Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform email, news, and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform email, news, and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
Questions tagged [thunderbird]
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Thunderbird: new email notification not working properly
I have set up "new email notification" in my Thunderbird, both "Show an alert" and "Play a sound", as shown below. But now I am experiencing strange problems.
The sound only works sometimes. Then, I close Thunderbird and start again, and there is…
user1968963
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Thunderbird: nsemail and nscopy files left in /tmp
I am using Thunderbird 68 on Debian.
For any email that I send, Thunderbird creates temp files in /tmp:
/tmp/nsmail.tmp
/tmp/nsmail-1.tmp
/tmp/nsmail-2.tmp
/tmp/nscopy.tmp
/tmp/nscopy-1.tmp
Not only are these files not deleted after the email is…
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Thunderbird: move Quick Filter Toolbar to main panel
When I open the "customize" menu in Thunderbird, I can add or remove the items from the toolbar. This way, I can reorder the buttons "write", "reply", "reply all", or remove them altogether.
The Quick Filter Toolbar cannot be moved like this.
There…
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Thunderbird: hide tag notification in the message header
When message is tagged in Thunderbird, not only has it different color, but the tag also appears in the message header.
I find this completely useless. I can already see that the message is tagged, I don't need to be reminded twice. The message…
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Setting the default profile in Thunderbird
I have two Thunderbird profiles, and my profiles.ini looks like this:
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=e17id64t.default
[Profile1]
Name=custom
IsRelative=1
Path=l48ojhgn.custom
Default=1
Profile1 is…
user1968963
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get gmail categories on thunderbird
GMail introduced a very good feature of automatically filtering emails into categories like primary, social, promotion, forums, updates.
Is there anyway to get this filtering in thunderbird in anyway ? (for example, tag, category, or even folder)
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Unable to convince Thunderbird to open links in anything but Firefox on ArchLinux
I've gone through the following articles doing the steps to ensure that thunderbird will open links in Chromium instead of Firefox:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser#KDE
Everywhere else in KDE,…
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How to disable Thunderbird's internal web browser?
I don't remember how the program behaved on Windows, but on Linux pressing Enter for a feed item (with a Website field) always opens the Thunderbird's internal browser, while clicking the URL launches my default browser (Firefox).
This damages my…
user598527
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Thunderbird 68: CSS to change Quote Colours
in older Thunderbird, I used the addon "QuoteColors", which nicely color quoted text in emails. With Thunderbird 68, this addon is no loner compatible, so I am trying to achieve the same with css:
This is my userContent.css
blockquote[type=cite] {
…
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Thunderbird: new email sound notification not working
Thunderbird does not play the sound file when new message arrives, even though I have this set up correctly:
The sound file playes OK when I press the Play button, but when new message arrives nothing happens.
The message preview text also is not…
user1968963
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Thunderbird: change "selected" tags background color
I have defined tags, with colors:
grep 'mailnews.tags.' prefs.js
user_pref("mailnews.tags.test.color", "#f2a064");
user_pref("mailnews.tags.test.tag", "TEST");
user_pref("mailnews.tags.lists.color", "#3baff4");
user_pref("mailnews.tags.lists.tag",…
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How can I uninstall the WeTransfer extension in Thunderbird?
I'm using Thunderbird 68.4.1 (64-Bit) on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Since 2019 it comes stock with 'FileLink for WeTransfer', which I deactived immediately but I'd like to get rid of it completely. Unfortunately there's no uninstall option in the addon…
lmoly
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Thunderbird Quick Filter - remove default text
The Quick Filter window displays by default the text Filter These messages... as displayed on the attached screenshot.
The text disappears when I start typing into the window, but reappears again when the text in the window is…
Martin Vegter
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enigmail: automatic display of photo id
Is there a possibility if a signed message is displayed and the key of the signer contains a photo id that this picture is displayed in thunderbird directly?
Now it is only possible with "details", "key properties", "display foto"
Micha
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How to format text replies with ">" prefix
I sometimes receive an HTML email that I want to reply to as text with a ">" prefix.
When I do a text reply what Thunderbird does is prefix the entire paragraph with a single ">". For example:
> Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source…
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