Thunderbird Support Forum

I use TB 13, believe it or not. Why? B/c I despise change -- it's streamlined, efficient, perfect. Now the pure evil known as Gmail is blocking me from downloading my messages. I hear I need to upgrade to at least TB 68 to use OAuth and surmount this problem. When I got my new comp I tried to get the new TB but it seemed so unorganized/complicated and as if it didn't function like TB13 -- the absolutely crucial and most important key function being: No need to be online to do anything. I can write a new message, save it, send it later. I can download messages when I feel like it. Read them offline. Reply to them offline. Connect when I want to and send the messages. Is this still possible with TB 68+? Create folders, again offline. I do not want to depend on being online for absolutely anything, except to send and receive messages. Can someone tell me if this is still possible using new versions of TB?

I am normally a Mac user, where Thunderbird already defaults to my preferred Arial font for outgoing messages. Now I am setting up a Windows 10 install for a class I need to take, and Thunderbird insists on using Times New Roman as my font for all outgoing messages.

I found the setting for "default font" under Preferences, but I am not sure what its purpose is. First, the default was set to Cambria, which was not the font displayed for anything in the app. I tried changing it to Arial and it did absolutely nothing. My incoming messages still appear how they should, in the typical Arial font specified by the sender, but when I reply, I have to manually set the font each time if I want it anything other than Times New Roman. I looked at the Advanced setting, but they made no sense to me, and Times New Roman was NOT one of the fonts selected for any of the settings.

So how do I set the default outgoing message font to something other than Times New Roman? Is there a reason Mozilla does not use the same defaults across Mac and Windows versions? Why does this have to be so complicated?

Thanks for any help, this is really annoying.

I have Thunderbird (TB) with 3 accounts , in following order, • x@gmail.com • a@ownprovider.nl • y@gmail.com Due to problems of Outlook 2010 with gmail security since 30-5-2022 I export/import Post_Out from Outlook to Concepts of account y@gmail.com in TB. Status is "`Concept mail" . So far so good. When I open the mail and send it, it however automatically uses x@gmail.com. Of course I can change the source account. But then also the signature is, unintended, inserted. But. How can I force that TB always takes y@gmail.com as the source account when I open concept mails under account y@gmail.com? Without adding the signature. Or is the only possibility to open a second instance of TB? Thanks in advance.

I need to change the font size for Thunderbird inbox etc. I've got TB Version 91.4.1 (64 bit) running on Win 10.

I found messages about how to do it for version 78, but they no longer apply. Tools now has Preferences instead of "Options" and "Advanced" has font control that work within emails, but have no effect on the Inbox and such.

As noted in the emails for version 78, this seems to be a recurring issue where Inbox font size is controlled by a hidden mechanism different from the easily accessed control used for text within emails.

Would appreciate someone with deeper knowledge letting me, and I assume others, know how to change Inbox font size.

I am migrating from Pegasus Mail to Thunderbird due to the new 0auth2 security required by Gmail ( bless their hearts :-() In Pegasus mail, its possible to mark a message as "read only", in other words its unmoveable and more importantly, undeleteable. Is there a way to accomplish the same in Thunderbird ?

tia, Mike

after a recent upgrade (91.10.1) Thunderbird no longer has the question about remote content on the email view page. The one with options like show all remote from _ or show only remote content from _. Stilll has the exception section in Settings. Emails show embedded content on webmail. What gives?

Does TB add the ‘junk’ and ‘nonjunk’ keywords to email on IMAP servers (which support keywords) when determining email as junk (or not) and moving it to the spam folder (or not) whatever that happens to be named?

Hi

Just moving from Eudora to TBird because of recent Google login requirement change so I am an old stubborn Eudora user (obviously ;-) ).

Anyway - I would like to have the new message 'write' button open a new tab, not a new window. I did figure out how to open new incoming messages in a Tab so at least I got that right.

Is there any way to change the setting for opening a new outgoing message window/tab?

Thanks for your help. Hope this is not too annoying of a question

I use Thunderbird with Gmail. It has an All Mail folder storing all messages and an Inbox folder storing all incoming messages. One can archive messages by moving them to All Mail from Inbox. Can I somehow list such messages, i.e. messages that are in All Mail but not in Inbox (and not in Sent)? Looking at the search dialogue, I cannot find such option, but maybe I am missing something?

Dear volunteer. How do I correct this message so I can read email? "Truncated!This message exceeded the Maximum Message Size set in Account Settings, so we have only downloaded the first few lines from the mail server." Thanks

Link "Download the rest of the message" doesn't work.

I have used Mail Merge add on in Thunderbirds for a number of years but today I have an issue that I just cannot resolve and exhausted all my avenues in what I know!

I have the data in the usual format - a .csv file - I then merge the data and it pulls through both the To Email and CC Email but then not merging any of the text within the body but instead leaving it blank. Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve as spent a couple of hours trying various different things?

I downloaded this add-on, which is just what I think I need. I want to export and print some emails - to me and from me. This is really a silly question, I know, but how exactly do I invoke it? Using TBird 91.10.0 64 bit.

We have moved over to M365 and we have issues with the Undo function both keybind and coded function in Thunderbird. Outlook it works just fine, but in Thunderbird it seems to not work and the function is just greyed out.

Scenario: Moves the mail from Folder Inbox to Folder Courier, but realize that it needs to be in Folder Content, so wish to move it back with Ctrl + Z or the Undo function in the Edit tab. Function doesn't work.

Is this how it is because of server syncing, or is there something we can do as permission to our employees?

Thank you in advance.

This is borderline unusable for me. I have several emails and I apply a message tag to each one with a unique colour so that I can tell which email is from which email address from within my unified inbox simply by looking at its colour. However, as an apparent side effect, doing so applies the tag's colour to the compose window when I write a new email or reply to an email.

Some pictures are bellow. In order, the green, blue and yellow tags produce compose windows with a green background and white text, blue background and white text, and RED background with white text (not yellow, but red, I don't understand this).

All I want is for the compose windows to not change colour at all. I want to set a single colour scheme, and stick to it. Dark grey background, white text.

I tried going into "Fonts & Colours", clicking on the "Colours" button, setting a colour for the Text and Background, and then under "Override the colours specified by the content with my selections above:", I selected "Always", but that changes the theme of my entire thunderbird based on those colours, including the preferences window. I JUST want the compose window to be this colour.

Any help is appreciated!

So Google went ahead and disabled normal logins. This has broken POPFile mail classifier.

POPFile likes to sit between my mail servers and Thunderbird, causing all emails fetched from remote servers to pass through the mail classifier before Thunderbird gets them.

When I use these settings: Server name: 10.0.0.15 Username: pop.gmail.com:995:xxxx@gmail.com:ssl Connection Security: SSL/TLS Authentication Method: OAuth2

Thunderbird just gets 'connection timed out.' No OAuth2 login screen appears. I've tested OAuth2+Thunderbird with POPFile removed from the equation and everything works normally.

Does anyone know how to get POPFile mail classifier to work with OAuth2? This is likely not the right place to ask, but asking anyway if anyone has some suggestions. Thanks!

How do I mark a message in the spam folder as not being spam? Similar questions say to adjust this in webmail. I dont understand what this means. I have a gmail address and if I go into gmail directly there does not appears to be a spam folder there

Help! When I try to change the text color in an email reply it brings me to the pop up to change the color but when I hit OK nothing changes. I've tried so many times/ways to change text color but it always stays black. I use to use this feature a lot to highlight certain text an it's frustrating because I can't do it anymore.