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I'm using the latest version of Thunderbird. I just updated to Version 128.3.1esr. The problem is that I cannot edit or add event dates to Thunderbird Clients. I can see all my previous events but it will NOT let me add or edit events. This all worked fine before the latest update occurred, so it's related to the changes that Thunderbird made in this last update. This makes Thunderbird calendar useless.

I recently installed TB on my new machine and I'm having trouble with my address book. The order of addresses are displayed by first name. I'd like them sorted by last name. Maybe I'm blind, but I haven't found where this is specified..?

Thanks, Phil

Until last week, I could drag and drop events in my Lightning calendar to move them from one day to another. That no longer works. Have I accidentally changed something in my settings, or is this a change in the software? I am running Thunderbird 128.3.1esr (64-bit) on an HP Windows 10 desktop. Thanks!

Hello,

I want to configure my E-mail default reply signature to use English only. But I haven't found any options for it. Many sample only told me config it in "Account Settings" -> "Composition & Addressing" but there's no options to configure the content.

Specifically, I want to achieve when I reply an E-mail, the reply signature "On Fri, 2024... xxx@xxx.com wrote" always in English, even if I'm using zh-CN version Thunderbird.

Thank you.

The curse of the behemoth yet again? I refer to the ‘new’ imposition imposed by Microsoft with their ‘new’ authorisation and authentification nonsense when attempting to log in to account/s via Thunderbird. Why this is necessary when it is possible to log in via the usual manner direct is any body’s guess. My personal opinion is that it is a sordid and underhannd way of forcing us to subscribe to Outlook 365? Cynical me? For numerous reasons I need and use 6 e-mail accounts, sadly all Microsoft (outlook.com, hotmail.com. .co.uk and last but not least live.com). No need to explain why the excellent Thunderbird is used and has been for nigh on 15 years+. Over the past couple of months I have tried every conceivable configuration supplied by the support team and other poor users in the same position as me. None have solved my problem. I surely cannot be alone? I do not object to change if it is of benefit but this is madness. For the time being Thunderbird is redundant and the daily grind of signing in individually via Microsoft faces me everyday. Both time consuming and arguably pointless. If someone has a definitive solution please let me know. There must be one?

I don't like how my unread spam folder count is combined with my unread inbox folder count. Is there a way to only show unread inbox count? I would like the spam folder count separate from the overall notifications count.

Any changes to preferences, whether it is the font selection for editing or changes to the account setup are not retained by Thunderbird (on Windows). (I noticed this finally when I could install a new account, use it, and lose it with the next reboot).

The profile folder opened from the Troubleshooting Information does not contain any prefs.js file. How this can be, when I'm told that TB requires that file to open, I don't know.

A search or my entire disk finds one other profile, in a folder "...\Profiles\Importable" that has a prefs.js, but that one is from over a year ago. The prefs.js file in that profile is not set to readonly itself, but both the profile folders show a [-] (not a checkmark) in the box for readonly status for the folder.

The date on the profile under "importable" tracks with my attempt at restoring my TB installation after buying a new PC. However some of the files in the supposedly used profile show as more recent that in the one under "Importable".

What is a series of steps to get things to work, including TB reporting correctly where it is reading profile information from?

I searched my entire disk and cannot find a prefs file that is more recent than a year ago, despite changes to the preferences.

I would like to establish what prefs file the program is actually using, but the one in the (open profile) location from troubleshooting information seems not to be the live one.

1) In the old Thunderbird (for linux Mint, Mate desktop), it was possible to change font size in messages via ctrl++. Now that still works but only after the view menu is accessed - which is a little odd. 2) It is also proving impossible to change the default size of text in emails. The fontsize option in config doesn't work. I have tried disabling add-ons in troubleshoot mode but to no avail. Can these 2 things, which are probably linked, be fixed, or a workaround offered?

How can I make a setup so that all emails that go into the inbox in the future are forwarded to our financial system mail? And I want to ask if, just like in Outlook, you I make a rule so that certain emails are forwarded?

Hi everyone,

Im doing a clean install and i dont want Thunderbird to sync and download some emails.

What im trying to achieve is to download every email to use offline and be in sync with the Gmail account but only the most recent ones. And i did this:

Inbox: So far in Gmail i moved alot of emails from the Inbox to another folder. How can i disable that folder to sync in Thunderbird? Because as soon as i log in, every folder starts to sync and download automatically.

Outbox: I did some research and its seems that is not possible to move emails from outbox to another folder. Is there any way that i can only download emails only after specific date?

I recently tried to send an email but the email could not be sent. I called Spectrum to make sure I had the correct server settings and I do. The incoming server is 993 and the outgoing setting is 587. However, when I change my settings to correct the problem and restart Thunderbird the settings return to exactly the way they were before. Incoming is 587 and outgoing is 993. I don't know what changed my settings but I can receive email but I just can't send email. I ran the troubleshooting program and the same thing happens there as well. Does anyone have any idea as to what is going on and how to resolve this issue?

I am confused by Local Folders and have never deliberately used them.

Due to a problem with sending outlook emails I have removed all the accounts and reinstalled Thunderbird but first in the list is Local Folders - which maybe preventing me seeing all in boxes unified - so how do I get rid of the Local Folders accounts or atleast make it the last in my long list of email accounts?

Some help regarding sending from Outlook.com accounts willl also be welcome - but I seem to have a Microsoft problem as Hotmail emails are being sent without problems.

I am not IT competent.

Hello,

I have a limit of 1500 emails to receive, and it always deletes up to that number of emails the next day.

Please do something about it, because I set it in the settings so that it doesn't delete

account: svg@satori.info.pl

I have long had Thunderbird configured the way I like it on Windows 10 - a folder browser on the left, a listbox with one text line per email along the top, and the majority of the window showing the currently-selected window. Each entry in the listbox has multiple columns, with subject, sender, date, etc.

The individual items within the listbox on Windows 11 are very wide - the same-size pane that showed ten emails now shows only three. (the folder browser pane is also now only as tall as the email pane instead of being the whole left side.) And it's not arranged in columns; the subject and sender stack atop one another and htere's a blank line beneath them; no column headings or column-click-to-sort. It's now intolerable to browse.

Yes, I have a cluttered inbox and many cluttered folders. But I would like to see a dozen emails at a time, not three or four, and have column headings I can use to sort email easily. Is there any way to force the email list to be a traditional compact listbox on Windows 11, or is this simply a Win11 system interface choice we can't do anything about?