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i have always used thunderbird and am now up to 64 bit thunderbird 144.0.1 on windows 11 25h2

everytime i am sent a pdf file as an attachment i'm having to get thunderbird to open the file before i can actually save it to disc

everything else, while asking me for a name & location to save the file simply doesn't

btw thunderbird is now configured to ask me what to do with the pdf file and it ALWAYS behaves the same

i don't want to have to open files like pdf's that may not be safe / virus free before being able to handle them

way passed the time you fixed this stupidity terry

Hi, RTF attachments won't open. I have set the default application(Libre Office) in Windows, and in Thunderbird. Thunderbird is up to date. So is Windows. I can save the file, then open it, and then delete it, but it's a recurring issue.

Please help!

Matt

Yesterday was fine, but today (11/21/25), I can't send emails with attachments. It's like dial up service without the beeping.

A simple email with a simple image sits and sits and 20% sent, then 27%, then 35% .... then it may go through. Maybe. AND then it tells me that it can't save the sent message.

Slow as a rock.

When I add attachments when replying to emails, the file icons on those attachments don't display. This only happens when replying, the file icons display when receiving emails. Have tried many things to fix this including using ChatGTP with no luck. What can I do to fix this?

Please assist When I go to send a email,I add scanned Documents as a attachment<but in the email Before I send it,I cannot open the attachments It shows Could not be opened,because the associates helper application does not exist chanhe the association in your preferences I have attemped to do the above,But I need your HELP Thank you Darryl. </p>

Hello! An attachment with the 7z extension is sent to the email. It is very inconvenient to save attachments of this type to the computer every time. To open them using the 7-zip archiver, you need to perform several actions (select open, find the program in the program files, and select the exe file). Can you make it so that the user does not have to perform these actions every time?

Suddenly, the body of some my older emails are blank, and their attachments missing! It is sporadic, and there are not specific date windows for when the email bodies/attachments are blank. Some are from a few months ago, some from years ago.

I am a "regular person" email user and have ZERO IT or coding experience. How can I recover the content of these blank emails? Specific, step-by-step help would be much appreciated. I hope to continue using Thunderbird and not have to abandon it.

I run Thunderbird on a iMac, and I use POP to sign in - I think.

Thank you.

I believe the only option to view attachments is to scroll until the end of the email. This is inconvenient for emails with many replies and forwards as they become very long. In addition, the implicit Gmail indentation, makes the scroll length extremely long (email is eventually displayed one character per line). I have one email that I need to scroll hundreds of screens so I can view the attachments. See attached image with the email contents and scroll bar.

It would help to have a button to scroll to the end or ignore indentation. Both options would be helpful as scrolling to the end allows downloading the attachments and reading the initial email.

Hello, I cannot view (or even see that there is one) any attachments other than PDF (as only PDF is listed in attachment options) Already renamed handlers file to -old in Profiles

Please help I just switched to TB and want to like it!

Dear Sir/Madam,

      Have been using Thunderbird since it's inception . I have appreciated the "add-ons" which shrink picture file size in the desktop version. Having used Thunderbird for android for a year now I am most frustrated at the inability to utilise this sort of function on android. An email photograph is so helpful in many situations. Am I missing something or do you intend to implement such a function.
   Kind regards Ian

I have McAfee Total Security installed & up to date on my PC.

3 times today, the AV reported files being generated by email contain malicious links or attachments?

e.g. in AppData\Local\Temp newmsg-46 newmsg-73

Thunderbird 128.13.0esr was installed. I have just updated to 128.14.0esr, then immediately prompted to install140.4.0esr?

Was this a known issue?

Thanks

I have setup Thunderbird on a laptop. I tested the setup by sending a test email to computer #2 which is received just fine.

However, if I send a test email that contains an attachment (Word document) to the same email address on computer #2, the email appears to be sent from the laptop, but is not being received.

I check both servers and the email with an attachment has not bounce or gone to a junk folder. I can not find it anywhere.

Any suggestion on how to correct whatever it is that is causing this problem?

when trying to view pdf attachment while composing a thunderbird message a mysterious error message appears: "could not be opened, because the associated helper application does not exist. Change the association in your preferences". I found the solution in a reddit forum namely in configeditor of thunderbird change "pdfjs.disabled" to "true". Fine, but why does thunderbird support not give a solution?. And why is the error message so uninformative? it does not say which helper application it is looking for, and what is meant by "association in your preferences" and how to change that. SEE https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/qrpmnb/cant_open_attachments_while_composing/

В thunderbird файлы формата ODT не открываются, а сразу предлагается их сохранить! Нельзя и в настройках выбрать с помощью чего такие файлы открывать (В настройках - Основные - Файлы и вложения)!!! Это не очень удобно.

Hello Thunderbird team,

I’ve been a long-time fan of your email client and have been using the desktop version for many years. Recently, I started actively using the Android version as well. From time to time, I also make donations to support the project, since it’s very important to me that Thunderbird continues to grow.

I’d like to share a suggestion: it would be very convenient if attachments in emails were displayed right after the subject line, instead of at the bottom of the entire conversation. In long email threads, it can be inconvenient to scroll all the way down just to open an attached file.

I’d be very grateful if you could consider this improvement. Thank you in advance for your feedback and for your excellent work on Thunderbird!

Best regards, Aleks