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Hello, I have been using a custom userChrome.css in the past, but it does not work since I upgraded to 115.0.1

Is the userChrome.css still supported? I have turned it on in config mgr, and tried every resource I cna find on the web, but my userChrome.css is ignored.

TIA...

Recently I noticed the "sort by>order received" option has been disabled in Thunderbird (I am running version 115.3.3 64-bit). Other "sort by" options are still available for use but a few that appear on the list are greyed out and can't be selected.

I upgraded from 91.13.0 to 102

In my 91.13.0 I had the Classic view and Folder Pane and Message Pane ticked in Layout - View.

Over the years I am used to seeing the Message Preview at the top of the right hand side of the screen and the Messages List below it. However. Now in 102 those two are reversed. Message preview at the bottom and message list above.

It's been so long that I did this layout in many many versions ago and I can't remember how I did it.

I've tried everything I can think of.

Does anyone know how to swap the right hand side Message and Preview panes around from top to bottom?

Thanks in advance

I'm trying to switch over from Outlook, which I've been using for like 20 years, to Thunderbird completely. My ISP keeps jerking us around with account setting within Outlook and I'm tired of messing with them. One thing I did in Outlook was use one email as a document/notepad. All I had to do was open the message and then select 'Edit Message' under 'Other Actions'. Basically I was now in MS Word editing a document. Does Thunderbird have any comparable tool? I tried the Add-On 'Header Tools Lite' but the text wasn't plain text. OR, is there a way to open a MS document within the Thunderbird program? If I can't edit the contents of a message's body maybe I could open a Word document from within Thunderbird and do my editing. Thanks in advance. BTW - Thunderbird is sure a nicely put together mail program. I use it all the time even before the switch.

Most of my received email is formatted ok, but occasionally I get one where the message is one long sentence and it displays as one long horizontal line, necessitating a lot of scrolling to read. The last person to complain about this did not receive a reply. Is there any chance this could be implemented soon?

Is there a way to change the background color of the menu bar. My eyesight isn't real good and I have a hard time reading the text on that bar. The gray/tan color doesn't provide much contrast.

If you have enabled the Menu Bar, maybe you find it is the same colour as the Unified folder and want to change it. Maybe you want to change the colour of the opened Tabs. Read the information below to help you use 'userChrome.css' and tailor make your own Thunderbird.

Many times now, I have needed to change folder views to 'Unthreaded', ditch 'Correspondents' in favour of 'From' and 'Recipient' and arrange my emails in descending date order. Every time I create a new folder, I need to go through the same routine. Every time I download a new version of Thunderbird, all my folders are changed back to 'Threaded' and 'Correspondents' and are in Ascending date order, so I have to go through the whole process again. What I need is a simple 'global' setting in a menu, so that I can change the settings for ALL my Thunderbird folders in a simple series of clicks, without needing to go to each folder every time. Better still would be a 'once for all' fix that would prevent Thunderbird changing my settings every time I download a new version. There must be thousands of Thunderbird users who share my frustration with what is lotherwise an excellent email program. Please fix it!

So, using 112 Beta now and LOVE the updates. The interface is cleaner and looks much better.

I do seem to be missing one little things.....I am missing the Get New Messages button so I can just click to download my new messages.

Is there any way to get this back??

I can't find where/how to request notification that an email I have sent has been received, nor confirmation that it's been read. The help article I've found so far refer to pages, panels, windows that apparently have been moved, renamed, something in later versions of Thunderbird. I'm using version 108.0.2

Thanks

I'm using the 64-bit version of thunderbird and I'm unable to increase the font size of the incoming messages in my inbox. I went to settings, general, Language and Appearance and under advanced changed fonts to 24, 20 and 20 while checking off the font control boxes. None of these changes the size of the text in the body of the text. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'd like the list of messages in a stronger font, with less white space. And distinguishing unread messages by color instead of bold.

Can any of that be configured?

I'm a Thunderbird newbie, moving from Agent where the inbox displayed twice as many message headers in the same space, but was more readable because all messages were in a bold font but the unread messages were in red.

