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‎2026/2026-04-20-2026-04-20-thunderbird-answers-for-questions-desktop.csv‎

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1812549,1577219,2026-04-19 23:03:50 -0700,2026-04-19 23:03:50 -0700,"<p>You don't say what you consider to be ""the setting"", but when you go to &lt;Account Settings&gt;, each account has a ""Set as Default"" button, and you will then see a star by the designated default account. Is this not what you see? </p>",rednoise,false,0,0
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1812553,1577219,2026-04-20 00:14:55 -0700,2026-04-20 00:14:55 -0700,"<p>Hi Lin, </p><p>Yes, that is what I see, however, when I set my desired email account as default, it always reverts back to the Gmail account when Thunderbird is restarted. </p>",lyle.beaman,false,0,0
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1812554,1577219,2026-04-20 01:25:58 -0700,2026-04-20 01:25:58 -0700,"<p>So, is the little star moving to your desired account, but then when you reopen Thunderbird, it's back to the Gmail account? And the ""Make Default"" button's grayed-out property reverts as well? </p><p>Do you notice any other preferences not sticking? I ask because the Default Account designation is stored in the prefs.js file, located in your Profile. If one preference is not sticking, I would expect to see other properties not sticking, either. </p><p>First thing to try is to restart Thunderbird in Troubleshooting Mode. Go to menu item &lt;Help | Troubleshoot Mode...&gt;. Let it temporarily, not permanently, disable all your add-ons. After it restarts, try changing the default account again. If it's successful, that could indicate a misbehaving add-on. </p><p>Please let us know the results. If that doesn't do it there are some other things to try. </p>",rednoise,false,0,0
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1812631,1577219,2026-04-20 13:09:41 -0700,2026-04-20 13:09:41 -0700,"<p>Hi Lin, </p><p>Yes, when I restart Thunderbird, the little star appears beside the Gmail account, and I have to manually go back to my MS365 account and make it default again, which it accepts as long as I don't restart the program. The ""Set as Default"" box seems to operate normally. </p><p>I haven't noticed any other preferences not sticking. </p><p>I tried what you suggested in Troubleshoot Mode. Doing so made my three MS365 email accounts disappear, and the Gmail became the default. My two IMAP accounts were unaffected. </p><p>Just for clarification, I have: three MS365 email accounts (including the one that I want to have as default); two IMAP accounts; and the one Gmail (also IMAP) account. In order to have the MS365 accounts operate in Thunderbird, I have an add-on called Owl, which was needed to provide MS Exchange Server support. </p><p>Curious to know if you have any other suggestions. Many thanks for your assistance to date. </p><p>Lyle </p>",lyle.beaman,false,0,0
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1812555,1577228,2026-04-20 02:21:28 -0700,2026-04-20 02:21:28 -0700,"<p>I assume you're creating an HTML format message, rather than plain text. </p><p>Look at the Styles drop-down list in the Write Message window toolbar. ""Paragraph"" style gives you what looks like double-spacing, though what it really is a space between blocks of text that end with a carriage return. ""Body Text"" style makes successive blocks of text appear right next to each other without a gap. </p><p>This can be changed on the fly. You can set the default in &lt;Settings | Composition | HTML Style&gt; and enabling/disabling the ""Use Paragraph format instead of Body Text by default"" option as you like. </p>",rednoise,false,0,0
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1812623,1577228,2026-04-20 11:41:51 -0700,2026-04-20 11:41:51 -0700,<p>Thank you !! </p>,azhagens,false,0,0
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1812573,1577230,2026-04-20 07:01:05 -0700,2026-04-20 07:01:05 -0700,<p>Go to TB menu &gt; Account Settings &gt; account &gt; Server Settings &gt; Server Settings and enable 'Check for new messages at startup'. </p>,siffemoz,false,0,0

