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Hello everyone

I recently upgraded from TB 69 to the latest TB (after a crucial add-on finally got updated), and I'm generally happy with it, except for one little irk:

In Classic layout, the preview pane now contain multiple messages. As far as I can tell, it contains all messages of the selected thread, in date order (not in message list order). I would prefer the preview pane to contain just ONE message, namely the currently selected message. It is annoying to have to click repeatedly inside the preview pane to access the individual messages in the preview pane. It is also visually confusing (to me).

What's worse, the messages in the preview pane do not follow the normal threading: they appear to be shown in order of date, not in the order of the messages in the message list.

In the screenshot, you can see the thread has 11 messages, and in the message list there are three subthreads. The preview pane also shows the 11 messages, but not in the same order as in the message list. Plus, in order for me to read any messages, I need to click inside the preview pane to fold each message in or out.

I prefer a situation where I can click a single message in the message list, and a single message is shown in the preview pane. Is this possible with the latest TB?

Thanks.

Witajcie, Mam taki problem z odebranymi wiadomościami w Thunderbird 128.9.2esr (64 bits). Thunderbid z niewiadomych przyczyn losowo miesza treść odebranych wiadomości i przyporządkowuje je do innych wiadomości. W załączniku przesyłam print screen jak to wygląda. Jak widać odebrałem wiadomość z adresu: j.cichecka@.......pl o tytule Faktura VAT - sprzedaży nr. 7/03/2025/WYN. Po podświetleniu tej wiadomości w treści maila poniżej widzę niewłaściwą treść z innego maila od T-Mobile otrzymanego z adresu twoja_f@.......pl natomiast tytuł maila jest z wiadomości otrzymanej z adresu j.cichecka@.......pl (taki jak widać w liście Tematów wyżej). W ten sposób ginie mi mnóstwo wiadomości, których treści nie mogę odczytać bo znajduje się tam treść maili z innych wiadomości. Czy ktoś spotkał się z podobnym problemem i zna rozwiązanie jak to naprawić? Dziękuję Pozdrawiam Marcin

After updating to 137, trying to send emails times out for my GMX email, however for Gmail it still works fine (I attached the console output in safe mode). I am not using a firewall or a proxy and the problems persists in troubleshoot-mode. I am using Manjaro with Kernel version 5.10.234-2.

Thunderbird inbox shows wrong sender name for message, overriding what the person actually sent with something from its data base. Attached screen shots illustrate:

-- Message is sent from [email]@earthlink.net. This was a joint account for a married couple. When they sent messages, each would have their Email client show the name of the sender. The husband died several years ago, and now the wife is the only one using the account.

-- Screen Shot #1: When I access the message via Thunderbird, for some reason it overrides the name provided by the sender with something from its data base (in this case, the name of the dead husband).

-- Screen Shot #2: When I access the message directly from Gmail, it shows the correct sender name.

This seems to me to be a bug. But if it's not, is there some parameter I can set so that Thunderbird doesn't "help" me with overrides like this?

Thanks for any help anybody can offer.

I need larger fonts when I compose my emails. They are teeny tiny and I have a very difficult time seeing them. I don't think that it's appropriate that I have to Zoom every time I compose an email. There should be a way to make my Body Text size permanent on my screen whenever I want to compose an email.

What might that way be? [email removed]@yahoo.com a contributor

Hi, I have a weird problem on thunderbird. See pics: the incoming message number show me 10 messages but only 4 are visible. do you know how to repair this wrong number please? (last version updated) thanks regards

I have set up my Gmail account to allow me to recall messages within 30 seconds. Of course, this works on the Web version of Gmail. However, when I use Thunderbird as a client, I do not see that capacity or option. Please advise.

I am using Thunderbird Nebula 128.9.2esr (64-bit) on Windows 10 22H2.

Since a recent TB update every email in my Inbox list is shown in a seperate box which is a waste of space and makes the list very difficult to scan/read and manage. I can't find anything that might change this to revert back to a simple list. If I change the view to 'compact' (it is currently set to 'classic view') then all lists, including the folders' list, become impossibly scrunched up together. Please help. I am so so so sick of managing the unnecessary fall-outs from TB upgrades. This is the final piece of a puzzle (ie a royally messed up program) that has taken me many hours to resolve. TB REALLY tests one's loyalty. Thanks, Annie

I would like to copy a large folder of messages, 211mb, from under Local Folders to a folder under another account. If I try to copy or move the folder from Local Folders only a portion of the messages are copied - 35mb worth. I have tried all sorts of ways to copy the messages including copying small numbers of messages to the new folder. I can copy 1 extra message but not larger quantities. I an running Thunderbird on Win11 and the accounts are all pop. I tried Importexport NG but that will only import a mbox under local folders. Not what I want.

