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This is simple. Getting here is not. The issue is the zoom feature which many years ago I could not find. Now it is available and that is great, except: The CTRL + and CTRL - do not work until you first use the function in the menu. Once I use it in the menu I can use the key stroke several times to get it where I can read it. Every time though I have to go to the View function in the menu first. Simple fix.

Randy

I spend the last hour or so in sheer panic and doubting my sanitiy as an email I was just reading disappeared from every mailbox I have here (I have 8 mailboxes in Thunderbird) . Also for whatever reason search is missing from the title bar.

The email was "archived" by Thunderbird inthe "Local Folders" I never use local folders as local folders is silly in 2026 imo. I have my own mailserver which is perfectly save and backuped and stuf I don't need yet another location were mail can hide.

Anyway that was a bit of a rant. This would not have happend if this sille ¨Local Folders" didn´t exist at all. But I seem unable to get rid of it.

How do I remove ¨Local Folders" from Thunderbird?

I've encountered a stange issue: By default, a quoted reply is indented to the right with a vertical line on the left side. Since some time, this vertical line disappears when composing a reply - i.e., when clicking "reply", the compose window opens where the vertical reply bar shows up on the left for a split second but then disappears, leaving just the quoted text without indentation or reply bar. Compose in HTML is on, but it shouldn't matter for the reply bar display anyway. Reply quoting is also enabled, of course.

I know the reply bar can be toggled in the config by mail.quoted_graphical and mail.quoteasblock, but both values are already set to true. Setting them to false should completely disable the reply bar, but it shows up for a split second and is "auto-removed" in the compose editor. It's also not just a display issue in the editor because a recipient doesn't see the reply bar either.

Is there anything else I can check? Most likely it can be resolved with a clean profile, but I want to save the pain of setting up everything again if possible. The issue occured over the span of multiple recent TB versions on Windows 10.

In a prior version of Thunderbird all the folders with new e-mails were grouped together in a separate pane that appeared at the top of the folders list. In the latest version of thunderbird, this feature appears to have disappeared. Is there a way to restore this feature?

When I open something in an email in Thunderbird I also get an extra new tab along with the tab for what I am wanting. If I don't delete this new tab, when I try to return to my email page it takes me to my Windows 11 home page. It only happens when I use Thunderbird and is very annoying. What do I need to do to resolve this issue.

Hi, I have 2 Local Folders and an additional Local Folders1 folder. I need tol remove two of them so my Msg Filters work properly. Do I need to edit an additional file inn my Proffile folder? Need some guidance please. Am I not following rules and guidelines? Thanks

Disabled in a nursing home.

I've been a Netscape-based user for almost as long as home IT has been around. Am attempting to finally take the plunge and get away from the Seamonkey Suite to use just Thunderbird for emails, and the wife would like some of the same viewing pane colors to be the same as she's used to.

Following assorted online suggestions for enabling the use of 'userChrome.css' to change the background colors of folderPane, threadPane and messagePane aren't having any effect. I've:

• Set 'toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets' to TRUE
• Created 'chrome' folder and specimen .CSS file
• Added color values for the above properties
• Restarted TBird after each setting change attempt, but no views are changing

I've also attempted to make heads/tails out of guidance for using Debugging Tools to inspect elements to find/verify the current names of properties that I want to change, but have not been able to work that out.

I'm not a complete IT novice--I am a 20-yr sysadmin, not a developer. I can write PowerShell, but no HTML experience. Take pity on an old man?

Hiya, any re-arranging of the account list does not work. Been like this for months. Checking again today after Thunderbird version update it is still the same.

The drag and drop sort in setting works however the new list order is not applied to the actual account list.

Win11. Thunderbird 154.0 (64-bit).

Any ideas? Searches are pretty much only showing instructions on how to drag and drop. No solutions that I can see. Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I have been using Thunderbird as my preferred email client since around 2004 on Linux, macOS and Windows.

I am current running Thunderbird 150.0.2 64-bit on macOS Tahoe 26.5 ( Intel ).

When I attempt to create a new 'Folder' or 'Sub Folder' on either an iMAP account or, more importantly, my 'Local Folder' the displayed dialogue box is sized incorrectly and I am unable to complete the action.

Specifically I can type into the 'Name' text box and see the 'Create as a subfolder of" drop down dialogue but the two buttons below are barely visible and I cannot select either with my mouse. Nor can I resize the dialogue box itself [ make larger ] to enable to be select either button.

I can use the <TAB> key to cycle thorough the various items and the <RETURN> key to select an option.

I have attached a sample image of the issue.

Thanks.

I can't turn off 'threading' of messages. I hate that feature. I'll do my own damn 'threading'. Now the 'search' function is useless. Help me turn off 'threading' I run Thunderbird which I like, on my HP Windows 11 laptop.

"Threading" cannot be 'unchecked' in the dropdown menu.

When I try and open any link on an email I get an error message: "This file does not have an app associated with it to perform this action. Please install an app or if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Settings page". This occurred from start up this morning.

I tried the Toolbar fixes in this forum and got the menu to show up, thank you. (Any menu in Compose mode had disappeared. Actually, both Firefox and Thunderbird icons on desktop and Taskbar had disappeared as well, and I had to reinstate shortcuts. This may or may not be pertinent.)

But when I try to add "Send" to the menu, using customize, the "Send" icon is nowhere to be found as an option, so I cannot add it to the Toolbar in Composition mode. "Send" is grayed out in all bold textmenus. If I use Ctrl-Enter, message does get sent. Using Windows 10, still. Perhaps this is an upgrade issue?

Most of my buttons have disappeared except the send button, which doesn't work. Online help is confusing or doesn't fix the problem. I'm ready to move to a different platform. Why is this so difficult?

Bonjour, Je vous promets que je vous fais un don dès que vous aurez mis fin à votre publicité mensongère à propos des Dossier récents : ils ne sont jamais triés par ordre alphabétique, quelque soit le paramétrage demandé.