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Just updated to v115.08 and can not resize the columns. When I place the cursor on the right edge of column header, I drag it all the way across the monitor screen and the column header expands partially very slow, then when I release it, it goes back to a mini width and I can't read them message info; all columns except the size and received. Unacceptable as I manage a business and can't see my email info!

Likewise, I can't seem to go back to the older version I had! Granted I turned updates off because the nag screen pops up constantly and is SO annoying. Every minor up date now is considered a damn full version ID and it's just a flat PIA.

As well, this update deleted ALL MY ADD_ONS... seriously!!! I've been using both TB and Ff since they began. What to do now. I don't know what's happened to Mozilla programming, but the nag screens for every little change and now this?!?

HELP!!! Thanks in advance.

Big Thunder

I have created many filters, and on the whole they work well. But I have one that doesn't work as I'd like it to. I have a friend with whom I correspond regularly, often with the words 'Lunch Club' in the subject line. My wife also corresponds with a (different) group and uses 'Lunch Club' in the subject line. I have set up a filter with the intention of filtering my friend's e-mails first, using his e-mail address (as in 'from contains friend's email'). There's a second filter that filters any subject line 'Lunch Club' into my wife's in-box. Unfortunately ALL 'Lunch Club' e-mails end up in my wife's in-box, including my friend's messages, even though his filter is run first. Having read through the article on setting filters, I begin to suspect that this may be intentional behaviour as described here (extract from Mozilla Support 'Organize Your Messages by Using Filters'): "Filters are executed in the order they appear in the list of filters, except when that order is not possible, in which case you will see the message Note: Filter actions will be run in a different order, and the link See execution order. If you click the link, you will see which order is used. For example: If you have a filter that moves a message to another folder, and then further down the list a filter that replies, the reply filter will not work because the message is gone from the folder. In this case, Thunderbird will change the order, so the reply filter will be executed before the move filter. " I don't recall ever having seen seen the link 'See execution order'. Is there a recognised way of avoiding this problem? Regards, Tim Dawson

Hello, I would like to set up root level folders for my alias addresses rather than having them in subfolders. I have tried setting up a dummy email account, but the filter won't transfer emails to it. Is it possible to do what I want?

EVERY single bussiness day, some of my political emails are going ino junk....WHY?? The senders are in my personel address book....my settings on the server are set to NEVER block...so what gives????

Hello. As I see from other discussions topics, threaded folders are NOT popular. PLEASE can you offer an option, across the whole of Thunderbird, for NOT having emails threaded. Thuis INCLUDES, when using the Search features, where the reults appear as threaded, which is counter intuitive when searching for one particular message.

THanks David SELIG (faithful user)

I just got the new "supernova" update and now I can't find the stettings to place my tabs bar at the top of the screen. The old version had the tabs right at the top, just as a browser would typically have it as well (see new and old schreenshot for comparison). But I'm just unable to configure it that way.

Can anybody please tell me how to configure thunderbird to use all that wasted space at the top sensibly?

Hi, unfortunately my Thunderbird is not doing the line breaks for some of the fonts that I have received in an e-mail. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance

Using Gmail Account we have the a) Inbox and b) All Mail.

If any unread email it shows the number of unread emails next to the inbox but NOT next to in All mail. In Thunderbird it shows the number of unread message next to Inbox and All email.

how can we replicate so it behaves like Gmail - so it does not show the unread message next to All Mail

I want to delete multiple marked spam files down a column. Shift key no longer works to collect the files. When I depress Shift key at start of column and hold it to the bottom of column nothing happens. This used to work.

Dear TB Experts:

For nigh on 15 years of use of TB I have been able to reply to an email in the SAME Window as my directories and columnar list of emails from inbox, sent etc - i.e., the standard use window.

Unfortunately my wife who is an iPhone email user lost service yesterday and used my machine and TB to send an email with an attachment and has fat fingered or buggered up my settings and has caused TB to NOW launch a NEW WINDOW to reply to existing emails or even "write"/Compose a new email. See Attached screen shot of the new window problem

I have navigated through all the various General and Composition settings and cannot find a check box for SAME WINDOW.

Please advise as to how I can retrieve my OLD SAME WINDOW SETTING on reply, write etc.

Regards, Miles Conway.

I sent an email with "Return Receipt" checked.

I got the reply "Not read". What causes this to happen? I've tried testing this by sending to another of my accounts and checking "Return Receipt".

When I open the email I get the request "Send Receipt" or "Ignore Request".

If I check "Send Receipt", I duly get a "Read" email If I check "Ignore Request", I get nothing back.

I can't find a way to produce "Not Read...... subject". Can anyone tell me how this message would be generated please?

Hello!

Is there an Tbird extension (for an HP laptop) allowing me to reduce the size of a photograph before I attach it to an email?

Cheers, and thanks for your time ... Joseph

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!

Hello friends,

when I write an email message in ThunderBird, the font size is OK.

But when I view the same message in the sent messages section, the font size is obviously larger - please see the attachment.

I tried to set it in the Thunderbird settings but it didn't work. The font size in written and sent messages is still different.

Does anyone have any advice please?

thank you very much in advance

Radim

Without original column headers which you could toggle to sort ascending or descending has the "SENDER" column grayed out - Cannot sort the list by Senders Name because the option under the pulldown menu "View" shows the FROM field grayed out - inoperable - Previous versions allowed all columns to be ascending or descending - in this version of tbird most of the common columns are grayed out

I am running Thunderbird 115.7.0 (32-bit) on a Windows 11 Home Dell laptop. Whenever I go to make a change in the settings or the account list, it does not save the next time I log in. 2 examples. I change the top of the message window menu from "Icons besides text" to "Icons Only", but if I close Thunderbird and come back in, the menu bar is back to "Icons besides text". This is annoying but bearable.

But recently, I tried to add another email/gmail account. I can add it without a problem, see my inbox, receive and send messages, etc. But again, when I exit the Thunderbird application and re-enter, the new account is gone and I have to add it again. Somewhere, a config file is not updating, but I don't know where. Any ideas? This is more of a "well, I guess I need to look for another mail client" problem.

Thanks, Chris

For historic reasons (25 years of use :/ ) I view messages in each mailbox by date, ascending, unthreaded. I'm currently using v.115.5.0 (64 bit) on Ubuntu 22.04.

2 PROBLEMS...

1. The setting of view / sort / threaded for INBOX ONLY seems to now be volatile (in that it switches itself on, and when turned back off goes back to "on" at the start of the next session... BUT also does this in real time as mail comes down: I watched mail coming in (maybe 50 messages, took a good minute or so to do this) and as it came in the presentation (right pane) changed from "unthreaded" to "threaded".

2. The global setting of view / sort / threaded switched itself on all by itself, bit annoying because at first I thought all sorts of messages had been deleted...

I can change to "unthreaded" on a mailbox by mailbox basis except that I have 14,000-odd mailboxes.

I have changed the global settings using: Edit / settings; scroll down, clock on "config editor" button Edit "mailnews.default" Set: mailnews.default_news_sort_order 1 (ascending) mailnews.default_news_sort_type 18 (sort on date) mailnews.default_sort_order 1 (ascending) mailnews.default_sort_type 18 (sort on date)

except that although mailnews.default_news_sort_type was set to 22 (threaded) and I have changed it to 18 on a stable basis (it stays at 18) I never use news and so the value for mailnews.default_sort_type was 18 all along.. and the global sort setting (found by looking at a random mailbox) is still set to "threaded" - as if "mailnews.default_sort_type" is not being read. Also no manual words on what these settings mean, as far as I can tell.

Any ideas?