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I have been a Thunderbird user for several years.

Please let me know how I can have 2 different versions of Thunderbird on same PC (Windows-10) ? Each version using different email accounts. What are the steps, and configuration I would need to do to accomplish this ?

My Objective: The slightly older (stable) version will be for my normal important email. The 2nd newer version will be like my test version which I will use for checking/testing upgrades to a new version. Once I have used/tested the new version on a test email account, then will upgrade the normal version. And the process will repeat.

Thank you.

Can you find out why the remote content is showing as links in thunderbird?

cannot get any banners/in email photos to display as anything other than links

followed thunderbird provided guide to no prevail

This last update made some annoying changes to Thunderbird. Most I can live with, but one I cannot. Immediately after the last update, Thunderbird started overriding my preferred sort setting for email which is "unthreaded". I do NOT read emails by threads. I read them chronologically. Yet every single time I select View > Sort by > Unthreaded, within a few days (and this last time in less than 24 hours and while I was reading an email!!), this setting gets overridden and my email view goes back to threaded. How do I make this stop?

I have a message filter for a particular email address. It has two steps 1) move to trash, 2 stop filter execution.

I am finding some of these messages in the junk folder. I have tried both before and after junk classification.

Thoughts?

I may be missing something, but how can I remove threading completely from Thunderbird or how can I download an older version. I"ve searched for 102.15, but cannot find a way to download it. I really prefer NOT to use another email client. I've always used Thunderbird, but I cannot tolerate this threading thing and I can't seem to disable it.

How do we get contact icon photos to show in the inbox/message list? I can't find any options to toggle them on to see/view them in the inbox section (alongside the sender info). Thanks

For historic reasons (25 years of use :/ ) I view messages in each mailbox by date, ascending, unthreaded. I'm currently using v.115.5.0 (64 bit) on Ubuntu 22.04.

2 PROBLEMS...

1. The setting of view / sort / threaded for INBOX ONLY seems to now be volatile (in that it switches itself on, and when turned back off goes back to "on" at the start of the next session... BUT also does this in real time as mail comes down: I watched mail coming in (maybe 50 messages, took a good minute or so to do this) and as it came in the presentation (right pane) changed from "unthreaded" to "threaded".

2. The global setting of view / sort / threaded switched itself on all by itself, bit annoying because at first I thought all sorts of messages had been deleted...

I can change to "unthreaded" on a mailbox by mailbox basis except that I have 14,000-odd mailboxes.

I have changed the global settings using: Edit / settings; scroll down, clock on "config editor" button Edit "mailnews.default" Set: mailnews.default_news_sort_order 1 (ascending) mailnews.default_news_sort_type 18 (sort on date) mailnews.default_sort_order 1 (ascending) mailnews.default_sort_type 18 (sort on date)

except that although mailnews.default_news_sort_type was set to 22 (threaded) and I have changed it to 18 on a stable basis (it stays at 18) I never use news and so the value for mailnews.default_sort_type was 18 all along.. and the global sort setting (found by looking at a random mailbox) is still set to "threaded" - as if "mailnews.default_sort_type" is not being read. Also no manual words on what these settings mean, as far as I can tell.

Any ideas?

Scheduled send is a prominent feature of nearly every online email client. I don't understand why Thunderbird, the most fully featured desktop email client doesn't offer scheduled send and has to rely on a third party add on to offer this feature? Thanks for your help!

Hi everybody,

this will be my 3rd attempt to illustrate a problem due to Thunderbird (see also ticket 124176, 12-23-2023 and resubmission: ticket 125893, 01-02-2024).

On 01-04-2024 I again got the message to resubmit my question by going to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/thunderbird/form and entering my Mozilla account information, what literally happens now.

My problem with Mozilla Thunderbird occured after I transfered the account of my wife (katharina@dr-ristic.de) to my pc in order to chance the related password as all the others of my accounts.

By doing so I suddenly found my personal folder (including inbox- and outbox-folder) shifted from my primary ac-count (thomas@dr-ristic.de) and attached to my wife’s account (katharina@dr-ristic.de).

Up to now it was possible to shift back nearly 80% of these folders until I got the message: OVERQUOTA and that any adding of datas would exceed my storage quota (2147559282>2147483648), as well the storage is occupid 100% (2,0 GB).

I would appreciate if you could help me to solve this problem by extending the storage for example, so my personal folder will functioning as it did up to now. I do not want to delete any of my datas in the folders.

I am looking forward to your problem solving advices and wish you all the best Thomas

This is probably quite simple but I can't figure out how (possibly not familiar with the correct terminology)

The problem is incoming emails are getting put into threads whereas I would like them to be all separate (as they always were until recently) When grouped in this way they can't be sorted into the correct sequence by date or correspondent. And that makes it difficult to trace old emails to decide whether to delete or retain them.

What I am seeking is a way to keep all emails in the Inbox separate when they are received (and similarly with sent ones in the "sent" folder) and/or A way to separate out emails which have already grouped into threads

Any help would be appreciated thanks Nick

I want to use IMAP beacause pop3 doesnt download from email server anything but the emails from inbox, that is the pattern of the protocol, so how do i use IMAP and delete automatically the emails from the server using thunderbird.

Hello, How do I configure the Keys on version 115.6.0? It is not in the Tool Bar, Ctrl + Shift + F12 does not work, and extension does not work. Please help!!

Jason

Hi First of all I hate this new version it is so hard to use. I have never had a problem until this latest version go back to the previous version.

I had customized the menu bar with shortcuts - Print, Tags and Move to, then they disappeared and when I right clicked to customize again the customize button is greyed out and so I can not add any shortcut icons. To access these functions with out the shortcuts is so long winded.

Also I had down the left side of the screen the spaces tool bar but it also has disappeared and I can't get it back, managed to get it to show on the Menu bar but when I click on an icon (as listed) nothing happens.

   Spaces Menu options - Mail, Address Book, Calendar, Tasks, Chat, Setting, Show Spaces Tool Bar.

Don't know how else to access some of these options.

As often asked before, I want to open files directly in readwrite mode. Is there a way to enable this? ( Toggling browser.helperApps.deleteTempFileOnExit did not help me.) Is there a way to determine the directory of the temporary files, so we know it is not an Windoze issue?

This seems to be an issue on Windows and Mac, not sure if on Linux* too. Please don't bother with workarounds, I don't want to save it first. That's way to much unnecessary interaction.

writeable, read and write,