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Most of my work life is in email. Over 25 years (starting with Mulberry) I have built up a custom IMAP folder hierarchy that makes work manageable, but Thunderbird 115 has broken this, now displaying nested subfolders at the top level sorted alphabetically. See the images for before and after. For example, there are now three "Administrative" folders that were formerly classified under superordinate folders for my roles as lab leader, graduate program chair, and departmental faculty member. Persons who used to be in Colleagues or Students subfolders are now at top level. Inexplicably, a few folders retained their hierarchy but most are flattened out. Now I need to scroll through hundreds of folders (have not counted recently but in the late 2000's I had over 500.)

I was able to revert to 102.14 using backups, but will be stuck with this version for the rest of my career unless Thunderbird fixes these problems. Thunderbird is so important to me that I make an automated monthly donation to the project, but will have to cancel if this is not fixed.

If anyone has found a work around please LMK. And Thunderbird team, please acknowledge and LMK whether this will be addressed or are IMAP users left behind?

Thanks, Dan Suthers

Hi All,

Fedora 38 thunderbird-115.3.1-1.fc38.x86_64

I just upgraded from 102 to 115. I lost my ability for display "unified folders" in both regular mode and safe-mode.

Clicking on view->folders->unified unchecks the second I click off it.

I manually set about:config unified to true: made no difference. But it stays at true and still shows off in view, folders.

I need my unified folders back!

-T

Migrated for old PC which showed all emails listed sorted by date in the Unified Inbox. New PC lists email accounts but only visible by individual email account. The unified inbox folder is blank. Version 115.2.2

Good morning,

My Thunderbird was just upgraded to the latest version (115). After opening it the first time, my inbox folder no longer showed the subfolders for each account. I then dragged a single inbox folder to the inbox, but instead of moving or linking the folder, it wiped everything that was in it. Nothing went to trash, it is just gone. Is there somewhere else I might be able to find these emails? It is an outlook account, and they don't seem to be on that server either. Thank you for any help.

~ Mike

This is the second problem I have discovered with the latest TB update. Now, my unified folders are not fully populating. For instance, the unified inbox and sent folders are missing a number of messages that can only be accessed through the individual folders. In the case of the unified inbox, it will indicate that new message(s) have been received, but they are only listed in the individual folders. This new update also messed up my unified folder preferences for the appearance of columns, and frankly, I also don't like the new user interface look. If it's not broke, don't fix it.

TB seems to have updated itself this morning so when I just started it, the mailboxes under Inbox are all reordered, and some of my mailboxes have vanished - not even there. The domains of the ones that vanished are not mainstream ones, they are kinzelman.com and medflightair.com

Under Tools | Accounts, the accounts are still there, how do I get to these vanished mailboxes? How did the update vanish them?

In the accounts I don't see any 'hide inbox' or anything to cause them to be invisible.

When TB updated lots the folders are missing and even when reinstall the emails accounts junks and trash folders are missing. Otherwords when I delete a message that should end up in the trash it completely disappears.

I just installed version 102.15.1. (I went back down from the latest versions which had problems for me). The only folder shown for each account are Inbox and Deleted. How do I get others like Sent and Junk? How can I recover the contents of those from my earlier versions?

Today I received the auto update to 115 and it totally screwed up my profile. Please see the pictures below on what happened to the UI. My unified inbox is empty and I don't see most of my configured mailboxes anymore. The titlebar is utterly cluttered and it is full of crap which makes it hard to move the window around. All in all the update makes it impossible to work with my profile anymore. How can I get back to a properly working TB?

TB 115.3.1 (64-bit) on Ubuntu linux The view->folders-unified folder option when ticked 1. Doesnt change anything 2. isnt preserved/maintained.

Am i doing it wrong ? is it a bug

So as I was writing an email today, Thunderbird decided to disappear from the screen... then popped back on with a new look and opened up Chrome going to the Thunderbird site showing it's been updated. OK, thanks for doing that for me while I was in the middle of $hit.

Anyway, it comes back up and my folders in the left hand bar are all jacked up and for the past 2 hours I CAN NOT figure out how to get them back to normal.

Issues:

- The INBOX has 9 our of 10 email accounts listed... 1 of them is all the way down the bottom of the window for whatever reason. How do I get it back up with the other 9 email accounts?

-All of the SENT and JUNK and DRAFT and ARCHIVE use to be grouped together one after another so I can just click on 1 each and go down the line. Now each of them are separated in another folder under each email account. Highly inconvenient. How do you group all of them together again?

Thanks!

Just updated to the newest thunderbird and now everything under the "unified folder" is gone. My inbox, sent items, drafts etc. etc. is all gone. I can send emails but the receiving them in does not work correctly. I see the number of new emails in a red circle on the Thunderbird icon but I can not find the new emails.

Anybody have any hints/tips or ways to let Mozzilla know there is big problem?

LOGGED ON TO THUNDERBIRD E-MAIL ACCOUNT. EVERYTHING HAD BED DELETED. HUNDREDS OF E-MAILS THAT i REQUIRE. inbox, drafts, sent, trash, everything gone. Can you help to restore my e-mail items?