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128.3.3esr (64-bit)

Thunderbird automatically updated today, and the elements in the attached screenshot suddenly appeared. I am not interested in knowing what they do; I just want to know how to get rid of them. How can I eliminate all of the elements above and below the search box?

I don't know what they're called, which is why I'm asking here. A clue: hovering over the single unlabeled button, the following text appears: "Keep filters applied when switching folders."

I have multiple email addresses that I read with saved search local folders. That's why I don't need to sort using the buttons in the screenshot that are below the search box. I know what those do, and I would still like to get rid of them.

I cannot send from my default e-mail account. I get error message: Sending of the message failed. Connection to outgoing server ( SMTP ) smtp.broadband.rogers.com was lost in middle of transaction. What is wrong?

First noticed that the Help About screen says "Unable to check for updates due to internal error. Updates available at https://www.thunderbird.net/"

Then trying to view Settings to change automatic update, it will not display. Account settings will display, not general Thunderbird Settings.

Tried to reinstall Thunderbird but did not fix the problem.

I am struggling to increase the very small text size viewed in both send/receive emails ... I am guessing the view size is no more that point 6. All other screen text is good and my composition texts are set at 14. Reading various posts has not resolved my problem eg https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1442091

I know that I can adjust view per email but there must be a global setting. Any help appreciated.

How to change hover color in New Email Windows for email address link for screenshots: Screenshot

Thunderbird version 128.3.1 In the new message window when I move my cursor over the email address list my Windows titlebar orange color shows up as half transparent. When I click on an address it uses my light blue color I use in the main window for hover and selected. #52aaff

Question: How to change the hover color in the new email window to match what I have in the main window?

In the main window the hover and selected color solution is this in my: userChrome.css file.:

/* Folder Pane - hover color, once a row is clicked on it will either display the Windows Titlebar color you choose if you do not specify a color here then the hover color will continue on any other row you hover over. light blue specified */

.container:hover {

 background-color: #52aaff !important;
 border: 0px solid #000000 !important;}

/* Folder Pane - light blue specified */ li.selected > .container {

 color: black !important;
 background-color: #52aaff !important;
 border: 0px solid #000000 !important;}

I had Tbird running very well on my new MacBook a two months, I have it set to work perfectly with my outlook.com email account for emails, contacts and calendar. I have Tbsync and Provider for exchange add ons. In fact the whole set up was much easier on the Mac than on my old Win10 laptop. I also have BT, Gmail and iCloud email folders set up as well. As state the whole system was working perfectly, calendar events etc all synced and updated my Outlook.com account and also my iPhone. I was extremely pleased with how it was working.

Problem. I switch off my Mac last night as usual. Started up this morning and opened Tbird. Latest emails were duly received from all accounts including my Outlook.com.

However when I went to add a new event I noticed there were no calendars, none! Yesterday there were F1, holidays, personal. I then noticed that my address book was also gone, no contacts, nothing. Just a blank calendar and the empty Tbird default address book. No menu options for getting Outlook contacts or calendar re-set up exist. I feel rather annoyed, is putting it mildly!

Fortunately the data is still there in my Outlook.com account. So not 100% angry.

Despite the fact that I am downloading emails from Outlook.com, plus sending replies and new ones, something has gone missing. I must therefore assume that TBsync 4.11 or Provider for Exchange ActiveSync 4.12 has decided to go on vacation.

Tbird is version 128.3.3esr (64-bit) No updates have been requested or installed for months. It just simply was working well and then decided not too!

Any ideas for a fix? Or do I remove everything and start a fresh setup

Thunderbird 60.3.0 (64bit). Windows 7. I know it's an old version, but it has to stay that way. The program does not open PDF attachments. When I click on the attachment, nothing happens. It can only be saved to disk. I cannot change the program used to open PDF attachments in the options. I am attaching a photo.

To move the email storage space to D drive, I followed all available instructions I found online, but it always failed when I tried to redirect the route of Thunderbird mail folder to a new place in D drive.

Everything worked fine until I upgraded to 128.3.1 Now I cannot open any attachments. The most urgent to fix is pdf attachments. I am running Thunderbird in Ubuntu and the default app in my Ubuntu is Okular. Under Thunderbird Settings, Files and Attachments, the pdf setting is currently System Handler but that does not lead to any action when I click on an attachment. Under Thunderbird Settings, there are no apps listed in the Other list. Selecting that option just takes me to Ubuntu Documents - where there are no apps. Okular is definitely the default app in my Ubuntu setup for opening pdf files. How do I get Thunderbird to use this? Thanks for your help Ian

Hi All the folders in my accounts have stopped responding to commands such as delete/rename/subfolder/properties. Everything else works fine - sending/receiving emails. Tried folder repair but no joy. Cheers Neil

It used to be, (years ago) that the message filters worked, apparently, thus: in descending order- filter applied, message removed message from inbox next filter until the inbox was was empty, OR if not empty yet (because no previous filter matched), a final filter of "match anything" would be applied to the remaining messages in the inbox, and those messages would be moved to the designated folder.

Now, it seems that while the filters are being applied, the message is not moved immediately, but rather is copied to where it is intended, but left in the inbox, marked read, apparently. So, when the final "match anything" filter is encountered, ALL of those previously processed, marked read messages are actually moved (copy/delete, I suppose) to the final designated folder.

So, if this is not a bug, how can I achieve the original behavior?

Some additional, should be irrelevant info: I have one main account which mostly gets things addressed to my @spamcop.net address. Things I'm interested in go to one of maybe 50 folders under that account. Anything else ( that is, left over from the previous filtering ) is supposed to go to the inbox folder of my Spamcop account for possible spam reporting, Marked "unread". As it is, every incoming message goes into that account, marked read. Useless.

A final note is that messages ~moved~ to the main inbox are ignored in normal use, but if I select filters and manually apply them, they work as expected.

Thanks for any help with this. Doug McCrary, long-time user on Ubuntu

P.S. I'm not interested in using IMAP, I have everything else working as I like with POP3.

Persistent issue. I have now UNCHECKED (UK = unticked) EVERY BOX in the JUNK setings - both GLOBALLY - and for all 9 of my email account settings. Also cleared the "learning" memory.

TB still occassionally intercepts inbox mail and routes to other folders as junk or spam. Odd, but it is often frequently used email of my own origin, or from others on in my address book, but sometimes it actually is junk or spam.

I invest tremendous time in building the filter list and do not want TB to do anything other than follow THAT list.

I will reiterate a post comment that there needs to be an option to have ONE MASTER FILTER LIST to apply to all email accounts.

No image attached. If you don't know what the JUNK settings screen looks like ..... you are very probably NOT a person that should answer this.

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I have Windows 11 and have a yellow on black theme. In Thunderbird I have the Dark theme.

The Folders in the folder pane are white. However, the messages in the message list pane are yellow.

What code can I put in the userChrome.css to make them white?