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I have been using Thunderbird for years. My current version is 158.0 (32-bit). In recent months Thunderbird has become increasingly weird and annoying. These problems have occurred individually, not all at once, and each persists--that is, they are all and always present.

1. T'bird's counts of messages in folders is always much higher than the actual counts. 2. I tag messages with color, but T'bird deletes the color tags within a day. 3. Clicking a message doesn't change the message from Unread to Read--that is, the title stays bold. I can change the read/unread indication by clicking the button, but the change doesn't happen automatically. 4. If I drag a message to my wife's T'bird inbox, the act removes the message from my T'bird inbox, but it doesn't always remove it from the inbox at the Server. 5. Deleting a message from my T'bird inbox often also deletes the message just above it. This is the oldest problem, and when it first occurred I found that if I closed and immediately reopened T'bird the message would reappear in my T'bird inbox. Now it does not, although the message might still be in my inbox at the Server. 6. While I am reading a message, the list of messages often pops up to the top (oldest) message. The message I was reading doesn't disappear or otherwise change, but I have to scroll back down to it and click it again in order to delete it or move it to another folder.

These problems are more than annoying. Can anybody help?

For years I had an pop account in my Thunderbird, next to my Imap account. Both live happily next to each other. Today I moved all the mails from my pop account (which was no long active, nor was it connected to a server) to my local folders. I found out that all of my folder were suddenly twice the size. Compressing didn't do a thing. Why is this?

My emails will not download in Thunderbird. It shows a server connection but the server is fine. I can even hear the tone like emails are downloading but I cannot find them.

In an answer to a previous question, I learned that Spectrum email has issues. I have since learned that Spectrum is slowly phasing their email out. So I'm guessing that change is necessary for me. If I create a free Outlook account on my W11 desktop, is using Thunderbird still an option? This whole email thing is confusing for me. Thanks for any help.

I use HTML as my signature. It has been working just find, but lately when people reply to me, their messages were coming in blue text. So today I changed the: Settings > General > Plain Text Messages > Quoted text formatting from blue colour to black (I have no idea how that was set to blue in the first place). that is all I did. Image attached of the change I made.

In any case, after that, when I tried to send a new email my HTML signature no longer displays the correct font (Pristina) but shows only variable text. The HTML file is not corrupt, it still looks fine in the actual file I saved, but, Thunderbird is changing it somehow. Even when I look back at sent files, Thunderbird is showing me the variable text and not Pristina.

Any assistance would be much appreciated. With thanks, NM

Issue is with spectrum server mail.twc.com. Error message sending and rec e mail. "Outgoing server (SMTP) mail.twc.com failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections." "Server timed out" Server settings are correct. need help!!

I use Proton email, but considering the latest revelations from the leadership at Proton and their treatment of employees I am looking for an alternative. Does the Thunderbird team rely on AI for coding? If they do rely on AI is it checked by a person before being used? It seems Proton is satisfied with letting AI code with minimal or no checking by a human.

Hello,

I'm very fond of Thunderbird (using it only for agenda, but a lot) and I think that a new practical function would be to be able to paste plain text (= without formatting) with the right click of the mouse into an agenda cell.

As I add a lot of events and text into the agenda cells directly from websites or documents, I'm always getting the original formatting that I don't need and can look quite bizarre.

Plain text could harmonize everything. I know I could select the text and reformat it in Thunderbird but it's adding unnecessary steps.

Thanks in advance for the consideration of my proposal, thank you developers, and have a good day !

Windows 10 Thunderbird Version 159.0 (64-bit)

Today, Nov. 5, opened Thunderbird & got the Error message: Unable to write the email to the Mailbox. I have no idea why this happened. Turned off the antivirus for email, but that did no good.

Thunderbird worked fine yesterday

Suddenly was unable to send mail on either of my laptops. I have uninstall and reinstalled Thunderbird and windows. All of the SMTP setting are correct. I have tried different combinations of settings but no luck. I have tried every fix on the internet. I am using Spectrum (TWC) for internet. I talked to them but got nowhere. I've used Thunderbird for years and have donated to keep it going. I really like it and don't want to change. Hope you have a way to get me going again. Thanks, Mike

I currently get my email from Spectrum.net. They have made some changes that necessitates me making server changes in Thunderbird. I can't seem to find a way to do that. Everything seems to point me to a new account. If I set up a new account will I lose all of my eisting emails on my desktop?

I have tried various suggestions, but they all seem to send me to menu options that just do not exist.This is a really old problem and I can't understand why it has never been properly addressed.

Automatic spacing is pretty much universally not standard (It does not occur here.)

So how do I stop auto/double spacing when composing a message, please?

For various reasons related to password confusion I decided to delete an existing gmail account from Thunderbird 153.6.0esr 32-bit. I then tried to open it again using the existing email address (having done this many times before with no problem).

But I get stuck at this stage as I am waiting for a popup and nothing comes. I've tried deleting history and cookies, changing browsers, checking OAuth2, etc as suggested in various places, but still I get this spinning wheel going on and on.

Any suggestions?

It seems that saving mails af text.files has been changed within the last month. Becouce the filename in the overwiev has been shortent and supplied with " ... - " - wher can I find a decription of that ?

Nach einem Absturz musste Windows11 neu geladen werden. Auch Thunderbird musste neu geladen werden. Alle eMails sind vorhanden aber das Adressbuch ist leer. Wie finde ich mein Adressbuch wieder?