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Since font size is controlled in Firefox by CTL +/- why not the same for the main screen in Thunderbird? Eyesight requires larger characters. Simple solution best. Past my time to futz.

Hi, I'm running Thunderbird 102 beta and liking it. I'm not an experienced TB user so bear with me. Question regarding folders.

RIght now I have the "All Folders" area with four email accounts within it and a "Favorite Folders" section.

Is there a way to reorder "Favorite Folders" to be at the top and "all folders" below?

I Imap to multiple email addresses-- three at IONOS. My junk settings say not to classify as junk if the sender is in my personal address book. But sometimes my provider (IONOS) reclassifies the message as junk. I added a filter to move a message to my inbox if it is from me. The problem is that draft messages started being moved to the inbox. I modified the filter to not move the message if it is from my address. The filter ignores the sent folder. Why can't it ignore the drafts folder as well?

The top bar on Thunderbird shows which email I'm working on. But the colors (black text on dark blue backgound) make it difficult to read. Is there anyway to change to colors so they're more readable?

Hi, is there a document where I can find the reference for all the CSS classes used in Thunderbird? I just switched back from Apple Mail and the first thing I noticed is that there is no easy way to customize the font size of the interface. This should be a simple setting to improve Thunderbird to make it more inclusive and usable.

I wouldn't mind donating my engineering time to solve this problem, but I would appreciate some guidance regarding where to start. So, CSS?

Thanks,

Diego

I find the default view when searching for a keyword very overwhelming. There's a button that translates "show results as list" (my language is German) which leads to a much better view of the emails containing the key word. How can I make it the default search view? Thanks!

I can't find where/how to request notification that an email I have sent has been received, nor confirmation that it's been read. The help article I've found so far refer to pages, panels, windows that apparently have been moved, renamed, something in later versions of Thunderbird. I'm using version 108.0.2

Thanks

I hope someone can help me. Up until the last week or so, I have had no problem with my signature file in outgoing email. I've been using the same signature file for at least 5 years. Suddenly, Thunderbird is blocking my logo image in my signature file in all outgoing mail. Instead, it is showing my alternate text. I am using version 102.6.1 on Windows 10

I need to forward messages to other people using the bcc field because of privacy. However Thunderbird filters don't provide this option. That is, if I fill the option "forward to" with a few email addresses, everybody will receive my email where all the recipients are visible. How can I solve this drawback? (of course I don't want to forward the same message as many times as required for each recipient!) TIA Alberto

A few old threads on this such as https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1061256 Can someone confirm that clearing the the training data will fix this? I'm having this issue!

STILL an issue where valid and wanted emails are being sent to JUNK. Now on TB 102.11.0

Using Thunderbird 102.9.0 (64-bit), Windows 10

To clarify what I mean in my title: I've set up a message filter that is supposed to search in the body that contains a word. I know the word is in the body, but yet the filter is not being triggered.

I have tried a different word that has spaces before and after and it seems to work, so I guess that's the problem, but how can I allow thunderbird to work when there's different characters before or after the word also?

Made a mistake by changing user_pref("layout.css.devPixelsPerPx" from I think - 0.5 to +0.5 as incoming emails font was miniscule, but made nor difference... so thought it may be a font size, so changed to 12.... Now ginormous and unreadable. Searched through pages here for an answer and got to the prefs.js folder to find this file but it is not there.... I searched with notepad edit search for "layout" but no luck. Any ideas anyone? I tried adding the line user_pref("layout.css.devPixelsPerPx", "1.5"); whilst TB was closed and then opened TB but had made no difference.. :-( Any ideas anyone? TIA Graham

So, using 112 Beta now and LOVE the updates. The interface is cleaner and looks much better.

I do seem to be missing one little things.....I am missing the Get New Messages button so I can just click to download my new messages.

Is there any way to get this back??

I would like to use one folder for both sent and recieve and have the conversation display in threaded view so that I can just click on the conversation and scroll through the entire email chain. Similar to how Gmail does it.

I'm using the 64-bit version of thunderbird and I'm unable to increase the font size of the incoming messages in my inbox. I went to settings, general, Language and Appearance and under advanced changed fonts to 24, 20 and 20 while checking off the font control boxes. None of these changes the size of the text in the body of the text. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

All of the answers for turning off Thread are from 2022 and refer to the "Column Selector > View > Unthreaded" But there is no longer a "View" option in the Column dropdown in May of 2023.

There is no mention of Threads in the options search. I don't see any clear walkthrough to edit the configurations. This should be a simple toggle - Threaded View = On/Off

With as many questions and follow-up responses as I've seen, why is this not a readily available option or why was it removed?

We no longer have access to our account settings = on account of a cat we presume must have tread on keyboard at some crucial moment, when no one was looking.

The IRC settings line is now so long that it forced the width of the column to a max, leaving no room in the window to access the right hand column, where most of the configuration and prefs can be seen/manipulated. Right column is of zero width now and its border cannot be reached with the mouse and pulled back left.

I suppose one could throw away all settings files but it might be painful and time consuming - trying to reconfig this person's entire settings.

Is there any config file where IRC settings can be text edited back to a normal number of characters?

Failing that - Is there are particular preference file which can be junked, maintaining most other settings on the program?

Or other sage advice appreciated

Thanks