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I hope you don't mind if I re-ask for everyone's help.

The last time I posted this unresolved issue was July of 2016.

All I need is that on every email I open, that email will have both the date and time displayed. At present, when I open a new email received today, the date is missing (suppressed), it only shows the time. If I open an older email, say from yesterday, the date and time will display just fine.

This simple request is to always have the date showing on every email, including today's email, where the date does not display.

Rationale: I open every email the same day received (100+ per day) and none show the date. Most are responded-to and closed. Some emails are part of multi-day projects and will remain open until the project completes, perhaps several days or a week later, being repeatedly looked at for details during phone calls or portions copied to others by email --- but none show the date, which is frequently critical to prioritizing their importance. They are left on a monitor like organized post-it notes, always in view, looked at many times a day for reference against the project they are related to. The only way to get a date to show, is to wait until the next day, and close-reopen each and every email --- it's a real nuisance.

Thank you to everyone who's trying to help, It's very appreciated.

Hi, I am looking to have the order of the emails from a thread as descending, the new email at the top and older ones at the bottom.

This feature simple feature seems to be present and working very well on Android but it's absent on Windows, anyone knows a proven fix as there isn't much online?

I know there is a workaround to have Unthreaded set and sort by descending which seem to work but this means the threads disappear and this makes it even harder to track related emails.

I have Thunderbird mail. I have had it for years. But it has been hacked ? by whom. I believe it is Google. As I have a Gnome account and they constantly want me to delete it. And I am unable to get my mail on Thunderbird because Google it appears won't send it. I have a google account on my Linux Mint. I have checked my google account and password. I am also unable to upload photos on Facebook Lite. I uploaded an embarrassing block of my email by our Health Minister Mary Ann Thomas and I have been hacked ever since. I don't understand why Google would be involved if its only the Victorian state Government. Are you able to help me. I am going to get an external CD rom and load Duckduckgo on it to see if this will help. I don't write code but can understand basic concepts and load via instructions. I'm a 78 year old widow with a lot of discernment. The Victorian Australia situation worries me and I talk about it. I'm wondering if we have any free speech at all

I have 128.7.1esr, no AdBlock extension installed.

When I click on Get Messages I am getting no feedback on the status bar like before. Has anyone see this? Is there a way to fix this?

Hi, i am a german speaker. Please not a difficult english, than'ks! I use Thunderbird mail and have two accounts 1) @ alice-dsl.de --- no problem

2) @gmail.com ---- i cannot send and i get no mails but only at my PC /// android no problem

you have some ideas ?

with friendly and peaceful greetings fom HAMBURG

manfred🙋‍♂️🤸‍♂️😎🎈 plü

If I receive an email where there is no "To:" recipient, an "Cc:" and several people in "Bcc:" (of which I am one), there is no "Reply All" button available in the header bar. It is still possible to reply to all by right-clicking the email in the inbox, or using CTRL-SHIFT-R, but I was wondering what causes it and how it can be fixed.

I have seen a couple of similar questions where it is recommended to go to "Customize" under the header's "More" menu, but this does not contain an option of adding "Reply All" for me (and also, I cannot get to the "Customize" option by right-clicking on the header).

Note 1: This only applies to the above situation. If there is a "To:" recipient, the "Reply All" is always there.

Note 2: This is not consistent behaviour. If I send an email with one of my addresses in Cc and three others in Bcc, some will have the "Reply All" button visible while others not. Makes me want to scratch my brain.

Any thoughts?

(Am adding a screenshot of the missing button)

Running: Thunderbird 128.6.0esr on Fedora 41

Hi, I have Outlook 2024 and not able to Import all my files to Mozilla Thunderbird. I click on Import from Outlook, it churns then closes Thunderbird. Appears my calendar imported but do not see any of my Personal Folders. Help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Arnie

Sometimes, when I delete one email from the inbox, the inbox shows "no message found", even though there are still other emails in the inbox. The remaining emails are still in the inbox, they just don't show. If I right click on inbox in the left panel, and select "open in new tab", the remaining emails show in the new tab, just not in the main inbox. If I close out thunderbird and start it again, the emails show in the main inbox. The problem occurs occasionally, whether I select delete from the menu bar, hit the delete key, or right click on the entry and select the trash can icon.

This problem started maybe 10 or more updates ago. For each new update I think "surely it will be fixed this time".

I have included a partial screenshot of what it looks like after the problem occurs.

This problem is different than any other questions I have found in the search. It purely a visual presentation error, not disastrous, just highly annoying. Any solutions will be greatly appreciated.

Hi folks,

Thunderbird 128.6.0esr (64-bit) on Fedora 41 Linux...