I am looking at houses several times a day as they come in on emails. I was hoping there was an alteration in the settings that when clicking on a link it opens that link in the browser, but I don't lose focus from Thunderbird. There could be a hundred emails with house details, and I need to go through them methodically. What would be great to do, is click on the link if interested in the house details and then delete the email. Leaving me opening the new email with more house details, whilst the browser stays in the background. When I have completed the emails, I look on my browser at the ones I found interesting. Is there such a setting or addon for this? I hope I have put this succinctly? Thanks for reading, hope there is an answer.

I use Thunderbird 115.1.0. "Show only display name for people in my address book" is not selected in the preferences. The "Full Address column" Add-on does not work with version 115.*

In all folders the names of message senders/recipients are displayed instead of the e-mail addresses. For example, it shows "My Name" in the outbox - not name@example.org, my@name.com etc. In the inbox, it is "Anna Bel" and "Zack Miller" instead of "support@mozilla.org".

I am not interested in the names. When I want to see those, I look into the mail. I need the mail addresses!

How do I get back the addresses? (I think Netscape Mail did have that feature.)

The chosen answer to a similar question, "use Full Address column Add-on", does not work for Thunderbird 115.* and up.

I hate the new version of Thunderbird (115.1.0 on Windows 10). I've been using Thunderbird for decades and always liked it until now.

1. "Get messages" used to be prominent. Now the only options other than "Get Messages" way up top above the standard Windows menu bar is a choice of whether to display a tiny icon below the menu bar to the left of a large button "+ New Message." I want a large button the size of the New Message button with caption "Get Messages."

It doesn't make usage sense to me to make a large New Message button with a small icon to get messages. I get new messages far more often than I write a new message.

Is this customizable?

Or can I move the top menu "Get Messages--Write--Chat--etc." below the menu "File--Edit--View, etc.?"

2. I also don't like the new font family/face for the list of folders window and the "Subject--Correspondents--Date" window. Is there a way I can change the font family/face? The only options I see are to change the font size and the vertical spacing of the lines with the "Density" options.

3. I also don't like the new icon in the Task Bar for Thunderbird. I think it might be a fox curled up, but because it's so small it just looks like an imperfect blue circle with a white center--meaningless. Can I change that back to the old one or something else?

These changes actually made me consider changing to Microsoft Outlook.

Thanks.

I was in two minds whether to post this i not as quite minor really, that said Thunderbird will be my default email client on several machines so may as well get Q's out of the way.

Changed the font size for emails and folder text which is spot on, the only other thing would be to have the title bars or column headers (subject, correspondent, date and so on) in bold as a quick glance makes them seem part of the emails.

This option is probably available similar to changing the font inside config file but I may not be searching for the right thing, 'headers' returns results for the actual message format.

On another note, in case this pops up later on, while dragging icons from the toolbar selection tray the 'delete' button didn't quite make it, the button is no longer in the tray (as an option) or on the menu ?

Many thanks all

All of a sudden, my email font size was huge. I went to settings and changed the minimum font size to 12 (Times New Roman).

However, when I compose a message, the font size is very tiny. I'm guessing the size is less than 6. But when the message is sent, the font size is bigger.

if I increase the font size of the message I'm composing, with the "increase font size button" so that I can read it, once I send the message, the font size of the sent message will be huge.

How can I change the font size of the messages being composed and have it send the message with the same font size?

I'm using version 102.4.2 on a Mac computer.

Thanks,

CIndy Vinores

Hi,

I have a primary account with Gmail, and several alias domains (personal vs business etc). When sending email from Thunderbird, the Headers include "Return-Path", which reveals the Gmail primary domain on the account. No such Header appears when I send similar emails through the browser / Gmail web portal.

I would like to omit the Return-Path Header when using Thunderbird to send emails.

Thanks for your help.

The attached image shows how my email list pane looks like. I would like to change the color of the whole unread line, to be the same color as the Read column (the green dot).

I tried the following after reading some thread of older versions of thunderbird, to no avail:

Changed toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true Created a file name userChrome.css in %APPDATA%\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\t6yl6i44.default\chrome

Had this in its content:

1. threadTree > treechildren {

 color: green !important;}

Is it possible to do what I want? Thanks