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My main email account is with my internet provider and the storage available is unlimited. I have three other accounts with external hosts whose storage capacity is limited. Each email account is for a specific purpose. I am using IMAP setting for all email accounts. What I hoped I could do is set up folders in Local folders for each of the limited storage capacity accounts to direct the emails I want to save using the Message Filters. Not only did it not work, it wiped out the message filters that had been working well for me for ages. My message filter page is completely blank.

Being somewhat non-literal, I only recently learned that Local Folders really did mean folders on my hard drive. So wondering what else I don't know, what happens to the emails I archive. Are the emails still on the mail server? Or are archives on my hard drive? If the archives are on my hard drive and not on the remote mail server drive, are the emails there permanently - i.e., they're there until I delete them, or until something goes wrong with my hard drive? (Why would anyone think that might happen?)

If the archives are no longer at the mail server, but are on my hard drive - that would seem to solve my problem. I thought of the idea of moving emails to the Local Folders because I thought that archiving did not take the emails off the mail server.

If someone can make sense of all this so I don't stress myself out over what can go where, I will greatly appreciate it. :-}

I am currently using Thundrbird 102.10.1 (64-bit).

For years I had Thunderbird set up to open the way I want it to: fullscreen, classic view but without the Tasks/Events pane (which I never use), and with the folders pane at a width that I had set to view all the folder names for each email account.

Something changed a few months ago. I don't know if it was concurrent with an update, but now when TB opens it still shows the classic view but not fullscreen, WITH the Tasks/Events pane and with the folders pane width smaller that I had set it to.

How can I make TB display the way I want it to instead of what it thinks I want?

Can anyone help? TIA

I've searched everywhere and can't figure out how to change the default sort order for messages in my inbox and other folders. From Oldest to Newest is counterintuitive for me and I'm sure there is a place to change this...I just can't locate it. Thanks for any help.

The browse button does not work for me. It does nothing when clicking it

I have only just installed Thunderbird, so I'm not sure a reinstall would help

Currently in the box it says: file:///media/randomguy400/44754/Sounds/message.wav

I'm not sure why it has this path. The actual path to the file it is referring to is actually in E:\\Sounds (also the hard drive is named "44754"). Not sure why the path is like this. I'm unable to change the path without using the Browse button.

I'm on Thunderbird 102.11.0 (64-bit) My PC is Windows 10 Pro 22H2

I hope someone can help me. Up until the last week or so, I have had no problem with my signature file in outgoing email. I've been using the same signature file for at least 5 years. Suddenly, Thunderbird is blocking my logo image in my signature file in all outgoing mail. Instead, it is showing my alternate text. I am using version 102.6.1 on Windows 10

I have been searching far and wide for an answer and am stuck here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1368273

This solution doesn't work for Thunderbird 102.11.0 because there is no OTHER WRITING SYSTEMS. I have set LATIN on font and size, composition is set to HTML. Variable width is set, but if I change this to a specific font, it still shows something different than the font I've used to compose, so it doesn't seem to help.

Sent files show Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Why is it so hard? I want my sent files to look like my composed files as much as possible. For example, if I use a serif font to compose, I want a similar or, if available, identical serif font, for readers if they use HTML as well. Thx in advance.

Hello, I accidentally checked the box "don't ask me again" when emptying a folder, in this case spam folder. How do I change it back? I have multi email accounts and they all don't ask me anymore. I have the latest version 102.11.1 (64-bit). Just have Thunderbird installed, don't have any add-ons or anything. Not sure what other details are necessary.

I have six email accounts. Three of them do not allow me to delete emails. When I checked with the support team of my computer(linux), I was told that the problem with the three accounts was probably the POP settings and that I would do better with IMAP settings. I tried to reconfigure the settings, but only resulted in being able to receive emails, but not being able to send emails. This is a disaster for me. When I changed the settings I could only change from the input POP to IMAP. The outgoing settings were not available. There used to be an SMTP window with all the outgoing settings for all the email accounts I have. Where is this window? I can't find it anywhere. I wish the designers would think about the changes they make and their effect on non-tech people.

Any help will be gratefully received.

What's up with line wrap in Thunderbird, this is really perplexing. In both TBird versions 60.9.1 on my laptop and a higher version on wife's laptop could not get any functional line wrap in Write (compose new message). Even after changing settings it still just types out one loooooong line.

