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Emails linked together, is this called threaded?

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Since a recent update, I am finding Thunderbird almost unusable.

Problem: It is linking emails together that I want to be separate. It shows a little arrow next to the Subject. Is this called Threading?

I just discovered replies to emails this morning in these threads that have not shown up to me as a new email coming in. I've just taken people to task for not responding, when they actually did... days ago.

I can't find any way of stopping the emails linking together. I need all these linked emails to be separated.

I just sent a test email to myself. Then sent a separate test email to myself with the same subject title and they are now linked together. I can't use a system like this.

I've unticked the 'Thread' command in the drop down menu, but that doesn't help.

Is it possible to unlink them all?

Thank you. David Ashworth.

NOTE: I do send you a monthly donation.

Since a recent update, I am finding Thunderbird almost unusable. Problem: It is linking emails together that I want to be separate. It shows a little arrow next to the Subject. Is this called Threading? I just discovered replies to emails this morning in these threads that have not shown up to me as a new email coming in. I've just taken people to task for not responding, when they actually did... days ago. I can't find any way of stopping the emails linking together. I need all these linked emails to be separated. I just sent a test email to myself. Then sent a separate test email to myself with the same subject title and they are now linked together. I can't use a system like this. I've unticked the 'Thread' command in the drop down menu, but that doesn't help. Is it possible to unlink them all? Thank you. David Ashworth. NOTE: I do send you a monthly donation.

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click settings>appearance. you should be able to make the change there.

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click settings>appearance. you should be able to make the change there.

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Thanks for your help.

I can't find 'Settings'

I also can't find 'View'

I've been trying to figure it out through the other questions listed.

Cheers. Dave116

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The general setting for setting your default.

Specific settings on a per folder basis. Via the menu bar

Via the "Message list display options" \


This has been the default since Thunderbird 102 was released. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/message-threading-thunderbird#

And it is documented in the appropriate release notes https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.0/releasenotes/

Did you recently create a new profile to make this default appear after years?

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