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Having multiple issues using Mailbird on Windows. Any help would be much appreciated!

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I just switched over to Thunderbird after seeing so many people saying it's the gold standard and I am having nothing but headaches with it so far. Hopefully it's just my computer illiteracy that's the problem. Any help would be MUCH appreciated!

The first I'm facing is that emails I open (and even respond to) keep automatically marking themselves as unread. It generally happens several seconds after I click on the message.

Another issue is that some messages I click on won't mark as read automatically, unless I click on another email, then back onto the one I want to respond to a second time, at which point it will finally mark itself as read (and occasionally go unread several seconds later).

A third issue is that when I switch from one email account to another, rather than keeping all unread emails open showing, it will switch to show all emails and it will automatically open a random unread email, which I'll then have to manually set back to unread before responding to the email I want to respond to. It also means I have to change the emails shown to all unread again, as well as having to change the date (I like to have newest emails at the top - Thunderbird insists on having them at the bottom). I already have the pin selected, so in theory it should keep settings from one account to the next, but it doesn't.

A fourth issue is that I'm using Conversations so show my replies in the thread in the inbox a la Gmail. Half of the time my replies show and half of the time they don't, so I have to manually check in the sent folder to see if they've actually been replied to.

Pleeeeease help anyone thank you!!!

I just switched over to Thunderbird after seeing so many people saying it's the gold standard and I am having nothing but headaches with it so far. Hopefully it's just my computer illiteracy that's the problem. Any help would be MUCH appreciated! The first I'm facing is that emails I open (and even respond to) keep automatically marking themselves as unread. It generally happens several seconds after I click on the message. Another issue is that some messages I click on won't mark as read automatically, unless I click on another email, then back onto the one I want to respond to a second time, at which point it will finally mark itself as read (and occasionally go unread several seconds later). A third issue is that when I switch from one email account to another, rather than keeping all unread emails open showing, it will switch to show all emails and it will automatically open a random unread email, which I'll then have to manually set back to unread before responding to the email I want to respond to. It also means I have to change the emails shown to all unread again, as well as having to change the date (I like to have newest emails at the top - Thunderbird insists on having them at the bottom). I already have the pin selected, so in theory it should keep settings from one account to the next, but it doesn't. A fourth issue is that I'm using Conversations so show my replies in the thread in the inbox a la Gmail. Half of the time my replies show and half of the time they don't, so I have to manually check in the sent folder to see if they've actually been replied to. Pleeeeease help anyone thank you!!!

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Another issue is that my signature is not automatically attached to messages I send.