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Hello, I love Thunderbird, but my new Macbook Air keyboard does not have an insert key (for overwriting). Is there any facility within Thunderbird for Mac for me to toggle this mode? (For instance, Word for Mac has the overwrite toggle in its bottom menu bar)? For deleting characters forward, I must use fn + backspace, but an insert or overwrite mode would so useful for general editing. Regardless, many thanks, Nick

I have several email accounts, and use the Unified Folders view.

Up until the latest release (128.2.3esr), when I pressed the "a" key, it would archive the highlighted message and highlight the next one down.

Since this release, it sometimes still does this, but regularly shows a message saying there aren't any messages, even though there are still some in my inboxes. No amount of clicking on anything makes any difference, I can click on an individual inbox or the "Inbox" node at the top, and still get the same message.

If I restart TB, it shows the messages fine.

Anyone know what's going on? Whilst restarting isn't the end of the world, it's annoying to have to do it multiple times a day.

On Win11 with all latest updates if that makes any difference.

Thanks

I have 3 gmail accounts and every day lately Thunderbird does not connect and retrieve mail like it has done for years. There is no indication of a problem. But after hours of no mail, I manually use a browser and log in to gmail and read the mail. To make it work, I need to delete the oauth passwords and reauthorize google. What has changed in Thunderbird or gmail in the last few weeks?

Windows 10 home, Verizon email account. Getting the messages "sending of the message failed" and then "creating mail message" (and then nothing happens) ONLY when I try to send any attachment. This just started a few days ago after an update. I'm using version 128.2.3esr. Just prior to this, TB updated every time I opened the application, probably 4 times in a row. I've found the .msi for the edition just prior to the one I'm using. Can I simply install it over top of the existing and not lose anything. I've backed up my mail/settings into a zip file on my desktop. Thank you!

I am having problems setting up an email account in TB. I already have ONE gmail account setup and it's currently sending/receiving fine. However, when attempting to setup my 2nd acct, I'm getting: 400. That’s an error. The server cannot process the request because it is malformed. It should not be retried. That’s all we know.

I can't for the life of me figure this out despite comparing both accounts' SERVER SETTINGS repeatedly.

I am using MX-Linux (mx-23). When I used to click on a link in an email, I was taken to Firefox where the link was opened in a tab for viewing. Now, I have to manually switch to Firefox using CTRL-F2 (F2 is location of the workspace where I have Firefox).

I have noticed that when I receive emails that some of them are automatically tagged as NonJunk. Almost as if the sender did something to tag them before I receive them. Is that even possible?

I am assuming/hoping that this is not related to messages being 'marked' "As Not Junk", is that correct?

What, in Thunderbird, would auto-tag some (but not all) messages as NonJunk? Can I turn it off?

Thanks for your help

More than once, the contents of my message pane has suddenly gone blank. one minute I was viewing each email in the message pane beside it like normal, the next minute, the message pane was blank. From one time to the next, I can't remember how I restored it. It just happened again. I tried restarting (which I believe worked in the past) but no luck. I think what caused the problem this time -- and possibly last time too -- is clicking on a link in a particular message from a specific sender, linking to a document found inside a password-protected portal. I just want my message pane back! (and to prevent this from happening again if possible). What do I need to do?

Another lost folder story. I have computer backups going back for 6 months so I can reinstall my lost profile which has the lost folder. My question is how do I extract that folder from my profile from the back up so that when I reinstall my current profile I can add (or whatever) the lost folder?

Hi All,

Recently there has been so much of space coming in after the email signature of every reply or forward I do (before the email separator line). Can you please advise how can I remove it. Happened with the latest thunderbird update.

Regards,

LS

In thunderbird/calendar, when I select import, and get the import tool and select a file to upload, I get a list of candidate events, all are initially selected.

There's a search field and two buttons on that row, select all, deselect all.

Depressing "deselect all" deselects only the last item. Adding a search in the search field doesn't change that.

128.2.3esr 64bit on Ubuntu Linux (24.04)

I had the provider plugin for google calendar and lightning working for years now.

But then some appointments could not be closed. So I did the search on this site and the solution was to remove the add-on and use the internal calendar function.

I did that and connected with my google account to have my calendar events back. But that left out all my contacts birthdays.

How do I get them (the birthdays out of my google contacts) back into Thunderbird?

Search brought something up about installing a plugin for the birthdays, but since I had to remove a plugin to have things working nearly as they should, I did not go the road to install a plugin after removing one.

Installed plugins now: Mail Merge No Message Pane Sort

Thanks in advance for trying to help!

Thunderbird keeps asking me for the password of an email account every time I restart it. The account was removed from Thunderbird several months ago. Even when the account is set up again, it asks for the password in a continuous loop. The email account itself cannot be deleted or the password changed as it is used by multiple parties.

I have tried sevaral things and it seriously is driving me crazy...

I am testing a private POP3 mail server, so I set up an account in Thunderbird for it. I set it to check for email every minute.

I have since shut the server down, but Thunderbird is giving me no warning that it is unable to fetch new messages for the account, which I find surprising.

What is the expected behaviour?

Apologies if this has been discussed before here, but in Thunderbird 128.1.0esr (64-bit) the All Events option is missing for calendar searches, which means it is no longer possible to search past events, see screenshot.

Hopefully the All Events option will be reintroduced soon?

Thank you.

For the last couple weeks I have been unable to rename, delete, add to, or edit my email storage folders under any of my email pop accounts. I have not made any changes to the set up during this time. Only TB upgrades.

I CAN move email messages into and out of the folders. No problem there. I can also receive and send emails with no problem.

I have 128.2esr(64-bit) running on the latest Windows. This problem occurs on both my laptop and desktop.

Version: 128.2.3esr (64-bit) on Windows 11 Click on an open tab (other than main inbox tab) and Thunderbird partially minimalises, showing only a small part of the thunderbird screen.

Clicking on a email in the email receive list and instead of the body of the email apprearing in the view window, it opens in a new tab

Highlight more than 2 or 3 messages in the email list to action them and before I can, they all open. It is impossible to select a series of emails to delete, move or tag them because after 2 or 3 they all open. Closing all the open tabs then leaves the emails highlighted and I can then perform whatever action I need, but this is strange new behavaiour. In fact all 4 issues are new.

Clicking on the down arrow on the keyboard does not always move the cursor to the next email in the list. Can anyone suggest a solution please? Michael