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I have no idea what happened to my Thunderbird. I think it might have been an update, because all of my folders are not where they were, everything in the folders are sorted by groups like today, or older. I noticed a bunch of my emails are now in folders marked as a Userfolder#. The emails it contains are those that normally should be in a properly named folder, only those named folders are grayed out. Another issue is that when i try to open an email, it opens it as if I want to reply to it. If I just want to read the email, I have to right click on the email and select open to read it. I have 2 spam folders, no idea why, nothing saves to my draft folder I found out today, I just dont know what happened! I dont think I did anything but I dont know now, as Im beginning to doubt myself. It's been this way for a few days.

If I type a date for example 24th October, Thunderbird changes what I type to T4th, if I type 22nd, it changes to N2nd, the 5th becomes Tth and so on, I have tried all sorts but I cannot find a fix apart from typing the 22 then leave a space, type th then go back and delete the space, then I have what I want. Also if I press ctrl+B to type in Bold, and let's say I type R9.88, the program changes that to a capital B, and dumps my cursor in the next line, again I have tried all sorts and can't get that fixed.

Lastly, I have done my signature using Account Settings, Signature Text, I have ticked the "Use HTML" and typed my text in three lines, my signature shows as a single line with only a space between.

So, Kind regards Mark Collings Telephone Number Shows as Kind regards Mark Collings Telephone Number.

Can you give guidance and solutions please

A vertical blue line/bar has appeared between the folder icon and the folder name. I can change the icon colour in properties for a folder but the blue bar stays blue. It is blue regardless of the state of messages in the folder (whether read or unread). Is it possibly related to the bug where Thunderbird tries to update every time I open T? But help says T is up to date. The blue line does not appear on my wife's Thunderbird running the same software version under a different profile. It is very annoying not knowing why it is there and what it means. Thanks

It appears that when I invert the sorting order of messages by Date, it does not affect the order of messages in a threaded conversation.

Is this deliberate or a known issue?

Any solution to sort everything with the newest messages at the top, that is: - Messages - And messages within a thread

Thanks!

Thunderbird by design changes Outlook deleted folder to trash.

Problem with this is that you end up with 2 trash folders.

One for Thunderbird and one from Outlook.

Chnage this so Thunderbird does not change Outlook deleted folder name.

Thunderbird normally displays the number of messages in a folder, near the top of the screen above the list of messages. But somehow, clicking around, I lost that display of the message count and cannot get it back. Wondering if anyone knows how to get that number back, get it show up near the top of the screen. I'm using version 156.0.

whilst all incoming emails are visible, many do not display their message header in the Inbox List. such as the one captured with a screen shot. Several have displayed in this manner over the last few days as can be seen.

Currently using TB 153.0, Win 11 on desktop PC.

In past versions there was a progress bar on right end of the status line, along bottom edge of the screen, that showed progress while TB was compacting folders. That bar hasn't been visible in last few updates.

When prompted today, I allowed TB to start compacting. I'd permanently deleted a really big bunch of old emails in last few days, so probably a lot of space that could be recovered. I kept waiting and waiting and waiting, but without the progress I had no idea if TB was busy or possibly frozen. So I just left it alone. When I came back and tried to manually start compacting, it immediately said "Done, 0K saved". So it had obviously done the compacting.

If it's an option, how do I enable that progress bar? If not currently available, please consider restoring it in future TB updates. I -for one- think it's a very useful feature.

THX!

I use Thunderbird to access my Gmail accounts. Gmail is confirgured for IMAP and I am able to access all of my E-mail accounts ... so that is good.

However, I do have one issue: When I delete an E-mail in Thunderbird, it moves to the TRASH folder and I empty that daily. However, when I go to Gmail, I can see that they are STILL in "All Mail". If I access All Mail in Thunderbird and delete messages, they reappear.

The only way I am able to get rid of them for good is to access them in Gmail. If I don;t, the All MAil folders grow like crazy and messages thgat I deleted are still there .. some were several years old.

Question: Is there a way to set up Thunderbird so that when an E-mail is deleted in Thunderbird, that it takes it out of "All Mail"?

I’m trying to understand how Thunderbird handles links to online media when an email contains a link to a photo or video rather than a normal attachment.

For example, if an email contains a link to public Instagram media, I may open it in the browser and use a browser-based option such as Indown.mobi to work with the media. Is there any Thunderbird setting that affects how these external media links are opened or handled?

I’m mainly interested in understanding whether Thunderbird treats these differently from normal attachments and whether there is a recommended workflow for managing them.

In TB prior to v.155, folder message counts were not shown at all if the respective folders were empty. That is, instead of showing "0", TB did not show anything.

Now, after updating to TB v.155.0.1, I see dashes (horizontal lines) in the folder tree to the right of each empty folder.

Is it possible to revert back to the original behaviour and get rid of those unsightly dashes? They only add visual clutter (my opinion, obviously) while not providing any extra information.

Thanks.

I've been using Thunderbird version 155.0 with only a few issues (reported in other posts).

To investigate one of the issues I've had to create a new profile for testing. I've managed to set everything up except for my default font for outgoing emails. If I send an email with say, four lines of text, I can format each line to be a different font and the received email reflects the different fonts for each line.

But Thunderbird isn't remembering the last selected font. So if I send a second email (without re-selecting any font) the recipient receives it in some naff mono-spaced font. I guess there's somewhere where I can set up the default font for my outgoing emails but I haven't managed to find it yet. Can anyone help?

I use Message Filters in Thunderbird extensively. Some of the grouped filters have many entries. Is there a quick way to find individual filter entries while using Thunderbird to, for example, modify or delete them? The only way I know of at the moment is to edit the the msgFilterRules.dat file as a text file.

Hi, I found an entry in the "thunderbirdmail.de" forum from 2005, where they discuss the option of using userChrome.css for changing the number of lines in the title of an calender appointment.

My problem is, that if the text of the title is really long, thunderbird will not enlarge the title window (more lines), so I can see the whole text (as in Outlook - from where I just changed to Thunderbird a few weeks ago).

The entry into the userCrome.css (as suggested in the forum)

.calendar-color-box .event-name-label {

  white-space:  break-spaces !important;

}

is not working (even I changed the "toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets" to "true").

Can you help me with that issue?

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