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I have about 250 message filters that I have setup since 2006. The message filters take my POP mail and sort it into the inbox folders, delete the mail I don't want and even remove the entries from my POP server to keep things tidy. The filters work perfectly and some filters have more than 100 entries into a single filter! I have several hundred hours in this filtering and , as I said, the filtering is perfect. Now for my problem. I can go into "Message Filters" and use the search to locate the message filter I am attempting to edit. However, once inside the message filter, I cannot search for any entry that I have added to that filter. Sometimes, the filter may have 50-60 entries in it and it would be handy to be able to sort for the entry I need. Please understand that the message filter entries are applied in order (from top to bottom) and so, sorting the entries alphabetically would ruin the filter. I would like to know how to search ALL of the message filters for any entry inside the filter. It would be VERY HANDY if I could simply go to "Message Filters" and perform a search that would list not only the FILTER the entry was in but all occurrences of the search term as both a FILTER and an ENTRY TO THE FILTER. That is the way the email search works. If you search for any word in the search, it tells you every occurrence of the email and any occurrence of that search term inside any email. Can we make the search of message filters work the same way? Or, if it works this way, can you tell me how to use the search to find an entry WITHIN a message filter? Thank You.

From the menu View - Folders - Tags i can view tags in the side bar, which is very helpful. My problem, as you can see in the picture i'm attaching, is that tags are not sorted according to the greek alphabet. Is there a way to sort tags? I'm aware that the first 9 tags are presets.

From time to time especially when I make a break and the screensaver starts Thunderbird crashes. There is a split between the taskbar of Cinnamon and Thunderbird. The program doesn't react anymore. The only way to use it is to kill it and start it again. I really don't know why this happens. It is a new phenomenon. Here are my Systeminformation: [code] System:

 Kernel: 6.8.0-90-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc
 Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.4.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0
   Distro: Linux Mint 22.2 Zara base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Machine:

 Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: A320M-H v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
 Mobo: Gigabyte model: A320M-H-CF v: x.x serial: <superuser required> uuid: <superuser required>
   UEFI: American Megatrends v: F42 date: 08/23/2019

CPU:

 Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Zen+ rev: 2 cache:
   L1: 576 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 16 MiB
 Speed (MHz): avg: 2332 high: 3892 min/max: 1550/3400 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1557 2: 3883
   3: 1550 4: 3892 5: 1557 6: 1557 7: 1554 8: 3892 9: 1556 10: 3879 11: 1558 12: 1557
   bogomips: 81435
 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3

Graphics:

 Device-1: AMD Baffin [Radeon RX 550 640SP / 560/560X] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu
   v: kernel arch: GCN-4 pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DVI-D-1
   bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67ff class-ID: 0300 temp: 39.0 C
 Device-2: Microdia Webcam Vitade AF driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
   speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-2:2 chip-ID: 0c45:6366 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
   unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x2160 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x571mm (40.00x22.48")
   s-diag: 1165mm (45.88")
 Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-A-0 model: Samsung U28E590 serial: <filter> res: 3840x2160
   hz: 30 dpi: 160 size: 608x345mm (23.94x13.58") diag: 699mm (27.5") modes: max: 3840x2160
   min: 720x400
 API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: swrast
   gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland
 API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.0.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 glx-v: 1.4
   direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 560 Series (radeonsi polaris11 ACO DRM 3.57
   6.8.0-90-generic) device-ID: 1002:67ff

Audio:

 Device-1: AMD Baffin HDMI/DP Audio [Radeon RX 550 640SP / 560/560X] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
   driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 07:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aae0
   class-ID: 0403
 Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
   speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 09:00.3 chip-ID: 1022:1457 class-ID: 0403
 Device-3: Microdia Webcam Vitade AF driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
   speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-2:2 chip-ID: 0c45:6366 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
 API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-90-generic status: kernel-api
 Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
   2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin

Network:

 Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte
   driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 06:00.0
   chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
 IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>

Bluetooth:

 Device-1: ASUSTek ASUS USB-BT500 driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1
   bus-ID: 1-7:2 chip-ID: 0b05:190e class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
 Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1 lmp-v: 10
   sub-v: d922 hci-v: 10 rev: dfc6 class-ID: 7c0104

Drives:

