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I can't figure out how to get a threaded view for a conversation in Thunderbird to behave the same as a threaded view for a conversation in Outlook.

1. From what I can tell, the ASCENDING setting works as expected: a) Single messages and thread topics in the selected folder are sorted ascending by date b) Messages within a thread are also sorted ascending.

2. The DESCENDING view does this, which I feel is confusing: a) Single messages and thread topics in the selected folder are sorted descending. For threads, it weirdly uses the timestamp of the FIRST message in the thread instead of the most recent message. b) Messages within a thread are sorted ascending instead of descending.

3. I would prefer the DESCENDING view to do this: a) Single messages and threads in the selected folder are sorted descending. For threads, it should use the timestamp of the LAST message in the thread. b) Messages within a thread should be sorted descending instead of ascending.

Is there a way to get behavior 3?

Thanks!

Can anyone tell me how to set up the THUNDERBIRD TO ALWAYS LOG-IN into its own Messenger and avoid the Yahoo's interference with his INADEQUATE Messenger format - this should not be high-science question but I have difficulties to find an information in the HELP-section - thanks, Tony H. ...!

I am running Thunderbird 141 on Windows 11. When I open the task tab, it says: "Please select a calendar that supports tasks". I have tasks on two gmail accounts. But it wont let me select either of them (or my other account).

I use Thunderbird for my emails on a Windows-Desktop. I still run Windows 10 as the computer is too old to upgrade to Windows 11 and I have signed up for the extended Maintenance.

In Thunderbird I have set up filters to organize my mail. When I wanted to change one of my filters a few days ago, I was not able to do so, as my Menu in Thunderbird doesn't show the ->Extra Option any longer. My Thunderbird-Version is up to date (140.4.0esr (32-Bit))

Any idea, how I can access my filters and maintain them again?

Thanks for your thoughts and your support

Recently, all folders only display the Thunderbird start page with a donation request that cannot be clicked away. And when I disable the display of the start page in the settings, nothing is displayed at all (see screenshot).

I recently transferred my Thunderbird email to a new Windows 11 laptop. Everything is ok, except the font size in received emails can best be described as very tiny. I've tried everything to increase the font size, but nothing helps. My screen has a resolution of 2880x 1880 Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

I have had an ongoing problem with Thunderbird being unable to log into the various mail servers that I use. I've tried repeatedly to solve this problem and have been able to cure it in the past by clearing the cache, but it recurs over and over again. I cannot keep wasting my time like this. I'm an independent contractor and I need to be able to use my e-mail client consistently. I've got work to do! This morning, it's suddenly decided that it cannot log into any of the three services that I use.

Is there a lasting solution to this problem? If not, please tell me and I'll move on peacefully, but please don't keep me chasing my tail for something that cannot be fixed.

My windows 10 PCs are running ver 140 (and say they are running the latest ver and no updates are available, but my W11 Pc is running v144. When I try and copy profile from 140 to 144 about 1/3rd of the directories are missing. I usually do to this prior to going on a trip when I copy from desktop pc running W10 to laptop with W11. Last time I did this there were no problems as both were running v140, but now that the laptop upgraded itself to ver144 that's no longer possible as a third of the directories end up missing - things like Inbox, Trash, Drafts, Archive etc which are fairly important. I've paused all Thunderbird updates until the problem is resolved. Can you help please?

After changing my settings for incoming and outgoing mail servers, Thunderbird still times out. Also, I changed the yahoo server settings to imap but the server type shows as POP. Is that causing the time out problem. Here are my current settings: Yahoo Server Type: POP Mail Server Server Name: imap.mail.yahoo.com Port 993 Username: dragracers@cox.net Connection security: SSL/TLS Authentication method: OAuth2 DOES NOT ask for account or anything else.

Description: Yahoo Outgoing server: smpt.mail.yahoo.com Port: 465 Security and Authentification: Connection security SSL/TLS Authentication method: OAuth2 User name: dragracers@cox.net Does not connect with a time out approx. 30 seconds later.

Mozilla automatically put in the necessary info for an xfinity email account and said it was accepted, but I don't see the second account in my email program. Can you help?

Yesterday I changed my AOL password online. Now Thunderbird email no longer works. I get a popup labelled "enter credentials for user on pop.aol.com". Within the popup window it says "Edge: Too Many Requests"

Settings have not changed and worked prior to password change. I believe if the popup window was working correctly I could enter my new password and all would be fine.

pop.aol.com 995 SSL/TLS OAuth2

smtp.aol.com 465 SSL/TLS OAuth2

Thanks,

Ed

I am a very long term Thunderbird user with gigabytes of historical emails w/attachments currently running esr 115 on my primary Windows 11 (upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 to Windows 11) workstation. I need to migrate to a newer host which also runs Windows 11, so I installed release 144 over the weekend to get prepared for the migration. I know that the basic rule is that the From and To Thunderbird apps must be running the same version, but out of an abundance of caution, I would like to do that at the version of the production system which is on ESR at version 128.5.2. The download page is only offering a 140.something on the esr channel. Is there anyway to get 128.5.2 to accomplish the migration?

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I changed my yahoo password and can longer access this account in Thunderbird.

Now when I sign in to Thunderbird I get 'Edge To Many requests'

Unfortunately I deleted the yahoo user name and password in Thunderbird Password/ Saved Logins thinking Yahoo might automatically ask for my new password when re-starting Thunderbird

Can somebody help please.

Many thanks

I have been using Thunderbird for many years. I have 4 accounts that have all been set up and working fine. This morning the 2 yahoo.com accounts stopped working. I logged in to the impacted accounts using a web browser and password just fine. I then updated Thunderbird to 116.0 to see if that would fix the problem, but it did not. The outlook and gmail accounts are working fine, for now.

When Thunderbird attempts to download mail for the yahoo accounts, I get a large pop-up window with "Edge: Too Many Requests". The pop-up window is blank except for that error message. I get the small pop-up with the Authentication Failure message. Sometimes I get Retry, Enter Password or Cancel. But I never see a window that will allow me to enter my password.

I can send/receive mail from the accounts while logged in via a browser but authentication fails within Thunderbird.

How can I set the calendar to completely show on the screen - currently in Full Screen mode half of Sunday is off the screen, including the settings icon next to Day/Week/Multiweek/Month. My monitor is a 19" diagonal 4:3 - not a widescreen 16:9. For what it's worth the mail screen displays fine

Thanks, Marc

I have an email that is stuck in a local folder. The email appears to be empty. I can see the subject, correspondent, date, and status; but when I click on it, all I see is a blank page. I can neither delete nor move it to another folder or my desktop. How can I delete this message?

Thanks to anyone who can offer a solution.