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Tbird seems to have joined the ranks of programs (Windows is the worst offender) that change user settings WITHOUT PERMISSION OR NOTICE. Several months ago, Tbird changed my Inbox view (running Windows 11 Pro) from Classic to something else. With help from somebody (?David?) on this Forum, I was able to get back to Classic view by pressing the F8 function key.

But last night, the view changed again and F8 doesn't work. All F8 seems to do is toggle the # of messages displayed between 7 and 14. On this gawdawful new view (shown in Screenshot 01), instead of having the CONTENT of the highlighted message displayed at the bottom of the screen, in order to actually READ a message, I must click on it, and then it appears in a separate window. Thus deleting the endless number of messages asking for money is a HUGE time-waster.

PLEASE can somebody give me a RELIABLE way to get back to Classic view? (Even better, can you tell me if there was something I mistakenly did to cause the view to change, so that I will take care not to do it again?

All the existing advice I've found on this Forum seems to relate to prior versions. That is, when I try to follow the advice, the screenshots don't match what I see on my screen. I've included a couple of screenshots that show one of the places that I looked for possible remedies. Screenshot 02 shows what appears when you hover the mouse over a weird little icon that theoretically governs "Message List Display Options". Screenshot 03 shows what appears when you click on that icon, offering mysterious options like "Table View" and "Card View". (I tried them and they seem even worse than the gawdawful view I'm stuck with.

Not being able to EFFICIENTLY read my Email is driving me nuts. Thanks in advance for any help anybody can offer.

Screenshot Images: Thunderbird20240908_01_GawdawfulInboxFormat.jpg Thunderbird20240908_02_MessageListDisplayOptions_MouseHovering.jpg Thunderbird20240908_03_MessageListDisplayOptions_MouseClickToShow.jpg

Sending a mail results in the following message:

Sending of the message failed. An error occurred while sending mail: Outgoing server (SMTP) error. The server responded: Disallowed HELO string.

I FOUND no close TOPIC.

Google calendar allows color-coding of events - but the display is highly inadequate. T-bird 128 calendar apparently HAS no option to color events. But events are FAR easier to see WHEN color-highlighted. Would this be a difficult option??

In Thunderbird existiert die Suchfunktion ohne Zeiteinschränkung nicht mehr. Vorher gab es die Funktion "alle Termine". Die ist nicht mehr da. Wir kann ich Suchen, ohne dass ich einen gewissen Monat o.ä. vorher wissen muss????

Thunderbird automatically updated to v128 earlier this week after I went to Help - About Thunderbird to check that it had updated to v115.14.

Everything seemed okay immediately after the update, but when I started Thunderbird the next day it was very unresponsive. Checking the Activity Manager showed that Thunderbird was indexing messages, but that this was happening very slowly. I let Thunderbird do its thing that day in the hope that things would settle down.

The next day when I started Thunderbird things were still bad. I tried Rebuilding the Global Database but when I restarted Thunderbird it was just as bad, if not worse.

I then turned off indexing in the Thunderbird settings and Thunderbird is now responsive and back to normal.

Is anyone else seeing anything like this? Any suggestions to fix the problem?

I am a long time Thunderbird user so my profile is very large with a lot of accounts, and has been through a lot of Thunderbird versions, so it is potentially more complicated than normal.

Thunderbird version is currently 128.1.0esr (32-bit).

Thanks

Hi, I have a problem, when i set outomatic reply on my account email has send, but with wrong encoding. I 'm writting mail in czech language, so you probably wont be understanding. In the picture is a screen of mail, that was automatic sent, please help me, what i should to change in settings.

The global search in TB is completely defective. I am now running 128.2.0esr and hoped that update might fix it. It hasn't. I just wonder, are there any older or non ESR versions I can downgrade/move to, where the search is fully functional?

I just recently switched to Thunderbird and Libre Office to get rid of MS365. I am happy so far, if there wasn't one particular issue which I do not find a solution for:

I know how to sort messages with the newest on top, I know how to toggle the threaded view on and off. But I would like to use the threaded view and find it impossible to adjust a descending order within a thread. So I end up with the newest thread on top, but the thread headline shows the oldest message and if I unfold the thread it's in ascending order.

