Thunderbird Support Forum

I use gmvault to back up several years worth of emails, and it's working very nicely. What I'm missing is an easy way to access those emails, which area stored as a pair of files per email—<id>.eml.gz and <id>.meta in a folder structure organised by date—db/2011-06/ for example for June 2011. The .meta file is JSON with some gmail-related stuff in it (gm_id, threads, flags, internal_date, subject, etc.)

I'd love to have a nice interface and even search capability across all those emails, but it doesn't seem like Thunderbird can support compressed files by default. Is there any setting or add-on which might enable this? I rarely need to access these old emails, but when I do it's painful to have to manually decompress and re-compress them.

Issue 1: When using the scroll bar to browse the list of emails, it skips one email (advances too much), so when searching I sometimes cannot find that email. I tried resizing the list of emails to try to match the vertical size, but it does not seem to help.

Issue 2: I cannot customize the vertical size for the list of emails. It won't accept reducing less than about one third of the vertical size of the thunderbird window.

Issue 3: In between the list of emails and the display of the current email content, there is a large area that I find redundant. The 'From', 'To', 'Subject', 'Date' is redundant since the list of emails already show all this information. I cannot find a way to remove, minimize or compact this region. Even the list of buttons could be removed in my case since I mainly use shortcuts and anyway, they are available in the menu or when you right click on an email.

Until recently (shortly before v115, I think) any response (Accept, Decline, etc.) to a meeting invitation was sent from the default email account, regardless of which account the invitation was addressed to. This seemed to be a huge privacy and security issue.

In recent versions, this has been fixed, sort of. When I click "Accept" in response to a *new* meeting invitation that came to an account other than my default account, a window pops up asking which account I want to respond from. (I'm not sure why it doesn't just respond using the account the invitation was addressed to, but at least I have a chance to make the right thing happen.)

However, if a meeting invitation is *updated* (time changed, etc.) and a new response is requested, the option to choose the responding account isn't presented, and it's sent from the default account. This, again, is a privacy and security issue.

Is there any reasonable way to work around this? Is there any plan to fix it?

hi, firstly i would like to ask how can i open email attachments in another window, rather than as a attachment opening in thunderbird. for example, when i opened a windows document attachment, it used to open a separate page away from thunderbird and not sit in the taskbar (the section at the top of thunderbird) and the same with adobe attachments, they used to open in adobe as a separate file rather than next door to the windows document in the task bar. secondly, as i have got used to the above changes (but not ideal), but now, when i open any attachments and leave them in the taskbar, if i restart (close) thunderbird and re-open, the attachments in the task bar shows

        problem loading page The address wasn’t understood' One of the following (imap) is not a registered protocol or is not allowed in this context.
   You might need to install other software to open this address.

can anyone please advise me on how to sort either out. i am not very computer competent, and it's driving me a bit mad. kind regards, simon

I have set up my junk mail controls as described in the support literature, and while junk messages reliably have the red junk tag set, they still appear in my in box(s), rather than going directly to the junk folder as I intend. If I manually (re)mark them as junk then they do immediately go into the junk folder. How can I make them go directly to the junk folder rather than to the inbox? My email accounts are also accessed by my iPhone via Mail (since there is no iPhone Thunderbird app). Could this be related to my problem?

Win 10 Pro, Thunderbird 115.5.0, Mail Merge 10.3.0

smtp.comcast.net, Port 465, Normal password, SSL/TLS

Have been using Mail Merge for several years. Comcast e-mail send quota is 1000 messages/day. Mail Merge had been working well with occasional batches of 900+ messages.

Since updating to Thunderbird 115, Thunderbird stops sending e-mails after approximately 11 e-mails. Messages 5-9 kb each, no attachments. Screen shot of error message attached.

Thunderbird will resume sending if I exit Thunderbird, wait for cache to empty, restart Thunderbird WITHOUT the "ask to send unsent e-mails" activated, then use the "Send Unsent E-mails" menu item.

Do you have any idea what may be happening?

