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I want to use thunderbird both for my personal mail and work mail, but I don't want to carry my work with me 24/7 so I don't want to be bothered by email notifications or "unread messages" indicators when I'm off work.

Right now it seems like I can only disable these things for the app as a whole, not per account, but I do want those notifications and indicators 24/7 for my personal account. Are there any more advanced controls for creating rules for how and when new and unread emails are notified to me on a per account basis?

I really hesitate to ask contributors for help. I know you're all volunteers and you don't deserve these headaches.

I used Thunderbird happily for years. Then the old Thunderbird started have problems. I raised the problems here and got a lot of help until it was just so unusable, I quit.

I tried a number of mail programs that was on my linux computer. It just boggles the mind how many different ways people can think of to handle things that need simplicity.

I want a left side column that has all my email accounts visible all the time. I want an email screen that I can close without automatically going to the next email. Right now, If I call up an email to read, I lose my email account list. There are two ways to get back to the email account list. One is to press the "<" to move the top line of whatever to the right and the arrow to the left until "INBOX" appears. The other way is the hit in "inbox" box, which gets you nothing. I hit the next box below and I get my Address books. Being curious, after I got the Address books, I hit the Inbox button again - and now I get the Inbox (list of all email accounts). Why can't they make the top button work the first time?

In the overall settings, I indicated that I wanted the print to be 26 pixels, picas, whatever, and it does nothing! I'm 84 and I can read the small print. Why doesn't the settings work?

When I switched to 115, I gave a donation because I thought that they fixed things. I'm not donating anything again until they not only fix things but they don't design what they think is an oversmart application. There's this new thing - what - SuperNova. I'm not going anywhere near that.

I'm not trying to upset volunteers, you don't deserve that. What I want is this passed on to the company so they know just how frustrating it is to work with their software. Volunteers, please don't take this personally. You work too hard to help people out.

I have been using Thunderbird for years and since a few days I cannot see any mails. See attachment (2). The whole right field (the message list) remains blank. I can see no sender and no text even though mails have been received and saved. At View=>Design it should be possible to check the Message list header for this but I can't put a check mark there. See attachment (1) for this.

Hey, everybody. Who knows how to highlight in tags not only the text of the message, but also to highlight the entire line as indicated in the screenshot? Tks!

Hopefully nearing the end of a long saga. Used Comcast email and T'bird for many years. In November I wanted to add a new address to Comcast and that's when my troubles began - it was like quicksand: passwords, and more passwords etc. it became worse and worse and ... worse! I gave up on Comcast and opened Yahoo and iCloud email addresses and engaged Apple Mail. I've used Macs since about 1985 and used individual apps for browsing, mail, office suite etc. I'm used to having an "Address Book" as part of a mail program; Apple Mail has no address book their Mail reads "Contacts" for an address - very nice if one is using an iPhone but not so on my desktop Mac - so I return to Thunderbird which I'm used to. We oldies single task - it's like driving 25 MPH.

Today Matt helped with the correct authentication method to get my T'bird logged on to Yahoo, now to the rest of it:

I need to unfreeze T'bird's opening page which shows a Nov. 18 email as the newest message - I can't click the page away, only scroll to older messages. I sent myself a message today but it doesn't appear as a received message. Could the Mailbox be at capacity? I'm running T'bird v115.6.0 on Mac OS 13.6.3 and it was OK until I poked the hornets' nest.

Any thoughts are appreciated

The problem affects Mozilla Thunderbird v.115.3.1. I have local folders with subfolders and subfolders within them. Until now, subfolders expanded only after clicking on the folder. And it was very convenient. Now subfolders expand as soon as the mouse hovers over the folder name. This is very uncomfortable. Is it possible to return to the previous solution in the settings?

Hi a thunderbird user since 2004, I've got the version 115.5.2 after recently migrating from Win 10 32 bit to Win 11 64 bit. This gave me a chance to clean up the profile folder as at 70GB it was a little excessive. Unfortunately I can't see a way to add an icon or text for Reply All these are the options I can see thanks Julian

Is there any way to reduce the space that Gmail accounts take? from my own domain (the top account), it can all be closed to "inbox" but Gmail seems to feel the need to take up far too much space. Other than unsyncing these subfolders, is there a way to put them all in one folder?

thanks!

I would like to see the sender's email address in lieu of a name.

The inbox SELECT COLUMNS TO DISPLAY does not offer an option to DISPLAY THE SENDER’S EMAIL ADDRESS.

