Team Thunderbird Answers Your Most Frequently Asked Questions

Non riesco ad inviare email ad indirizzi *.gmail.com. Come posso fare ?

All looks like very exciting stuff to me. I can’t wait. Thanks to the team for all the effort.

When communicating with vendors and HOA Board members, using different text colors to highlight important points is extremely helpful. However, changing the color of text is extremely cumbersome. Why can’t I have a dropdown to select the color I want to use (like text size, or font)? Right now, it takes 5 clicks to change a text color and then 5 more to return to black text.

I really appreciate Firebird, it is so much better than AOL’s UI.

when will you have highlighting as a feature. I really miss it.

periodically TB refuses to save my email in the sent folder. Changing email addresses doesn’t fix it, so it must be TB itself.
GOT any fixes for that??

REALLY glad to hear the arrival of “full sender name column with the raw email address of the sender” is imminent! I was one of the people who had asked for that feature.

I appreciate the wonderful new plans for Thunderbird but I wish that Thunderbird would get back to the basics and make it easier for users to READ E-Mail on their COMPUTER Screens. Some time in 2023 Thunderbird stopped supporting the use of Command+ on macOS to magnify the display of the content of the bodies of e-mail messages. It provided some word salad explanation of why this was done. OLD THUNDERBIRD USERS may find it very useful or even essential to magnify the the display of bodies. Control+ is the normal way for this to be done.

As of now a user can select the View Pull-Down Menu, then, without needing to select anything from the menu, he can click in the body of the displayed message and use Command+ once or more than once to magnify the display of the body. This selection of the View Pull Down Menu must be done EACH TIME THAT A MESSAGE IS OPENED. This is extremely awkward. It is an irritating waste of time.

Note that this silliness does *NOT* occur with FIREFOX. When one views a web page via Firefox one can use Command+ and Command- at anytime to adjust magnification. There is no need to select the View Pull Down Menu first.

Reading E-Mail is one of the most important and ubiquitous reasons for one to use Thunderbird. Please correct this problem with the User Interface.

Pourquoi le version de Thunderbird que je possède refuse-t-elle de télécharger ma boite gmail ?

Oh dear… I couldn’t understand the questions In your FAQ above using terminology I’d never heard of. Then, of course, realised it was for mobiles, so heaved a sigh of relief as I only use Thunderbird on my computer. Though then I got worried about what was going to happen to the desk top version.

I’m still worried about that.

When you make changes to layout or format, especially when it’s optional, can you leave our preferred settings alone. I hated the threaded emails and it took me ages to work out how to revert.

Can you explain what ESR is and how it affects the Calendar and Address Book. Are we likely to lose these? I just don’t understand how we can send emails without an Address Book? And would be lost without the Calendar.

If I can’t use Tb properly, how can I preserve all my saved emails so I can still have access to them.

What’s the point of Thunderbird in a browser? I just use the email client’s web version when I need to access from another device. I don’t need to download email locally, which is what I use Thunderbird for.

How do you reset your password if you don’t have it anymore or forgot it?

Hello;
Changes are always innovative, and I wonder if I could suggest something. My need is to have a simple space included for each incoming email into which I could make a personal note or reference comment about the received email. It’s not transmitted, just a reference. And not the “Tags” option – this needs a “comment box” concept. And not massive either. Just comments.
Many thanks for listening.
Regards

When you say, “We want to support every aspect of Exchange,” does that include this feature: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/pull-in-all-exchange-folders-a-user-has-access-to-when-logging/idi-p/34018

I was waiting for the announcement post to send this question April Community-Office Hours, but hey, since you’re here 😛

Thanks Jason,
I’d used the hamburger menu’s Font Size controls to increase the font size of everything in Thunderbird but that is not ideal. It increases the size of the header, thus reducing the screen area available for the body. It also increases the size of the font in the window which lists messages, thus crowding out information in various columns.
There was a specific change made to Thunderbird in 2023 which disabled CMD +/- on macOS. The reason stated by Thunderbird was something to effect that CMD +/- was used by Apple for controlling display size and Mozilla did not want to step onto Apple’s toes.
I’ve used MacBook Pros since the first Unibody models were introduced in Early 2009. I’d purchased three 17″ MBPs ( one was stolen and one was for a gift to a friend ) before needing to move to the mid-2015 MBP 15″ which I am still using. I’ve read hundreds of thousands of e-mail messages using Thunderbird since about 2009 or 2010. I can assure you that when I open an e-mail message using Thunderbird I can no longer use CMD +/- to control the size of fonts used in the display of bodies until I at least click on the control for the View Pull Down Menu. I was able to use CMD+/- routinely, without clicking on View, until Thunderbird made a change in 2023. This problem has been reported by others. I learned about just needing to click on the View Control to enable CMG +/- from someone on that thread.
My configuration is:
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) // 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 // 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
macOS Monterey ver. 12.7.4 (21H1123)
Thunderbird 115.9.0 (64-bit) — I see that a new version came out sometime today.
— Tom

All power to your elbows, and fingertips, but PLEASE add a simple button to disable threads in an installation for those of us who can’t stand threading.

Dear hereby a question.
When will there be a Thunderbird for IOS and iPad?

How about jmap support?

I am VERY disappointed that you have NOT addressed any of the complaints about the new threading feature. I already have a very good way to keep my messages organized, and your threading feature totally screws it up. I would very much appreciate a means to TURN OFF the threading feature.

All appears in order. However the only issue I have with Thunderbird, probably a minor issue, is that the layout is not the same as outlook 2007. I used 2007 while working at a university in Dundee, Scotland. The layout, colour and ease of use with outlook 2097 still beats anything else I have seen. To me it was oerfect and I can’t understand why microsoft changed the system. Especially the layout and colour.

No complaints from me, just praise ! Using fund the bird since version 3.1 from memory it has been the daily work horse and go to program that keeps my business alive. It is never failed, it is never spat the dummy, it occasionally does some with things but normally a restart will fix that. It is a fantastic program that our business relies on daily. Keep up the good work guys it is appreciated by so many!

Will I ever be able to use Thunderbird with Yahoo mail?

When I delete an email where can I find it to recover it?

Any chance Thunderbird will ever support running in the background on Linux ? I need to be notified about incoming emails without having to open it myself.

(Please don’t delete my comment, you’ve answered others and I don’t see anything wrong with it.)

Any chance Thunderbird will support running in the background on Linux ? I need to be notified of incoming emails without having to open it first.

This Q&A is awesome. Exactly the kind of thing I want. Great job!

Will Thunderbird for Android have RSS compatibility? I’d very much appreciate if the android app would synchronize RSS feeds with desktop.

Hey Jason,

Are you guys publishing a financial report this year, like last year? Interested to see how the project is chugging along/how sustainable it is.