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Following a Thunderbird update (I think it was 2 updates ago) it changed the behaviour of the description field in the new events window. I use thunderbird in a dark screen mode, and everything works perfectly, except when I try to type something into that description window. I'm now tying black (intead of white) on an almost black background. It's virtually impossible to see anything I'm trying to type. All the other fields are typing fine, white on black. If I open an entry on my calander now, it's fine, apart from that description field, which is also displaying text as black on black. It's also the same if I reopen the entry for editing. I had hoped the next update was going to correct this anomally, but it didn't. Is anyone aware of / reported this issue? Will it be fixed in the next update? Thank you for looking at this. Oh, nearly forgot, when I highlight the black on black text by clicking and dragging (prep for cut / copy & paste) the black text actually shows up as white text on a blue background whilst the field is 'live' moving onto something else, the text remains withe on a grey background. Hope this helps.

It is the second time. I received a message from Thunderbird asking me to introduce the passwords (several accounts), I gave the passwords and mails were coming in. This time there is no request from Thundebird.

My Thunderbird installation (159.0/Windows11) has evidently just updated, and my Calendar tab is suddenly a complete blank space. There's a support article here that appears to discuss exactly this situation, and gives precise steps for getting into "Config Editor" in Advanced Settings, entering a long search string, and issuing a Reset command. (Mail and contacts are just fine.)

Which I tried...

But there is no "Config Editor" button in the dialog I get when clicking Advanced Settings at the bottom of the Settings tab, only a mostly blank screen with no list of settings and a dialog box in which one can enter text (with options for "Boolean", "Number" and "String"). And entering the search string given in the support article produces, with a bit of finagling, a toggle that will change its setting from True to False and back again (and a trash-bin icon that offers to delete it), but neither "True" nor "False" produces any instance of a "Lightning" extension in my list of extensions (which is short and uncomplicated), so (a) I can't delete the extension as instructed, because it's not there, and (b) restarting Thunderbird only continues to give me the unhelpfully blank Calendar tab. (And I do mean "blank" here - there isn't even an empty calendar grid on that tab at this point.)

I *think* the article is probably right that my data is still there (I can see .ics files with current dates in File Explorer), but at this point I can't get at it and can't seem to get the interface unstuck.

I'm having problems with my default email account in thunderbird which might have started with the 28/10 update. Most times when I open TB the default account has no folders (inbox, spam, etc). To get them to appear I have to restart it. At other times it has all the folders present and all expanded including archives. When I can access my inbox the sort order is always by date descending so the oldest email is at the top which I don't want. If I click it to set it to ascending order it sets back to descending the next time I open TB. I've tried repairing the inbox but it makes no difference.

Over the past couple of days, I've discovered new mail in my inbox but the new mail icon (with the red dot) doesn't show in the system tray.

I get notifications of new mail, which is fine if I'm sitting at the computer. But the icon in my system tray doesn't change, so I never know if mail has arrived while I was away.

I've tried everything - both in Thunderbird settings and Windows system tray settings - and nothing is making a difference.

Is this happening to anyone else? Might it be a bug?

Averill

Device name cY9maT-2cx7dixc Processor AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with Radeon Graphics (1.80 GHz) Installed RAM 32.0 GB (27.9 GB usable) Graphics card AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (4 GB) Storage 142 GB of 932 GB used Device ID CE037C95-0762-435F-A4DD-CAB5A50CDBDF Product ID 00330-54188-55022-AAOEM System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Pen and touch Pen support

Love Thunderbird - thanks!

Can't seem to find what folder an email is in doing a search. The list of results doesn't show it and can't see it in the email. Maybe missing something. I sort emails by folders so not knowing the folder makes it hard to find what folder it is in (such as I may want to move that email).

Jim

After receiving a message to an email address, for which I have configured an auto-responder using the "Reply to Template" filter, I get the following message in the error console:

``` sendRemoveListener on closed conduit {8821E3B3-E8FB-40E2-95E9-EC40294818C4}.126 ConduitsChild.sys.mjs:122:13

   _send resource://gre/modules/ConduitsChild.sys.mjs:122
   removeListener resource://gre/modules/ExtensionChild.sys.mjs:715
   removeListener resource://gre/modules/ExtensionChild.sys.mjs:971
   register chrome://extensions/content/child/ext-storage.js:185
   removeListener resource://gre/modules/ExtensionCommon.sys.mjs:2956
   revoke resource://gre/modules/ExtensionCommon.sys.mjs:2978
   close resource://gre/modules/ExtensionCommon.sys.mjs:2983
   unload resource://gre/modules/ExtensionCommon.sys.mjs:978
   close resource://gre/modules/ExtensionContent.sys.mjs:1171
   destroyed resource://gre/modules/ExtensionContent.sys.mjs:1253
   observe resource://gre/modules/ExtensionContent.sys.mjs:1276
   onEditFilter chrome://messenger/content/FilterListDialog.js:415
   onFilterDoubleClick chrome://messenger/content/FilterListDialog.js:1005

```

Template message is saved in the same account the incoming email is sent to.

