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I use Thunderbird 140.11.1esr with Ubuntu 24.04. I also use LibreOffice 26.2.

When using LibreOffice, if I want to delete a number of contiguous characters, I put the cursor at the start of the characters I want to delete, press the delete key and hold it. Holding down the delete key means that delete works its way through all the characters I want to delete.

When using Thunderbird, if I want to delete a number of emails, pressing down and holding the delete key doesn't result in the deletion of a number of emails. Instead, I have to keep pressing delete again and again.

Is there some setting in Thunderbird that I can change that will result in delete automatically working its way through all the emails I want to delete?

Thanks,

Leslie

My ISP has made a change for "third-party" accesses to its e-mail (which still works fine on its own website e-mail access page). I need to check my Username, Password, SSL, Protocol, Incoming & Outgoing Server Ports. BUT I don't see on my Thunderbird page where to find these: it's my preferred way to do e-mail! Where are they??

I use Thunderbird on a PC. It has began to open evry e-mail I select as a pop-up window. This is unusual for me, and I do not want it. I just want to open the e-mail inside those windows that already exist on the screen. It has been like that before. In settings I have selected to open e-mails in an "existing window" Is this korekt? Finally one more question: can I write in Danish here? It would be easyer for me to explain my problem in danish.

I use Thunderbird on a Mac, where Gmail is my default email. When I try to send an email, it often takes 10 tries before it goes through, due to timeouts. How can I fix this?

Any new e-mail folders that I add to Local Folders are no longer in alphabetical order. Please help. I would like to put them all in alphabetical order. Thunderbird version 140.11esr

I've been using Thunderbird for years but suddenly as of yesterday it's stopped receiving messages. First it told me my password was incorrect. Ever since then when I try to click "Get Messages," it simply has no response at all. Nothing happens. I went into my Thunderbird password settings, and upon seeing that the incoming-message password had for some reason reverted to an old, obsolete password, I corrected it and saved the correct one. I've checked several times and the passwords are correctly saved now. But this did not fix the problem. When I click "Get Messages," nothing happens. My Thunderbird is connected to my Earthlink account, which is working fine. When I go into Earthlink, I am able to send and receive messages as normal. So the problem is not with Earthlink but with Thunderbird.

Despite my marking messages several times as NOT spam, Thunderbird keeps on and on RE-marking them as spam. And the mails are coming from one of my own addresses, and they ARE in my address book!!!!!

There seems no way that I can stop the beast from misbehaving.

[6/12/26, 10:49:22 PM GMT-4] Applied filter "Blocked Sender List" to message from The Home Depot® Consumer Credit Card <citi@info15.citi.com> - James, Don’t forget to use this special offer to get your Summer projects going! 🌼🌺 at 6/12/26, 10:02:27 PM GMT-4 deleted

[6/12/26, 10:49:22 PM GMT-4] Filter action failed: "Move failed" with error code=0x8000FFFF while attempting: Applied filter "Blocked Sender List" to message from The Home Depot® Consumer Credit Card <citi@info15.citi.com> - James, Don’t forget to use this special offer to get your Summer projects going! 🌼🌺 at 6/12/26, 10:02:27 PM GMT-4 deleted

The sent message is deleted but I get Filter action Failed.

I am trying to add an Proton mail account to Thunderbird using the Proton Mail Bridge (PMB). In the PMB guide it is recommended to uncheck Account Hub in the Setting>General. The problem is that the Account Hub still pops up when trying to add a new mail account - it simply refuses to go away regardless of several restarts of both the computer and the mail client!

My Tbird email was not working, so I tried a "clean re-install" as recommended on your website. I lost everything, contacts, archive, pics, email.. .years worth. Please tell me I can retrieve them.

Thank you,

Pat

I am computer literate, but please remember that literacy is a 4th grade degree of knowledge so please be gentle with me. I have installed Thnderbird on a new computer but cannot import the address book from my old computer. Please help. Thank you.

All of a sudden every time I open something in an email it automatically creates a new tab. When I delete what I have open it takes me out of my email account and I have to delete the tab to get back to my remaining emails. I have changed nothing so I am confused as to why it has recently changed.

Jeg bruger Thunderbird på PC. Jeg er erfaren bruger af Thunderbird. Jeg har et spørgsmål som ikke kan passes ind i nogen af de foreslåede kategorier.

Thunderbird er begyndt at åbne enhver e-mail jeg klikker på som et pop op vindue. Dette er usædvanligt for mig, og jeg ønsker det ikke. Der findes jo allerede en velegnet rude til visning af en e-mail inde i programmet(thunderbird).

Hvordan skifter jeg tilbage til den visning(åbning af e-mail) jeg har været vant til?

Hvordan sørger jeg for at de ændringer jeg har foretaget under thundrebird instillinger bliver gemt og effektueret?

I've been using Thunderbird on Windows 10 since last year sometime. Currently I'm on version 151.0.1.

I've 4 x mailboxes here and since yesterday, 3 of them show me an unusual message when checking for emails. I tried attaching a screenshot but although the screenshot uploaded, I couldn't find a way to insert it here. But the message says Unable to write the email to the mailbox and asks me to check if I've write privileges (which I have) and to cheek the available disk space.(currently 101GB free).

The message is happening 2 or 3 times each day and lasts for about half an hour, then everything works fine again. Has anyone else seen this??