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When I write a message in Thunderbird, and when I click "Enter" for a new line, I get a double space. How can I correct it so that my text goes automatically without double spacing?

Thank you Igor

Good Morning, I'm trying to figure out the settings on my install and I wanted to delete older emails after like 21 days but when I made that setting it also deleted the emails from my Archive so now I've lost a couple years of emails. How do you keep the inbox and trash cleaned out automatically without effecting the Archive folders?

K, I know this is like really ADHD but when I right click to empty the trash there's a dot or period after the word Empty as like Empty. Trash. Is there a reason it's there or can ya get rid of that for me? Just wondering and yeah, I'm sure you have better thinks to do but can ya look at that? Ummmm... otherwise I LOVE Thunderbird as It's like the only alternative of having me mail off Server side (Cloud) based programs. Plus I used to use Eudora and I could port all of my e-mails from like the 90's to Thunderbird pretty easily. Thank you and have a great day.

ANSWERED: It IS an underscore, hidden behind the bottom of the "y" in the word "Empty". Thanks everyone for taking a look at that and getting back to me so soon on it with a positive answer. My ADHD is much better now.

Hi. Right now mesages with same subject are shown under first message (Uploaded image), this is good, but I would like to see them like messages in gmail. If I open any message I would see all this messages in message pane as list. Where I could make some compact or if I want I could expand all messages and see them all at once. Is this posible in Thunderird?

I have a web-camera which send a picture to me every 15 minutes. When you start the computer all the new emails are downloaded to Thunderbird. All emails get the same hh:mm and are sorted (I think!) in the order they were downloaded, i.e. the first one is on top and the last one at the bottom of the list.

What I would like is to order them by the subject when time of download is the same. In my emails subject I have date and time which would get them in the correct order.

I would by this get the newest first and the oldest last despite the fact that they are downloaded oldest first och newest last.

Would this be possible for you to do?

Regards,

Svante

It would be very useful if I could see Inbox and Sent mail together, in a single list, without including any other folders.

If I use All Mail, it includes all of my archived emails as well. I would like to avoid this when I go through all of my Inbox and Sent emails and put the ones I want to keep into archive folders.

I suppose a simpler and more flexible way to implement this would be to provide the ability to use check boxes to select exactly which folders I want to include in the list. Each folder would have a its own check box. That would be very flexible and incredibly useful.

Recently I have noticed that the toolbars I use frequently are hidden. I have searched help for a solution to the problem - I want the toolbars to be always there, not just sometimes - and the advice to fix the problem is old and does not work. Is there a solution to my problem, or do I just have to always toggle "alt" to get a toolbar when I need it?

Thanks for any help!

I'm getting used to using Thunderbird but I can't enable spell checking. I've gone to settings and then composition and selected the "as you type" option but this has not enabled the spellcheck.

Can anyone help, please?

Good day, Is there a way to change the default zoom setting for PDF attachments on Thunderbird? (Without opening a new program/app?

I open up a PDF attachment from one of my emails and it default to Automatic zoom level. Due to my screen resolution this doesn't look good and I need to change it to "page width" each time. Is there a way I can tell Thunderbird to open in page width, or a set percentage each time?

Thank you for your time.

Hello

Is there a way to have the TAB function in an email message body with an option to produce a string of dots, instead of just a blank space? I would particularly love to have it line up subsequent rows on the accounting decimal point when the $ sign is used.

EG with a list of expenditures:

Home Depot .....................$50.00 Office Depot ...................$200.00 Starbucks...........................$37.50

Hope this makes sense! thanks Baz

Until today Oct 14, 2025 I could edit the subject line on my incoming e-mails by right clicking the subject line and use 'edit subject'. As of this morning that option is not available in the context menu that comes up when I right click the subject line for an e-mail in my inbox. anybody have any ideas? I use this function constantly in my business to add the customer name to the subject line for customer searches and if I send a copy to a vendor so all messages pertaining to that customer are easily found.

When I try to change the number of days messages are kept in my inbox (from the default of 30), I get a pop-up window warning me that this will permanently delete the messages and do I want to proceed (see screenshot).

While that pop-up window is up, I can't increase the # of days to retain messages. May I press "OK" and then adjust the number of days messages are retained? Or, if I press "OK" will that immediately delete all messages older than 30 days?

Thanks!

Thunderbird checks an email you are composing for the word "attached" and if it finds it, warns you that you may have forgotten to attach a file.

Can I add the word "stegys" as a synonym for "attached" ? This is the Cornish word for attached. Alternatively, if I add the Thunderbird Cornish dictionary, would Thunderbird warn me when it finds "stegys" in the text. I already have an excellent Cornish dictionary extension for Libre Office, and as such it seems overkill to add a second dictionary as I can spell check text in Writer and then paste it into Thunderbird. So adding a synonym would be my preferred option.

Many thanks in advance.

As I have several eddresses I have several acounts in T'bird. However I don't care which acount an email arrives into. So I have a rule that transfers anything comming into all but one of the inboxes into one 'main' inbox. All the sub accounts are kept collapsed so I can see my main acount folders. Well and good. However when I want to trash an email I have to look which acount it came into, expand that acount, drag the email into that trash, and then collapse that acount. Selecting the rclick trash bin icon only works for emails into my main account. Is there any way I can simply trash an email from any acount - preferably into one bin?

Win 11 23H2, 128.8.0esr (64-bit), Imap

Peter

Use to be when I clicked a mailto: href my local Thunderbird would start with a new message in compose mode.

Sigh... Then I let one of my kids "send a quick message".

They have a Yahoo account, so now my machine is infected where mailto: href clicks land on login.yahoo.com rather than Thunderbird compose message.

Someone let me know how to get rid of the Yahoo login + return to starting Thunderbird.

Thanks!