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In the card view, due to the larger email or newsfeed titles, I find it difficult to see which entries are marked as unread, see the screenshot. Compare the better difference of fat and normal text in the table view screenshot.

Can I configure this somehow?

I've set the settings for my Spam folder to automatically delete spam mail that's older than one day. But for some reason this doesn't work, and the spam keeps piling up in my spam folder, so I have to delete everything manually. I'm using the Dutch language version of Thunderbird, latest version, 115.3.1.

What am I doing wrong?

My Ubuntu distro offered a Thunderbird upgrade from 102 to 115.3.1 and I wish I hadn't taken it. After spending a lot of time getting Thunderbird display to be somewhat like my usual view, I am still unable to restore several favorites.

1. The status bar no longer shows me the total of unread messages 2. To save real estate on the screen, I usually do not display the File menu bar but the hamburger menu drop down in 115.3.1 is missing a lot of items that I used - empty trash being one of them and view>all headers is another. 3. The 'Get Messages' button on the top row doesn't enable me to be selective by mail account - again I have to display the menu bar and so lose screen space. 4. I cannot get the threaded message view to display lines showing the links between messages.

Maybe there are configuration changes I need to make? I'd appreciate whatever help can be offered. Thank you.

[Thunderbird 115 on Ubuntu 20.04, KDE/Plasma 5.18]

In my previous version of Thunderbird (possibly 70+?) I had a menu bar (with "File", "Edit", etc) that also included some icons with functions such as "write", "search", and similar, that I used frequently. To be honest I don't remember if this could be achieved simply by "Customize..." or with some add-on.

Now in TB 115 there's a separate menu bar and a "unified" toolbar where those icons have been moved. Is there any way to move those icons & functions back to the menu bar, and remove the unified toolbar? Or vice versa: move the menu in the unified toolbar. It's a pity with the waste of vertical space.

I know that the unified toolbar has a sort of menu ("hamburger menu", the three horizontal bars, on the right), but this menu is not as convenient as the menu bar, which for example has an "Edit" menu, which I don't find in the "hamburger menu".

Cheers!

Hi,

I booted up Thunderbird today with the new update and the font size of the incoming messages is exceptionally small (for me). I have played around with settings and font sizes but I can't seem to increase the size of the incoming email preview font size. See image attached for what I am referring to.

How do I increase the size of this font please?

Thanks in advance

Hello, In version 102 the minimum message list pane height was four lines which suited me well. In version 115 the minimum height is eight lines which takes up more of the message pane in the window so I see less of it. Is there a way to reduce it to four lines again? Best wishes, Steve

In the previous version of Thunderbird the Get Messages had a drop down box. That let me chose which account I wanted to get messages from. In version 115.3.1 (32bit) the cloud and arrow icon does not have the drop down box. It just downloads all accounts at once. Please bring back the drop down box choice.

I just want all of my folders and sub-folders to have the same display columns! With 115, you can change any folder or sub-folder to any column organization you want, but I want them all the same. 115 changed my display columns - why couldn't you leave them alone, Thunderbird??? I can go in and change them back manually, so why were they changed at all??? I don't want to have to change each folder and its child folders individually - I have a few dozen folders, most with dozens of sub-folders. I tried the "Apply columns to ..." and selected Local Folders to change them all - none of them changed! I saw the video from Castellani claiming that TB tried to make sure that upgrading wouldn't take hours to reconfigure back to a usable state, but that's obviously not true if you have more than the one or two folders shown in the video.

Mozilla/Thunderbird -- Is it so hard to leave things as they are and just TELL us there are new features available, if we want them, instead of DESTROYING our well-used setups and forcing us to come here in hopes that someone can save us from hours of tedium just to be productive again?

Thanks to anyone who can save those of us who just want our setups back the way they were!

In my inbox after my personal folders, there is "Draft" followed by "Sent" which is an arrow icon. Further down I have "Junk", "Deleted Messages" below an other folder "Deleted" and after that an other "Sent Messages". I can't delete the second "Deleted" folder, and the second "Sent Messages" I can delete, but comes back after a few days with my last sent message. I also suspect that some of my sent messages just disappear after a while. I always check that they have been saved, but some time later they have gone. The last email in the folder is dated 24/08/2023. Any help would be much appreciated.Regards Ilio Pieroni

Thunderbird just upgraded to "Supernova". I hate it. I'm trying to adjust as many things as I can to make it look normal, but I'm stuck on the font. How can I change the display font used so that my folders and email information (NOT the font used in email messages themselves) is different from the default?