Both From and Correspondents display the same names. Perhaps replacing one of those with the SENDER’S EMAIL ADDRESS?

Hi, In TB 102 the menu toolbar was still above the button toolbar, if I am not mistaken. In TB 115 this seems to have changed... I could not find a way to customize it back as it was. Pointers anyone ? Thank you.

Since I've upgraded to TB 115 from TB 102 TB has been ignoring the "general.useragent.override" setting and has been sending the User-Agent header as simply "Mozilla Thunderbird". Is there a way to change the User Agent string with TB 115 and why is it ignoring that setting?

I get constant requests for me to update thunderbird. I don't want to update thunderbird. I worked to hard to retrieve the old thunderbird. The new version added features I didn't want and took away features I wanted. Please stop asking!

Sempre usei o recurso de pastas unificadas e funcionou bem, porém na instalação atual (mudei de máquina) apenas um dos meus emails fica se adequa à pasta unificada, enquanto os outros ficam em suas respectivas pastas, ou seja, o recurso apresenta algum tipo de problema.

Since installing TB 115 (115.5.0), when receiving emails the font size of the subject text, for me anyway, is now far too big and looks like it's formatted in 'bold'. (Or does it just appear to be in bold because the text is so large?) No add-ons/themes or extensions installed.

Also, i am currently dual booting Windows and Linux. Under Windows the text size is fine but still in bold and with Linux it's larger and in bold. (see pics)

My text size settings are:

Linux;

Default 14 Advanced (Latin and Other Writing Systems) Prop 14 Mono 14 Min 10

Windows;

Default 12 Advanced (Latin and Other Writing Systems) Prop 16 Mono 16 Min 12

Allow messages to use other fonts is 'unchecked' for both.

So how do i change the formatting of the 'subject' contents? For Windows, remove the bold and for Linux remove the bold and decrease the size.

Kind regards.

Hi

I'm new on Thunderbird and so far it offers many options and has great potential for everyone to customize it. Thats good.

I try to include Mail Text from another App by loading it as Signature. Then I only need to open the mail and the text is already in there. Great.

Unfortunately Thunderbird adds a "--" (2 lines) above my "Signatur".

Is there eighter another way to insert my Mail-Text ? or a Way to remove the "--" ?

See also Picture from Thunderbird Held that shows this too.

PS: I don't know why these "--" need to be added ? Even for a regular Signature this does not look so good. Everybody with a Signature can customise a line by himself.

Thank you

linux 21.2, runbox.com, thunderbird 115.5, on a website, https://urbansurvival.com/quadwitcher-for-insane-market/, i visit, i am allowed to use this switch, sorry i also use vivaldi as my browser, and i copied what i am trying to show you, but it refuses to paste. At least you have the website, which will have the switch in the bottom right hand corner. Anyway, it is a little switch in the bottom right hand corner of the website that allows you to switch the colors from light themed to dark themed. The dark theme has a shade of white writing on it. Thunderbird has dark fox as an add on, will that do the same thing? will it come in the form of a switch? so i can go back and forth from light to dark to light, depending on my mood???? Thank you...b3

for the record, i also have no idea where the clipboard is in vivaldi/thunderbird. I can see it is on the clipboard, but no idea where the clipboard is. For even more record, i would like to have 6-10 items on the clipboard and be able to take them off the clipboard and put into my emails depending on the recipient.

Hello Why is it no longer possible to size the window of the "save as" attachment function ? I get a full size window (covering almost all the screen) without any resizing function. Il seems to be a recent bug. Thanks in advance for any effective answer JP Herault

When clicking the "Delete" button on a message it will move to the left or right depending on an unknown variable making going through messages and deleting them a pain. Sometimes they get archived, sometimes they get marked as junk. Is this intended?

The attached screenshot shows the current state of my Thunderbird display - type very much oversized.

On 5/16/23, 3:03pm was provided with font settings as a baseline but can't get started implementing these because unable to bring up the "Config Editor" button. Its not showing where I was advised it would at the bottom of the page after selecting "Thunderbird Settings > General".

I am running Thunderbird 115.5.2 and use the "Remove Duplicates" add-on. Until last week it worked ok, but recently it can't find duplicates anymore. I created a TEST-folder and there are 6885 messages in it. There are multiple duplicates for each email and yet Remove Duplicates tells me: "No duplicates found". I have attached a screenshot. Sorry, I minimized certain columns for security reasons but you can see there are many duplicates present. Can somebody shed light on this? Is there a bug in the current version of Thunderbird? Thanks for your help!