I'm trying to export all messages in a mailbox on an old Yahoo mail account and then import all those messages into another email account. I access both accounts from Thunderbird. I'm using IMAP protocol, and all email accounts keep the messages on the server.

I've exported the mailbox to a folder on my computer; now all the email messages exist as separate .eml files in that folder. But I can't see how to import them into the second email account.

It seems that exporting my entire profile won't help as I'm not moving everything to a second computer. But I cannot see any way to select just the one mailbox from the one 'source' email account that I want to import into the 'destination' email account.

Thanks...

Hello, seen this a couple times in the forums but my situation is a bit different. Using Thunderbird 128.7.0esr on Windows 10 and I get the attached message occasionally when dismissing or snoozing a calendar reminder, sometimes multiple ones at once. It appears to be random and happens with different events. Only unique thing with me is this calendar is not synced or tied with an email address, it is solely local to my PC and it is managed, edited and added to almost weekly. I do have it backed up but don't want to mess with any settings until guidance is provided, I rely on this very heavily.

Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks in advance.

I have some address books with a lot of names. I used to be able to open the Contact sidebar, then click within an address book, type a letter, and it would take me to the first entry in the address book beginning with that name. For example, if clicked within the address book list of names, and typed "B" it would take me to "Baker" if Baker was the first name in the address book beginning with a "B" It will no longer do that. Now, I have to scroll through all of the "A" names until I get to the "B" names. How can I enable that again? I'm using Windows 11. This has worked the same way for years and years and now has stopped. Help!

I've wanted to change settings pages background in my Thunderbird themes. I've checked that they're defined by --in-content-page-background: var(--background-color-canvas); variable. Manipulating it in developer tools works, but when I try to change it in my theme source files it doesn't work. I've tried declaring value for both --in-content-page-background and --background-color-canvas as well as overwriting it by my own variable for :root, :host and even *, of course using !important parameter. :(

I usually run Thunderbird in a sized window to manage my screen real estate, using the classic layout and showing four messages in the folder pane. The problem is that when I maximize the Thunderbird window, the message pane stays at the height I set for the smaller size window. Is there a way to make the size of the message pane be a percentage of the available space, or at least lock the height of the message pane to the height I set for the folder pane?

I have been a Thunderbird user forever. LOVE it !!! I used to have 2 email accounts underneath Thunderbird: TWC mail and Gmail. Every account worked great sending/receiving up until Feb 12. Then my TWC mail stopped replicating. Gmail account still works. Called TWC and was informed that I had to update my Master Password for my Spectrum Account. Worked with Tech Support to get me all re-established. Went into Thunderbird and still couldn't replicate. Found an answer dated 1/26/25 by teknikal at 10:44 on this Forum which sounded like exactly my problem. Called Spectrum every day trying to find the Server Engineer who could help me reset my password to no avail. Then i investigated updating my new password in the saved password of the account setting. There was only a saved password for TWC for SMTP which I updated and was able to successfully send and email from TWC to Gmail under Thunderbird. But I still can not receive emails and there is NO saved password for IMAP. So I did further reading and found my only alternative was to delete TWC from Thunderbird and re-add the account. Which I tried to do. But the configuration that replicated was mobile.charter.net which I manually changed to mail.twc.com but Thunderbird keeps telling me it can't find the server. I just got off the phone with Spectrum and my config is accurate: smtp mail.twc.com 587 starttls normal password chrismcm@twcny.rr.com imap mail.twc.com 993 starttls normal password chrismcm@twcny.rr.com Why isn't Thunderbird configuring my mail server so that I can send and receive emails ??? And now have I lost all my mail and folders since I deleted my account only to re-add it ??? I'm ready for the looney bin because I have been at this for DAYS !!! Please HELP !!! Thank you.

Suddenly this morning, I can't send an email through Thunderbird, but I can through my email service provider's platform. No settings have been changed and I have the most up to date version.

I get this message:

"Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because connecting to Outgoing server (SMTP) (my account) failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections. Please verify that your Outgoing server (SMTP) settings are correct and try again."

I am not at all tech savvy with this type of thing, so I need step by step, easy instructions, please. Thank you!

I am trying to whitelist a domain name. TB won't let me do that. This company has a plethora of emails. I don't want to whitelist every single one of them. That would take me days. It is impractical. I want to whitelist the domain name which is concentrix.com. I want to ensure that all emails coming from that domain name land on the inbox folder. How can I do that on TB?

I have an email from my company, where I have 18 tags created (for all of us who use the email). And they are not synced. Comparing it with my other coworkers, I have half of the tags synced (tags are saved the same for all workers, same name and color). Please help