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Newbie here. I tried to drag the Junk icon to the Mail Toolbar, but instead of being added to the toolbar, it just disappeared. This means I have to open an email to mark it as Junk, and I don't want to do that.

Most of my received email is formatted ok, but occasionally I get one where the message is one long sentence and it displays as one long horizontal line, necessitating a lot of scrolling to read. The last person to complain about this did not receive a reply. Is there any chance this could be implemented soon?

How do I do this in Thunderbird 103.0b6 (or any of the more recent builds)? My downloaded themes default to what looks like Thunderbird Dark. It makes no difference if I change Windows (11) to Light Mode. Someone mentioned unchecking hardware acceleration. The 'old' Options-Advanced, etc., is no longer available. Others have mentioned Config Editor but I can't see an entry there for hardware acceleration. I assume it is. Pointers, anyone? Thanks

I understand from the Thunderbird help files that having IMAP synchronization is preferable to POP. But I'd like NOT to have Thunderbird sync once I have started it or when I do a 'GET MAIL' function. If I am in my inbox, it is annoying to have new mail appear when trying to cycle through all the un-reads. I have the option to have T'bird sync upon startup, but I can't find anything that turns it off once that occurs. Is this possible?

Thunderbird version 91.11.0

Suddenly last week, Thunderbird changed my 5 GMAIL SMTP servers to the default SMTP server resulting in outgoing messages with the wrong sender shown. Why did this happen?

I then went in and manually changed each account SMTP server and two days later it did the same thing again! Why is this happening?

Out of frustration, I removed all but one of my GMAIL accounts from Thunderbird. Now when I go to the Account Settings and select the down arrow on Outgoing Server (SMTP) I get a window with all the SMTP servers listed plus a Default. The default SMTP should have been the very first GMAIL account I set up, Right? Well it isn't.

How do I change the Default SMTP server and how do I remove all these SMTP servers left when I removed the other accounts that show up in the selection window?

I searched through the forum and found an answer from 2006 but the instructions do not apply to my version apparently as there is a button referenced to that is not on my version, 91.11.0.

The automatic header of the quotation is only one line with name and date, if I create an answer for an email. It must be the complete header like the header of the quotation, if I create a forward-email. There is more information in that header like date, time, sender, receiver, subject of the original email wich is quoting. How can I configure this for the quotation of an answer-email?

thanks for your answer!

Is there a way of increasing the font size of the program interface, i.e. not of email text itself (that's easy), but of items such as folder list and list of emails? Thunderbird 91.11.0.

Chris Sackett

My "write" page does not have the contacts list at the left since yesterday, what can I do, please? I have used Mozilla for some time without this happening before.

Can anyone tell me why on some websites, every time I do anything the Menu Bar disappears and I have to press the F10 button to get it to show again and how to fix it if possible? Quite aggravating having to keep doing continuallythis as I use the Menu Bar a lot. My email may not be working at this time (other problems...), so I will visit back often. Thanks! Wolfgang

Hello,

I am using an addon called 'Provider for Google Calendar' that works seamlessly to sync calendar events in both directions using my Gmail Android app and Thunderbird email client v102 on my desktop. It's great.

I have been reading about addons for doing the same thing for contacts but the 2 addons that I see appear to be for use with older Thunderbird versions. There is gContactSync and Google Contacts so I am wondering if anyone may know of an add on or work around that will allow for the syncing of contacts between Thunderbird v102 and a Gmail account?

Sorry if I missed it but I cannot find anything when searching - perhaps nothing exists yet?

Thanks in advance for any tips,

Mike

I am transferring a huge mass of emails from many accounts to a new machine. To start with, I have chosen to export the Local Folders. For that purpose I have installed the extension ImportExportTools NG and used all combinations I could think of like "Export Folder" or "Export Folder with subfolders". When trying to import them on the new system, I always get empty folders, or the message 'This "MBOX" file uses a different format from the Thunderbird folder format and it's possible that Thunderbird can't handle it properly'.

And sure enough, the resulting folder is corrupted with messages that can't be read.

First of all, I don't know if the files are really MBOX files, because they have no extension, and if not, how do I generate proper MBOX files? Secondly, if these are MBOX files, why can't ImportExportTools NG not handle the files it has just generated?

Alternatively, I could also copy the folders directly, but would that not mess up the internal database?

Now that TBSync & Provider no longer work in TB, how do we continue to sync/use Apple AddressBook with TB?

I am able to add the Apple iCal Calendar(s) by figuring out the URL here: https://frightanic.com/apple-mac/thunderbird-icloud-calendar-sync/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-find-your-icloud-calendar-url/

How does one add the Apple Addressbook and/or find the Addressbook cardDav URL?