--In TBird config editor devtools.scratchpad.wrap.Text default boolean false mail.wrap_long_lines default boolean true mailnews.wraplength default integer 72 plain_text.wrap_long_lines modified boolean true <-changed to true (same in prefs.js) view_source.wrap_long_lines default boolean false

These are both POP3 client accounts. I recently installed an old saved version 59.x.x [Correction, was Ver 52.8.0] of Thunderbird on new Laptop and started Thunderbird, choosing to later create Email account data. Stayed in long enough to set few things including Auto Update to OFF and then exited (didn't want any surprises right now). I then (in file manager) copied the all the contents of my Postbox 3.x Profile (the root folder files and Mail Folder, did not include minidumps) to the new created Thunderbird Profile (overwriting everything with same name). Then restarted Thunderbird and Popup came up saying migration updating or something like that, but it came up with all my old Postbox email folders and email and all my account settings. My old Postbox profile had the [ ] Check for new messages at startup UNCHECKED, which that all came up in Thunderbird just fine. Because I wanted to check Thunderbird out a bit before I started taking stuff off the server with it. I then checked the TB version and it was then 60.9.1 (32bit). So it did update which was surprising since I had updates set to OFF both in Thunderbird and the old Postbox Profile accounts. Ok so whatever with that, the thing I wish I could change now is there any way to hide the Subject Column in the Message list. I only need Correspondents and Date, the Subject is in the message at left anyhow. But for some reason Subject is not listed in the column selection drop down. Also all the messages in the inbox that I replied to have arrows pointing Left and cannot seem to make them go away. Just wondering what's all that about. Thanks for any input.

I'm using Thunderbird 102.11.0 64bit EN-GB version. I used Thunderbird for many years and have just returned to it. When I use the inbuilt add-ons manager it goes to the en-gb extensions site ( not unexpectedly, but I'm slightly surprised there is more than one site.) If I specify my version of Thunderbird it supplies outdated and/or unsuitable extensions which will not work with my version of Thunderbird. After a Usenet discussion I tried getting them from the en-us version of the site and got at least one extension that worked OK. However, subsequently the same has happened from the en-us address, despite specifying the correct version of Thunderbird, extensions fail from there too. For example the "Open Google Calendar" extension sort of works but has random text overwriting parts of the the calendar. Others are similar. My questions therefore are:-

1) Are the en-us and en-gb sites really separate sites, or am I wasting my time specifying which site I use? 2) Is the extension system really as comprehensively broken as it seems to be? 3) Is anyone doing anything about it? I don't know where to contact the devs direct. 4) I not, what on earth is the problem?

Failing all else can anyone point me to any more help on the topic. I can't find anything on this support site. I haven't been to Bugzilla yet - past experience dictates that it takes forever to get answers there (if at all) and I'm hoping to cut out some of the wait the wait. I'm getting very old now and may not have that long :-)

Regards,

Bob

I am looking at houses several times a day as they come in on emails. I was hoping there was an alteration in the settings that when clicking on a link it opens that link in the browser, but I don't lose focus from Thunderbird. There could be a hundred emails with house details, and I need to go through them methodically. What would be great to do, is click on the link if interested in the house details and then delete the email. Leaving me opening the new email with more house details, whilst the browser stays in the background. When I have completed the emails, I look on my browser at the ones I found interesting. Is there such a setting or addon for this? I hope I have put this succinctly? Thanks for reading, hope there is an answer.

We no longer have access to our account settings = on account of a cat we presume must have tread on keyboard at some crucial moment, when no one was looking.

The IRC settings line is now so long that it forced the width of the column to a max, leaving no room in the window to access the right hand column, where most of the configuration and prefs can be seen/manipulated. Right column is of zero width now and its border cannot be reached with the mouse and pulled back left.

I suppose one could throw away all settings files but it might be painful and time consuming - trying to reconfig this person's entire settings.

Is there any config file where IRC settings can be text edited back to a normal number of characters?

Failing that - Is there are particular preference file which can be junked, maintaining most other settings on the program?

Or other sage advice appreciated

Thanks

Thunderbird 102.11.0 (64-bit) on Windows 7 High-Contrast mode.

I've followed this article https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/que.../1347930 but the hurting yellow background color in the bar not change. How to do ?

Thanks, Stefano

After the update to 111.0b1 when starting up the application it does not start at the bottom with the scrollbar when sorting the mail list by date ascending.It starts at the top when it used to start at the bottom of the list (latest entry) :/

I thought I understood IMAP. I thought if I had IMAP on my phone, my laptop and my desktop that I would get all emails on all devices. However that does not seem to be the case....whichever device gets it first is where it ends up. I want to have it so that my desktop always gets all emails....how do I achieve this please?

How to customize the popup screen when entering contact info - I would like to avoid scrolling down to enter the email address - currently the pop up screen opens in the bottom right corner of the screen. I would like it to be front and center and the entire fields displayed without needing to scroll down. I'd also like to remove the fields we are not using.

I have read everything and tried everything but I am not able to change the font color of the folder pane and thread pane in TB 102.10.1.

I put in the userChome.css for example the following (and tried many more) . The font and everything else changes. But not the font color.

• {

   color: rgb(203, 49, 49) !important;
   }

/* Global UI font */

• { font-size: 11pt !important;

   font-family: Verdana !important; 
   color: rgb(203, 49, 49) !important;
 } 

 /* Menu font */

menu, menulist, menuitem {

   font-family: Times New Roman !important; 
   color: rgb(203, 49, 49) !important;
 }

toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets is set to true.

How can I change the font color of the folder pane and thread pane?

In earlier versions of Thunderbird there was a parameter which allowed me to save drafts to a local folder, rather than to the cloud. I prepare somemany emails offline and need to be able to develop the messages without being connected to the internet. I cannot find how to do this in TB 102.