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I am afraid that I am not at all happy with the new version of Thunderbird. It may be that as I get used to it I will find some of the new features helpful, but right now I am more concerned about what was taken away that was helpful:

   a) I keep getting 'not responding' -- especially when trying to set my theme 'yet again (and again, and again)!!!!  I am mostly shut-in due to illness and the themes make a difference emotionally compared to a stark 'black and white'.  Furthermore, what is the point of having TB themes when they don't hold -- I often have to re-set mine several times a day

   b) tabs are now hidden -- I need to colour-code messages so I know which I need to get back to soon or can wait. Having them hidden under that new right arrow makes extra steps to do so

   c) the row of custom colours no longer hold: what is the point of being able set a row of custom colour if they don't hold!!!  I used different colours to indicate different responses in a thread -- thereby having an immediate way to see the order of responses.

   d) I need layers of sub-folders -- often to add a new name to a group I belong to, or a new year.  I have been asking again and again over several years for the ability to create a new sub-folder WHILE one is moving an email from the inbox to a folder or sub-folder.  Having to 'go' to the folder first, make a new sub-subfolder, return to the inbox, and then move the email is an unnecessary waste of time. 

   e) 'a picture says a thousand words' -- emojs are so useful in this way, especially when one is tired or can't think of the right words to say.  This feature was taken away years ago, and I wish that TB would bring it back.  The minimal 'yellow faces' are minimal useful.

   I am not techy enough to really understand what you have written below - what is a 'message context menu' and 'mock-ups'.  However, it seems to me that the TB functons (at least the ones that I need) are getting less and less useful and increasing 'cognitive burden'.

   Sorry to be so negative, but I do wonder who TB is trying to please/appease -- it is not this user.

   Blessings

I have messages in a local folder. Messages are assigned 1 of 3 tags based on certain criteria.

Is it possible to only view messages in the folder with one particular tag?

I tried looking at sorting, but sorting by tags is grayed out and not a sorting option. Im not sure why.

I'm running the latest version of Thunderbird. Thanks for any help you can provide.

New bug: When I select a message in my Inbox, it deselects (turns grey) in less than a second. To delete the message, say, I have to select it with the mouse and use the right-button menu. This is a pain, as I delete dozens of messages daily.

I have a saved query folder that I use to view the contents of three folders, each in their own IMAP account. When I select this folder, the queries don't run -- I have to go into each individual folder first to initiate another check before this folder populates.

Can someone explain how this works? Perhaps I need to subscribe to the IMAP folders to keep them actively checked/updated? I would expect that when I enter into the stored query that it would perform that query and those folders would be checked.

Thanks.

Recently I noticed the "sort by>order received" option has been disabled in Thunderbird (I am running version 115.3.3 64-bit). Other "sort by" options are still available for use but a few that appear on the list are greyed out and can't be selected.

Hi, I have a 115.6.1 (64-bit) version of Mozilla Thunderbird, and yet the device manager does not accept 64bit PKCS11 drivers (from C:\Windows\SysWOW64) for smart cards (tried several smart cards). It only accepts 32bit drivers. I have a smart card which does not have a 32bit PKCS11 driver.

Does anyone know why a 64bit version of thunderbird does not support 64bit PKCS11 drivers? Would any of the developers be able to address this please?

Thank you.

The 'Message Header' is the area above where the message content of an opened email is displayed. It typically contains a set of buttons - Reply, Forward, Archive, Junk, Delete and More It shows From, To, Subject and Date It may show other information depending upon settings and type of email.

Do you find the spacing between eg: the 'From' line and the 'TO' line is too much? Do you want to reduce this gap? If yes, then the following information may solve your problem.

I was upgraded to TB 115 when I had to get a new computer. I have become quite used to using userchrome to highly personalise my TB, mainly to restore previous features.

However, somehow, in making the "Write" screen the way I like it, I have shrunk the section of the Contacts Sidebar which contains the actual addresses/contacts, down to the point where only one contact is visible. There is a scroll bar so I can see the other addresses are there. It is just that the bottom border of that box has elevated itself and there is a mass of blank space below.

I am sure I have caused it with some code, however everything I have tried to adjust only works on the heading part of the Contacts Sidebar, not the panel with the addresses. I have searched the net to find out what that panel is officially called, without success.

Could a helpful person tell me the "official" name (to use in the css) of that panel so that I can fix it? Or even write me a little code to make that box go back to default?

Just for context, the reason I was fiddling with it was because the panel is excessively spaced, and I was trying to compact the contacts together.

Thanks Fiona

Have you discovered that you cannot raise the 'Message Pane' as far upwards as in previous versions? This is because the developers have increased the minimum height of the Thread Pane otherwise known as 'Message List'.