Since 29 July when I deleted permanently an unwanted message (which looked a phishing msg) all messages deleted are deleted permanently in that they don't show up in Trash. Previous instances of this problem (in 2015 & 2018) are advised to go to Account / Server Settings where there was an option to change the behaviour of message deletions - there's nothing in Server Settings in 91.12.0 that looks like that & I can't find any other way of reversing my choice made for the single one I did want permanently gone which looks like it's now set that way for all. (set-up as a POP server and running on Windows 10.) thanks

The delivery format "auto-detect" does not work any longer on my desktop computer: I can still compose messages in HTML (set as the default), but they are sent only as plain text, although the delivery format "auto-detect" is used as usual. Only when I change the delivery format to "Send the message in both plain text and HTML", it works - but I now need to do that manually for each composed message - rather inconvenient. The problem is the same on all accounts.

This behavior started on 2022-07-06 just after I installed a new S/MIME certificate, but on my notebook I did that as well without getting that problem.

I tried various things which however all did not solve the problem. It seems to me that HTML composition works as normal, but at the end Thunderbird uses auto-detect and wrongly determines that it is not requiring HTML, and therefore sends out only plain text. That is even if I format some text, insert an image, have an HTML table in my signature, etc., which all clearly makes HTML necessary.

The problem seems to be related to my Thunderbird profile folder. When I run it with an older version of the profile folder (about 6 months old), the problem is not there. But I don't simply want to switch to the old profile folder, since it might be tedious to get everything to the new state (messages, certificates, other things which I would need to research). Or could I copy only certain files of the old profile folder to the new one? Would it be something in prefs.js (which has many changes between those versions)?

I am using the latest Thunderbird version (91.12.0 64 bit). My computer runs on Windows 10 Pro.

I previously used MS Entourage on Mac and migrated to Thunderbird as the best free alternative to what I missed from Entourage. However as my memory isn't that great it would be very useful to see if I have previously replied to an email, say that came in the last week or two. In Entourage a message displayed at the top of the email saying that if a reply had previously been made and it was hotlinked so a click would take you straight to that reply. Is that feature in Thunderbird and if not could it be added?

Thanks

Hi I would appreciate some help.

I need horizontal lines between messages in the latest version of TB 102.

I've seen some stuff about adding a css file to a new chrome directory in my profile and changing a setting somewhere.

Can someone please tell me if this will still work in the latest version? I don't want to break something, being a bit of a novice.

Thanks

I have Windows 11. Suddenly my emails, instead of being in date order have now become all muddled up. This is only in one of my accounts. I have uninstalled and re-installed but no change. I have uninstalled, removed my profiles no change. I installed the add on and still no change. What else can I do please other than change my email client which I am loathe to do having been a faithful happy user for more years than I care to remember.

Hi I have read many articles about Gmail accounts under Thunderbird and kind of understand how they use a single file, with labels, instead of the standard folders used by many email services. I do not want to see the Gmail section on my TB display. I had read that just 'unsubscribe' the section showing 'Gmail' and all its contents. I put my pointer on the account and look for 'unsubscribe' but it shows only 'subscribe' as a choice.

Why is Gmail section showing up? Why do I not see 'unsubscribe'? I am using TB 91.9.0 (64-bit). I have several accounts for which this is true. I use a Linux distribution (Fedora 34) which is EOL but upgrading should not be an issue for this generic issue. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated ... Robert

I want to be able to use the archive and delete functions in Thunderbird for a Gmail account that will have the following results:

I want to be able to archive email in TB with the following results: (a) the email is moved to an archive folder in TB (b) the email is de-labelled in Gmail, i.e. it ends up in All Mail only.

I want a Delete in TB to delete the email on TB and send to the Bin on Gmail.

I don't want to have to sync the "All Mail" label from Gmail to TB.

Currently, I have a set up as follows: I have archive switched off on TB. I have Delete set to mark as deleted and I have auto-expunge on in Gmail. This way "deleting" an email from the inbox in TB actually archives it in Gmail. I then have a separate account in TB set to download all emails from gmail by POP3 which serves as the TB archive. To delete emails: I have created a folder in TB called "to delete" and I move any emails I want to delete to that. Then from time to time I log into Gmail and bin everything in that folder.

My workaround achieves everything except that the local archive still contains everything that I have actually deleted.

I have tried to change this. I turned on Archive in TB and set it to keep an archive of the email in Local Folders. I left Delete as is and in Gmail I turned off auto-expunge and set it to Bin emails on expunge. The plan will then be to discontinue the POP3 download. BUT I have found that if I archive or delete an email in TB the email is struck through to show it is marked as deleted, but even if I move out of the inbox and back in or force a send/receive or I close TB completely and log back in the emails are still sitting there. And in neither case does the email leave the Inbox in Gmail. I do wonder if the fact that I have Gmail on my phone is causing a problem because the emails are showing there too and therefore the "expunged from the last visible IMAP folder" means that Gmail is not yet acting on the deletion.

Any advice welcome.