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I'm trying to transition from Eudora to T'bird. I've got both installed on my Win11 laptop. I've used Eudora 25+ years, i have about 4 or 500 filters set up. I can't get even one filter to work on T'bird, so my Inbox now contains a near-useless jumble of over 2000 messages. Gotta get past this to keep using T'bird. E.G. I subscribe to an email forum called Baen's Bar. It accounts for 80% of my inbound traffic. So I set up this single filter:

Apply when: Manually and New email Match all of: From Contains baen Subject contains baen To contains baen

Actions: Move message to: Baen Bar on green@xplornet.com' (i created this folder and see it below "Inbox") (AFAIK these criteria should capture every relevant email) (Question #1: is matching content a case-sensitive test?)

(Aside: when typing this query, i tried to make the actual dialog italic for clarity. I highlighted some text and hit the "i" above the dialog box, all it did was enclose the highlighted text with quotes - really? so Question #2 - italics not working?)

Anyway what happens is, no apparent filtering when getting new mail, and in the "Message Filters" dialog box, when i select the one and only filter, and make sure "Enabled" is checked, and click on "Run Now", also nothing happens. Ok, i say "nothing", but when i look in the "Baen Bar" folder, there are three (3) messages containing the word "baen". Three out of the 2,000 such messages cluttering my inbox. I could understand "none", i could understand "2,000", but "3"? WTF??? I tried it multiple times, not sure which attempt even got those 3. Solutions gratefully accepted.

Question #3 I noticed a reference to "Importing filters from Eudora". I DO NOT want the **content** of Eudora's hundreds of mailboxes to be imported - it's probably over 8 Gb. I'm fine leaving that content archived with Eudora. Is there a way to import the filter list and folder list from Eudora without importing the contents?

Question #4 Where is T'bird storing my email? Most of my cyber-world is on an external HDD. I love about Eudora that it's fully portable. I can literally unplug my external HDD from my Win11 laptop and plug it into your laptop, rename the drive to J: and just run Eudora. Can i do that with T'bird?

Using a new, clean install of Xubuntu 26.04, with thunderbird 140.10.2esr 64 bit, ubuntu snap build 1.0. In settings: play a sound when new message arrives, no sound is heard. When clicking "play" to test the sound, there is no sound. Also, if "use the following sound file" is checked, there is no sound when "play" is clicked. (I have tried various .wav and .mp3 files.) I have installed pipewire-alsa, but that didn't help. Any ideas?

'Morning, 5-19-26

I'm having an issue that's not major, but irritating. and getting time-consuming.

'Recently left Windows 11 behind (good riddance!) and have gone back to Linux Mint, which is working out well for me. But there's a strange and persistent glitch" when pasting into T-bird from Autokey, which I use daily,

I get typos, dropped spaces, etc, whenever pasting into T-bird BUT INTO NO OTHER PROGRAMS. My workaround has been to paste first into a text editor (which receives the pasted text perfectly formatted), THEN into T-bird from there.

Again, it's not a major, life-threatening issue, but at the end of the day it's a real time-consumer.

I've posted this question on other forums, but no one can give me an answer. Is there a text setting or something n T-bird that I'm missing? A different form of ASCII, etc? Thanks for any suggestions you can think of.

Btw, I've used and loved T-bird for many years, and love it. Best email client I've ever used, and I've been online since the mid-90's (yeah, I'm an antique! ha ha). I try to send a donation once / year. Keep up the good work!

Thanks again, Dave Harnish drs@sosbbs.com

John 3:3

Hello (this might fit better in "performance & connectivity?): Tbird 140.10.1 & .2 esr. W11p laptop v23. As of tonite (15may26), after update from 140.10.1 to .2, in a message, the "buttons" for a web link no longer appear, in the msg body. Instead the link is shown in full. How can I fix that?

Here's an example (others are longer) from our local rag "Press Democrat."

Header Logo <https://enews.nl.pressdemocrat.com/q/ qH1rRJrBKJ0Xyf9LNp1wEwHDTif8o4tQ5y1ZcOJcHNsZGRhQGdtYWlsLmNvbcOIyz_GZ83be6bPLq- ZFHTNYUc43xg>

I also closed & re-opened tbird, did NOT reboot laptop. Problem remains.

Thank you.

1. There is not a relevant "topic" above for this question 2. How can I print a 1 page email on 1 piece of paper? View headers are set to Normal. I get one page with From, To, Reply to, & Subject then body on next page. I used to just select Print and my emails printed normally. I have been using Thunderbird for more than 20 years with out this problem