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Hi

I'm using Thunderbird 140.5 on a desktop Mac running Sequoia 15.7.2

In Local Folders, my subfolders have subfolders. In both levels of subfolders, Thunderbird has spontaneously started disordering both newly created subfolders, and folders which I move from one subfolder to another using right click 'Move To'

Up until ten days ago, all folders whether new or moved, were listed alphabetically. Now, day by day, the disordering is getting worse and as someone with ongoing conversations with hundreds of clients, it is becoming impossible to work when I have to give so much time to slowly scanning through every folder looking for the relevant subfolder.

I don't know why I can't update this version, but I tried installing the newest version available (145) and used the 'reset folder option' which did not work either.

Also, setting up a whole new account instead of upgrading my existing account is a colossal faff and I'd rather not have to!

Aside from manually reordering (also a colossal faff), can anyone suggest something I might be missing in stopping this happening?

Thunderbird says I'm on an esr channel, if that helps

Thanks

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Hi everyone,

I've moved from Windows 10 to Kubuntu 25.10 and recognized that there's no number of unread messages shown at the icon for Thunderbird in the taskbar. I've googled around and found suggestions of to install libindicator, extensions in Thunderbird, enable some settings etc. But the mentioned setting doesn't exist for me, the extension isn't available any more and installing libindicator didn't change anything. So, it looks to me like all of that info is simply outdated and some of it was from 10 years ago.

OTOH, what I can enable in Thunderbird is a notification whenever any new mail comes in. But that's not what I want. I would just like to see a counter at the top of the icon showing the unread messages. Individual new messages when arriving aren't of that much interest to me, I just want to know that there are some and I'm going to look at them at some point.

So, does Thunderbird support such counters for the KDE desktop environment? I simply don't think so.

Thanks!

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I have a problem. Without warning (and without any settings checked to do this) Thunderbird moved all my 2025 emails that were in the main Inbox (not in subfolders) to Archives within the Local Network section. This moved them off the server, so for me they effectively disappeared and I can't access them on my phone, New messages are now coming into the Inbox. It seemed to happen very quickly and suddenly with no warning. I am trying to move them back to the Inbox, but it is time consuming and unsafe and I do not know why it happened. It coincided with messages about Thunderbird needing to compact messages - something I hadn't yet agreed to and that message is still coming up. Thanks in advance of help.