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Been using TB for about one month. When I look at the real Inbox with a text editor, the first two messages received in mid-September have the initial "From" line which separates messages looking like this:

  From - Thu Sep 12 13:02:54 2024

All the other messages I have received (and stored locally) since then have their initial "From" lines that look like this:

  From ^M

where my text editor displays a carriage return as ^M (caret cap M). There is no hyphen and there is no timestamp for all the other (later) messages. I have upgraded (recompiled) TB at least a couple of times since those first two messages arrived. In TB everything looks fine, but if I use a different MUA to attempt to read and display the several hundred messages that are in this Inbox, only the first two messages from mid September show up. Could this be a bug? The TB Inbox is formatted in standard mbox format, and should be readable using a different MUA.

Am I missing something? Thank you in advance.

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I started to learn DevTools for Thunderbird, because I want to fully customize my TB. And I'm stuck with such thing. I want this: <Picture 1> Both search boxes are blue.

For the upper search box is this code snippet responsible:

input {

 position: absolute;
 inset: 0;
 width: 100%;
 height: 100%;
 font-size: 1rem;
 border: 1px solid var(--color-gray-40);
 border-radius: var(--button-border-radius);
 padding-inline: var(--padding-block) var(--search-icon-clearance);
 background-color: var(--layout-background-0);

}

So I change it to:

input {

 position: relative;
 inset: 0;
 width: 100%;
 height: 100%;
 font-size: 1rem;
 border: 1px solid #82D6FF !important;
 border-radius: var(--button-border-radius);
 padding-inline: var(--padding-block) var(--search-icon-clearance);
 background-color: var(--layout-background-0);

}

And then I have this <Picture 2>

So I get additional frame. But I don't want it. And I can't understand, why I see this additional frame in this place?

Can someone explain me this please?

My Thunderbird has suddenly become corrupted and I can't read my emails. I enclose a screenshot of a message which I am presently unable to delete.

Can anyone help please?

jack

I've been using Thunderbird for years on macOS with no problems. All of a sudden, as of yesterday, I can't create new folders and subfolders. I also can't rename folders. The software is up to date (128.2.3esr (64-bit)). The laptop is running macOS Sonoma v 14.6.1. I've tried restarting Thunderbird, restarting the laptop, and Googling for an answer, of course. I've also tried opening Troubleshoot Mode, that didn't make a difference. I probably have several hundred folders - it's a work account and each client has to have their own subfolder. I can't seem to find anything that says there is a limit to the number of folders, and in any event that wouldn't explain the inability to rename folders. Thunderbird is working fine otherwise.

None of the topics in the drop down I was given are relevant to my question, which is about the Calendar in Thunderbird 115.12.2, on Windows 10.

When I edit an event or create a new one in the Calendar, the height of the Description window is ridiculously small, as shown in the attached screen capture. It only displays a couple of lines of text whereas my descriptions are usually far longer than that. So I always have to resize the window and TB doesn't "remember" my preferred window height, so I have to resize it every single time I create or edit an event.

Is there any workaround for this, to set the default height of the Edit Event window to a larger height than Thunderbird's default?

Dave

Now that Cristopher Leidigh's excellent add-on "Columns Wizard" no longer works in TB 115, how do I display the CC column in the Inbox? How is it possible that this crucially important column is still missing from the column display options?? Thank you.

I am currently trying out Thunderbird 128.2.3esr (64-bit) on windows 10 home version 22H2. I have been using Mailbird. I exported my address books from mailbird to .vcf format with the "settings" "Selected Groups" "Export contacts to vCard". I have viewed the .vcf files in Textpad and all seem correct. When I try to "Address Book" "Import" "vCard File" the import completes successfully. But when I look at the list of contacts only several show names. The rest are blank and when I click on the blank contacts in the list the right hand pane is also empty of values. I tried multiple times with different .vcf files with the same result. So I broke the .vcf files apart thinking that it could only handle so many at a time. Nope! some of the .vcf files import. Most import and create a blank contact. Each of the vCard files has a possibly different set of fields and I can not see a pattern in the ones that are accepted compared to the ones that are not. Help please. p.s. I have the plain vanilla Thunderbird with no extensions.

In thunderbird/calendar, when I select import, and get the import tool and select a file to upload, I get a list of candidate events, all are initially selected.

There's a search field and two buttons on that row, select all, deselect all.

Depressing "deselect all" deselects only the last item. Adding a search in the search field doesn't change that.

I am using MX-Linux (mx-23). When I used to click on a link in an email, I was taken to Firefox where the link was opened in a tab for viewing. Now, I have to manually switch to Firefox using CTRL-F2 (F2 is location of the workspace where I have Firefox).

I am having problems setting up an email account in TB. I already have ONE gmail account setup and it's currently sending/receiving fine. However, when attempting to setup my 2nd acct, I'm getting: 400. That’s an error. The server cannot process the request because it is malformed. It should not be retried. That’s all we know.

I can't for the life of me figure this out despite comparing both accounts' SERVER SETTINGS repeatedly.

When asked to re-enter the appropriate password I enter the never ending merry-go-round......I have 6 addresses. Whilst it is possible to access then via their specific accounts held with Microsoft this is time consuming,hence the preference of Thunderbirdb which up until now has been trouble free for approx 15 years. This unnecessary development makes me wonder why I only need a user naame aand password to access via Microsoft. I have tried every method kindly provided by other users to no avail. Can anyone provide the correct server setting for both IMAP and SMTP? As I have said these 'new' authentification/s are in my opinion tantamount to using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut. I hope my explantion makes sense? Surely I cannot be alone?

About 2 weeks ago, I stopped being able to 'send'. I have found two solutions. Which is less bad? (a) or (b)? I prefer to use the SSL/TLS option for security. But my choice is between (a) overriding the default port vs (b) using STARTTLS for out-mail (with SSL/TLS still for in-mail). a) SSL/TLS for both in and out-mail In-mail port 993 default Out-mail port 587 ... by overriding default 465

b) SSL/TLS for in-mail In-mail port 993 default STARTTLS for out-mail Out-mail port 587 default

When I open or edit an event from the calendar the new window is always too small. (Actually, the same is true of Cardbook contacts) Is there a way of setting the default size when things like events are opened in a new window?