 Local Storage: total: 1.36 TiB used: 492.77 GiB (35.3%)
 ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G2B0B-00YS70 size: 465.76 GiB
   speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 20WD scheme: MBR
 ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPZX-22Z10T0 size: 931.51 GiB type: USB
   rev: 3.0 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 tech: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1201 scheme: MBR

Partition:

 ID-1: / size: 72.78 GiB used: 44.49 GiB (61.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
 ID-2: /boot/efi size: 187.1 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (3.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
 ID-3: /home size: 383.86 GiB used: 232.71 GiB (60.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3

Swap:

 ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 8 GiB used: 782.5 MiB (9.6%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile

USB:

 Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 9 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
   chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
 Device-1: 1-7:2 info: ASUSTek ASUS USB-BT500 type: bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2
   rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 500mA chip-ID: 0b05:190e class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
 Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 3 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
   class-ID: 0900
 Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
   chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
 Device-1: 3-2:2 info: Microdia Webcam Vitade AF type: video,audio
   driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 500mA
   chip-ID: 0c45:6366 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
 Hub-4: 3-3:3 info: Terminus Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA
   chip-ID: 1a40:0101 class-ID: 0900
 Device-1: 3-3.3:4 info: YICHIP Wireless Device type: keyboard,mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid
   interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 3151:3020 class-ID: 0301
   serial: <filter>
 Device-2: 3-3.4:5 info: CHERRY Keyboard type: keyboard,HID driver: cherry,usbhid interfaces: 2
   rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 046a:0023 class-ID: 0300
 Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
   class-ID: 0900
 Device-1: 4-1:2 info: JMicron / USA External USB 3.0 type: mass storage driver: uas
   interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 power: 896mA chip-ID: 152d:0579 class-ID: 0806
   serial: <filter>

Sensors:

 System Temperatures: cpu: 39.9 C mobo: 31.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 39.0 C
 Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1104

Repos:

 Packages: 3485 pm: dpkg pkgs: 3444 pm: flatpak pkgs: 41
 No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
 Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/agornostal-ulauncher-noble.list
   1: deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/agornostal-ulauncher-noble.gpg] https: //ppa.launchpadcontent.net/agornostal/ulauncher/ubuntu noble main
 Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
   1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https: //brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
 No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devolo-updates.list
 Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
   1: deb [arch=amd64] https: //dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
 Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
   1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com zara main upstream import backport
   2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse
   3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse
   4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse
   5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-security main restricted universe multiverse
 Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list
   1: deb [arch=amd64] https: //repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
 Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zquestz.list
   1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/zquestz-archive-keyring.gpg] https: //zquestz.github.io/ppa/ubuntu ./
 Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.sources
   1: deb [arch=amd64] https: //packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main

Info:

 Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.69 GiB used: 3.97 GiB (51.5%)
 Processes: 409 Power: uptime: 9h 12m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep wakeups: 0
   hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 255 target: graphical (5) default: graphical
 Compilers: gcc: 13.3.0 Client: Unknown python3.12 client inxi: 3.3.34

/code Thanks for help.

Hello - When I logged into my email this moring a vast majority of my emails from previous days and in my filed emails are gone. Is there a way to get them back? Not sure what could have happened. Any assistance is appreciated!!! Thank you.

I'm dealing with a properly updated 'bird: 140.5.0 (32-bit) running on an equally updated Windows 10 desktop. First thing this morning, out of nowhere, I started getting an "unable to write the email to the mailbox..." message when sending, thus I could send but not save. And then I realized I wasn't receiving either, on all three accounts in my Thunderbird. I stopped everything and focused on trying to fix this. It's been an all-day, losing effort. So far.

I tried the various quick checks and fixes recommended here and there: I'm running the program as an administrator. I restarted the program. I rebooted the computer. I think I have enough disk space, but to be sure I deleted some bloat from possibly overly large files. I compacted, even though the program is configured to do that regularly. I temporarily disabled my antivirus program. I went into my webmail and deleted all messages that have arrived since my Thunderbird stopped receiving, in case one of them was corrupted. And probably some other attempts as well. Nothing has helped.

And now a second, even worse issue has fallen from the sky. Thunderbird opens. The folder list is where it always has been. The number of unopened messages in each folder is there in boldface, as always, but...the folders are all blank and I get the dreaded popup: "unable to open the summary file...." Have I lost my years' worth of carefully curated emails?

I've tried folder repair. I've deleted parent.lock. Etc. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.

I will be super-grateful for any wisdom sent my way.

