you.

Hello Supporters I'm using Thunderbird build 140.2.1esr. I cannot get it to minimise to the task bar. When I set it to not minimise to the system tray and minimise it, it pops up for <1 second in the task bar then drops down out of sight and reach. Does anyone know the reason for this, please? I recently had to re-build my win 11 (24H2) system and I think it's hapenned since then. I am used to it minimising to the task bar and prefer that. Regards Tony Pickering.

Hi! I'm on a relatively new to me (refurb) desktop computer running Win 10 Pro (64 bit)* and Firefox 143.0.3.

In the past week both Firefox and Win 10 have updated. I don't know what happened, but now when I boot up or reboot, my computer opens to Edge. Yuck! Every single time I have to navigate to the Mozilla page and d/l FF exe file again, then reinstall Firefox! Once I do that, all is well again. I have all my bookmarks back, etc. It also keeps changing my "default to Firefox" while I'm using Firefox, so I have to keep telling settings that yes, I still want FF to be the default browser.

Why is it doing this? How do I stop it? Can you believe I've been using desktop computers 38 years now? LOL I finally can't keep up with it all any longer. I wish they'd stop trying to save us from ourselves.

Anyway, I know I can't delete Edge or uninstall it. How do I shove it back into the black hole it has lived in until now?

Thanks very much in advance for any help offered. :)

KathyOnOBX

• (Nope - computer not eligible to upgrade to Win 11. My processor isn't fast enough, I think.)

1. Using Thunderbird (143.0.1) on a Mac (Sequoia 15.7) that has text replacements doesn't work. Mac text replacements ordinarily are filled In when the space bar is pressed, but in Thunderbird the replacements are filled in regardless, so, for instance, I have the text replacement "tr" -- when I press those letters followed by a space it ordinarily expands to the word "there". In Thunderbird every time I type those two letters, even if they are followed by other letters, it expands.

So if I type "trunk" It looks good until I hit a space, when it expands to "thereunk". This happens whether I type the word or use speech input (Talon). I use a lot of text replacements for common words, so this happens frequently, making it unusable.

I'm a longtime Thunderbird user just now switching to a Mac. I'm hoping for a fix so I can use text replacements in Thunderbird, but a short term workaround would be the ability to turn text replacements off through the edit\substitutions menu (like other programs including Notes).

Thanks for listening. And thanks for doing all the good work — it’s a terrific program!

After update to 143.0.1, the mail compose window was not moveable (mouse, top bar).

I found the cause, though: The top "compose symbol bar" was missing. After enabling (View, Symbols) the window was moveable.

I have a Gmail account I'm using IMAP with. I have it running on 3 different computers (all the same version: 140.3.0esr (64-bit)) , and 2 of them have the folder structure correct. However, on one of them the actual Gmail folders I'm subscribing to -- Drafts, Sent Mail, Spam, etc. -- are ABOVE the Inbox and its subfolders, and I can't get them to move below it. I've tried dragging and dropping, deleting the MSF files, even deleting and readding the account. Nothing works. And, again, it's not all three instances doing it; just one.

Any ideas would be welcome!

I tried using the Google AI to help with this and it gave me instructions to resolve the situation using developer tools, but was a dead end. I hit a roadblock trying to find a "uriTemplate" for another webmail service. The only one that had been on the mailto list was Gmail and I had removed it prior to starting this process, so there was no uriTemplate to be found. I tried calling Spectrum for help, but that was useless. Does anyone know another way to go about this?

Im using Slovak version of Thunderbird 143.0.1 with dark theme.

All received emails have white text in the body. But in the original message is some text green and some red. I can see those different colors only if I try to forward the message or switch from dark to normal.

Please check dark/normal mode snapshots enclosed.

Based on information from web, there should be "COLORS" button in the menu. And that should solve my situation. But there is no such button in my Thunderbird...

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)

If I have a number of tabs open in my main Thunderbird window and also a few messages open in their own windows, I just down Thunderbird cleanly, and then I restart, I get the main window with all of the tabs, but I do not get any of the open windows to reopen. I deleted my session.json in case it was corrupt. But I verified that, when I close Thunderbird, it creates a new session.json that only contains information for the main window, and not the additional windows. How do I get Thunderbird to store my ENTIRE session, including all the open windows, in session.json?

A fair number of folders in my primary email address's inbox have been out of sorted order for at least several months.

Most of them are folders I access quite often; they now appear AFTER what used to be the last folder ("Zoom").

If this is a "feature," I suggest moving the highest activity folders to the FRONT of the inbox rather than to the BACK.

HOW DO I RE-SORT MY INBOX FOLDERS?

Thank you.

Hi,

I added a new account to my client. An Imap account connected to a google workspace email. It downloaded every email from that account and of course, when I deleted them from my client, it deleted them from the server. Thankfully I was able to restore the gmail account's emails. Heart attack avoided. I would now like to have my client account not do that. I know I can set up a local folder version of the emails but I'm worried that if I delete the 10's of thousands of emails from the original folder it will still delete them from the server. How do I get around this? Is it even possible. Kindly yours, Aaron.