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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?

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!

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.

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.

In left column in TB , accounts appear from top to bottom according the date they have been added. Can this be changed ?

Underneath a fictive example, I would like to move the account at the bottom to the top in the list

John.Doe@work.com John.Doe@homemail.com my.most.usued.account@my-ip-provider.com

Thank you

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

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Hello good people,

Used Thunderbird for a couple of years now with one small issue, that is the font size contained within message body after sending - basically the preview pane.

every now and then I have a go at finding the setting, the closest I have come to resolving this is to select 'message body, then plain text or simple HTML' whilst this does work it doesn't feel as though this is the way it should be changed, it also has tendency to jump back to 'original HTML'

Ages ago when I first started using Thunderbird a helpful user directed me to the CSS file for font changes to the main view, this worked well and haven't needed to change it since, I did try to find this style sheet again but the option appears to have been removed with the new version of Thunderbird, which btw, is great - thank you !

Currently using Version 115.4.2 (64-bit) on Win 10 Pro

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?

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 get constant requests for me to update thunderbird. I don't want to update thunderbird. I worked to hard to retrieve the old thunderbird. The new version added features I didn't want and took away features I wanted. Please stop asking!

Hi :)

I don't remember if I had an extension installed but I would like to have my old account layout back. I put the photos for you to understand. Is possible?

Thank you

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

Hi,

Is it possible to lock the location of folders and sub folders

I sometimes find, that when I am in a hurry, I accidentally click and drop folders into other folders unintentionally Usually happens when I have multiple email arrivals from multiple folders

Thanks Mike

I find the "send again" function in Apple Mail useful, but don't see anything like it in Thunderbird, which I prefer to use for the majority of my email. Am I missing the area where it's available, or is it something developers could add? Thanks!

thunderbird 102.6.1 64bit linux 6.1.8

I am looking to transfer our email accounts to a new host. Alas, the way the new host has configured their server (dovecot), all folders show has subfolders of the INBOX. Any folder created is a subfolder, and there is no way to move folders to the same level as INBOX.

Is there a way to have TB ignore the initial prefix (INBOX)?

thunderbird 102.1.2 new install, new user - I cannot get to "options" menu (not under three bars, not under settings)

I want to set the font size for folder names, subject lines, and so forth. Various web entries say to go to "options" - but I cannot get to "options" - it does not appear under the 3-bar icon, it doesn't appear under the various settings buttons, it is not listed under "tools".

For more than a week now this is happening - no spell check while I'm typing. I finally typo-ed (obviously mis-spelled) and went into settings. 'Check Spelling while typing' box was checked - but it isn't working; and it still isn't.