Thunderbird Support Forum

In Firefox you can enable the option "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order" (vs. cycling in normal order 1-2-3-4-1...).

Is there a way - maybe about:config or an extension - to enable this for Thunderbird, too? I could not find a solution searching the extensions or the web.

I have always like 5, 6 tabs open containing mails or opened PDF attachments and would like to "jump" between two tabs easily.

PS Or maybe a feature request for this to follow?

Before asking for personal assistance, I checked the FAQ section, but some of the directives don't seem to exist in my release of T-BIRD, so I'm asking now. Previously, my e-mails (to, from) were never 'threaded'. Now, all of a sudden with a recent update, they are being threaded. I don't like this, and want to stop it permanently for ALL my 4 e-mail accounts. Please itemize how to do this successfully. I don't understand why it happens that when MOZILLA sends out updates for T_BIRD, the updates also change personal settings. This is not the first time I've had this happen, and in many previous instances, it's taken a lot of effort to get back to the setting that I had activated. I wish that y'all could address this in future releases.

Thank you. robert herold

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.

After the last update the program no longer groups all accounts' Junk folders under Junk, but puts them separately under each account - except for one account. This happens despite choosing Unified view in Folders. All the other folders are grouped (Inbox, Archive, Sent, Drafts, etc), but Junk is not. It worked perfectly well in the previous version. Please help!

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?

For a long time, I've used the inbox to also receive the outgoing messages, in order to assist with threading of messages that end up creating a thread with multiple messages, but I am finding an issue going forward with the newer version, which is that a stand alone sent message shows my sending mail address, and the subject, which makes it hard to identify who the message was sent to in the list of messages, particularly if the same message is sent to several recipients, but not using the facility to have multiple addresses in the send header, which usually is because there are different attachments sent to different recipients.

I do this by using BCC to my own address, and this does two things, it gives me a confirmation that the ISP mail server was able to process the message, and it helps with managing threads that can become lengthy

I have been looking for a way to edit the order of the fields in the header pane, but can't find a way to do it, so that I could put the recipient mail above the sender mail, but even if I could do that, I can't be sure if the display of the data would then give me the recipient in a visble format.

Is there a way round this, or will it require changes to the package to make it possible?

Thanks

Steve

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'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)?

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!

Once collapsing email threads is chosen/enabled, how do we UNcollapse ALL threads in a folder OR globally for Tbird? Permanently...

I hate this feature - too much like gmail's email listing on an Android phone (which is very confusing).

linux 21.2, tb 115.5, under new contact i am not allowed to copy and paste what you show, but i need so much more than you offer---I need company, title, and several other fields that pertain to my business for that contact.....got a video address you could send me? I have far more fields in outlook than tb offers me...

If i could copy and paste i would---tb does not allow it on their own pages

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