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No matter how large or small the Thunderbird window is, I can't see all 3 of the Address Book columns without expanding the window to take up the entire laptop screen. The column width seem to be locked in at a pre-set number of pixels. I've tried to grab the edges of the columns to reduce their width, but they don't seem to be active. What I would really like would be for the Book to adjust to the Thunderbird window's width, or at least let me scroll between the columns. As it is, I can't view or edit the entry details of a individual listing in my Book without greatly enlarging the whole window.

Any ideas on changing these column widths would be appreciated. I've got Windows 11, and TB version 140.13.0esr (64-bit).

Thanks, Grasses

I use HTML as my signature. It has been working just find, but lately when people reply to me, their messages were coming in blue text. So today I changed the: Settings > General > Plain Text Messages > Quoted text formatting from blue colour to black (I have no idea how that was set to blue in the first place). that is all I did. Image attached of the change I made.

In any case, after that, when I tried to send a new email my HTML signature no longer displays the correct font (Pristina) but shows only variable text. The HTML file is not corrupt, it still looks fine in the actual file I saved, but, Thunderbird is changing it somehow. Even when I look back at sent files, Thunderbird is showing me the variable text and not Pristina.

Any assistance would be much appreciated. With thanks, NM

tl;dr: I'd like to argue that a user who executes the archive action has seen the email in question, and that executing this action means that the email is no longer "newly downloaded" and doesn't deserve the highest of visual markings anymore.

We're not talking about the read/unread bit here (the green dot and the grey numbers in the folder pane). We're talking about the "newly downloaded" aka. "new and unseen" bit (the yellow star/rhombus and the blue numbers in the folder pane).

When a new email arrives, it's marked as "newly downloaded" and the inbox lights up blue because of it. Fair enough. It's also unread, of course. I often archive emails right away without opening/reading them. But I have seen the subject line of course, and I have a pretty good idea of what the email is and why I don't read it. I have the message pane disabled, so I can easily select an email without it being displayed and being marked as read. In the past, I used the message pane combined with that "mark as read after 1min" setting.

Now when I archive the message, the archive folder lights up blue and when I go in there, the email that I just archived has a star/rhombus. But I don't want my archive folder to look interesting with a blue color only because I just moved an email into it. All the blue colors are supposed to be for things I haven't seen yet and still need to look at. In fact, any email I move to a place should not be able to make that place look blue. Blue color should be for things that appeared for other reasons.

I'm aware that switching folders (e.g. away from inbox and back to it) or restarting Thunderbird will clear this "newly downloaded" bit. But I'm not doing that. I stay in the inbox, I get emails, I read them or archive them immediately. And when a folder on the left lights up in blue (that can happen thanks to my filter rules), then I take a look at that one as well. My Thunderbird application runs for weeks.

I just updated to 159.0 TB seems to have a new annoying behavior. I have reproduced it on two different PCs.

I enter an address, then tab to the subject, and then the next tab should take me to the field where I can start typing my email. Instead it takes me to two horizontal blue lines just above that field. See image. The next tab takes me to the field where I can write. It's not a big problem but a new minor annoyance.

Thoughts? Am I missing something?

The list of messages does not display graphics. Links are displayed instead, but don't always lead to the expected locations. This started unexpectedly and I don't know the reason.

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I have tried various suggestions, but they all seem to send me to menu options that just do not exist.This is a really old problem and I can't understand why it has never been properly addressed.

Automatic spacing is pretty much universally not standard (It does not occur here.)

So how do I stop auto/double spacing when composing a message, please?

The folders from my TalkTalk account keep disappearing and reappearing. I have tried lots of fixes suggested by a guy who helps with tech issues but nothing has worked yet. Just before it happened, I clicked to 'compact folders' when prompted. I've done this loads of times before with no issues. I have used Thunderbird for a long time and never had this problem before. The folders seem to disappear when I shut down and restart the computer. Yesterday they came back in about 5 minutes. Today they haven't come back and I've had the computer on for about half an hour. Every time the folders come back, they are Threaded (which I never choose) and Ascending (I always choose Descending). I change them back but next time they revert again.

So far, we have: backed up the profiles checked the server settings checked the password checked webmail - working fine refreshed the folders (subscribe) deleted a .msf file

Any other ideas? Much appreciated!

