Thunderbird Community Forum

I like using Threads, to keep repeated exchanges together.

Today, I selected one of my emails, then Edit as New, to edit and send some of the content to a couple others, independent of the thread.

but now, those emails to others are linked to the initial thread with the original recipient. I do not want them to be linked to that conversation thread, but instead for them to be in their own thread if a continuing email exchange occurs with these.

I do not want to remove them from history, but rather to merely break the existing link to the thread involving a totally unrelated recipient.

I'm not sure how to make a feature request, but here is one. Can it be made easier to sort message filters alphabetically? I currently have over two hundred of them, because each site I sign up for gets a unique email alias, and I set up associated filters for them (each goes into a dedicated folder in my Inbox). It's a pain to manually sort them in the list.

Is there a way to search the message filters for a particular address? Each time I sign up to a site, they get a unique email alias, so I have about two hundred of them, along with associated sorting rules (the sorting of these filters is another issue, needs to be made easier). But sometimes I can't remember which filter takes care of the email address for a particular site. I sometimes need to make adjustments. It would be a pain to go through each filter, to find the one in question.

I have had the same signature attachment for several years on my Thunderbird email, but for the last week, new messages and replies are no longer bringing in the signature image for my emails. Additionally, if I go into settings and try to choose the signature as a reset mechanism, the 'choose' button does not react at all....does not go to file selection window where I can reselect the signature again. I can create a v-card, but it is also not attaching. The attached image appears as if everthing is set-up correctly, but the feature is not functioning. Please advise.

Cheryl U.

Bonjour, A la maison, je suis sur iMac M4, pour le sérieux et sous Linux Mint pour respirer dans le monde du libre. Sur Mon iMac,j'ai bien la dernière version d'installée: 153.04.0 esr

Sur ma messagerie Thunderbird, je n'arrive par à joindre un fichier (PJ) dans un message départ. - Quand je clic sur "Ajouter une pièce jointe", aucune fenêtre ne s'ouvre (Finder)

Quand je suis sous Linux, tout fonctionne bien.

Cordialement

After new installation I want to use my profile of the former installation. In principle I followed the procedure of the article "An einem anderen Ort wiederherstellen". After that when starting thunderbird it always asks me to create a new account.

Does anyone know what is missing?

I haven't had my new email downloaded from my Yahoo mail accounts since 10/8/26. Occasionally, a few emails appear, but they are duplicates from earlier dates, as far back as about 9/27 or 9/28. I have emails from a gmail account that I appear to be getting in T-bird normally. Email seems to be getting through ok on webmail (Firefox, Windows 11). I'm also getting mail on Android (Galaxy S23, Yahoo mail app) and on iPad (also on Yahoo mail app.)

Thunderbird is difficult to maintain consistent operation.

Periodically, the font color changes without warning, and your settings options is very limited and or 'WELL' hidden.

Making it virtually impossible to find out how to change various screen graphical settings, such as 'font color' or 'font size', etc.

This is not the first time my font color has changed, and I can't find out how to reset the font color in the Calendar editor for any particular calendar event, either creating and or editing a change to the calendar event.

So please, provide me with an instruction on how to change the font color in ANY calendar event, via your Calendar editor.

My Calendar editor in the comments block is set currently with a black background and 'black' font color. So I cannot read a darn thing in the comments block. FYI, when currently using the mail editor, I have a white background with black text, working OK. But NOT the calendar editor.

After all these years, you would of thought Mozilla, either Firefox or Tbird, would have provided a good help dialogue on screen to inform users on how to do things like this. You either have done so and kept it a trade secret, and or have NOT improved upon your terrible user guide instructions.

Thanks in advance.

I keep getting a message that says that the connection has timed out. Not sure why that's happening, but it's annoying. I have researched it some here, and changed a setting that is supposed affect that, and changed it to 2000, but it's still happening. What can I try next? Thanks

I'm not sure what to call the different parts of the compose-message window, so please look at the attached screenshot. I'd like to relocate some of the buttons from the top right corner to the lower left, below where the formatting buttons are. Is there a way to do so?

Windows 11, Dell laptop, Thunderbird Meadow 153.4.0, yahoo mail configured as pop3 (i like to keep messages on my laptop). I was having trouble with mail getting "stuck" on downloading the past week or two, sporadically. It would load maybe 13 of 90, or 4 of 64, or whatever, then I'd get a "Connection to server timed out" message. I went online to the yahoo mail site to look for some offensive email that was trying to load and delete it; deleted about 50 of the messages that would've been sent to Thunderbird, then tried again. Did this a few times. Today it started where it wouldn't even load 1 of 34, or 1 of 60, or 1 of 96 as the day went on, would just time out on trying to load the first one.

Tried changing to IMAP temporarily, didn't help. Switched back. Didn't help. (Restarting each time I'd change this). Finally resorted to deleting the account (and all of my folders and filters! argghhh!) and re-adding it. Let Thunderbird automatically configure it for pop3. I did change the setting to not have it delete the messages on the yahoo mail server once loaded into Thunderbird.

Seemed to help, and it immediately tried to download the 3800+ messages that I've saved on the yahoo mail server. Only got to 1900, then stopped and timed out.

When I ask it to download new messages, it's back to the same thing - tries loading 1 of now 2007 or something, and can't get past 1. Times out.

Notice the version number above; it was much older, and I've since updated it 4 times to bring it up to where it is now where no additional updates are available at the moment. So as much as I'd like to blame it on an update, I hadn't had any automatic updates for a long time, so it wasn't that, and getting the updates now hasn't helped either.

Any suggestions?

When Mozilla was started this morning it came up with a page to donate. When I try to go around it to get to my email folders that show I have new email, I cannot. I have tried restarting the computer and the same thing still happens. How can I get past this to see my emails?

Byron

Hello !

I'm using Thunderbird in the dark mode. When I open the detail of an event in the agenda, the text is still written in black, on a gray background so this is not really readable (cf linked screen shot)

At some points I had similar issue with mails, but I found the little button "toogle dark mode for mail" that allow to keep the dark mode for thuderbird but show the mail with white background and black text.

Is there a similar functionality for the agenda ?

Thanks !

I'm using Thunderbird on Ubuntu 24 and have some messages in some mailboxes that have lost their headers. I'm trying to fix them.

Early (1980's command line mail & mailx) mbox files were pure text with messages delimited by a blank line followed by a line starting with 'From ' (or possibly 'From: '). When I open a Thunderbird mbox file in 'vi' it is 'converted', or so it says. I'm wondering what this 'conversion' is and why it's needed.

Please could someone tell me what the strict rule that delimits messages in a Thunderbird mbox file is, and what is it that 'vi' cannot handle that requires 'conversion'?

Thanks

153.3.1esr (64-bit) Thunderbird Meadow Thunderbird Snap for Ubuntuubuntu-snap-build - 1.0