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See the previous, now archive post about it.

If this option makes emails sent from Thunderbird to any other email client have arbitrary line breaks where the line changes in the view of the composer. Please explain to me like I am 5, why is this ON by default? I just spent hours wording and formatting a work email vital for my career just to find out it will most likely look like a poem to the person that reeds it. This mailnews.wraplength "feature" looks a lot like is there to signal to other non-Thunderbird users to use Thunderbird. I really really hope there is a good explanation for why `mailnews.wraplength` exists and is on by default.

This is behavior that changed recently. It used to be that I always got a reply-all button, now that button disappears when the message is sent by me to a single person. (!!?). I can still right click and then select reply-all from the drop-down menu, but what's the logic behind removing the button from the preview pane? Very frequently I want to send a follow-up email to a previously sent email, this is reply-all functionality, why make it so difficult? Is there any way I can restore the button to the preview pane?

I have just updated to TB version 60.3.2 and the customized folder icons in the folder tree have vanished. I can manually re key them but when I restart TB they no longer show. How do I get my folder tree icons to reappear permanently?

Starting with TB 31.2 - some four months ago - I have not been able to open TB to the Inbox. I downloaded the "Select INbox" add on many times (and disabled/removed as many times) but it does not work consistently. When it does finally work I have no idea why. And then the next time, it doesn't work again!

Is there an add on that can be customisd to auto correct typing errors in emails, like autocorrect in MS Word? I have searche add ons but cannot find what I need. Thank you

I am trying to change the mail send (TO: box) quicksearch sort order, so that the search provides addresses that begin with the typed characters rather than (new in V31.3) an address that CONTAINS the typed characters. I understand that the option is mail.addr_book.quicksearchquery.format, which currently contains the default "?(or(PrimaryEmail,c,@V)(DisplayName,c,@V)(FirstName,c,@V)(LastName,c,@V))". However changing the embedded ",c," to ",bw," in all four places has no effect after restarting thunderbird. I can't find any documentation on how to interpret this field. Could anyone help please. Thanks.

Since upgrading to version 60.3 I have the following problem:

For composing messages I have set font and size to suit my taste. However, when I read my message in the folder "messages sent" the font is always larger. The same applies for messages received. Whatever I change in the settings it has no effect. Please advise. Thank you.

When I click on Write, the outgoing email address defaults to one I rarely use. I went into the SMTP settings and set another email address as the default. Then I closed and opened TB, but it isn't working. When I click on Write, I am still having to manually select the right outgoing email address. The problem is that sometimes I forget, and I end up sending mail from the email address I rarely use. Can this be fixed? I have Windows 7 and the latest version of TB.

Trying to look at and/or add new themes in "add-on" section of Thunderbird takes me to a browser page, instead of opening in Thunderbird like it used to. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thank you.

I really appreciate the ability to Right-Click on a message, select "Open Message in Conversation" and see an organized chronological grouping of the threads for a given "conversation". On older messages, I can right-click on the message and see the "Open Message in Conversation" in the drop-down menu and selecting this option works. However, when I try this on my most recent messages, I don't see the option to "Open Message in Conversation" in the drop down menu. Why doesn't this feature work with my recent conversations?

I'm wondering if perhaps a "conversation" consists of more than 1 exchange. In other words, if I reply to a new message, the original message + my reply are not considered a "conversation" until a 3rd message is sent???

I have Thunderbird Version/Edition: 52.3.0 (32 bit).

I would love to make the margins of my composed messages narrower by default, so that words automatically went on to a new line.

If this IS possible to do, can anyone simply give me layperson's plain-English guidance as to how to set 'word wrap' or 'margin widths' up?

An example of the 'route' I should take to set this up would be brilliant.

And, if I needed to use HTML, where could I access a 'dictionary' of this, so that I could see what words and punctuation to use, and where one should put spaces, or not.

(I would prefer HTML to CSS as I'm more familiar with HTML).

Many thanks.

I have windows 7 Professional PC and use Mozilla Thunderbird 24.4.0 as my email account. I have a local .wav music file for incoming mail which tests OK, but when a new mail arrives it doesn't play. I have all the boxes ticked in the settings. Can anyone help please?

Hi Guys I used to use an addon called "Compose Toolbar Buttons" It added additional buttons to the compose bar to allow storing 5 regularly used colours (which could be custom colours) and a stack of other useful tools, like better (easier access to) table properties, add rows, merge cells etc etc.

Sadly, CTB isn't compatible with 60.x.x

Does anyone know if it's possible to create a custom text colour and assign it to a button or something? I know I can simply type in a value to the text colour picker - but that is exceedingly dull in this day and age.

Is it possible to edit the Text Style drop-down with custom styles? For example, assign one to my corporate font and colour?

I guess I'm just surprised (and frustrated) that the compose window (tool bar) is still very basic in this day and age!

I have been trying to add a Spanish dictionary. I have been following the steps, but it does not show up. I used to have a Spanish dictionary, but it disappeared - maybe in an update.

When TB receives new mail there is a standard notification pop-up for a short time. However this is not persistent (and not intended to be) so doesn't help if you are looking elsewhere at the time.

In previous versions of TB the minimised window icon changed when you had new mail. This was removed and replaced by plugins (eg. I was using FireTray for a while but it is no longer supported). I cannot find any current plugin to do this. I think at least TB should set the window urgent hint so the window manager can indicate there is something new in the standard way. This is really core functionality and unless Mozilla are going to maintain a plugin themselves, I think it should be part of the main program?

Whenever I click on an email address from within an email and ask to add it to my address book, the contact is added to Personal Address Book. How do I change that so that new addresses will be added to another book?

after creating a new profile, and copying everything in the root directory to the new profile, including search.json.mozlz4, the default search engine setting does not get transferred over and is still set to google