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Since December 2024 I've been unable to get current emails when I perform a search in Thunderbird. Often I search for emails from a particular sender. I know I've received something from that sender within a week or two. I'm frustrated to find the search function only returns email from many months ago, when I know for a fact I got an email from the particular sender 10 or even 2 days ago. The most recent emails are just not appearing in the search results. The problem started in the last week or two of December and has continued and compounded since. I had been hoping that it would clear itself up, but no amount of re-booting my computer or the program seem to be re-settting the archive that the search function looks through. I'm coming into the tax season and I really do need the search function to support me sift through and find the details I need from my clients. Help! Thank you! Jessica McKnight

I would like to move the coloured tag to the left on the delivered email so that It is in my eyeline area. It resides on the right, I would like it on the left. Is this possible?

Thanks,

Mike Duffy

Sometimes I need to search for specific emails, yet the results will show nil. Upon scrutiny I discovered that this only happens for emails saved in subfolders. I use IMAP on Thunderbolt Beta.

Hi,

I make extensive use of saved searches in Thunderbird and find them extremely useful. However, I have not found a way of exporting/importing the searches, so when I set up a new install I have to start from scratch with the search folders. This can take quite a while.

Does anybody know a way to do this?

I have tried using the profile folders, but they do not seem to save the search properties.

Any help would be very welcome.

The entire web seems to be creepy beyond belief! The stock in trade is my life. I don't want you people spending your time trying to dream up ways to build the cheese that leads me into your maze. I just want to buy a product. I want that product to work for years. It should be reliable not flashy. Why is that so hard these days? When did we become people who would accept junk that needed to constantly be repaired after purchase? Why does an upgrade do exactly the same thing it's predecessor did, but more slowly and requiring more resources? Why can companies build something and then a few years down the road simply stop supporting it? Here in the US car companies were required to support their products for 15 years. As expensive as phones have become and as disruptive as changing operating systems is we need similar legislation in the tech industry. Google needs to be broken up and not be the hub of the internet. No matter where I go in the net my browser always goes to google first. That's just creepy. So please someone just offer a product that doesn't make me a product by it's use.

When ever I start Firefox, Bing comes up. My default search is Google. This is set in settings. Why is Bing even there? I do not want it associated with Firefox. I am getting ready to dump Firefox unless this can be undone.

I cannot get Foxfire to be my default browser no matter what I do. I set it as my default browser and Bing no matter what is opened upon opening up the internet with a foxfire icon. I am as my wits end, what do I do?

Hi, I'm not good with computer speak so please answer in simple English. Also, I'm sending a picture to help me explain. The "Inbox" in my picture is what my Thunderbird says is in my gmail.com labels. Only it does not list all of them. I deleted some labels in gmail and they were also deleted in the Thunderbird list. Then I added a couple labels in gmail and only 1 is listed in Thunderbird, the other is not. I tried closing both programs and added a couple more labels in gmail, nothing in Thunderbird. How do I get Thunderbird to recognize all of the labels in gmail? Right now in gmail there are 6 labels, I doubt there will be too many more in the future. Let's see, yes Thunderbird is up to date, have a Dell computer with Windows 8.1. Yes, I know that it is old and it's what I like and am used to, so that's what I'm staying with. Thank you, Bernadine

The most useful part of Thunderbird that made it more useful than other email apps is that I can search by folder for email or word or partial and they show up in that folder. This seem to be gone to my annoyance. How do I get it back or what is the workaround to the awful replacement?

I have a lot of Thunderbird filters.

In order to tidy up my environment, I'd like to print out the contents of one filter showing all aspects of the filter, including all the executable action.

Thanks.

I have a lot of Thunderbird filters. I'd like to search ALL FILTERS for an email address, returning those filters which have that email address in executable action.

Hi How can I Select all emails from a sender. I'm looking for a similar functionality to Outlook where you right-click on an email > "Select all messages from this sender" so I can move them out, delete them, or do whatever.

It looks like this is missing from your application. If I can't use it, I have no other reason to use TB.

Thank you B

I have deleted the entirety of my archived mailbox (Free) on my Thunderbird app, all the other mailboxes are still visible and the only missing file Free that was a folder with many other subfolders I am trying to recover the mailbox folder Free however I am not sure if there is a back up or an automatic backup or a way to go back... Kindly assist,