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Hi everyone,

Im doing a clean install and i dont want Thunderbird to sync and download some emails.

What im trying to achieve is to download every email to use offline and be in sync with the Gmail account but only the most recent ones. And i did this:

Inbox: So far in Gmail i moved alot of emails from the Inbox to another folder. How can i disable that folder to sync in Thunderbird? Because as soon as i log in, every folder starts to sync and download automatically.

Outbox: I did some research and its seems that is not possible to move emails from outbox to another folder. Is there any way that i can only download emails only after specific date?

I am confused by Local Folders and have never deliberately used them.

Due to a problem with sending outlook emails I have removed all the accounts and reinstalled Thunderbird but first in the list is Local Folders - which maybe preventing me seeing all in boxes unified - so how do I get rid of the Local Folders accounts or atleast make it the last in my long list of email accounts?

Some help regarding sending from Outlook.com accounts willl also be welcome - but I seem to have a Microsoft problem as Hotmail emails are being sent without problems.

I am not IT competent.

Hi, When I get a new email, the sound plays (correctly) and a notification popup appears on my Windows 11 desktop. Unfortunately, the same notification appears over and over.

It seems like it won't go past that email until I read it. I'm expecting the popup to relate to the very latest email that is arriving.

In settings, I have checked Show an alert, Use the system notification, show a tray icon for unread messages. In customize, I have all 3 fields checked with a 4 second timeframe.

I am using 128.3.0esr (64 bit) with nebula

Can this be resolved? If so, please enlighten me.

Thanks in advance! Don Sceifers

Hello,

I am running Thunderbird 128.3.0esr on Windows 11 as POP on gmail and having issues with junk mail. Items are being moved into the junk folder despite identifying them as not junk. I go into the junk folder, identify them as not junk, they move to inbox, and at some point Thunderbird moves them from inbox to junk. Nothing I do seems to prevent this from happening.

I decided to turn off junk detection. Attached are screen shots. However, the problem still occurs. Mail in my inbox move to junk without me doing anything.

Help!

Thanks, Art

both my wife and I use TB on each of our machines mine is Windows 10 hers Windows 11, It has been fine for a while, but her machine sometimes shows a blank email that is fine on mine, by highlighting the folder and right-clicking and selecting folder properties and selecting repair folder this has resolved her issue.

Now however she has blank emails again, when selecting folder properties nothing happens no dialogue window appears, from the edit drop-down menu you can normally select folder properties as well but that option is not even there.

when she does right-click she has options which are from other drop-down menus as though the whole menu system has become corrupted. is there a solution to this or do I need to reinstall, if I do how do I keep all of her current emails and archives which go back about 15 years?

both on version 128.3.0esr (32-bit)

Using Tbird 78.14.0 (64 bit) with Windows 10. I can no longer access the Page Setup screen properly. I suspect it's because I accidentally put a very big value in for the top margin. The print preview for even a short email says it's many pages, there's no text visible on any of those pages, the only part of the Page Setup screen visible is OK and Cancel at the bottom, and I can't get to the top of the screen. I've tried closing and re-opening Tbird to no avail. How can I get to the top of the Page Setup screen to fix the problem?

Hi, I've used thunderbird (now 128.3.0esr)/calendar for years on my NUC7 running linux (now 22.04.5 LTS) with no problems.

Within the last couple of days, however, I no longer seem to be able to "drag-and-drop" events or tasks from one day to another. I can use the mouse to select/delete/etc an event or tasks, but I can't seem to move them with the mouse -- I need to "edit" the events. Is this a known issue?

Any help appreciated -- I haven't been able to find anything about this with web searches.

I want to change settings in Thunderbird. Vivaldi 6.9.3447.51 (Stable channel) (64-bit) Revision 182bbf0e4fdf8cd7876d2b24819fde3147f9af97 OS Windows 10 Version 22H2 (Build 19045.4894)

I tried all the other options in drop down menus all over and they all come up. But clicking on settings does nothing. I even went into account settings and tried clicking on Thunderbird Settings and it does nothing there also. Can I reinstall over the existing program without losing anything to try and see if that helps and fixes the problem?

You can help by going back to the old format. The new format makes it more time-consuming to delete unneeded messages because the screen shows only a small number of messages at a time. Also, the smaller print is less user-friendly.

I have nine calendars on my TB calendar page.

Some weeks ago, seven of them stopped displaying. They each have a gray Enable button next to their name in the Calendars list, but it doesn't do anything.

How can I reenable these calendars?

(14 other people have a similar problem in the post Enable Calendars in TB V.115.8.0 but it has been archived.)

I have set up Syncing on Firefox and it was simple but I can't figure out how to do it in Thunderbird. I am recovering from a PC Reset and want to ensure I do not lose anything if I have to have my Iaptop sent away to be repaired.

I spent a long time looking for an email today. I sent it earlier in the day so was looking at the latest messages with todays date. I eventually found it after srearching for the Subject. The message was threaded but the message showing was from a few days ago. That was when I noticed the little arrow. That was when all was revealed. The version of TBird I used until I Reset PC last week did not have settings like that.

Please hep me.

I didn't know which Topic to choose so if its wrong please change it.

After the latest update of Thunderbird (128.3.0esr) it is not possible to postpone calendar data (dates, task) via drag and drop. Is that a bug or a matter of setting? Thanks for help!

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?

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.