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A few months ago the search feature stopped working. I used to be able to search for a message or messages by entering a search term in a search field, and/or using a filter like subject, sender, etc. But a few months ago that stopped working. Instead, there is no search field (except the general one searching for the term anywhere in the message) unless I click "quick filter", which then provides a more targeted search. But it calls up a random array of messages bearing no relationship to the search item. This is only on my MacbookAir. My iPhone also has Thunderbird but its search function seems accurate, only displaying what the search value is, except it doesn't get many when I know there are more in my inbox. My inbox is horribly overfull--I keep hoping to be able to find the ones I want to keep without deleting everything.

I checked the Thunderbird site and discovered much more complicated than the last time I looked. Right now all I want is the old one to work correctly. Thanks. Margaret Phillips

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Thanks will pay you for setting this up no problem at all

Regards

Michael

Hello I am new to Thunderbird I am an Outlook user

Is there a way to set up the same shortcuts in Thunderbird as in Outlook?

For example I would love to set "CTRL + E" to place a cursor on the search bar, just like in Outlook. I searched all over the internet and ChatGPT and cannot find how to do it. Is it possible to override the default shortcuts Thank you in Advance Gary

Previous when I chose a Tag it selected the entire header and Title. Now it only insert a little Tag icon.

I need a big bright highlighted from and title like previously. Also, Now the FROM and MESSAGE TITLE re two lines. What changed? I can't see to go back.

Thanks Stan

I have a iPhone 16 and in Contacts you are given the option to add a phone type. So instead of Home or Cell you can add a custom tag such as Shop or Home2 in the event one has two home phones. The problem is Thunderbird only has Six options for Phone Type. There is no custom. If I go on iCloud and I have a phone number set a Custom and named it Shop there is not a issue as both the phone and icloud support Custom tags. How does a person add that phone number into Thunderbird since Custom Tags are not a option? I even exported my data from Thunderbird to a VCard and went into Systools Split and Merge and it does not support Custom tags either. Systools does however give a few more options than Thunderbird, but none that I am aware of are configurable. I thought VCard was supposed to be a industry standard and the same across all platforms and clients? NOT SO.

When I search for a specific email with attachments the email shows up with the attachment but I cant open it. Also What's the easiest way to add contacts from my old email to Thunderbird?

I was trying to do a search through my e-mails in Thunderbird for a specific, single word term. Thunderbird gave me a response of 284 items with my search term. When I looked through them NONE of them had the search term I was asking for. They all had portions of the search term but none of them had the full word. As I said it was a search for a single word. Is it possible to get Thunderbird to search for what I actually asked for?

Pinning is not the same thing as tagging. Tagging is great, but the ability to pin messages so they always sort to the top of the list is extremely important to me. Pinned messages serve as reminders or to-do's--important things I always see first--especially in the Inbox when I launch Thunderbird.

Filtering by tags just doesn't get it as it takes extra time and clicks, and out-of-sight is out-of-mind. Pinning is a common thing and I'm sure the developers can do it. It greatly contributes to productivity and with ThunderMail coming I would think productivity would be an important issue.

PALEEEEEEEZ add pinning to Thunderbird!

Thank you!

Witajcie,

Proszę o pomoc z wyszukiwarką w programie Thunderbird 128.9.2esr (64 bity). Do tej pory wyszukiwarka działała poprawnie. Teraz gdy próbuje wyszukać jakieś hasło to wyszukiwarka pokazuje mi wyniki tylko od października 2024 do marca 2005 roku a wiadomości w folderach mam od 2020 roku. W ustawieniach pole Indeksowanie wiadomości i wyszukiwanie mam zaznaczone. Próbowałem odznaczyć i uruchomić program ponownie. Uruchamiałem też Thunderbird w trybie rozwiązywania problemów. Żadne z tych działań nie rozwiązało problemu. Jak wejdę w foldery na koncie to normalnie widzę wszystkie wiadomości od 2020 roku ale wyszukiwarka nie wyszukuje w wiadomościach przed 2024 rokiem. Co dokładnie powinienem zrobić aby to naprawić? Dziękuję za pomoc Pozdrawiam Marcin

I usually search my emails using the Quick Filter function, but now when I do Thunderbird goes into "not responding" mode and it never resolves. Can anyone help me solve this issue? Have I acquired a bug? If so, what should I do? Thanks for any suggestions you have! Diane

On the "Organize your messages with filters" page, it describes how to create a filter, but doesn't describe what can be entered into the "value" field. Simple text strings are shown. Are the entries restricted to text strings, or are there special characters? Can hexadecimal values be entered?

The reason I'm asking is that I am receiving many emails where the "From:" address ends with ".za.-com". I haven't been able to get a filter to recognize that. Is the "-" (hyphen) a special or prohibited character? Is there a means of recognizing that string at the end of an email address?

Thanx!

PacemakerPete

I have a brand new Windows 11 PC, with Thunderbird 137.0.1 (64 bit) installed If I enter a word, for example "workaround" in the search box I will get "Results for : workaround" and lots of results, each being an excerpt highlighting examples of the word "workaround", each with the email Subject above it including a link (in blue). So far so good. If I click the subject link it opens a new tab, but in many cases the tab is blank (except for "No message found") and even the tab title is blank (completely empty). I can resort to "Show results as list" and everything works. The emails are there to access in full. So for some reason the blue Subject links are faulty (see as indicated above in italics).

I have a lot of mailing lists, newsletters, and a few notification emails I want to use message filters on. Is there a way to force the message filters to search for more than one email address per line, especially for those that I want to also keep the last 2 weeks or the last 30 days? I am hoping for something as simple as a comma separator, but I have not yet found the solution.

FTR, I do know I can add additional emails with the + button, but then I need a separate filter just so I can also filter older than 30 days or any other additional condition.

I created a search for any message that is after a date several months ago and it should search in several local folders. It shows not results but looking in the individual local folders shows unread messages.

Is that to be expected?

Artificial Intelligence to manage messages, contacts, schedule emails, and obtain results from Mozilla Thunderbird messaging.

Hello TB community

I hope you are well. I've been looking for messaging management tools for large volumes and the many email accounts we can configure in Mozilla Thunderbird for a while. I haven't found any AI (Artificial Intelligence) projects on this subject. Does anyone know of any AI applied to Mozilla Thunderbird? If so, which one(s)? And what was your experience like? I wonder if you recommend them or if they're not yet fully developed.

Greetings, thank you very much, and have a nice day.

Ruben Arno

ESPAÑOL

Inteligencia Artificial para administrar mensajes, contacto, programar envios de mails y obtener resultados de la mensajeria de Mozilla Thunderbird.

Hola comunidad TB

Espero que esten bien, hace tiempo que busco herramientas de administracion de mensajeria para grandes volumenes y muchas cuentas de mail que podemos tener configuradas en Mozilla Thunderbird; no encontre ningun proyecto de IA (inteligencia Artificial) al respecto, alguno conoce algun IA aplicada a Mozilla Thunderbird, y si conoce cual o cuales ? y como fue la experiencia para saber si las recomiendan o aun no estan maduras.

Saludos , muchas gracias y que tengan lindo dia.

Ruben Arno

I have written you all now three times. I cannot use Safeway.com to order my groceries and have had this problem since October of last year. I have to use another brower, which I detest to make my orders. All of my preferences are on the safeway.com page but when I search, let's just say "eggs" it tells me that my spelling must be wrong or there are no items that match my search. Please please help me fix this. I have called Safeway.com 4 times and they say it is a Firefox issue. Thank you.