Also, is there any way to change the density or size of just one pane? My email list is too cramped, but if I try to change the size or the density, it changes the the all the panes, and so then my folder list looks way to spread out.

I managed to revert back to Thunderbird 102 after my system automatically updated to Supernova, which I absolutely detested. Everything is back to the way it was except for the fonts Thunderbird is using for the folder pane and the pane that lists all my emails in whatever folder I'm viewing. The font used now seems to be the one that Supernova uses, and reverting to 102 didn't change it back. How do I change the font in these panes?

I realize that this forum is made up of Mozilla users. Is there any way to reach any type of support person at Mozilla (specifically for Thunderbird)? What does one do when no one has an answer, or even a suggestion, on how to fix a problem? Is there any way to contact Mozilla, either to ask questions or to make suggestions?

Right after upgrading Thunderbird to Supernova on my Windows desktop, the scroll wheel on my mouse stopped working. This is just within Thunderbird, the scroll wheel works fine for everything else in Windows.

Is there a fix? If not, is it possible I can revert back to Thunderbird pre-Supernova? This is really annoying, that one convenient feature missing knocks Thunderbird far down below other mail software.

Add to that the "Mark as" button on the toolbar no longer works as it did before. Used to be able to just click it to toggle the status of the message, a one-click method of marking a message as read or unread.

~Syn~

Before the upgrade to 115, shift-delete simply deleted messages permanently. After the upgrade there is always an annoying confirmation dialog box that requires another click. I can't find a way to get rid of it. Please advise.

I used to use the "Get messages" button to download only the new messages for the currently active account.

After the latest update (thank you to all contributors BTW!) the button seems to have changed to check for all accounts.

Is there a way to customize that button to only check the currently active account, like it has been until now?

I know there's a keyboard shortcut F5, but it would also be nice to have the mouse option on the toolbar as well.

Hi,

After the new version of Thunderbird came out, I liked some of the new features I have been familiar with, but then decided I wanted to be able to change the general (not reading pane) of the rest of Thunderbird (folder pane background and font color and size, as well as the main preview pane (same like I want to do to the folders pane.

I know I used to do this a long time ago, but my pc has been redone so many times that I just haven't thought about it. Now I wish to do it again. I know there used to be an addon that allowed you to do this, but now I cannot find one that works with the current version to TB.

So, the obvious question is, Is there an addon that allows you to do this?

I read some things that talk about creating a folder, and putting some sort of code in it, but that does not seem like it would simply allow me to do what I wish to do with just the mouse.

Can anyone please explain to me how I can change the background of these panes from black background and white lettering? I'm a bit behind technically with TB, as anything custom I've ever done just used addons.

I welcome all advice I can get.

Thanks!

With "Unread Messages" filter and "Order By -> Group By Thread" both enabled, the threaded message view does not display the most recent message in Inbox. When a new reply arrives to the already displayed thread, it is hidden underneath the packed mail thread in message list and the user is unaware of having a more recent reply already available there. After clicking another mail thread and then back again, the most recent reply is still not shown in the message preview sub-window.

I am using the new default "card" view with Thunderbird 115.

I have two problems with Supernova that I hope will be corrected in future bug fix upgrades. 1. When I delete an email the display resets with the location of the deleted email off screen at the top. I have to scroll back up all that way to go back to work on my next emails. In the past it did not reset the screen - everything stayed the same, just without the deleted email. 2. Emails I have not read are in bold. I have not been able to identify why, but some emails do not change off bold once I have read them. The just sit there as bold no matter how many times I click on them.

All of the answers for turning off Thread are from 2022 and refer to the "Column Selector > View > Unthreaded" But there is no longer a "View" option in the Column dropdown in May of 2023.

There is no mention of Threads in the options search. I don't see any clear walkthrough to edit the configurations. This should be a simple toggle - Threaded View = On/Off

With as many questions and follow-up responses as I've seen, why is this not a readily available option or why was it removed?