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I changed settings to no threading, but it continues to show the thread column in all the folders and do threading unless I manually remove the threading column from each folder - very time consuming. How do I get rid of the threading column globally?

Just updated from Ubuntu 20 to 24. Seems Thunderbird has not been auto-updating. I have three email accounts, each with multiple folders and sub-folders. I have three windows open, one for each account because they are for three purposes. Before the change each full height window could accommodate all the folders for its account (plus the un-expanded two lines for the other accounts). Now the folder lines are further apart and they don't fit so I can't tell when a new message arrives in one of the other accounts. Is there a setting for the spacing of the folder listing, and if so, what is it? Similarly I can not see so many messages listed in the classic layout without enlarging that pane and reducing the space for the messages. The spacing is larger than it used to be. Does it have a setting?

Thanks, David

The File (saving to a folder) Recent function used to have the folders alphabetically. Some genius thought to reorganize the Recent folders to be in chronological order. Is there a setting to have the Recent folders be in alphabetical order again? I could not find anything. Thanks in advance.

Hi folks. Been using Thunderbird for years now. Never had an issue till now. It recently began to check the spelling on EVERY email. Even if spelling was perfect. It never displays a misspelled word (I'm a good speller). Window comes up and despite hitting ignore it refuses to send. Only after you select Close will it send.

I've uninstalled it and did a fresh install. No luck. I did keep the old profile.

I believe that version 145.0, newly installed on the 9th December, 2025 was showing server folders correctly; the server folder name matched the client folder name.

After upgrading to 146.0 on the 10th December, the server folder names for some folders are displaying with different client folder names.

The IMAP account has both "spam" and "junk" folders, Thunderbird is now displaying both as "Spam", you can only determine which folder is which by showing folder properties. It appears to users that there are two "Spam" folders now and not the two distinct folders with their own names.

Similar behaviour is happening for "Sent" and "Sent Messages" folders, both now display as "Sent".

These changes are confusing, the client sees two "Spam" folders and two "Sent" folders instead of the original proper server folder names.

Why has the display name for these folders changed?

How can I get TB to display the real underlying folder names?

What is the name of the element that corresponds to the background color of this message pane? This is a default background of a message window when I first open Thunderbird. I already have userChrome setup to modify other elements and I attempted to use the inspector tool to try to find the name of the message background color but I could not identify it. Please provide the name of the element in the form that I can use to add to my existing userChrome.css file to customize this black window pane.

In the upper right hand corner there should be a minus sign, restore/down sign and an X. Instead of these I have what looks like an X in a box. It appears to be fixed when I run in Trouble mode. Even the default theme shows it wrong. This just began happening. Thanks to anyone who can help me out.

When right-clicking on the Firefox icon in the Windows task bar one can pin entries, which then appear in the "Pinned" section of that menu. The description is taken from the title of the website at that point in time.

I would like to rename one such entry (i.e. change the description). How can I do this? The context menu only contains the options "Open" and "Unpin from this list".

When right-clicking on the Firefox icon in the Windows task bar one has the option to "pin" items by hovering over an entry in the "frequent" list and clicking on the little pin needle icon (with the hover text "Pin to this list").

How can I pin items that are not in the frequent list? I have tried for weeks to make an important page a frequent one by making sure to visit it daily but it never makes it to the list.