asking for help with settings for TB
Hi Everyone, I have been reading the posts for some time since the problems with the new TB.
TB is still crashing (white screen of death) once or twice a day. Not complaining, just reporting.
Actually the biggest headache for me are some of the features that worked well prior to the new releases but are broken now.
I will only ask for help with one of them that is the biggest slow-down and bother for me.
I have TB set up to check accounts for new mail every 10 minutes. It gives an audio alert. Nice.
But I had TB also set up to highlight in a red color, the account that actually has the waiting message. I set this up many years ago.
That feature stopped working.
I have many email accounts, so when I hear the mail-waiting audio alert, I have to go to each one individually, Right Click and select Get Messages to see if it is that particular account that has message waiting to be retrieved from the email server.
Is this feature broken forever? Anyway to fix it in the recent releases?
Yes I know about the Get all messages possibility but that is not workable for me right now and it would be too much typing to explain it. haha.
Thanks everyone, jenny_abc
Chosen solution
I'm not sure how to change the account name's colour when new mail arrives; the above code changes just the folder colour.
I've never found the audio alert to be a reliable indicator. The counter on the taskbar icon indicates new mail, and the folder with new mail turns red, and is easily seen if all accounts' folders are expanded.
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The colour of the folder in the Folder Pane when new messages arrive can be set with css:
/* folder pane folder colour new messages */
.new-messages > .container > .name {
color: red !important;
}
Help/Troubleshooting Info, Profile Folder, Open Folder, close TB, create a new folder named chrome, create a new document in chrome with a text editor, name it userChrome.css, Save as type: All files *.*, copy in the above code, change the colour as desired. Double-click toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in Settings/General/Config. editor, restart TB.
Modified by sfhowes
Hello sfhowes,
Thank you for your speedy response. I tried it. Getting closer .....
The css you gave me accomplishes 2 color changes.
-- It changes the folder color in the Local Folders when a new message is there. -- It changes the Inbox color in an account AFTER I call for mail download.
Actually what I am hoping to achieve is a color change of the account name, after I hear the alert but before I call for mail. If there is no indication of which account caused the audio alert, then I have to go through all accounts, one by one, to see which one caused the audio alert.
In the following example, is it possible to change color of: jenny@xyz.com ??
jenny@xyz.com
Inbox Drafts Sent Trash
Thank you sfhowes.
jenny_abc
Chosen Solution
I'm not sure how to change the account name's colour when new mail arrives; the above code changes just the folder colour.
I've never found the audio alert to be a reliable indicator. The counter on the taskbar icon indicates new mail, and the folder with new mail turns red, and is easily seen if all accounts' folders are expanded.
Hello Again sfhowes,
Thank you again.
I have set TB to automatically DL mail and it results in the colorized Inbox/Folders working more elegantly.
I will go with this for now.
Oh BTW ... Since the developers of TB are all high-tech folks, I am surprised that you do not accept crypto for donations. There are many ways to do this, such as: -- Get a Atomic Wallet and publish the "receive" address for Bitcoin -- Get an account on a major exchange (I ONLY recommend Kraken) and publish the "receive" address for Bitcoin -- use a service such as CoinPayments.NET NOTE do NOT use BitPay ... ugh !
And yes, I would be the first to contribute crypto to the developers.
I will close this thread ... if I can figure out how to do that !
jenny_abc
You might be able to suggest alternative payments on the donor site:
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-CA/donate/help/
I noticed that before TB 115 I had a userChrome code to change the colour of the account when new mail arrives:
/* Change account name colour to indicate New Message(s) arrived */
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(isServer-true, biffState-NewMail) {
font-weight: bold !important;
color: blue !important;
}
but I haven't figured out how to adapt this for 115. I can only change the (static) colour of the account name.
I also have this problem and none of the solutions above fix it. I do not want to change folder colors and I do not want to automatically download messages because then they won't also go to my phone when I'm away.
Further, I'm not sure why I have to fix it. Who decided to remove the indication that new mail is available? It was working fine and I can't imagine removing it resolved anything. Why can't it work the way it has since Thunderbird was created? How do the creators of Thunderbird envision that users with multiple email accounts know which accounts have messages waiting? Do they just expect us to run down the list of accounts getting messages multiple times a day?
Edited to add: TBird also crashes multiple times a day ever since a recent update. I wonder if Microsoft is getting tired of getting the crash reports.
Modified by coinmls
Thanks for post coinmls !
Now I am not the only voice in the wilderness.
Actually, now that I think of it, the Op, xmozilla, on a different thread, started with a slightly different post but basically the same problem.
jenny_abc