Any ideas ... ?

I deleted a Google email mailbox that I no longer use. However, everytime I start up Thunderbird it still tries to authenticate and login to that mailbox. I removed the connection from my outbound mail servers but do not know where else to look. The connection is to a Google Mail box and it automatically pops up a browser window with a Gmail login prompt each time I start Thunderbird.

Also, all my other connections to my other (non-Google) mailboxes are stuck and will not send and receive messages.

Any advice would be helpful! Thank you!

So my other Emails that are setup for outlook.office365.com work but then I try to add a new one today and it don't work I try delete cookies remove saved logins for the given Email remove permission and start over it just does not work.

This might be a Microsoft issue?

cannot seem to send emails to multiple people without going thru mail merge. I can no longer type the persons name in to: field and it will not autofill. I tried to go to calendar function and got a blank screen.

Can I go back to a previous version?

Following a windows 11 update some weeks ago on my Windows 11 Dell XPS 15 laptop, Thunderbird failed to connect to the internet. I have tried various "fixes" using Google AI but none has provided a permanent solution. I can sometimes get it to run by repeat clicking or by restarting but this only works on a hit or miss basis so can you help find a permanent solution?

Since yesterday , Thursday 29th October. Thunderbird has only been displaying the "Inbox" for my account, no emails are visible in it and all of the directories including the deleted emails directory and spam directory are absent. I have Windows 11 installed. I am using the IMAP server for incoming email and have checked that all the settings are correct. My account displays no incoming emails but can send emails. The directories are still absent when running Trouble shooter and the inbox is still empty. In the Account Settings - Server Settings I tested connection to the server and it said secure connection made - this worked for both outgoing and incoming servers. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Thunderbird but the issue persists. Although I do not change any settings the full set of directories will occasionally appear along with some emails and then seconds later disappear again. My email account is working fine on my phone and tablet using gmail.

Yandex email account. Messages are constantly being received: “Alert from account [redacted]@yandex.ru: UID fetch message 5 uid 122: failure due to backend error”. The numbers are always different. Emails are being received and sent. The server settings — the ones recommended by Yandex — are configured correctly. But these notifications appear almost every second. What is the problem?

I was not able to boot up my Thunderbird email client and had to reload it. But after I got it going, I realized there are many missing folders, and there is a lot of missing messages in my "sent" folder. Why?

I always keep program icon in tray and when a new/unread email arrives, a separate yellow icon would pop up next to it... Well, after updating from 158 to 159, that new/unread icon is no longer popping up. Now I have to periodically click the main program icon to open Thunderbird and see that there's tons of new/unread mail sitting there, but that yellow tray icon never showed!

I would like to roll back to 158 but it is proving to be quite difficult.

I have the following very frustrating symptoms:

1) Thunderbird will frequently decide that it does not have the headers for a particular folder, and will reload them. This is in spite of the fact that I had all the headers the last time that I used the program, and I have not restarted Thunderbird or the computer (although I may have put it to sleep). In one specific case, I clicked on my Inbox, and TB started a "compact" operation, and then it started to download *all* of the headers. Eventually it produced an error message for the compaction: " The folder ‘Inbox on williamatwood41@gmail.com’ could not be compacted because writing to folder failed. Verify that you have enough disk space, and that you have write privileges to the file system, then try again."

2) Thunderbird will often state that a summary file cannot be opened: "Unable to open the summary file for Drafts on william.atwood@concordia.ca. Perhaps there was an error on disk, or the full path is too long." I have seen this for the Drafts folder, for the Inbox folder, for the Sent folder, and for arbitrary folders that I had previously opened successfully.

3) One day, I clicked on a folder that contained 6116 messages. I saw it download all of the headers. Then the right panel declared "No message found."

The next day, I clicked on the same folder. While downloading the headers, TB listed the low-numbered messages on the right side (upper panel), and then switched to the most recent message once all the headers had been downloaded. So, the behavior changed from one day to the next.

All of this seems to have started when I placed a restriction on the length of time that messages are synchronized. This was done because I was running out of disk space on my 250 GB disk. I subsequently replaced this disk with a 500 GB disk, but have not (yet) relaxed the constraint, because I wanted to get to the bottom of the problem.

My best guess is that setting the disk space limit has triggered some misuse of a pointer, which is resulting in the garbage-in, garbage-out syndrome. However, I could be way off.

I would be very happy to work with anyone on the TB team, and invoke whatever debugging tools are necessary (under direction) to find the root cause of this error.