Instinctive computing
I have been using Thunderbird since about 2004 or 2005. It used to be somewhat instinctive to use in comparison to the current version. That's about 20 years ago. It now seems to have a minuscule amount of instinctual usability. My question / statement is where is the Tutorial. Like many products including Microsoft, make what they think are brilliant "improvements," and what they primarily do is cause confusion, frustration, greater difficulty in using the product and for many a wish they fervently pray for: "I I want my old thingamajg back."
I hadn't used Thunderbird since February of 2024 - LAST YEAR. Currently it is unrecognizable from then. I had been hospitalized with 3 stents, a pacemaker and heart valve, I'm back functioning and love life. However - It would have been simple to make a dozen short tutorials on enough things to easily do the basics. Pleading for donations and not making it simpler to use the product doesn't attract new users & make current users happier. I would be grateful if anyone can point me to some simple tutorial.
In my opinion what Thunderbird offers is too cryptic for me to process, I hope my post is noticed by a "Solver" Don't misunderstand me. I liked using Thunderbird for these many years because it was incredibly flexible, usable, and partially simple & instinctive. Today few people have the will or time to spend hours poring through help sheets that are a challenge and confusing to use.
Would appreciate your help.
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It would help if one didn't use scrolling. One has to give specific Thunderbird issue for other users of Thunderbird to diagnosis the issue. Also if Thunderbird updates settings and layout will change as well. Remember thunderbird connect to your actual online email server it's not a email program unless it connects to the server. It retrieves to read locally but all emails remains still on the online email server.
Mark,, thanks for responding. I don't know what you mean, when you inferred I was scrolling! I disagree that the emails stay online. I spent years with Frontier telephone as my Internet provider. Their email partner was Yahoo / Frontier mail. My emails went first to Frontier / Yahoo mail. Then when I opened Thunderbird they were automatically downloaded in their entirety to Thunderbird. I went online on occasion to Frontier / Yahoo mail. The online site had the major icons found on Thunderbird; Inbox, archive, junk,, Trash and perhaps another, My emails were there. I used to get about 60 to 100 a day. All the FBI field offices, DOD, DOJ and others affiliated with other Gov. departments, some State and my personal emails. No I didn't read them all, but I did scan the titles and read selected ones. When they were downloaded from ↝Thunderbird / Yahoo, the online inbox cache completely emptied. You can verify it yourself Just do a search for Frontier / Yahoo mail. The response will produce the following search response.
Frontier's email service and support are handled by Yahoo as of 3/20/24. To log in, visit mail.yahoo.com and use your current password, or contact Yahoo for assistance if you have problems. Frontier abrogated any email support and passed it back solely to Yahoo. You never addressed my question about tutorials! Are there any? The online help is too confusing for me. At 88, I have macular degeneration and significant issues with my eyesight.
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The following phrase got cut off from the bottom of the above post. Follows the complete wording. Mar 20, 2024Frontier's email service and support are handled by Yahoo as of 3/20/24. To log in, visit mail.yahoo.com and use your current password, or contact Yahoo for assistance if you have problems.
Please avoid adding a space at the start of a paragraph - it messes up post formatting.
You haven't described your exact difficulty(s), so I'll take a guess that your message list layout changed to card view in 115 or 128. To return to Classic Layout and Table View see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/getting-started-thunderbird-main-window-supernova#w_classic-view-layout-with-table-view
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