Thunderbird Support Forum

Hi, I have Thunderbird installed on a desktop and laptop. If I read, delete or archive a message on my desktop, should it automatically read, delete or archive on my laptop.

Hello, i am no it techic woman, just a normal user of firefox for all my different email-adresses. the firefox design changed completly. and for me and my eyes and brain it is a terrible design! i cannot read anything proberly! its all one mess for my eyes! i am sorry to say that... but ... how can i change back to the old layout? if no change back possible, i think i have to choose a different IT-System... i am sorry.. .but this does not work for me! it makes my eyes tired ... its such a crowded design...

so please help me to get the layout back to the last version! lots of love from Germany, Claudia

I would like to keep using imap (because directory synchronization and such) instead of pop, yet I also want to configure thunderbird to delete (expunge) emails from the server after a certain number of days while keeping them intact offline. The reason for this is that I want to keep an offline only archive because it is more secure.

I currently only see options to delete everywhere after N days or delete locally after N days, but I want to keep local and delete from the server. It looks like the server software my email provider uses doesn't have a setting for it either, so doing this in thunderbird is my best chance of getting ut done.

I already downloaded my thunderbird to a new desktop and my profile and all my mails are visible. But, ehen Im only trying to export my addressbook/contacts which are missing still from new computer pressing the address book under tool and export lets me only download a complete zip file. And the desktop when i want to import the addressbook coz it wants it as a first choice as csv and then some similar choices. Where has gone the possibility to download only addressbook to usb stick and then import only the addresses as csv to the new one. This seems to be very complicated. Or are there any specific files in the system which contain the addresses and I could just copy them from my laptop and replace them to the same place where contacts are ususally stored to make the new computer understand and get use of them. I see many people have hard time with this issue and now it seems itsbeen made very difficult. So better to move to another email svc or do you have an easy solution for this?

Teemu Tuuri teemu.tuuri@kolumbus.fi