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Hello,

I've used the desktop client on Linux for quite a while now and I'm pretty happy with it but when it comes to mobile, Gmail is the main app. Today, I downloaded the Thunderbird Android app and tried the export from desktop to mobile feature. I had 2 QR codes but only the first one worked. That was a bit heart breaking.

The first issue is this; the desktop client allows for on-the-fly email alias creation (directly in the From field) and it's smart enough to reply with an on-the-fly alias (no related identity). This one feature of the hundreds available is the only real reason Thunderbird is quite valuable on the desktop.

This feature (on-the-fly aliases) is not available on Android. Will this change? Please consider adding it as a feature? Maybe try to make the "From" field also editable rather than only choosing from a list of identities?

The second issue is, "Manage Folders". I could not find a way to create a folder and I looked pretty hard. I feel like its there and maybe I'm just old, stupid or both. But after almost 10 minutes looking for a way to add a folder, I just failed and gave up.

Is creating new folders on Android possible at the moment?

In summary. Thunderbird on Android. On-the-fly email aliases (new and replies) is a pretty big deal, is this on a todo? And, is creating new folders possible and if not, is this on a todo?

PS. I thank the Thunderbird team for the Android app. It's fast and responsive and although Gmail is still unfortunately required on Android, I'm really looking forward to Thunderbird winning here.

Today I noticed a new problem on my MacBook Pro. I selected a group of messages and tried to move them to a new folder using drag and drop. No matter how many or how few I select, only one email is moved. I tried a few different actions and noticed that similarly I can only delete one email at a time. All actions on a multiple selection are only being operated on one item. I've tried closing and reopening Thunderbird and rebooting the computer. I have moved emails in this manor countless times in the past with no problem.

Previously the yellow banner with the text "To protect your privacy, Thunderbird has blocked remote content in this message" had an Options button which allowed me to click "show remote content" or allow subdomains to permanently show remote content. That options button is now missing, and there's only a X button to close the warning banner.

My Privacy settings has "Allow remote content in message" unchecked and there are no Exceptions. On mobile Thunderbird I can still "show remote images" successfully.

v128.4.3, Flatpak

Hi

Could we get a tool to lock folders in Thunderbird ? Or a warning before moving folders with drag and drop.

Pretty much what https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/disable-draganddrop-tb-v2/ is probably doing - I'm just a bit worried to use addons that requires a permission: "Have full, unrestricted access to Thunderbird, and your computer"

I think this would be a welcome addition to many, especially those whom use IMAP like Gmail to use their mail account. If you accidentally drag a folder into another it can result a huge mess.

At the very least there should be an optional feature to get a warning message "Are you sure you wish to move this folder ..."

Thank you so much for this awesome software. I've used Firefox probably a few decades already .. and now Thunderbird too. Love it!

Hello, I have a question regarding your program. Unfortunately, it’s not yet clear to me whether your program meets our needs. I am the personal assistant to my boss in the IT department. He would like to save some emails in a shared mailbox with a comment to describe what should be done with the email. We are a web hosting company and therefore use our own webmail system. Does your program offer this functionality? Best regards,

Hi I am emailing from thunderbird from 2 seperate accounts. the emails are being sent from the accounts and being received on the accounts okay as I can see them on my laptop. But today apple iphone email app is not opening the ocntent, all I get is an empty email with 2 attachments that can be downloaded but I cant see the text content..!? I really need to send something to my phone!

The messenger.messages.listAttachments() function fails when an email without a body that has an encrypted attachment named "message.asc" is included. There's no other information included and requires user to have the appropriate PGP key imported before having access to the attachment. It is fair but I think there should be a flag/option called "decrypt" similar to https://webextension-api.thunderbird.net/en/latest/messages.html#getfull-messageid-options.

Context: We are developing a PGP Mail Extension for Thunderbird and this prevents us from accessing the encrypted attachment and requires us to import the PGP private key just to access the file. I am expecting to at least let us access the encrypted "message.asc" file and proceed process without requiring to have the PGP key imported into the Thunderbird.

Steps to reproduce:

1. PGP encrypt a message and save it to message.asc. 2. Send the message using Thunderbird client as follow: - add a subject. - add the message.asc as an attachment. - leave the email body blank. - send the email. 3. Install a debug attachment that uses `messenger.messages.listAttachments()` and noticed that it won't return any attachments at all. The error will say, error decrypting message x (where x is messageId) even though the error actually happens in messenger.messages.listAttachments(x) and messages.getFull() uses decrypt set to "true" option.

Reference: https://webextension-api.thunderbird.net/en/latest/messages.html#listattachments-messageid

Hello everyone, I am in despair. Since few months now, Thunderbird became very slow and it is blocking me more and more in everyday life, particularly with my yahoo account.

I have the latest version installed 128.4.3 and work on WIN 11 PRO.

Alla the time, thunderbird in blocked and the message "Thunderbird is not responding" appears and it takes very long until I can use it (several minutes).

Beside, I installed OUTLOOK, to check if it was coming from my email server but it works fine on OUTLOOK, so my guess is that the problem comes from THUNDERBIRD.

Does anybody has some intel on this kind of problem and how to solve it?

Thank you in advance for your support and have a great day.

Kind regards. Sylvain from France

I'm looking for two features:

On minimizing window, thunderbird should minimize normally to taskbar as programs usually do. (This happens if the 'move it to tray' feature is disabled)

On closing the window, thunderbird should minimize as icon to the notification area tray. (This happens if the 'move it to tray' feature is enabled)

I think this should be an option integrated in thunderbird settings, if not to be the default behavior

i haven't found any extension to solve this yet and it is a little bit annoying when I use many windows and press alt-tab when thunderbird is minimized to the tray with x or - button when using the addon not to close thunderbird when pressing x, so it won't appear alongside other windows and i have to reclick the tray icon to show it again

I want to have both abilities to minimize to tray and minimize to TB at the same time

I believe that mail client has to be always running even if I press x button, unless I press Quit from inside the app

I have clarified the behavior expected above

Thanks

I use Mozilla Thunderbird usually. When sending the new mail after starting thunderbird process, I enter my password for SMTP at once only. Normally, this operation done correctly. But I must retype the password if I misstype.

Anyone has retype password to Thunderbird?

Retyping is failed always at my environment. I must restart Thunderbird for resuming to send the mail. Why? I don't want to restart Thunderbird for such thing.

Please teach me nice way. Thank you.

My environment: PC: DELL Precision T5810 (CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3, Mem.: PC4-17000 ECC Reg. 32GB) C drive: Crucial CT1000P3PSSD8JP (NVMe SSD 1TB) OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64bit Japanese version 22H2 (OS-build: 19045.5131) mailer: Mozilla Thunderbird 128.4.3esr (64bit)

Great problem to navigate back after sending/reading e-mail, checking enclosed and so on. Waiting up to 5, 7 minutes to get back in business.

Regards Oystein Johnsen [edited phone number from public]

I already tried putting Thunderbird as a shortcut into the C:\Users\<myAccountName>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo (aka. shell:SendTo) folder. But when I use the "Sent to" menu and select Thunderbird, the file to be attached just gets openned by Windows as if I had double-clicked on it. Thunderbird does not even open a new message.

I also tried changing the call of the Thunderbird shortcut in the SendTo folder to: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -compose attachment= At least, then Thunderbird opens a new message. But it just writes the path\filename of the file to attach into the attachment section. When I then try to send the message, Thunderbird says it cannot access it under this path.

How are you doing this? Thanks!

I pressed download but I don't know what to do next. I signed up for the newsletter and gave a donation. I don't know where to find the app or how to complete the installation. Thank you.