Thunderbird Support Forum

With the recent update on Thunderbird, and installing it on a new computer, I can't seem to locate where the setting is that shows "Read" after so many seconds of viewing. Could someone redirect me? Thanks so very much!

When clicking the "Delete" button on a message it will move to the left or right depending on an unknown variable making going through messages and deleting them a pain. Sometimes they get archived, sometimes they get marked as junk. Is this intended?

How do I adjust the spacing so that the squares show in full on the side? I tried grabbing the darker gray bar, but that doesn't work.

So what have they changed it to? Cause that is irritating.

Thank you.

Using Thunderbird 115.5.0 on a Mac. I started using Thunderbird around 3 weeks ago.

I added several of my accounts. On some accounts, it shows folders that I have deleted months or years ago. They were not visible in Outlook or on the web interface. Now they are visible in Thunderbird.

These folders are shown in italics and greyed out. I cannot delete them in Thunderbird or interact with them in any useful way. They are just annoying. Any way to get them removed? Or at least hidden?

Thanks

I believe this to be a new situation; I've just noticed it for the first time in the couple of years since I switched email clients.

I'm running three POP/SMTP email accounts under Thunderbird. Aside from my Gmail 'primary' account, there's an msn account and a business one too. I use the 'unified view' mode for inbox, sent, trash, etc. and seldom defer to individual account windows unless searching for something.

I can't figure out why my primary (Gmail) account is showing up again, in boldface blue no less, just below Trash and above Local Folders. I feel I must have flipped a switch somewhere, but can't locate it to turn it off. Any ideas?

hi all, 115 changed some stuff on the main display and I'm not able to fix it or understand why. in the screenshot the "quick filter" smaller button is not needed or can be moved down as there is another one on the main toolbar (orange arrow) while the messages display toggle is not really needed as I don't think anyone use it daily. the yellow lines show a whole unused column not needed at all (and I don't really need to know the exact number of messages in a folder, or have it consume a whole column...). the green circle around the messages is because I can't seem to make the main display have bigger fonts. it's a messy display like that. how can I fix that? thanks :)

thunderbird-115.3.1-1.fc38.x86_64

Okay, I keep pressing Reply on newsgroups and having to do it over again with "Followup" I can not find on teh customize diaglog how to move the Followup button. This is a regression from 102

https://imgur.com/qQ4TyUk.png

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.

Hi, I've had this problem two other times with various upgrades, where my setting no longer works. I need horizontal lines between message headers in all folders. My eyes need the lines to be able to scan across and not get lost. I am using TB v115.3.3 on Windows 11 Home.

Here is an old version of my problem: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1277758

Here is the full content of my userChrome.css file that is located here: C:\Users\Victoria\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\hid4pw25.default\chrome

@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);

/* Add bottom border to thread pane (message list) */

1. threadTree treechildren::-moz-tree-row {

 border-bottom: 1px solid grey !important;

}

Thank you for any help.

--Victoria

Cox.com has decided to no longer have their own email server and switched their accounts to yahoo. I can read my email directly on Yahoo, but can't get their imap to work. I changed the imap and smtp settings to yahoo. Also, the email login has changed and I changed that in Thunderbird. With Cox, the login was just "username" and now it is "username@cox.net". When I made these changes in the account settings, my email account has disappeared from the inbox, but it is still in account settings. I am using a unified inbox with several accounts.

Cox will not help me with this, and I have been on hold with yahoo for an hour with no response. I have been messing with this for two days so I hope you can help me.

I would like to add a second account (POP 3) to be used ONLY for incoming mail, and use the same, original account (Gmail, IMAP) for all outgoing mail. But I cannot continue with the setup unless I also set up an outgoing server.

Folder labels seem to show up sometimes later after multiple back and forth on a thread but they do not show up on the first few replies to a message that has been stored in a "unified folder".

I finally thought that I would try the Saved Search Folder option. But once I saved a search in a folder and tried to use it, it seems that it doesn't work the way I thought it would.

I have a search that I do often where I have a bunch of electronic receipts from supermarkets and I search my email folders for: Subject: The subject line identifying the receipts Body: The name of the item that I want to find in the receipts reflecting the purchase of that item. One example is Miracle Whip. I can then not only find out how often I purchased the item but how much the price changed over time.

I saved the search figuring that I could pull it up and simply change the name of the item (let's say from Miracle Whip to Cheerios) without having to recreate the search from scratch. But when I clicked on the search folder, it looks like all it does is allow me to search again for Miracle Whip. So it looks like I would have to save a search for every item (dozens of them) that I buy regularly. Am I doing something wrong or is this just the way it works?

Sempre usei o recurso de pastas unificadas e funcionou bem, porém na instalação atual (mudei de máquina) apenas um dos meus emails fica se adequa à pasta unificada, enquanto os outros ficam em suas respectivas pastas, ou seja, o recurso apresenta algum tipo de problema.

I am looking to see if it is possible to utilize Thunderbird for a very specific use case on macOS.

We would like to use Thunderbird as an email reader only essentially - we do not want new email addresses to be added nor do we want the existing account to be edited.

Is there a way to disable making changes to the client, or at least disable making changes to the accounts added/disable adding new accounts to the client? Locking these options behind an admin prompt would also work.

Bonus points if this is all manageable via a .plist or .js file.

Thanks in advance!

One of the reasons I preferred reading my Gmail messages on Thunderbird is that it kept each message independent, while Gmail would link them together and hide the contents of the older messages. I have hated using the Gmail interface because I had problems find emails that I clearly remembered reading. Now, It appears that Thunderbird has adopted Gmail's horrible display method and now I can't find emails that I know that I received. I hope that there is a setting somewhere that allows me to undo this. I looked, but I could not find any.

Look at my screenshot - I have this little light blue bar at the bottom only when I am writing a mail, it does not appear in any other groups. How can I get rid of it?