Mary, You indicated this is NOT a drafts folder but you appear to be saving messages there. That is your problem. Thunderbird sees the drafts folder as holding messages that YOU are in the midst of composing and it presents that error message (in my opinion) because the FROM is not YOU. I suggest you create a new folder in Local Folders to save these messages and MOVE them from drafts to the other folder. @Todd-Hall's reminder on that caused you to state they weren't drafts, and that triggered that the folder is being misused.

but those have always been there and never have i got the yellow bar

That does not mean it was right. You are saving messages in the drafts folder that are NOT drafts.

I know and thanks for all your help

re : no they are not all what youd consider drafts they are saved things from websites letters picture etc

Items that should be in the 'Drafts' folder should only be emails you are in the process of creating to send, but you have not finished them, they are saved as a draft so you can complete at some point and then send. At this point the saved draft should get deleted from the Drafts folder and the copy of sent email is then put in the 'Sent' folder.

The image of email you are posting does not look like a draft. It looks like a normal received email from 'Cleverbridge' and therefore should be in the 'Inbox' or another folder you created for the purpose of storing the email. That folder you created should not be a subfolder to Drafts. 'Drafts' is only and specifically for new emails or replies to received email located in Inbox which you are in the process of creating.

The 'From' address of that email which you received and you have put into the 'Drafts' folder will be the email address of whomever sent you the email in the first place eg: Cleverbridge email address. Therefore when you select it in order to 'Edit', the From address does not match your account email address, hence the yellow message. The 'Write' message will auto use your account email address in the From and not the From address.

If you are storing received messages in the Drafts folder then move them out of Drafts into the correct folder.

If you really are clicking on a received email stored in the 'Inbox' and get that yellow banner then you need to check the 'Flag' setting for 'Inbox' Properties has only 'Inbox' selected.

i have had these for years in here never before have i got the yellow boxes.. the only yellow boxes i got was for an attachment. this all happened when i updated to new version. I also went confiig and changed the encryption settings. i did not change any email. so this is an all of a sudden thing. not sure why. but thank you for your reply. these have been here since 2016 and never have i had this yellow box

i have had these for years in here never before have i got the yellow boxes.. the only yellow boxes i got was for an attachment. this all happened when i updated to new version. I also went confiig and changed the encryption settings. i did not change any email. so this is an all of a sudden thing. not sure why. but thank you for your reply. these have been here since 2016 and never have i had this yellow box

You have had this yellow pop up before because in the past you posted a couple of questions. You've seen this problem on and off since 2019.

It rather depends upon how you opened those emails stored in Drafts. Selecting to read an email in Message Pane would not display the issue. So if you were doing this most of the time, you would not be aware of any issue. Selecting to 'reply' or forward may not display the error because the From is auto placed in the TO field. Selecting to 'Edit' if it was from one of your mail account addresses to another mail account address will not show the problem.

Selecting to Edit will display the yellow banner if From was not you nor any mail account or identity email address in Thunderbird. This is not new and has been the standard in Thunderbird for years - why - because you cannot 'Edit' and send using the same identical From data when that email address is not one of yours.

Hence this why you sometimes see the error and not on other occasions. That error is letting you know the FROM was not one of your mail accounts - it's not an email you were composing - it's not a draft - so Thunderbird has replaced it with one of your mail account email addresses.

Bottom line is use : the Drafts folder for Drafts of emails you are creating but yet to send. The Templates folder for reusable emails that you want to send which tend to have same/similar composition. Use the Trash for unwanted emails. Create folders with suitable names to store wanted emails in an organised storage format.

thank you for the information. i did send a new message about a different problem that you may be ale to help me with have a nice day and thank yoiu