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I must have done something wrong with Thunderbird but I can't see what.

Most of the messages I receive look like this one. ( Please take a look at the image. )

And that is with all 10 accounts.

How do I reset THUNDERBIRD 102.11.0 (64 bits) ?

Thanks.

My email inbox was always sorted by star and then date, with all my starred emails first at the top followed by newest emails second at the top. I have just switched to Thunderbird Beta v114 with the unified inbox folder for all my email accounts and cannot get the inbox to sort this way. I can have the newest emails at the top without the starred emails, but as soon as I put the starred emails at the top all the other emails are sorted in reverse, that is, oldest at the top. I can get the exact opposite of the arrangement I want by putting the starred emails at the foot and then the newest emails, so the oldest emails are at the top. I cannot find any way to reproduce the sort order I always used before moving to v.114.

My main email account is with my internet provider and the storage available is unlimited. I have three other accounts with external hosts whose storage capacity is limited. Each email account is for a specific purpose. I am using IMAP setting for all email accounts. What I hoped I could do is set up folders in Local folders for each of the limited storage capacity accounts to direct the emails I want to save using the Message Filters. Not only did it not work, it wiped out the message filters that had been working well for me for ages. My message filter page is completely blank.

Being somewhat non-literal, I only recently learned that Local Folders really did mean folders on my hard drive. So wondering what else I don't know, what happens to the emails I archive. Are the emails still on the mail server? Or are archives on my hard drive? If the archives are on my hard drive and not on the remote mail server drive, are the emails there permanently - i.e., they're there until I delete them, or until something goes wrong with my hard drive? (Why would anyone think that might happen?)

If the archives are no longer at the mail server, but are on my hard drive - that would seem to solve my problem. I thought of the idea of moving emails to the Local Folders because I thought that archiving did not take the emails off the mail server.

If someone can make sense of all this so I don't stress myself out over what can go where, I will greatly appreciate it. :-}

I have archived emails up to 2022 and set the retention policy to delete messages more than 900 days old. The Quota value never varies from 95% full (14.2GB/15.0GB) How do I get Thunderbird to delete old emails?

Hello, I am a current user that is pretty familiar with Thunderbird and how it had worked with previous versions. I had just installed 102.11.2 to a new computer and have been able to customize mostly - but still am not able to remove threads like previous versions.

There is a view/unview, thread option - but it does not remove the actual threading into multiple messages.

Any suggestions?

thanks!

I'm amazed, just AMAZED I can't find the answer to this with a simple google search, or searching the questions here, and I re-worded my search several times. All the answers I could find, even chatGPT (I know it's not alway sup to date) told me to use this option even though I specifically told it it wasn't there, is anyone aware that sometimes the option isn't there? What gives? Not blaming anyone specifically, but this a really simple question, I'm I the first person it's ever happened to?

I'm trying to fix a sound problem where videos will not play, and this is a suggested step. The sound on youtube videos plays with Google Chrome, so it's not my sound drivers, just with firefox it doesn't play. One of the steps as well was the clear my info, I cleared everything except history, I wished there was a way to back those up, I'll look it up.

Starting firefox in safe mode doesn't fix the problem either.

I am on Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon and I have been using Birdtray as Thunderbird system tray notification. But from 102 version Birdtray can't read incoming unread email, can't show notifications and can't shows unread counts. So, can I set a System tray Icon and show total unread email counts in the system tray icon for Thunderbird email ? Plz advise me if anyone has a solution. Thanks in advance.

Hello.

The new version is fine. There are something I miss from the previous versions. Each time I started a new email I had several lines with a combobox before it to choose the kind of recipient ( To, CC and BCC ). Now, I only have To and I have always to click on CC or BCC to have them also.

Is there a way of activating this?

TIA

Occasionally, across all websites (as far as I can tell), the screenshot toolbar item is greyed out for me and I can't click on it. Meaning I can't take screenshots. I use windows and so snip and sketch is an alternative I can and do use but I prefer using Firefox's own screenshotting tool. What to do??

The new base system theme for FireFox is not accessible. I cannot visually tell when one tab shifts to another. Three's not enough contrast. There's no line that marks the shift from one tab to the next. I tried countless contributor themes and they're all lacking the same feature - a physical break between tabs. Fades on text are also not accessible. Please fix this issue!

Thank you, Nanette visual deficits in Minnesota

I selected Firefox as the search motor and of course Google took over as usual. How could I switch back to Firefox? I am over fed-up withe Google attitude to take over what ever it wants and get away with. could you help me? I would be very thankful.

Hi I am currently creating a Firefox plugin and I am trying to grab the data from the secure website certification to use and display to the user is this possible?

i have attached a screenshot to explain better .. there is soo much empty space at the bottom.. and i wanted to add some of my favorite website's. when certain numer of pinned sites filled. i have to scroll to left to access the remaining sites... but I don't want to do that . and its way up above my thumb can't reach.... and i doesn't look nice either .... plzzzz fix this...

Hi There,

I am using Firefox after moving away from chromium based browsers and have noticed some odd behaviour from Firefox build 89.0.2 and would like some help if possible.

The issue is, when typing quickly and i must remove the entirety of my input, i will press CTRL + A to highlight all, and sometimes hit the backspace button quickly and it will only move the cursor to the far left and does not delete the selection.

This is not the only issue with combo shortcuts, i have realised that CTRL + C sometimes will not copy the selection and is causing minor annoyance with using this browser.

If could be user error, however, the same usage on other browsers/windows UI never has this problem, and i am strugling to find information about this online hence the post.

Any information would be greatly apreciated.

TIA Brad