In Tbird emails (115.6.1), I have an UNREAD folder, and numerous subfolders under INBOX. There appears to have been a change a few months ago. I used to be able to move an unread email from UNREAD to a subfolder, and it would disappear from the UNREAD folder. That no longer happens. I want it to happen, because then I can see which emails (in the UNREAD folder) still need my attention. I don't want to mark the email as 'read', because then it won't show as 'unread' in the subfolder, which I want it to do, as I then know it needs further attention, and because it makes that subfolder show in the list of subfolders that have unread messages in them. I don't want to have the same unread email in both the UNREAD folder and in the subfolder. This used to work, but now it doesn't. Any ideas greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I just added gmail account to TB and it came up using POP3. It seems that I can't delete e-mails from gmail whan I delete them from TB. What options on TB and gmail should I use? I'm running TB 115.6.1. Under server setting in TB I specified "leave messages on sever until I delete them". Can't find any clear instruction on Internet. Thanks, Yuri

I just recently downloaded Thunderbird after using Mac Mail for years. Mail suddenly refused to display messages and no one on the Apple forum could figure out why. So I was advised to download Thunderbird. So far, I'm not a fan. Here are my issues: 1. Unread messages in the Inbox are in bold. But the bold is so close to the normal font that I can't tell them apart. Is there another, better way to mark unread messages? A tick/check mark? A coloured background? 2. Messages are automatically organised into conversations. But when the latest message comes in, the inbox message doesn't go bold. So there is no way of knowing where to find it. I have to go through all messages that have a conversation (more than one message in the inbox) and find one where the latest message is in bold at the bottom. It's a royal pain. I see the number next to the account on the left, but nothing is in bold on the right. Grrr. 3. The conversations are the wrong way up. I want the most recent message at the top, not the bottom. I would actually prefer not to have them in conversations at all, just the most recent message, but I realise that is probably asking too much. 4. There is no number next to the Thunderbird icon on my desktop when I get a message. I used to appreciate this in Mail. It told me if it was worth going to my inbox. With Thunderbird I have to open the program to find out. Ok, that's enough for now. I'd better not get started on the shortcomings of the search function, or how to bring the unread messages to the top of the inbox list... There are just too many issues to address is one posting. Thanks for any help you can give.

Hello, I have a problem with finding the "Thread with Unread" option in the newest version of Thunderbird 115. In TB version 91 it was in Options > Threads > Thread with Unread and now it is gone. I was looking for a solution in the Google or on the TB forum, but I couldn't find it by phrase. Alternatively, is there newer option to configure the email view so that I can see only threads with at least one unread message? Best regards

Hi everyone,

I just moved over from another email client, and so far I am happy with Thunderbird.

Is there an option where the signature is above the reply? As we speak, the signature is right below the reply email, instead of being beneath the email body text which has just been compiled.

Thank you in advance, Michael

Prior to Supernova version, whenever new messages arrive in an Inbox I could hover my mouse over the Inbox without actually clicking on it and I could see a brief preview of the new messages (not the actual content of the messages, but like the subject etc). Now updated to Supernova and it doesn't do that anymore. When I hover over Inbox, it just displays "Inbox, xxxx unread messages". Is there a hidden setting to get it to show me just the new messages like before?

I had my userCrome.css set to widen line spacing in the message list, among other things. Updating to Þb 115 broke this, and since I can't inspect the css, I don't know how to fix this again.

My current css includes:

/* Message List */

1. threadTree

treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text {

   font-size: 16pt !important;
   color: black !important

}

/* treechildren::-moz-tree-row {

   margin-top: 0pt !important;
   margin-bottom: 6pt !important;

} */

treecol:not([hideheader="true"]), treecolpicker:not([hideheader="true"]) { -moz-appearance: none !important; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; }

treecol:not([hideheader="true"]):hover, treecolpicker:not([hideheader="true"]):hover { }

I tried relaxed density, but it expands *everything*, not just the message list.

Also, in Firefox, how can I use this site and avoid all the animated headers?

Given that I have a thread in my inbox and I want to see it in Conversation View (so I can see not just incoming mail but also outgoing mail); When I right click on the thread and click on `Open Message in Conversation`; Then a new tab opens with the messages in the conversation. Every message but one is displayed twice because the copy in `All Mail` folder is shown alongside the one in the `Sent Mail` folder for outgoing mail, and `Inbox` for incoming. See attached screenshot (yellow highlights messages displayed twice, green not). I would expect the results to display messages in `All Mail` only OR `Inbox` and `Sent Mail` only but not both. Is there a way to accomplish this?

With the release of TB115 the line spacing in the message list is much tighter than it was in previous versions. I have an userChrome.css file and it is working just fine for the folder list but I can't get it to work for the message list.

#folderTree { line-height: 18px !important; } - this works fine to increase the line height in the folderTree

None of the following work to increase the line height in the message list

#threadTree > treechildren { line-height: 18px !important; } #threadTree > treechildren::-moz-tree-row { line-height: 18px !important; } #threadTree { line-height: 18px !important; }

Just in case it is interfering, you should know that I have also set layout.css.devPixlesPerPx to 1.75 to make all the fonts bigger.

Any help that you could provide would be much appreciated before my eyes go cross-eyed from reading the very tightly spaced message list.

I am looking for a simple one-click or keyboard shortcut way of running all filters on the selected message.

I've tried different filter extensions and had no luck.

So I have installed 'tbkeys' extension so I can create my own shortcuts. Now I just need to know the name of the function that is called from "Tools">"Run Filters on Message".

It will be something like "MsgApplyFilters" (that one doesn't work).

Thanks

Ed