Hello, While the display size is correct on my MacBook Pro 2021 screen is OK, it is huge and unusable on my second monitor (see images). My layout.css.devPixelsPerPx is set at 2.5. If I set it at default (-1), the external monitor display is OK, but the internal monitor is so small that it is unreadable (to the extend that it was actually hard to figure out how to revert back to so I moved the window to the external monitor). This is a bug. There should be a setting per monitor or the default should follow the System Preferences setting for all monitors.

Please fix this quickly!

Thank you, Alain Damlamian p.s.: I tried to upload two pdf images but they were refused (why only accept jpg ?)

I want to be able to send plaintext messages with long lines wrapped (eg. 80 characters) while respecting the indent of the line.

I would like to have something along these lines: ``` Some text:

    - more text more text more text more text more 
       more text more text more text more text more  
       more text more text more text more text more  

```

I have the settings described here and they work fine to wrap long lines, but not to indent text.

For example, VScode supports this (I add snapshots).

Also, when clicking "Enter" to go to the next line, it would be nice if the new line is indented the same as the previous one, again, as in VScode.

Hello!

We use the Thunderbird Labels (not an add on) to mark the mails "to do", "started by NN" or "get back to customer after offer" etz. After the latest uppgrade (or earlier) mails labeled on one computor does not show on others (IMAP). Do not find any settings in Thunderbird about this (for example on some add ons you have to mark that the changes done on one computor should not be local).

Gratefull for help because this is a great tool when you are more persons working in the same system. Thanks in advance!

/Magnus

One of the most important uses of threading is to significantly reduce the number of line items in a folder. But for some reason Thunderbird is set up to defeat that goal, leaving us with an unnecessarily long list. I can find no description of how to reverse this impractical default of expanding all threads every time I reopen a folder where the threads had previously been collapsed. (I had hoped this problem would finally be fixed in v.115.5.1, but it wasn't.)

How can I get rid of this annoying problem of having to go through and re-collapse each thread individually every time I open a folder? FYI: I am setting up folders individually to thread, not globally.

Hi Folks,

I had a fairly sophisticated set of Search Folders set up on custom tags - I guess, long story short, there were a lot, they were complicated to set up, and now they're gone.

I changed IMAP server on the account and on restarting T'bird as requested - they'd gone.

I went for a backup to investigate what had changed - and, discovered all the Search Folders saved as: `[profile] > Mail > smart mailboxes > tags.sbd > [search folder name].msf` Also, there are corresponding directories under `tags.sbd`.

So, my question, why aren't they working and what do I need to do to make them work again? I did a comparison between backup version from before the IMAP server change and there does appear to be some minor changes to the contents of the `[Search Folder name].msf` files.

Also, why does the directory containing my mail messages: `[profile] > ImapMail > mail.gandi.net-maildir` Retain the name of the previous IMAP server and not the new one - and, I guess it's more aesthetic than anything, but perhaps it's connected to the disappearing Search Folders. Anyway, can the directory name be changed?

Thanks

I've snooped the Help section but can't find/understand an answer! I have my Composition set to Default, but whenever I forward an HTML email (often a publicity piece) to anyone it places it inline as text, as below. So what should I change to always send the 'pretty' version?

Subject: Conrad, review your recent purchase with Abt! Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 10:02:14 -0600 From: Abt Product Reviews <productreviews@abt.com> Reply-To: Abt Customer Service <customerservice@abt.com>

Abt <https://www.abt.com?##tracking##&utm_content=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abt.com> Product Review

TVs & Electronics <https://www.abt.com/TVs-Electronics/c/5.html?##tracking##&utm_content=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abt.com%2FTVs-Electronics%2Fc%2F5.html> Appliances <https://www.abt.com/Appliances/c/13.html?##tracking##&utm_content=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abt.com%2FAppliances%2Fc%2F13.html> Furniture & Mattresses <https://www.abt.com/Furniture-Mattresses/c/57.html?##tracking##&utm_content=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abt.com%2FFurniture-Mattresses%2Fc%2F57.html> Fitness <https://www.abt.com/Exercise-Fitness/c/1134.html?##tracking##&utm_content=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abt.com%2FExercise-Fitness%2Fc%2F1134.html>