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I use Thunderbird for my emails on a Windows-Desktop. I still run Windows 10 as the computer is too old to upgrade to Windows 11 and I have signed up for the extended Maintenance.

In Thunderbird I have set up filters to organize my mail. When I wanted to change one of my filters a few days ago, I was not able to do so, as my Menu in Thunderbird doesn't show the ->Extra Option any longer. My Thunderbird-Version is up to date (140.4.0esr (32-Bit))

Any idea, how I can access my filters and maintain them again?

Thanks for your thoughts and your support

How do I disable the donation webpage that opens (in Thunderbird) automatically?

A common suggestion is to disable the start page: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1226585 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1520014 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1515838 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1507571 That option is already unchecked.

Some seem to be suggesting that this page opens when an update happens: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1512477 There was no update installed lately.

My folders are no longer in alphabetical order. Yesterday when I signed off for the day, everything was per usual without any issues. This morning when I logged in, I noticed I had one random folder out of order. I restarted the program and when it reopened, the top 250 or so folders were all out of order.

I have restarted a few times, confirmed I am using the latest version (144.0.1), tried repairing the main folder (they are all subfolders), tried clearing cache, tried the "reset folder order" option, compacted the folder, literally everything I could find, with no success.

I use Thunderbird for work and have a folder for each project, I haven't counted every single one, but it is realistically over 1000 folders in total, yet only the top 250 (starting at zero, goes back to normal at the letter D) are affected. It would take far too long to manually correct/re-sort each affected folder, especially when I'm not confident it won't happen again.

I attached a couple of reference photos, but don't want to risk disclosing sensitive information, so hopefully they are clear enough to see the issue.

I am a newer Thunderbird user (a little over a year) and have never had this issue before. Does anyone have any other ideas on possible solutions that I could try?

(also, I have the Thunderbird installed on a few other devices connected to the same account and verified those are normal, it's only my main PC that is affected at the moment)

am i dreaming or did there used to be more buttons in the customise toolbar for thunderbird.

I downloaded 144.0.1 (64-bit) today and in the customize toolbar buttons I cannot find the seperator line to put between buttons ¦ and I wonder if the developers can make a separate 'mark as read' and 'mark as unread' button instead of just 'read' button with a pull down? and the flexible space can you not adjust the width of the adjustable space , why is it fixed?

thanks, Andy.

I have 1 computer that shows bars at the top and left side that I like. The one at the top shows Get messages, Delete, Reply, Reply All, and a few more items. The one on the left side shows icons that are for Mail, Address Book, Calendar, Tasks, and Chat. I have another computer that doesn't have those bars. I have attached a screen shot from that computer. Both are running T'bird 140.4.0esr (64-bit) and both are Win 11 machines. I've tried everything I can see to get the 2 bars to appear on the 2nd computer. I hope someone can tell me how to get them to show up. Thanks, Mike

Hi Guys,

I have found that Thunderbird fits my needs for a nice looking email client (i have tried them all). But one thing annoys me endlessly. I use Thunderbird on my Macbook and move it between using the laptop screen and attaching it to a dock with a 49" monitor.

Using Thunderbird on a 49" makes the UI almost unreadable. Then i have adjusted the "pixels" from -1.0 to 1.25 which then looks nice. Starting the macbook on its own build-in screen, makes the UI tiny again and i need to adjust the pixels to 2.25. But switching the pixel 2-3 times a days is very annoying.

Is there a way to do this dynamically? Is there a way to easily switch "profile" or should this be something for a feature request for the App to detect the screen resolution and adapt to that by a factor?

Hi,

I've read some of the support topics about the super narrow scroll bars in Thunderbird. I did go to: https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/1fz9f5j/comment/lr02b8z/

which was suggested. I did the fix, which helped one problem (the super narrow scroll bar size), but there are no up & down arrows on the scroll bar. This was a really helpful feature. Is there any way to get the arrows back? The screenshot shows how TB looks in Windows 10. That's exactly what I want the scroll bars to look like.

I'm using Thunderbird 140.4.0esr (64-bit) on Linux (Zorin Pro 17) on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon.

Thanks a lot, DD

I recently transferred my Thunderbird email to a new Windows 11 laptop. Everything is ok, except the font size in received emails can best be described as very tiny. I've tried everything to increase the font size, but nothing helps. My screen has a resolution of 2880x 1880 Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

1 Show remote content in this message to show remote content just for this particular message. 2 Edit remote content preferences… to display remote content by default (see next section). 3 Allow remote content from <website> to show the remote content stored on this site. 4 Allow remote content from all <n> origins listed above adds all the n websites listed above to the remote content exception list. 5 Allow remote content from <email address> adds the sender email address to the remote content exceptions list.

Q1 How do option 1 and option 4 differ exactly?

Q2 What will option 5 do exactly. Would it be the same as option 4 but also allow future, currently unknown <website>, for emails from the same <email address>?

I am running Thunderbird 140.4.0esr (64-bit) on an iMac running macOS Sonoma 14.7.4. I have two email accounts on it, one my university account and one gmail. I have over 500 Local Folders used to keep track of my personal matters, correspondence and tax preparation matters. In the past three or four weeks, during which I updated my Tbird at least once, the Local Folders have become no longer alphabetized and at least one folder I can no longer find. I appears that the most recently used folders are moved to an alphabetized set at the end of my original set. It also appears that the list of folders differs slightly depending on which account from which the list is viewed. Why is this happening and how can I solve it?

Hi, lot of years ago I have changed TB to use maildir ibstead of mbox for new accounts, Now I met some filtering issue I can't fix and it is proabely caused by maildir.

So I'd like to set TB to use mbox with new accounts instead of maildir.

Some additional info: TB 144.0.1 (64 bit), win 10 pro, I have 4 mbox accounts and one maildir account.

There is no need to export / import / keep data existing on maildir account. I can remove it with no pain. I just want to setup TB to create new accounts as mbox again.

Any help will be appreciated.

TIA

I have tried several different approaches to correct this "mailbox://nobody@Local Folders/Archives" to set up my local folder and reduce my providers quota. but I havent been able to change it. Has anyone been able to fix this and direct it to a local NAS folder?

Is there a way to make the “Today” tile stand out more clearly in the calendar month view? The currently selected day is displayed with a light gray background and stands out, but the actual day is only modestly marked by the day number. With many entries in the calendar, it is therefore difficult to recognize. I would therefore like to see a user-selectable background for the current day.

Just loaded this program and it is great, easy to use and set up. After saying that, I cannot work out how to put the display into columns with the inbox on the left, email next to that and then the email body on the right. I hope that this is clear enough. Any help would be appreciated Thanks Steve

Hello, Viewed with Thunderbird: 140.4.0esr (64-bit) and earlier versions Viewed in email drafting In the list, each web address begins with "https" or "www." If I copy/paste a list of website addresses, only the first one is pasted, with automatic creation of an image and a link to that website. The other lines in the list are ignored. The same problem occurs when pasting "without formatting" or when changing the "sending format" of the email to "text only". Which solution is possible without pasting the list line by line ? Sorry for my English Thanks