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in a reply to an email, how do i include the original email's complete header?

with the latest thunderbird version (60.3.0), the original email's header (in the reply) contains much less information than previously, ie:

     On [date and time] [user name] wrote

whereas with prior versions, the original email's header looked like

     -------- Original Message --------
     Subject: ...
     From: [user name] <[email address]>
     To: [user name] <[email address]>
     CC: [user name] <[email address]>
     Date: [date and time]

how can i revert back to the more verbose header, above?

in a support forum post on this topic (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1188567) the "change quote and reply format" add-on is recommended for this. but the response when trying to add this to thunderbird is;

     change quote and reply format
     could not be installed because it is
     not compatible with thunderbird 60.3.0

How can I set the email message sort to descending date for all folders in all accounts? With many accounts with many folders each, manually changing the sort from ascending to descending is a lot of needless work. A global default is needed, and if there is one, I can't find it.

How can a change the order of email accounts in my left pane? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/manually-sort-folders/ only works through 57.0. I am running 60.0b1

When I try to install the Thunderbird Dutch language pack as an Add-On , then I got the message that the language pack is corrupt. It's not possible to download this add-on.

My "reply"button is missing from the mail toolbar and when I click customise, there is not a reply button to drag up to the toolbar. Clicking on restore default set will change any customisations I have done to the toolbar but will NOT restore the reply button to the optional customisation set. Using TB V 56.0b4 on Windows 7

I am using Ubuntu 18.04 with latest Thunderbird (52.8.0). Normaly (in older verions of Thunderbird, like the one in Ubuntu 17.10), it was possible to just install a language like described here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-use-firefox-spell-checker in order to use the spell checker in a different language.

I clicked on "Sprachen -> Wörterbuch hinzufügen" and downloaded the german language packet. Now in "Add-ons-Verwaltung", there is "Deutsch (DE) Lanuage Pack", and it is activated. Unfortunately, if I right-click on any text, I still can not change to german. This did not change when restarting thunderbird. For "Wörterbuch" (Dictionary), the link for download is not present (while it is present for other languages, e.g. Afrikaans), but the link for "Sprachpacket herunterladen" keeps beeing there, even if I installed the language packet.

There are other users complaining in the comments section of the language pack: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/deutsch-de-language-pack-thund/ (e.g. "Sprachpakete lassen sich nicht installieren. Anwendung ist völlig unbrauchbar!" means "Language packets can not be installed. Application is not usable at all." which may be an exaggeration.).

Is this still the right way to install a dictionary, or is the link to the dictionary maybe wrong? Can I install it somehow manually or by apt?

If so and I disable spotlight, what can I use to search my computer for attachments when I'm in Thunderbird? I disabled spotlight and now when I try to search my computer for files to attach from within Thunderbird the search feature doesn't work.

How do I have a search that works within thunderbird with spotlight disabled/

Thanks

I keep getting the following message:

The POP3 mail server (inbound.att.net) does not support UIDL or XTND XLST, which are required to implement the ``Leave on Server, ``Maximum Message Size or ``Fetch Headers Only options. To download your mail, turn off these options in the Server Settings for your mail server in the Account Settings window.

What can I do?

Tom Abele

I am using Google Calendar with Lightening. I have totally deleted an account from TB yet everytime I open the software it prompts me to enter pwd for the account. The account foes not show in the pane on either Google tab or regular calendar tab. What gives? The email account is completely removed from TB?

The other thing is that the Google calendar tab always defaults to Nov 2018 instead of current dates and always says Loading... in the tab???

Since upgrading to version 60.3 I have the following problem:

For composing messages I have set font and size to suit my taste. However, when I read my message in the folder "messages sent" the font is always larger. The same applies for messages received. Whatever I change in the settings it has no effect. Please advise. Thank you.

Hi all,

I use LinuMint 17.3 Cinnamon 2.8.8 (64-bit) with 3.19.0-32-generic kernel.

Yesterday I upgraded my version of Thunderbird to the 60.2.1 (64-bit). It came automatically with LinuxMint update manager, which I usually trust, so did yesterday. Unfortunately I find out that Lighting extension, with all my calendar data, just disappeared. I followed the suggestions here (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/calendar-updates-issues-thunderbird) but I turned out that is not possible to restore Lighting in my case. If I try to re-install it, it simply says the current Lighting version is not available for the latest Thunderbird one.

I backed up all my profile data and .thunderbird folder, so I hope to be able to find a way to fix this somewhere in the future.

I tried to downgrade Thunderbird, but it seems not possible to me to download a previous version from this website, neither I find it on my MintInstall manager. Any suggestion for this would be of great help. Also, if there is a Lighting version coming up anytime soon I'd be relieved of knowing that.

In the meanwhile, I would also appreciate if you can tell me a way to at least read my calendar from the .sqlite files in claendar-data folder. Maybe there's an alternative software I can use for this purpose? I tried also SeaMonkey, but it seems incompatible with a lot of stuff on my computer and it simply does not run when launched).

I am kind of desperate. Any suggestion is a big help. Alf

In Thunderbird 60.0, when moving emails, a "thumbnail" of the email lines is showing, which will hide the highlighting of the destination folder.

In older version, I could easily move several emails from one folder to another and see the highlighting of the destination folder.

How can I change this back to the previous way?

When only moving one email, this is not a big issue (still a little one), but when moving several, it is, as I cannot know for sure at which folder I'm pointing. (Screenshot attached)

I've found that, if I drag in the left side of the lines, or at the top or bottom line, I can avoid hiding the destination folder, but this is not a very convenient way of organising my emails.

Currently when I tag a message the font color of the message changes. It would be nice if I could change the background color for tagged messages too, to make them stand out more.

I'm running Thunderbird 52.8.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and I can not find where to change the settings for how quickly an email is marked as read. All of the other posts on this subject seem to be talking about Windows rather than Linux, and the setup is clearly quite different, ie in Thunderbird for Windows, it's Tools > Options > Display > Advanced; in Thunderbird for Linux, I presume it's somewhere under Edit > Preferences, but I can't find it anywhere. Can anybody please help?

I Imap to multiple email addresses-- three at IONOS. My junk settings say not to classify as junk if the sender is in my personal address book. But sometimes my provider (IONOS) reclassifies the message as junk. I added a filter to move a message to my inbox if it is from me. The problem is that draft messages started being moved to the inbox. I modified the filter to not move the message if it is from my address. The filter ignores the sent folder. Why can't it ignore the drafts folder as well?

This changed automatically two updates ago after working fine for many years. To be clear, I just want to have the message open in the existing window and not open in new window. As it is now, a second window opens, and if I click Reply, yet a THIRD window opens. Thanks!

The title says it all.

When I use Thunderbird's Quick Filter and have both Unread and Starred selected, it will only show messages that are both unread and starred.

I want to see all messages that are either unread or starred or both.

Thanks in advance