I've recently started using Thunderbird in place of Microsoft Outlook. I have also upgraded from Windows 10 to 11. Unfortunately, my mailing groups that I used in Outlook did not transfer as groups. I was able to import my contacts as a .csv file and I have now set these out in an Excel spreadsheet. My contacts are now in alaphabetic order so whilst I have the contact data such as emails, all of my previous mailing groups are now mixed together!

Is there any way that I can select either individal enties on my spreadsheet or maybe multiple entries and import them into a new address book?

Any ideas or experience would be very helpful.

I was in the process of searching my files to attach one to an email when the attachment window suddenly expanded from approx 50% of the screen to almost full screen and I can find no way to reset it. I can see the sideand bottom edges of the window, and move the expand/contract arrow on the cursor to these sides and the bottom corners, but it does not operate, and there is no button to minimise or adjust it. I have just checked and it is operating perfectly fine on both Firefox and the main Thunderbird window, and email viewing windows. Is this a change to the program settings - it appears to only apply to the "Attach" setting - viewing attachments and emails are as they always were.

Hello, I'm a long time Mozilla user but I'm new to Thunderbird. I am setting up a new PC build with Windows 11 Home.

I've set up my Thunderbird with the incoming server imap.bellaliant.net port 143 outgoing server smtpa.bellaliant.net port 2225

The above servers were supplied buy my internet service supplier, although the support team originally gave me different servers. My ISP has stated security for both servers to be set no/none I can SEND emails but not receive incoming email. AS a note I can send and receive emails from my ISP's website using this email account. Do you have any suggestions. I realize this is a busy time of year, thank you. Kind Regards WS

I don't know if something has changed since the last time I downloaded a .ics file into thunderbird or not.

I used to be able to load a .ics file directly into 'events' in my calendar. But something has changed. When I download the file now it gives it the name "Zul52mNeovl5. Which happens to be the name of the file I'm downloading from. So now I have 3 options of where to put the file - Events, Tasks or this filename. I can't find this file anywhere on my computer. How do I get rid of it?

Any Help would be appreciated.

Thanks

For over 1 week now I am finding that T-Bird freezes or locks after I have opened several messages. Leaves me unable to read or delete messages and unable to close down T-bird

Want to clear the 'RIGHT CLICK MOVE EMAIL TO FOLDER LIST ' THAT ACCUMULATES OVER TIME . lIST GETS TOO LONG. Searched thoroughly for an answer but found none.

 Please respond if you know how to clear this list. 

Merry Xmas Mike

HI, I have two email addresses on Thunderbird, one I have lost (not main one) including all downloaded emails for that address. I did some "tidying up" in settings, by deleting some items that had a dustbin next to them thinking they were junk (mistake?). Win 10 pro. Thunderbird 146.0.1 -32 bit. But most everything else on laptop is 64 bit. If you can help please, to restore address and/or get all old emails for this address resent. I have tried to open the same address, by typing it in, but it downloads nothing. However I do keep getting the message to input the password, sometimes for both my addresses?

I'm back with an old problem.

When filtering email, it gets interrupted with the error message of:

"The folder "xxxx" could not be found, so filters associated with this folder will be disabled. Verify that the folder exists, and that filters point to a valid destination folder."

Yes, the folder exists.

The previous solution was to change the mail server to imap.googlemail.com. I did that, but connectivity to it has become erratic (it services Germany, Poland, and Russia).

Is there anything else I can do besides use the imap.gmail.com server and keep reenabling the mail filters?

How do you look down through your emails and select multiples to delete? the answers I've found involve highlighting and deleting a bunch in a row. What about when there are a couple of keepers in the mix?

1 How can the list "recent folders" in the icon "store in" be sorted alphabetically? (sorry, my version of Thunderbird speaks German) It used to be alphabetically, but now is sorted chronologically.

2 I cordially suggest to add a function exactly like this one, but with item at my own disposal (maybe the favorite folders).

Thanks, Martin

Thunderbird doesn't carry over calendar events alerts/reminders after updates to it or reboots generally, at least in Ubuntu (24.04).

I expected my events and reminders to carry over even after updates and computer reboots. They don't. I missed an important appointment because of that oversight. Thunderbird used to work.

I doubt that there's an existing fix for this, so Thunderbird Calendar needs to be updated so that Calendar events alerts don't disappear after updates or reboots. Meanwhile, I'm looking around for email and calendar apps that don't have this problem.

Thanks