This is a major issue for me. To avoid overlooking incoming mails, I need to switch of the threaded view. Websearch didn't provide me a solution.

New up date Thunderbird 115.13.0 (64-bit) has completely removed all my local folders and my address book this is devastating with a complete loss of all this information is there a way of getting this back. I have used Thunderbird for many years and trusted it completely have never had any problem please help my system is Linux mint Linux Mint 21.3

I've read a number of posts regarding using Mail Store Home to enable the transfer of mail from a PST file to TB. I was under the impression that the archive within MSH could be run against a stand-alone PST file (that is, Outlook is not installed). When I select Archive Email as per instructions on other posts, and specify the location of the PST file and then run, I get an error: "This feature requires Microsoft Outlook XP/2003 or higher". Does it require Outlook to be installed, or am I doing something wrong? Also I am a bit unclear of the run sequence with MSH - do I run Archive Email followed by Export Email and what is the connection between the two? Refer to image attached. Thanks.

Hello,

       About 5 months ago I had this same issue and paid a person $90.00 to fix this issue

and erything was working gin until just recently, I have this issue all over again! I cannot afford to keep paying people to fix this all the time is this issue keeps popping up! Now I cannot received or send any outgoing mail!! THE MESSAGE SAYS: SEND MESSAGE ERROR, SENDING OF THE MESSAGE FAILED THE MESSAGE COULD NOT BE SENT BECAUSE THE CONNECTING TO THE OUTGOING SERVER (SMPT) stmp.mail.yahoo.com failed. THE SERVER MAY BE UNAVAILABLE OR IS REFUSING SMPT CONNECTING. PLEASE VERIFY THAT YOUR OUTGOING SERVER (SMPT) SETTINGSD ARE CORRECT AND TRY AGAIN> I'M LOST, I'M NOT THAT TECHMICAL AND NEED HELP!

Thunderbird was not responding and tried to reinstall profile. There are many (needed) emails that were saved in folders that are missing from the profile.

Used the export and import functions under tools menu. Possible corruption in sav8ng the profile.

How can we get the folders back ? The server copy has inbox but not folder baes email

Tb 115.15.0 32 bit on win 10

Why is my program stuck on "send later"? I see no way to change it to "send". How do I get thunderbird to send a message, not "send later" with no indication of how or when to send it?

What will happen if I reconnect Thunderbird to my email account after being disconnected for almost 2 years?

I had to switch ESP's a couple years ago and have been using their web based email platform since, but a recent outage made me realize I should have on off-line platform again, and I really liked Thunderbird.

When I reconnect, will all the emails from the new ESP download to the inbox on Thunderbird all at once?

Thank you.

Hi,

noticed some problems with the use of "Customize From Address" when sending out emails:

My configuration does have several free-mailers like GMX and multiple self-owned+self-run domains as well. Each mail account is configured to use their own credentials for Outgoing Server (SMTP). No sharing of SMTP credentials between accounts.

I have used the "Customize From Address" w/o creating an identity with my own domains a few times (the one-off use case, as described by TB). It is working with TB in general for each of my domains.

Now on 2 occasions I realized that sending via "Customize From Address" from customaddress@mydomain1.com ended up being sent to Outgoing SMTP-Server of @mydomain2.com. Therefor failing on submission.

Will try to enable some sort of logging in TB to find out why that is happening - not sure if that will provide enough detail to find out why this is happening.

Are there any recommendations you have or good resources on how the emailaddress of "Customize From Address" is matched with the correct Outgoing SMTP Server?

Thanks starfish

When I open Thunderbird it opens multiple tabs while attempting to get emails from an email folders. It doesn't allow to access any other email folders while trying to get messages from that particular folder and it eventually crushes.

I recently installed Thunderbird on a new installation of Ubuntu 24.04 using the "Installing Thunderbird manually" instructions. Everything works fine except that Thunderbird doesn't want to use the Thunderbird icon in the dock. Thunderbird opens and runs fine when I click on the Thunderbird icon, but it then puts a new default icon on the dock that looks like a gear instead of just "using" the Thunderbird icon to indicate that the application is running. I've attached a screenshot. When I close Thunderbird, the gear icon disappears.