While looking for another setting, I noticed that a setting about how T-Bird handles spam mail. I have it checked. Today, I received a DOOZY of a spam mail, but Thunderbird didn't flag it. It was so obvious spam, as it asked for credit card, banking, automobile license! Also, the Subject asked to update payment info, but the From field wasn't that company.

I noticed this morning that my Thunderbird tree no longer had a Junk folder. I restarted the program and Junk appeared, with stuff in it, but right-clicking the Junk folder no longer brings up the usual list of options, including Empty Junk. Instead, right-clicking seems to temporarily slow-down or 'hang' Thunderbird, a condition it does recover from in 10 seconds or so. I can open the Junk folder, select all messages and delete them, but something isn't right. Any ideas, anyone?

Update: Realized I didn't mention the version I was running, it was 133.0.3, under Windows 10, but when I opened Help to find this I was invited to do an update... so I did. When the 'update' was complete, I checked and am now running 128.6.0esr (64-bit). That seems strange. Oh, the same Junk problem persists under the 'new' version.

Update #2: Evidently the drop-down menu does eventually appear, if you just wait for it... anywhere from 5 seconds to 30 seconds or so. Normally the right-click is instantaneous. What could have happened, I wonder?

I am only able to send an email by opening Thunderbird and selecting write.

If I try to attach a file by starting with the file > send to > mail recipient or try to trigger Thunderbird with an email address in a browser or start with a distribution list in the address book, all fail.

All produce the following diagnostic: "Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because connecting to Outgoing server (SMTP) localhost failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections. Please verify that your outgoing server (SMTP) settings are correct and try again."

I do see how easily it is to move an email that shows on my inbox list; right click and then choose move. Once I open the email though I can't find a similar process to move the email to another folder. Is there a way? What I currently do is to close the email window and then right click on the email as is shown on my inbox list.

Thunderbird is shows "downloading 1, 2, 3... of 259", but the messages don't show in the inbox.

Background: I'm on Thunderbird 115.18.0 ESR. Gmail quit downloading pop, despite my having set "allow less secure..." I have a bunch of email accounts, and wanted to get just one working, so I set the others from "pop.gmail.com" to "xxxpop.gmail.com", just so they wouldn't all keep failing as I was testing. I got some message about a problem with folders that I didn't pay much attention to.

I finally realized I'm going to have to switch from "Normal Password" to "OAuth", which I did.

PROBLEM: When I get email, it authenticates and starts downloading 259 messages. Fine. But those messages don't show in the inbox.

I've tried to repair the folder, that made no difference. I tried compacting, that made no difference.

I have recently noticed "random" mail is being added when composing reply. It only happens with Reply (All). New mail or Forwarding is not affected.

To every reply there is added text with "Jane Doe <jane.doe@example.com> = author" (with name and mail of person I know, have in contacts, but have no affiliation to replied mail). It is the same person every time. It happens on all accounts / identities. Happens on both PCs (Fedora and Arch). I do not have account for "Jane Doe" in TB.

I have looked thru all TB settings / account settings, but did not find anything. Changing said contact made no difference, the added text is still the same, so it is not being pulled from the contact. I have no extension enabled. Previous used ReplyWithHeader, when re-enabled this issue is not present.

Where is this "text" coming from and how do I get rid of it?

Thanks for help.

I have three email accounts on my computer, one IMAP and two POP. I need to move these accounts to a new Windows 11 computer. I want all of the accounts on the new computer to be IMAP. So I have two POP accounts containing messages that I need to move to IMAP accounts on my new computer.

When I open the profile folder on my current computer it has a MAIL folder and a ImapMail folder. The MAIL folder contains a Local Folder and a pop.1and1.com folder. Each of these subfolders contains the Inbox, Sent, Trash etc. folders that contain the email messages to be moved to the new computer.

I see lots of information on moving the profile but that doesn't address the POP to IMAP conversion issue or the fact there are three different accounts involved.

I have a few e-mail addresses in Thunderbird. Something weird is happening. When I send from address A, the e-mails are getting duplicated so that the same e-mail appears in my sent file under adress A and address B. The recipient is getting the e-mail sent from address B, even though I composed and sent it from address A. Any idea what's going on and how to fix it? Thanks.