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hi all i miss a test connectivity button in the form, where i enter mail-server stuff. When i add a new mail account, tb test connectivity but when i have to edit something, i would like to test connectivity again in this dialog. Beside of this, Thunderbird is very useful to me and i support it with donations from time to time.

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Good morning,

I cannot delete drafts in my draft folder. I have sent the emails, but they are still in the drafts folder.

Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I now have 22 emails in my drafts folder. When I delete them, they immediately re-appear.

TIA, Leslie

My husband's emails are arriving at his correspondent as though they have come from my email address. This means that his correspondents keep replying to me and not to him. So far I have not been able to see anything wrong with our settings. Any ideas as how to correct this, please?

Hi, I am moving from Outlook and struggling with Thunderbird email accounts I wish to setup 5 mail accounts, four of which relate to different people or departments and on that collects incoming email from mailboxes that are re-directed. I find that I can set up the outgoing smtp and the incoming smtp but I am not give any choice for sending mail. Also whatever I do the first account I set up always appears as the only account visible in the folders pane. If there is a definitive explanation of what to do to configure email in Thunderbird it would be most helpful?

Regards Greg

Hi All, When I use Thunderbird's calendar to schedule an event it always defaults to the next available time. For example if I go into the calendar and pick a Tuesday 1pm-2pm slot on Monday at 8:30 the event pops up defaulted to Tuesday 9:00-10:00. Is this a setting I can change? To get it to pop up with an event Tues. 1-2. Thanks, Lisa

Alwasy had Inbox drafts sent deleted

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etc etc.

re-added my account after moving to MS 365 from another iMap account

now have inbox then all my folders then drafts etc.

Is there a way to revert back?

Also another query, ref subscribed, in all my years never noticed this setting before (never had ny hidden) but I used import/export tool to backup from old server to import for the new one (may also be relative to my problem above) The folders were all hidden on import.

Can you advise if subscribed just hides these folders or actually prevents syncing to the server. I can test but would like to understand the purpose of this feature?

Thanks I/A

The problem with standard email storage methods is that they don't scale well. Mbox, the default in Thunderbird, creates large files, and if you backup changed files, every backup requires recopying a multi-gigabyte file, because it has changed when even one message was added or deleted. Maildir, the alternative, puts each message in a separate file. But file systems have a lot of overhead and their own limits. When you have hundreds of thousands of messages, especially on a PC, that clutters the computer's file system, and between the file cluster size and directory overhead, it wastes a lot of space and slows down other operations. Two bad options. And let's not be too snarky about what that company from Redmond does in its awful mail system, with a giant proprietary mail database file that sometimes gets corrupted...

It is obviously a lot to ask to create a new mail file format that scales better. It would not be standard and could break some things anyway, though in the long run it might be a good idea. But I have an idea that might work for Thunderbird. As it stands now, it is possible to create archive files by month or year. Then new mail doesn't require those to be re-copied. WHAT IF a "virtual mailbox" could be created that, instead of consisting of one Mbox file or one maildir directory, consisted of a set of Mbox files treated by the UI as one? Quick Filter would filter them all as one, unlike with archives, and you could scroll through them all and sort them and see threads, but they'd be stored as monthly or annual (or whatever) files, the way archives are. Sending and receiving would be unchanged, using the current folders, but periodically the folder could have the oldest ones moved out and still made part of a virtual folder.

There are some modest virtual folder capabilities now, but I don't see how to do this. Does it seem like a possibility with what's there, or a modest enhancement, or is that the kind of thing that would be a huge effort?

Hello, Using a MacBook M1, MacOS: Sequoia 15.2.

New Thunderbird version (Version 128.6.0esr 64 bit) automatically downloaded this sunday 12 th. In the write email screen I still can input "To" and "Subject", but I cannot write any text ! Send button now inactive About Thunderbird (after clicking "Thunderbird top left) now inactive "Settings" now inactive Contact list on left side is empty (as shown in capture 1)

AlsoThunderbird now opens up in this window (capture 2), whereas before it would open (correctly) with the "in messages" Thanks for your help ! Dikran

I deleted all of the .msf files from my profile using a tool called "thunderfix." To the best of my knowledge, all that it does is remove the msf files from the profile folder. It's always worked well and cleaned up a slow opening inbox for many years.

However, after running thunderfix yesterday and restarting Thunderbird (Win 11, version 128.6.0esr (64-bit)), I could hear the incoming message chime, but the messages never appeared.

The screen was blank on first open, with no messages appearing, existing or new incoming ones, but the existing ones appeared after I moved to another folder and returned to the inbox. The new messages never appeared. I know they were sent and received as I keep a backup of all of my incoming emails on a separate gmail account.

Once the inbox came back with the existing messages, new incoming messages appeared as they usually do.

Does anyone know what might have happened and if the 10-15 missing messages in Thunderbird can be recovered without resorting to the the gmail backup?

Where did they go after I heard the incoming chime?

Also, is Thunderfix no longer a reliable tool?

Hi, I'm wondering if the following is a bug.

I'm using thunderbird 128.6.0esr. When I want to use "Edit as New Message" or inline Forward on message signed with S/MIME, the message body becomes empty. It does not matter if it was signed by me or anybody else. I tried reinstalling thunderbird.

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