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clicking on, or hitting enter on a new email opens up a reply email window, not the original email only

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I have three email accounts. On each of the accounts when I am in the in box, clicking on or hitting enter does not open up he email but instead opens of a reply to the sender in a new tab. This is new! I have looked on line and have tried all of the following except fixing the Folder Flag add on as I do not have that installed: In the Drafts and Templates section, I confirmed that the Drafts folder on: is set to your actual Drafts folder and not your Inbox (although the Drafts folder is in my inbox). I did try and create a Draft folder outside the Inbox but could not. I have set the value for mail.openMessageBehavior to 0. However every time I look at it it seems to be changed back to 2 The issues happens even in troubleshoot mode with add ons (I only have one) disabled I rebuilt the Global Database by renaming global-messages-db.sqlite and restarting Thunderbird. I cannot install FolderFlags extension as it is not compatible with Thunderbird 149

I have three email accounts. On each of the accounts when I am in the in box, clicking on or hitting enter does not open up he email but instead opens of a reply to the sender in a new tab. This is new! I have looked on line and have tried all of the following except fixing the Folder Flag add on as I do not have that installed: In the Drafts and Templates section, I confirmed that the Drafts folder on: is set to your actual Drafts folder and not your Inbox (although the Drafts folder is in my inbox). I did try and create a Draft folder outside the Inbox but could not. I have set the value for mail.openMessageBehavior to 0. However every time I look at it it seems to be changed back to 2 The issues happens even in troubleshoot mode with add ons (I only have one) disabled I rebuilt the Global Database by renaming global-messages-db.sqlite and restarting Thunderbird. I cannot install FolderFlags extension as it is not compatible with Thunderbird 149

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Toad-Hall
Toad-Hall
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If the opened email looks more like something you would be composing then it sounds like your 'Inbox' may have a 'Drafts' or 'Templates' flag set up.

The author of 'folderFlags' does their best to keep up with new versions, but they are always in catch up mode. I suspect they will update at some point soon.

Take look at this bug report comments 3 and 5 : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1909104 and also this link: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1462207

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