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I used to be able to have a few months of incoming emails in Thunderbird. As updates came in, my settings got all messed up and I am lucky to have a few emails in my inbox. No good to search because there are not many there. My internet provider has very little support for Thunderbird, so I cannot reset my preferences to keep my emails in the inbox. Sometimes emails don't send, and the app has become a real hassle. I had used it close to 20 years and have given repeated donations to Mozilla. How can we get our Thunderbird back to being a good email app, like it used to be?

I find the default view when searching for a keyword very overwhelming. There's a button that translates "show results as list" (my language is German) which leads to a much better view of the emails containing the key word. How can I make it the default search view? Thanks!

Hi,

I'm not sure the topic I chose is the best, but...

I have many(!) accounts and it's become a bit unwieldy. I would like to know if there is a way to set up my main window so I can see my favorite inboxes at the top of the list, but in a unified view. Then the rest can be "un-unified." The current unified view shows all the inboxes and there are too many to sift through. I would like a few prioritized ones to be grouped together. The rest can be grouped (unified) separately.

Thanks,

L

I am pretty sure that at one time mouse-over on the From field would show the sender's address. I am running 102.9.0 (32-bit) and it is not doing that, so I would like to know how to turn it on ? Given it works in Gmail, Yahoo and AOL, this is a pretty common feature.

And I see this as kind of a Security issue as it means I have to open the message to see if the email address is bogus or not. For example, I just got an email from "ADT Security Services <laughing@n4.funnyeditor.com>" , which shows up in From as "ADT Security Services", and accidentally clicked on Unsubscribe. It obviously did not go to ADT.

Thanks Jack

Thunderbird used to have a great edit address GUI. Simple - all on one screen. Now it is on the bottom, one block at a time and all the data is far apart vertically. And above that is a dark screen of other addresses I don't about. YOU screwed up a perfectly clean product to make it the end all data base. I used to recommend it to others. No more. Carl Keil

OSX Ventura 13.1, 102.9.0 (64-bit), Gmail imap, when Tbird applies filter to move message a strikethrough copy remains in inbox. A non strikethrough copy is in allmail. When I try to delete the ST copy in inbox it just removes the ST and the message remains. The left click menu delete works. None of these actions have any effect on the moved message. Messages are moved to Local Folders. When I select an unread message in the inbox it immediately changes to ST status. No messages have ST in Allmail. I tried to set the delete action to move messages to a "New trash" folder and most of the inbox vanished. The "Inbox" appears to be worthless and undependable. All I am trying to do is to have my filters work like they used to when I was using POP3. My wife's windoze machine is now having similar issues.

I am running Thunderbird 112.0b (64-bit) on Windows 11. If I change the layout to Vertical View, there are no headers on the message list. The headers are there in both the Classic and Wide views. Also, when the headers do appear, I am unable to drag a column header to a new position. Is this s defect or something on my end.

Thanks.

How can I disable Message Threading for ALL Folders?

It's a very annoying feature which I don't believe should have been made a default without asking users first.

It should have been offered as a feature for those that wanted it, but the default should have been "OFF".

Regards,

Graeme

My Thunderbird beta updated when I opened it this morning. Despite looking everywhere, adjusting what I could, and spending time undoing and redoing settings in an attempt to get the columns to appear in my display, I could not get it to happen. I have no columns and can only display the email list as taller rows, limiting the number of emails listed to less than half of what it used to be. I also cannot click on any button (because they are unavailable) to show an email as read/unread, cannot see the junk mail icon lit up, sort by attachments, date, name, show priority level, etc. I still have the regular version of Thunderbird installed because I know beta can be glitchy. I will use that until I can find a way to display my emails using the columns and not just the rows with limited information. I would love to know how to fix this. I have looked and tried everything I can think of. Any suggestions?

Hi, I’m using a software that generates customer invoices to be sent by email then sends to thunderbird. Are email server only allows us to send 200 emails an hour. Is there any way to set thunderbird to delay each email I think by 4 seconds Many thanks

Some of the email I get in Thunderbird are twice the width of the window. If I try to look at or print the email as is it becomes micro-print. Is there an add-on or setting that will put a soft automatic carriage returns in the mail to reduce the width to something that fits the screen and paper.

The image is an almost full screen view of the email and the lowest gray bar shows the percentage of the mail being viewed and the bar is less than 1/2 the width of the window.

To solve another problem, I changed "Message Archives" in Account Settings from "Other" to my email address. But next time I booted up the computer, the change reverts to "Other". Is there a way to make this change permanent or must I make this change on boot up?

I need to forward messages to other people using the bcc field because of privacy. However Thunderbird filters don't provide this option. That is, if I fill the option "forward to" with a few email addresses, everybody will receive my email where all the recipients are visible. How can I solve this drawback? (of course I don't want to forward the same message as many times as required for each recipient!) TIA Alberto

Since upgrading to Thunderbird 112.0b1 64 Bit, it seems that there is a preset minimum size for the panes. Would like to be able to make the incoming message list pane only a few messages tall. Currently unable to minimize under about 8 messages high. Seems to be the case with all panes in new layout, there is a min width and height. Is there a setting limiting the mins ?

The yahoo mail/att.net account I'm having this issue with is set up using IMAP. The yahoo mail/att.net SPAM folder is not being pulled down into Thunderbird. This has caused me to miss deadlines because I was unaware that important emails were being marked as spam by yahoo mail/att.net. How do I fix this?