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Hello,

I don't know what happened, but I cannot access my mails anymore, instead I see a "chat" view, with no mails to be found. I don't even understand how it happened or how I should call this view, but regardless, I cannot do anything.

I am scared of deleting/reinstalling Thunderbird, because I have a lot of decently useful mails saved and I am not sure what would happen to those.

It's in German, but I'll attach a screenshot of what I am seeing. I can't press any buttons, however, or rather, as I said, nothing happens, when I click on any field/button/word/...

Best wishes and regards!

Any idea how to remove "Unified Folders" from Folder Pane list? In my case it is useless to have it visible. Thank you!

P.S. Thunderbird 128.0esr Ubuntu 24.04

As seen in the image, I have wasted spacing after the message in the list, how can I either remove the wasted space, or preferably, center the text as is the norm with outlook/emclient/others

It just looks and feels so unnatural and i just cant get used to it.

Questions re Email Inbox and Reply window:

1) I can't find a list here showing the Inbox icons and what they mean, specifically this one. I can't delete it, nor do I see anything in the inbox list of column indicators that it might be. I'd like to know what it's for and if/how it can be removed.

2) I want to have more space for the message pane; the only way to do this is to have a smaller font size for the email List pane. I don't see where I can change this. Is it possible to decrease this font size? I've tried but haven't t been able to locate info on this website.)

3) Reply font: I keep changing it to my Preference, but it keeps going back to a default.

Also, find it annoying that I can't select a specific font SIZE. I've never seen a Windows desktop software of ANY kind, not just email, which doesn't give have choice of font size as well as the font itself. Is there a suggestion area on this website?

Thanks.

Yesterday I upgraded to thunderbird 128. I have messages displayed in horizontal layout. Previously each message in the top pane used only one line, and there was minimal space between messages. Now each message requires two lines, with a large gap between messages. This means that I can see fewer than half as many messages at one time as before. How can I change the layout so each message takes up less space in the top pane?

My emails, in course of drafting, go to my inbox every 5 minutes before I decide to send. How do I stop this? (T'bird Linux Mint 128.1.0 esr)

Is it anything to do with my preferences - or something else. Very frustrating.

Would appreciate your comments and help to avoid in future

Keith

Hello, on version 128.1.0.esr I cannot manage the labels. If if creating customised one, the chosen color applies only to little label's icon, and not the message itself. For reference - screenprint from "help", - how it used to be and another one from my acctual laptop. PLEASE HELP

Hi,

I have 115.12.2 (64bit) Thunderbird installed in to my Windows 11 desktop PC. I have been using Source Sans 3 font as the default message font for at least five yeasr. This font is selected as the default font for composition as well as html style. Unfortunately Source Sans 3 is shown as "not installed" in the font list for about six months. Whenever I reinstall it to Windows 11 everything starts to work perfectly until I restart my PC then Thunderbird starts to show Source Sans 3 as "not installed". I am able to use this font with the Libreoffice. I tried the same procedure with Source Code with identical results. Can someone help me please?

Serkan Alkan

I recently updated to TB version 128.0.1esr, and whilst looking around to see what's new, I noticed that you can set it to show the number of messages in a folder. This is probably not new, but I never noticed it before.

However, when I look at the folders, some show the number of messages, and some don't. See the attached screenshot for what I mean.

I use unified view, but I see the same issue if I look at all folders.

Anyone able to explain why this happens? I'd like it to show the number of messages for all folders.

Thanks

Hi,

I installed thunderbird in a new computer via flatpak. The computer is running PopOS 22.04 and the current Thunderbird version is 128.0esr.

I don't know if this happened after the last update from 127 to 128 or was like this before, but on the compose window all the menus and buttons on the top row are completeley invisible, white on white (if I hover over them, then they are slightly visible). See the first 2 images.

The main window is OK and everything is readable (see 3rd image).

I don't know how to change these colors.

Any help will be appreciated.

why is this version so terrible in function and look.. everything seems to be bloated with unnecessary icons, empty spaces.. where a simple one line space would work there is a box or window that takes up a ton of screen space.. i.e all the wasted space where the to/from date is

Also, I can't seem to scroll through a list or email unless the window is maxxed.

Thanks, Bob

I would like help with this question: My two current email addresses are [edited] @crocker.com and [edited] @outlook.com. I would like Thunderbird to work with both my current email addresses. Previously, I had [edited] @crocker.com and [edited] @gmail.com working working simultaneously inside Thunderbird, but I don't understand why it doesn't work [edited] @outlook.com. I'm a beginner, and would like help in trying to get [edited] n@outlook.com to work.

Please email me [edited] @outlook.com or phone me at [edited phone# from public community forum].

When sending a mail you have to press the sent button. The sendbutton on the extreme left should be switched with the addressbook button on the write so the send button belongs to the text part. I don't know how to explain this to the programmer. Greetings. Reinier.

I just did the newest update on Thunderbird. After I did so my selected message highlight color changed to lime green. I looked all through my setting etc. and I can't figure out how to change it. How do I change my selected message highlight color?

Thanks for the help!