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See attachment. The message box is too narrow. I can barely read emails. When I tried to extend the horizontal bar up the screen, which would reduce the number of inbox emails, it stops at the location I show in the attachment. What's going on here? How do I fix this?

Hello,

Within the past week or so, whenever I download my email, I then get a little dialog box telling me that "Could not connect to server news; the connection was refused", and then asking me to enter my username and password. This is something new.

Once upon a time I did subscribe to some newsgroups; I haven't looked at them in years.

I can download email, but have no need to access the news server. I deleted the sub-folders nested within the news server, but I still get that dialog box.

I looked at my settings, but am unable to determine how to stop tbird from polling the news-server.

I am trying to get a constant font size on all screens ; have gone into settings and account settings; the problem I am finding is that there are various paths that tend to be confusing for trying to have a constant one style or "font" for all screens ; have tried day after day to achieve, and there has to be something I am not doing; is providing a telephone or email for someone to help me?

I have set a preferred font for email messages in Thunderbird (Times, Medium), and it works fine - mostly. If I move the cursor to the bottom of the message (intentionally or by mistake), the font switches.

In the upper part of the message the format/font is listed as "Body Text" and "Times", but if I end up at the bottom of the message it switches over to "Preformat" and "Fixed Width". When this happens, the message ends up with two formats/fonts -- or I have to select all the text and reset the font for the entire message....

I included a screen shot of the sample text when I enter it at the top and bottom of the message.

Any suggestions on how to avoid this and just have a single font/format as the default for the entire message? Thanks!

I've used Thunderbird for decades. I have about a dozen email accounts I monitor. I leave my emails on the server until I click on "Get Message" and I download my emails to my PC.

I'm not sure if I accidentally changed a setting, but when an account detected a new email, I'm pretty sure it used to change the account name font color to blue so I knew that there was a message to retrieve. Now it doesn't do that anymore. I still get aural notifications, but I don't know which account they are associated with.

So the problem is, I'm getting emails and I don't know it because some of the accounts are used sparsely. I have to manually check all of my accounts all day long now.

Does anyone know if this is something Tbird changed or is there a setting I accidentally changed (and can change back)?

How can I change the order of tags in Thunderbird. I want to add a new tag but when I do it's being added before the last so this changes the shortcut of my following tag while assigning to this new tag the shortcut of the previous tag.

Is there a way to just change the order of tags without messing up the tags already applied to my messages? The answers I found for this didn't work for me. Such a simple thing... At least if the new tag was added at the end of the list that would work for me but it's being added before the last. Humm...

Thanks!

I've just now noticed the Threading automatic default grouping/marking of messages, and it is appalling. Thunderbird/Mozilla either needs to eliminate this (with appropriate warning notices, perhaps) or at least give us the ability to NOT link various messages. It's not only vastly annoying, it can cause severe real-world problems if anyone not in the CC or BCC fields is receiving these messages that were not intended for them.

I suppose for now, the only way to NOT link things that were never meant to be would be to change the Subject when discussing important topics.

Either that, or get a whole new mail service, which I'd prefer not to have to do.

Hi

I used to be able to view my messages by sender and all the messages from that sender were compacted from view. I would then click an arrow and they would all be displayed (I think this is called a thread)

In the new version of Thunderbird I can't seem to use the View option to sort my messages in this way

Help!

Hello, I read somewhere that grouped folders were not possible with IMAP accounts. But with Win 11, TB 115.6.0 (64-bit) they definetly CAN be created and they are ALSO DISPLAYED (see pic). In order to display folders even more specifically, after that you can also make individual grouped folders favorite folders and display them as such. ONE / THE ONLY PROBLEM: If you close TB and open it again, those (and even no) folders are displayed anymore. However, the grouped folders and their settings are still there and will (only) be displayed again if you check the appropriate box for their display. I hope that it's not that difficult - and would be excellent - to implement so that the grouped folders and favorite folders (and also the "normal" or all previously displayed folders) and their view are just displayed unchanged even after restarting TB. So, in the simplest case, it's just a matter of the appropriate checking of the box for the folders display are set "automatically" when you restart TB / the computer (at least for the grouped folders, but keeping the Favorites folder would also be good, of course). In addition, after restarting TB, you wouldn't be shocked that all email accounts or folders seem to have disappeared. Could this be FIXED / IMPLEMENTED PLEASE? Then TB would be perfect! Thanks in advance. Pat

Thunderbird build: 115.6.0 (64-bit) My "deleted messages" list shows 3 messages from the last two days. I have lost all other deleted messages and I cannot find anything in Account Setting or Settings that can stop it doing that. This has been going on for weeks.

My outgoing mail does not ask for a Return Receipt, (tested several recipients), even tho the receipt option is checked. It works fine for my 2nd e address with the same settings as far as I can see, but not for my main address. Any ideas?