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Before the Thunderbird 45.0 update came through, I used to use an ad-on called TT DeepDark. Since the update, I get an error message telling me that this add-on is not compatible with version 45.0. Because of a visual impairment, I depend on dark themes so that I can read more easily. I thought at first that it was something with that one individual add-on, so I searched for one to take its place. However, it appears that no theme add-on available through Mozilla is compatible with the latest version. Is there any kind of time frame for when this might be fixed?

I do know that things often depend on individual developer, but since every single theming add-on is currently nonfunctional, I know it isn’t something like dependent on an individual developer.

Is there any kind of workaround in the meantime? I really depend on that dark theme so that I can use Thunderbird more effectively.

I've been using Thunderbird for a couple of years now and have always had it set up so that when I delete a message it gets marked as deleted, and then I manually compact the folder when ready.

A few months ago I started to notice that when deleting messages from my inbox they would be marked as read and then after a variable number of seconds they would be removed - as if the folder is auto-compacting itself. Strangely it only seems to be the inbox that is affected - all other folders are working as previously.

I don't remember changing any settings to have caused this change and I've tried unchecking the "Compact all folders..." option in the Disk Space settings but this hasn't made any difference.

Any ideas would be very much appreciated.

Since font size is controlled in Firefox by CTL +/- why not the same for the main screen in Thunderbird? Eyesight requires larger characters. Simple solution best. Past my time to futz.

Made a mistake by changing user_pref("layout.css.devPixelsPerPx" from I think - 0.5 to +0.5 as incoming emails font was miniscule, but made nor difference... so thought it may be a font size, so changed to 12.... Now ginormous and unreadable. Searched through pages here for an answer and got to the prefs.js folder to find this file but it is not there.... I searched with notepad edit search for "layout" but no luck. Any ideas anyone? I tried adding the line user_pref("layout.css.devPixelsPerPx", "1.5"); whilst TB was closed and then opened TB but had made no difference.. :-( Any ideas anyone? TIA Graham

I am setting up a client to receive emails from an online service request form.... he's not tech saavy and wants all incoming emails to print out on his printer upon arrival. When he gets in at the end of the day, he wants a stack of printed emails/forms from which he can return calls. I know this can be done in MS Outlook (ugh)... hoping you can do the same or better!! I'm a longtime user and rely on Tbird...

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?

When I start TB it automatically checks for new messages. However, the notification at the lower left of the TB window closes very quickly, so quickly that I usually cannot see what it says. Telling TB to check for new mail then brings up the message again and it stays longer this time which suggests that how long it stays visible starts counting down while TB is initially loading.

I know how to lengthen the time that the new message information notification stays up but cannot find a similar control for keeping the "no new messages" notification visible.

Is there a way?

I am using TB 24.6.0 on Win7 Premium.

Thanks

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 a few weeks I use Thunderbird 38.1.0.

But when I will get some add-ons, the site informs me that all the add-ons are not compatible with my version of Thunderbird 38.1.0.

I use windows 7 Pro 64.

Please can anybody help me with this problem?

Regards,

HenkB

I can get 200 emails in one day, all with attachments I need to process. At present, the only option for me, in Thunderbird, is to view each email and click on the attachment. If you've ever tried doing that 200 times in a matter of minutes you will appreciate that it's not a good solution. Eudora, which I was using prior to using Thunderbird, but which is old and has problems running properly with the latest versions of Windows, automatically saves all attachments in a specific directory.

Can we please have, as a user-selected option, automatic saving of all attachments in a directory specified by the user? Those who don't need it don't have to use it; those of us who do need it will be saved a lot of time and effort.

I just added the messagenoteplus extension since I want to add notes to my emails. So far I can access the functions of the extension by right clicking a message and going to "note" to see the functions. I don't see it in the top of page menus, but what I'd reallly like is a button on the toolbar so I can use the function quickly.

I've tried in the extension options to add a short cut of control + q (in the 2nd column), but it doesn't activate adding a note. Maybe the icon tab would help, but I don't see what to do that would work.

Or is there another extension to try out instead?

Thanks!

I see from other postings that there is an option in Thunderbird to set a flag to delete emails after a certain amount of time passes. Where is that option set?

Thanks,

jbacinti

I just installed Thunderbird and only my name comes up in the "From" option when I write a message. I wish to add my wife's name so that she can send her own messages with her name. (The email address will be the same but the name in front of the email address will be hers.)

How do I set T-bird to use the Canadian English dictionary by *default*? Currently, it's defaulting to US-English, and it's tedious to have to set each individual email language to Canadian.

I'm running T-Bird on Windows 10 (laptop) and Enterprise 7 (work/desktop). Both of those systems have Canadian English as the default. My area settings are for Canada.

FYI: Thunderbird does not have an official downloadable version of Canadian English language version here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all/ BUT there is a Canadian English add-on here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/language-tools/ I have the latter installed, and it works when I reset the email to Canadian English (see screenshot for the process).

Many thanks!

Using TB 52.2.1 on Win 10 (x64) I can't find a way to either highlight a text by making the background around just those letters appear in a different colour; or a format painter to enable the copying of the format of a text them painting it onto a different text. Using the HTML editor of course. As a work around I can do this in Word or OpenOffice then copy/paste the text into a message, but is there an inbuilt way of achieving this please ?

I have the following constellation: Client A uses Windows10 and Outlook Client B uses Ubuntu and Thunderbird Client C uses Windows10 and Outlook All mail clients are set up to use POP3 to access the same Gmail account.

If client A downloads emails using Outlook, Client C downloads the same emails again. The same email exists on Client A and Client C. This is what is needed.

If Client B downloaded the emails from Gmail before the other clients accessed the mail account, Client A and/or Client C don't get them anymore. So the emails only exist on Client B.

How can I set up Thunderbird so that it downloads the emails but leaves them in a state that the other clients get them, too? I thought if I configure Thunderbird to leave the emails on the server that this is what will do the trick. It does leave them on the server but seems to mark them as downloaded. Can this be avoided/switched off?

If I log on to Gmail via the web front end I still see the messages in the inbox and they are marked unread.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

Peter

I am using Thunderbird to write emails in two languages. I have setup spell checking for both languages and am able to select a default language for spell checking via Preferences->Composition->Spelling->Language and I am able to switch languages on the fly when composing emails through the Spelling-Option in the Composition Toolbar.

I would really wish to be able to set a default language per account. An example: For my work-account I mainly compose my emails in English and for my personal-account I mainly compose my emails in German. This would save me so many clicks in the composition toolbar where I am constantly switching languages.

What do you guys think? Perhaps this can be achieved through a plugin? I am a big fan of Thunderbird and have been using it ever since burying Eudora.

Some received emails need to be answered inline. They could be HTML or text. The received email is almost always black text, so I want my reply to be in red, blue, maybe green, while the received text is in its original color. I've tried various setting changes in Tools/Options/Composition & Display. I also have my View/Text Encoding set to Unicode. thanks, Ron

I have tried several times to add my icloud imap mail account to TB without success.

I have been able to talk to a live person at Apple and they have tried there best to help me. They have an app. specific passwords for third party applications. I have used this password in my setup with TB.

The enclosed image shows the settings from Apple for this mail account. A second image shows the error message when trying to send an email from this icloud account.

I would really appreciate any help you can give me to fix this problem. Linda