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When TB receives new mail there is a standard notification pop-up for a short time. However this is not persistent (and not intended to be) so doesn't help if you are looking elsewhere at the time.

In previous versions of TB the minimised window icon changed when you had new mail. This was removed and replaced by plugins (eg. I was using FireTray for a while but it is no longer supported). I cannot find any current plugin to do this. I think at least TB should set the window urgent hint so the window manager can indicate there is something new in the standard way. This is really core functionality and unless Mozilla are going to maintain a plugin themselves, I think it should be part of the main program?

It would be great if Thunderbird had an option to automatically change the Layout depending on if it was full screen or windowed. On large monitors going full screen could invoke the Vertical layout and going windowed could invoke the Wide view layout. That may seem counter-intuitive but the wide layout seems to work great using half the screen and the vertical view looks great full screen.

It would even be nice to just a layout toggle button that could be added via customization.

Thanks for the consideration.

PS - I moved from Outlook to Thunderbird on all my devices about a year ago. I love it! It is more stable, works better with IMAP, can change the look and feel - simply great. Well done developers!

This changed automatically two updates ago after working fine for many years. To be clear, I just want to have the message open in the existing window and not open in new window. As it is now, a second window opens, and if I click Reply, yet a THIRD window opens. Thanks!

I've viewing Unified Folders in the left sidebar pane. I'm seeing all of my IMAP accounts (5) and folders and it's working perfectly. Below my Unified folders is Local Folders with one Search folder. I'd really like to have my Local Folder show at the top, above my IMAP account folders. Is there any way to do this... ?

If so and I disable spotlight, what can I use to search my computer for attachments when I'm in Thunderbird? I disabled spotlight and now when I try to search my computer for files to attach from within Thunderbird the search feature doesn't work.

How do I have a search that works within thunderbird with spotlight disabled/

Thanks

I was wondering if there is anyway to rearrange the user interface in Thunderbird. I'd like to put my inbox folder on the left and the email opens on the right, so side-by-side instead of Ontop of the email. This is for a client who is switching from outlook and trying to make it as much like their outlook as possible.

I'm getting an increasing number of emails - mainly from businesses I deal with - that display a large image with the subject line of the mail when it appears in the message pane.

An example would be a music company I deal with has a picture of a guitar superimposed on the subject line.

This makes the message pane cluttered and I find it annoying.. Is there any way to prevent these displaying or better still prevent them from being downloaded?

TBird 52.9.1 (64 bit) on a Linux system

Thanks.

For example:
Consider the following: I have multiple mail accounts, want to search multiple "and" and "any" criteria simultaneously.

One rule single rule would look like this:
Search for messages in:
Inbox on account 1
Sent on account 1
Inbox on account 2
sent on account 2

match All of the following:
to does not contain: soandso@email.com
subject does not contain: "this string"

Match any of the following:
to contains: someone@somewhere.com
from contains: someone@somewhere.com

In the latest Thunderbird version 60.2.1 there are NO colored icons (on the Menu Toolbar) and the highlighter 0.6.5 (that we used in the previous versions) is now DISABLED. If you have xpi files for both issues, please advise where we can download them from, or send us any other options for extensions and themes that will solve those issues! Thanks!

Since my Tbird updated to 60.4.0 (64-bit) the spell checker seems to have lost its marbles. If I switch from British English Language (Marco Pinto) to English US the spelling works correctly apart from being American.

When in Eng GB anything pluralized or some words having ed at the end are marked as incorrect. I have tried stripping out the English dictionary and re-installing with no improvement. The same dictionary in Firefox works OK.

OS linux Mint using kernel 4.15.0-43

I have 14 email accounts .. which I would like to group by Work, Personal, Project etc. Postbox has got the account groups and so does mail bird. IS there a way there is a solution for Thunderbird?

Hi,

I want to apply a Message Filter to all Messages where the "Cc" Field is empty. That means I want to filter all messages where I am the only official recipient .

If I look at the filters there is no way to Filter "Cc is empty" If I just leave the text field blank there is no effect.

I learned about the "FiltaQuilla" Plugin:

I enabled "Header Regex match"

Now if I go to "Tools -> MessageFilters -> I can match "Header Regex Match"

I want to match "If Cc is empty" As I recall the "Cc" field is part of the header -> Can anyone help me to get the correct regular expression.

Recently I installed Thunderbird on my brother's desktop computer. He has vision problems and I was trying to help him by trying to use a free program name NaturalReader to tell him the sender and subject of his emails. He was using AOLMail but that program immediately opens an email if you click on it. Thunderbird allows him to highlight a line in the Inbox, but apparently does not (by default) copy the line to the clipboard where NaturalReader would be able to see it. The idea was highlight line, play it, then either delete it or hit the down arrow to point to the next email. If there is a profile option that could cause this to happen, please let me know how to use it. If not, this option would be valuable to have for the visually impaired.

The British English Dictionary updated on 29 January and doesn't recognise simple plurals of nouns, words that were acceptable on 28th are no longer recognised and so on

I just upgraded to Thunderbird 60 and wish to use Google Search as the default search engine. I installed the Google Search for Thunderbird addon, and restarted Thunderbird, but Google Search does not show as choice in the search-engine list. Am I missing a step?

Both my wife and I use Thunderbird ver. 60.4.0. When someone responds to my email and changes the font to red so that the response can be more easily seen, I can see the red font on my computer. On my wife's computer it only shows as a black font. How can I fix or change her computer so that she may also see the response in red? Thanks.

Hate to mention the other product, but MS outlook has the ability to 'allow in-cell editing' on most of their fields (view settings -> Other settings), and the ability to add custom fields to folders. Is there any way to do this in Thunderbird, or a plugin/add-on that will add this type of functionality. Currently I use TB for 90% of my email - I will be a 100% user if this is an option or could be added into dev for future updates. Thank you, JR

I have several message filters set up for one of my email accounts, and would like to copy them to the other one rather than rebuild them from scratch. Is this possible? Thank you!

After recent Thunderbird upgrade to 60.3.2 on 26 November 2018 from TB 56, the add-on "manually sort folders 1.1.1" ceased working. Moreover the upgrade changed my sort structure to one that is not convenient!!!! I have adored Firefox and Thunderbird because they were mutable to a style that I liked, or can be, to the taste of others. I liked Outlook Express, and Thunderbird allowed me to recreate that!!!!!! And the add-ons were brilliant to enable change from the new squared tabs back to the logo in the upper left and the rounded tabs, or to further change TB to allow me to further tweak all my pop accounts to work together as one under Local folders, with 1 Sent and 1 Drafts above Inbox and 1 Trash at the end of Inbox. Now I cannot have that!!!

Why would Mozilla stop all of that???? Now I have no recourse, and can loathe Mozilla products that act like those from Microsoft???!!!!!

Please add a "update back out" for updates to the prior version when you make these types of updates - PLEASE!!!!!!! And allow us to change the look and feel like you used to!!!! Some people like a color other than BLACK, like the old Model T!!! Even Microsoft add a backout often!

Michael Klein