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Why pressing character A keyboard delete selected email in Thunderbird?

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Jeremy2014
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I have just found out the problem/ flaw in Mozilla Thunderbird design. When I was searching email from sender with initial letter A, I press character A and thinking Mozilla will take me to sender with alphabet starting with A like Microsoft outlook but instead Mozilla Thunderbird deleted my email. I found this very disturbing because I have been pressing character A many times. It means I have accidentally deleted many important emails. Is it possible for me to retrieve the deleted mails? Hope Mozilla will fix this problem.

I have just found out the problem/ flaw in Mozilla Thunderbird design. When I was searching email from sender with initial letter A, I press character A and thinking Mozilla will take me to sender with alphabet starting with A like Microsoft outlook but instead Mozilla Thunderbird deleted my email. I found this very disturbing because I have been pressing character A many times. It means I have accidentally deleted many important emails. Is it possible for me to retrieve the deleted mails? Hope Mozilla will fix this problem.

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Not deleted.... archived. looking the archive folder and they will all be there.

see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/archived-messages?esab=a&s=archive&r=0&as=s

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Matt
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Not deleted.... archived. looking the archive folder and they will all be there.

see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/archived-messages?esab=a&s=archive&r=0&as=s

Jeremy2014
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Thanks Matt for your answer. A character is for archived? wow just learned.