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I share an "info@" account with a coworker and we tag emails as done when we complete out work. I can tag "done" from my computer and it synchs with her account. When she tags "done" on her computer the tag does not synch in my account.

I should add that this was working fine until we got a new computer for my coworker and reloaded a new version of Thunderbird. Everything else is synching fine.

I think I am missing something in settings?

Thank you in advance!

I am managing large amounts of Thunderbird mail and would like to be able to flexibly organize it by topic, sender, or perhaps other criteria in order spend less time on admin and more on content. The model I have in mind is that found on an Xperia tablet.

Hello,

I have an email on several computers: office@company-aaa.com. Configuration via IMAP but TAG synchronization does not work for me. The first TAG works for me: Important (red color, shortcut button with key no. 1). But the rest do not synchronize. Generally, I use about 20 tags, but one more tag also synchronizes but incorrectly, (the third with the ninth on another computer).

I looked through the prefs.js file, but I do not see any connections or reasons why it does not work. How to manage this so that all Tags work? Please help, it will make my daily work in the team much easier. Regards. Grzegorz

I have 4 messages in my inbox (IMAP not Gmail). They are all labelled "Later" and one of them has a second tag "Important". These labels just appeared after I started using Thunderbird as from last month (2025-01-01). I found out how they should be removed: "More"-"Labels"-"0 - Remove all labels" or just click to toggle.

Expected behavour: Click to toggle off, stay off. Choose "0 - Remove all labels", stay removed

Actual behavour: With the pop up window open the label is gone, but when it's closed or another message selected, the label is back again.

Please help

Attached images: 1: Message is selected, go to "More"-"Labels"-"0 - Remove all labels" 2: Label is removed - for now 3: click on another message, the label is back

For years when I shop online I have been manually moving order confirmation emails to a Local Folder called "Orders" so I can search them do e.g. reorder items. When I began using Thunderbird as a Gmail client, I continued the practice. But this isn't a Gmail-centric way of doing things, and I can't search my Thunderbird local folder when I'm accessing Gmail remotely on my phone.

So going forward I want to add the Gmail label "Orders" to each order confirmation email. But what do I do with my legacy Thunderbird Local Folder messages? I need some way to tell Thunderbird: 'For each message in this Local Folder, tell Gmail to label it with the Gmail label "Orders"'. Is there an easy way to do that? If not, is there some way I could harvest the Message IDs of the messages and run some script (perhaps one I have to write myself)?

There are >2,000 messages in the folder, so doing this by hand one-by-one is simply not a viable option. I'm happy to roll up my sleeves and do some scripting work though. Thanks for any advice, even if it is just "you're out of luck". :)

Using Thunderbird into gmail. If you click on All Mail you get all your mail of course. It is difficult to find the originating folder. The header Locations only gives you the location All Mail which is useless. I guess you could go into gmail and fiddle with Tags and Folders but haven't tried. Anyone know an easy workaround. And of course we should all be clamoring for a fix

Hi,

Is there a way to set tags/labels that persist on the IMAP server? That way I can create an automation tool that can work with the tags that TB sets, or I can have the automation set the tags and have TB recognize them.

This is similar to what GMail does: if I put a tag in the client, I ca use an external tool to process the emails and that tool can see the label.

I searched and I see that IMAP is suppsoed to support keywords or tags but I don't see how that wokrs with Thunderbird.

Thanks,

L

I am a very long time user of Outlook Client (Classic) mail app from MSFT.

It has been my practice to annotate incoming mail by editing the subject. For example when I receive an email about a financial transaction such as a online payment or a charge, I edit the subject adding the amout, what was the charge/purchase for and sanitized last four of account number plus any other useful info. I move these emails to a separate folder, either "eBills" or "Receipts". That way I can quickly find receipts, bills, and other transactions without having to open each individual mail message.

Apparently Thunderbird does not support this functionality. Is that correct?

Thanks,

Robert

New to TB...

I know this setting pertains to auto-deleting messages, but is there a similar setting for manual deletions?

Let's say I highlight all old messages dated in 2023--450 messages for example--then I press the Delete key....if there are any starred messages in that group I'd like for them to either not be deleted or to get an additional warning like "Messages for deletion includes starred messages...delete anyway? Yes/No"

I'm guessing there's no such warning, but thought I'd ask....thanks.

Hi... i finally got to grips with tags. however, i did something that caused all the tags to appear at the bottom of the email/inbox list in blocks (still in date order though)... how can i get them back embedded in the main email/inbox list according to date received... this is what i mean by 'embedded'.... i hope this makes sense to someone? thanks in advance

I'd like to tag certain messages as Important, Personal, etc. I was able to change the message title to red in earlier TB versions. Version 128.6.0esr lets me add a tag category, but I can't find out how to indicate which messages should be tagged automatically when they arrive in my Inbox.

On 1/15/2025 I had to re-install Thunderbird due to an issue I was having. When it re-installed it it completely changed the way it looks and operates. I downloaded the new version from Thunderbird esr channel. Both the Mac and Win10 versions are 128.6.0esr. As you can see they display completely different and when you "tag" an email in the win10 side, it highlights the entire subject line. In the Mac side when you "tag" an email it adds a little tag out to the right of the email subject line. Can I get the Win10 version to display and act the same as the Mac version? At the start of this, they both were 128.6.0esr versions. both displayed the same and, both acted the same.

Hi, I'm not good with computer speak so please answer in simple English. Also, I'm sending a picture to help me explain. The "Inbox" in my picture is what my Thunderbird says is in my gmail.com labels. Only it does not list all of them. I deleted some labels in gmail and they were also deleted in the Thunderbird list. Then I added a couple labels in gmail and only 1 is listed in Thunderbird, the other is not. I tried closing both programs and added a couple more labels in gmail, nothing in Thunderbird. How do I get Thunderbird to recognize all of the labels in gmail? Right now in gmail there are 6 labels, I doubt there will be too many more in the future. Let's see, yes Thunderbird is up to date, have a Dell computer with Windows 8.1. Yes, I know that it is old and it's what I like and am used to, so that's what I'm staying with. Thank you, Bernadine

Looks like orange or yellow. It is in the subject column. I have not set anything to 'star incoming emails'. I've read previous threads and can't find an answer. Key word here is SOME.

bold textI share an info@ ..... e-mail with colleagues. We used to be able to mark = colour e-mails so e.g. I could colour blue to my colleague an he could colour green for me.

My two colleagues can still use this function but I can only use it on my own laptop.

What can I do to make the marking seeable for my colleagues as well as myself? We have tried updating and restarting which does not solve our problem.