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The Buttons in the Quick Search bar vanish when the bar get smaller. This is done via javascript and the onoverflow event. How can I disable this vanishing and always show the buttons? I am using custom user css but couldn't get it to work so far.

When I set

#qfb-qs-textbox {
  max-width: 20px !important;
}

in the developer tools, it seems to work, but when this is contained in a custom css file, it doesn't work anymore.

There is also #quick-filter-bar defined, but that doesn't seem to work.

Any help/hint is much appreciated! Thanks in advance.

When scheduling a meeting, I make notes in the "description" as to what is to be discussed, key points, etc. How do I print the event?? Short of copying the contents of the description into a mousepad document and printing that out, I'm at a loss as to how I achieve this. Guidance appreciated.

Using Thunderbird 128.5.0esr (64-bit) on 128.5.0esr (64-bit). In calendar view, I see all my appointments with the background colour of the calendar they are in (see attached). In my inbox view, I have the Events tab open at the right. All day events have the background colour of the appropriate calendar, but ones with timings have a dot. (see attached). How do I make ALL calendar events have the background colour of the associated calendar in the mail events tab??

I have just synced Thunderbird with my web email which worked fine. I then emptied my web email account as it was full. This is the methodilogy that I have been following with Thunderbird for the last 20+ years.

Thunderbird then re-synced with the now empty web email and deleted all of the emails that I had downloaded. I then checked the trash but it is empty. I have just lost around 1 years worth of emails.

Just for clarity the web email is an IMAP account.

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Tks. Nigel Readings

If you are finally ready to move from Eudora to Thunderbird, here are some tips from my experience today (a close relative had been notified that authentication would be required in the future, a feature not available in Endora.). Here are the steps I took:

1. First, do NOT install a current release of Thunderbird. It doesn’t have the required conversion tool. The import tool is on an earlier version of Thunderbird, probably not available after release 31 or thereabouts. I used release 17.0.9 for this and it worked well. https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/17.0.9esr/win32/en-US/
2. Eudora needs to be installed, and the import feature will do its thing. The import process will import the addressbook and all message folders. Although the messages were all captured, the addressbook import mangled content other than email addresses (such as phone numbers and postal addresses).
3. Do NOT use the resulting profile, even though you may feel the work is done. It is not. This is because Thunderbird has evolved since that old release of 17.0.9 happened and much has changed. Instead , do this:
   • Exit thunderbird
   • Copy the ...appdata\thunderbird folder elsewhere for safekeeping (that folder is at c:\users\<yourid>\appdata\roaming\thunderbird.)
   • uninstall this old version of thunderbird and delete the default appdata\thunderbird folder
   • install the current release of thunderbird
   • set up the email accounts. If POP, do NOT enter password to ensure no messages download in the interim.
   • exit thunderbird and, using Windows File Explorer, copy ALL message folders and files from the 17.0.9 profile’s imapmail or mail folder to the new profile’s imapmail or mail folder as appropriate in same location within profile, e.g., Mail\<accountname>\<all message folders and files> - this is important only for POP, as IMAP mail will autopopulate.
   • click the Tools>import>Import from a file menu to import the MAB addressbook (abook.mab and history.mab) from the 17.0.9 profile. There will be errors to delete if the old addressbook including phone numbers or postal addresses, but otherwise it works.
4. Now, do a backup for safety, exiting Thunderbird first.

I have used Thunderbird for awhile without any issues. I just had to switch to a different computer and am trying to get everything set up again. I have three emails accounts through Spectrum. I am able to receive emails but am unable to send them. All of the settings are correct. The problem seems to be that it keeps randomly changing the email addresses under Manage Identities. I have changed them back many, many times but they don't save. It keeps rotating among the three so when I try to send an email, I get this error message: An error occurred while sending email. The mail server responded: sender rejected. The email address you are sending out must match the email address you used to auth. Please check your SMTP settings. AUP#Out-1500. Please verify that your email address is correct in your account settings and try again. Because they randomly rotate around I can send an email occasionally when it just so happens to rotate back to the correct email address but the next time it has changed again to one of the others and I get the message above. Please help. Thanks.

Thunderbird just automatically updated (after initially being blocked by ThreatLocker, I don't think that had any consequence but I include it just in case). I went to forward a message and while the subject content was preserved, none of the message body or attachments were included - it was a blank email. I tried explicitly forwarding several messages, and it turned out one that had been previously forwarded did populate correctly. However any message that had not previously been forwarded came up blank except for subject. Forwarding using As Attachment did attach an email and populate the Subject. Not sure if something got broken in the new update...

Quand je reçois une pièce jointe en word ou excel par exemple, et que je l'entregistre sur mon bureau, il est impossible de l'ouvrir car le fichier est bloqué. je dois aller dans les propriétés du fichier et cliquer la case "debloquer".

Comment éviter cela merci par avance

Recently I have noticed that my SEND box was not being updated right away. As if there was some kind of delay. I have also some send message that do not show in my SEND box despite being sent and received by the recipient. I have Version 128.6.0esr (64-bit) Any idea?

where log in : Alert from account invalid parametr id

and when I try to send an email I get this error :

Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because connecting to Outgoing server (SMTP) failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections. Please verify that your Outgoing server (SMTP) settings are correct and try again.

But I have everything set up correctly. moreover I have already successfully sent emails and received them a few weeks ago and I haven't changed the settings since then. And now for some reason it's not working

Hello. I have thunderbird connected to an exchange account via owl. Until recently, thunderbird started with tabs: inbox, outlook (looks like browser outlook) and teams. I liked being able to switch between tb inbox and outlook. But since i closed outlook-tab i cant find it again. Does anyone know how to get it back? Cheers // D

My Subject: Thunderbird Performance Issue on New Ubuntu LTS PC

Hello,

We are experiencing a performance issue with Thunderbird on a new PC running Ubuntu LTS Linux. We have two PCs with Ubuntu installed, one with the last and one with the current LTS:

On older, less powerful device where Thunderbird runs significantly better. A new PC with better hardware, more RAM more CPU cores etc where Thunderbird is extremely slow.

Both PCs are configured with the same email accounts. We did fully copy profile frm old to new to not lose any mails. However, on the new device, Thunderbird causes full CPU utilization after startup and becomes unresponsive for a considerable amount of time, every time we start. Working with it is almost impossible and painful.

Here’s what we’ve tried so far on the new PC:

Running Thunderbird in Safe Mode. Reinstalling Thunderbird without using Docker. (apk and bash commands) Unfortunately, neither of these steps resolved the issue. We suspect the problem might be related to the current Ubuntu LTS version. As already told the old computer outperformes the new one abt thunderbird.

Has anyone else experienced a similar problem or found a solution? Any help would be greatly appreciated. What or how to test next?

Any more detail needed? I might get the hardware specs and mailbox sizes but as said newer computer is slower and mailboxes are the same.

Thank you!

Michael