Using TB for many,many years under the POP system, when I trashed an email, it remained until I opened Trash and physically removed it. I had about 5,000 listed and would delete the oldest month on a monthly basis. When I switched to iMap, my trashed messages are automatically being deleted after about a month. I have searched account setting, but can't find any way to reverse this feature. I am running TB in a iMac running 10.14.6. Would appreciate any assistance. Thanks, Gary

Auf der Öffnungsseite erscheint normalerweise links ein schmaler Streifen mit den ganzen Ordnern, wie Posteingang, gesendet usw. mit der jeweiligen Anzahl der E-Mails. Im übrigen Feld rechts daneben sind alle E-Mails einzeln aufgeführt. Jetzt erscheint manchmal auf der Öffnungsseite eine andere Ansicht, ähnlich wie die Konteneinstellungen. Mit mehreren Versuchen kreuz und quer gelingt es dann wieder die normale Ansicht zu erhalten. Vermutlich habe ich mal irgendeine falsche Taste gedrückt, so daß sich die Ansicht plötzlich geändert hat. Könnte sich das Problem lösen, wenn ich Thunderbird neu installiere oder gibt es eine einfachere Lösung?

Normalerweise habe ich die klassische Ansicht, links die Ordner mit der jeweiligen Gesamtanzahl der E-Mails und rechts alle E-Mails einzeln mit Text aufgeführt. Jetzt seht das nach dem Einschalten von Thunderbird so aus: links nur teilweise die Ordner ohne der Gesamtzahl der E-Mails und rechts eine Ansicht ohne alle E-Mails und nur einzelne Nachrichten, wie Neue Nachrichten verfassen, Nachrichten suchen,Filter für Nachrichten verwalten usw. Manchmal kommt aber die richtige klassische Ansicht zurück, wie jetzt gerade, später ist diese Ansicht wieder weg für längere Zeit. Ein Benutzer hat mir schon geantwortet. Ich habe alles ausgeführt, wie bei Ansicht Haken vor Konten/Ordnerliste. Das Problem besteht aber weiterhin. Ganz oben am Rand stehen bei Suchen die zwei Kästchen - STRG + K, die gehen aber nicht weg. Ich vermute, daß ich irgendwie eine falsche Tast angeklickt habe so daß die richtige Ansicht gehemmt wird. Es isr wahrscheinlich ganz was einfaches, ich weiß aber nicht wie und was tun. Hilfe wäre gut.

I have my operating system, and Thunderbird, set to the America/Vancouver time zone. When Pacific Daylight Time fell back to Pacific Standard Time on 1 November 2026, changing from UTC-7 to UTC-8 hours, our time zone remained unchanged at UTC-7 hours.

Now I observe that the Date column of Thunderbird's Message List display shows the date and time of each message converted into UTC-8. But the message date as displayed in the right part of the header in the message pane is displayed in UTC-7.

For instance, a message with the header `Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:27:27 +0000` shows in the Date column as "01:27" (today, 4 Nov), but the message date in the right part of the message pane reads "02:27".

I cannot find a control or documentation which governs the time zone used by either the Date column or the message date in the right part of the message pane.

How can I set to time zone used in the Date column of the Message List to use the America/Vancouver (or UTC-7) time zone of my operating system and of the Thunderbird calendar?

Hi I am at my wits end here - The date in my Thunderbird is behind by 1 hour. This is affecting sent messages and also received messages.

This just started today. For over a year, the time has been correct. I have not changed any settings in Thunderbird prior to this issue.

My Win11 computer shows the date and time correctly.

I had a Win11 update yesterday. Not sure if that has affected Thunderbird (My province - Manitoba Canada - also stopped using daylight time changes in the last couple of months.) We are now permanently CDT, and is UTC/GMT -5 - which is what it shows in my Win11 setting.

My timezone and time in Win11 settings shows correctly.

Just to see if it would make a difference - In Win11 settings->Time & Language - I changed the time zone automatic to off (even tho the time zone showed correctly) and set it manually to UTC-5:00 Manitoba, - I changed 'Set Time automatically' to off, set the time manually and synced the time.

No difference with Thunderbird.

Why is my time off in Thunderbird?, and what can I do or check to fix this?

I'm having problems with my default email account in thunderbird which might have started with the 28/10 update. Most times when I open TB the default account has no folders (inbox, spam, etc). To get them to appear I have to restart it. At other times it has all the folders present and all expanded including archives. When I can access my inbox the sort order is always by date descending so the oldest email is at the top which I don't want. If I click it to set it to ascending order it sets back to descending the next time I open TB. I've tried repairing the inbox but it makes no difference.

1. Click on Help/T* Bulleted list itemroubleshoot information...
2. At profile Directory click Open Directory

Which of the files do I need to change?

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This just started yesterday: When I open thunderbird my inbox does not show up unless there is a new unread email in it. Also my previously set display columns and tool bar all have to be reset each time I open Thunderbird.