‎2026/2026-04-20-2026-04-20-thunderbird-creator-answers-desktop-all-locales.csv‎

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1577186,2026-04-19 17:26:36 -0700,2026-04-19 17:26:36 -0700,en-US,thunderbird,clear the spam log isn't working?,false,,,false,,"",junk-mail-and-spam,windows-1011;thunderbird;junk-mail-and-spam;,GeneWo,"<p>I can't clear the spam log, it doesn't work? </p>",GeneWo;,false,false,false,;useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:149.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/149.0;tb_version:149.0.2;os:Windows 10/11,0,0,0,,,
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1577190,2026-04-19 18:02:48 -0700,2026-04-19 18:02:48 -0700,en-US,thunderbird,"how to get my yahoo mail account working again, after all of a sudden after April 4 2026 just stopped receiving emails.",false,,,true,,"",email-and-messaging,windows-11;thunderbird;email-and-messaging;,bb_nycuws,"<p>As of April 4 midnight my yahoo account in Thunderbird just stopped receiving incoming pop messages nor can I send. According to Yahoo, it showed that Thunderbird had access. Thunderbird showed how many new messages to download, but then does nothing but hang and time out. I have removed all stored yahoo passwords; I have removed yahoo permissions in yahoo in order to start over. I get the normal log in screens to add permission with oauth2, signed into yahoo account in yahoo and it shows thunderbird has access, yet Thunderbird still can NOT access yahoo mail (download pop or send smpt). YES MY SETTINGS are correct. They haven;t change since before April 4 midnight. I need this account active again. HELP!!! email to <a href=""mailto:bb_nycuws@hotmail.com"" rel=""nofollow"">bb_nycuws@hotmail.com</a> with Yahoo in the subject line: According to THunderbird, I have version 140.9 esr. when I press check for updates it says I'm up to date. Although the yahoo help page says as of March 2026 version 148. confused. Bill </p>",bb_nycuws;,false,false,false,";useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/147.0.0.0;tb_version:140.9esr;os:Windows 11",0,0,0,,,
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1577208,2026-04-19 20:29:53 -0700,2026-04-19 20:29:53 -0700,en-US,thunderbird,mails are shown twice,false,,,false,,"",email-and-messaging,windows-11;thunderbird;email-and-messaging;,mail767,"<p>I installed Thunderbird on a new computer running Windows 11. I use Thunderbird for 14 email accounts. I have set the folder view to ""Unified Folders."" In the Inbox, emails from different accounts appear twice—sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. These emails are not duplicates; in the folders for each individual account, the emails are all displayed only once. I don't have this problem on my old computer—same Windows, same Thunderbird, looks exactly the same. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? </p>",mail767;,false,false,false,";useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36;tb_version:149.0.2 (64-bit);os:Windows 11",0,0,0,,,
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1577219,2026-04-19 22:01:26 -0700,2026-04-20 01:25:59 -0700,en-US,thunderbird,Thunderbird 140.9.1esr (64-bit) keeps changing default email account from a MS365 account to my Gmail account on startup,false,,,false,1812554,1812549;1812553;1812554;,account-management,linux;thunderbird;account-management;,lyle.beaman,"<p>Hello! </p><p>I am using Thunderbird 140.9.1esr (64-bit) on a Ubuntu 24.04 system. Every time I restart Thunderbird, it reverts to a little used Gmail account as the default account. I have several accounts, but my main email account is a MS365 account. I reset the setting, but every time it is restarted, the default goes back to Gmail. I have tried everything that I've found online, but cannot correct this behaviour. </p><p>Do you have any suggestions or assistance? </p><p>Many thanks! </p>",lyle.beaman;rednoise;,false,false,false,;useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:149.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/149.0;tb_version:140.9.1esr;os:Linux,3,0,0,,,
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1577219,2026-04-19 22:01:26 -0700,2026-04-20 13:09:41 -0700,en-US,thunderbird,Thunderbird 140.9.1esr (64-bit) keeps changing default email account from a MS365 account to my Gmail account on startup,false,,,false,1812631,1812549;1812553;1812554;1812631;,account-management,linux;thunderbird;account-management;,lyle.beaman,"<p>Hello! </p><p>I am using Thunderbird 140.9.1esr (64-bit) on a Ubuntu 24.04 system. Every time I restart Thunderbird, it reverts to a little used Gmail account as the default account. I have several accounts, but my main email account is a MS365 account. I reset the setting, but every time it is restarted, the default goes back to Gmail. I have tried everything that I've found online, but cannot correct this behaviour. </p><p>Do you have any suggestions or assistance? </p><p>Many thanks! </p>",lyle.beaman;rednoise;,false,false,false,;useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:149.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/149.0;tb_version:140.9.1esr;os:Linux,4,0,0,,,
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1577221,2026-04-19 22:08:16 -0700,2026-04-19 22:08:16 -0700,en-US,thunderbird,Business,false,,,true,,"",accounts,thunderbird;accounts;,mralex1837,<p>Important business </p>,mralex1837;,false,false,false,";useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36;tb_version:23456 8910 11810 1;os:Business",0,0,0,,,
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1577228,2026-04-20 00:14:06 -0700,2026-04-20 11:41:51 -0700,en-US,thunderbird,"For sending a message, how do I Single space rather than double space?",true,1812555,rednoise,false,1812623,1812555;1812623;,customization,windows-11;thunderbird;customization;,azhagens,"<p>For sending a message, how do I Single space rather than double space? </p>",azhagens;rednoise;,false,false,false,";useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36;tb_version:149.0.2;os:Windows 11;solver_id:7566915",2,0,0,,,
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1577230,2026-04-20 01:11:47 -0700,2026-04-20 07:01:05 -0700,en-US,thunderbird,Emails that arrive while my PC is shut down do not appear even after I start the PC and launch the app.,false,,,false,1812573,1812573;,send-and-receive-email,windows-11;thunderbird;send-and-receive-email;,r-totsuka,<p>Emails that arrive while my PC is shut down do not appear even after I start the PC and launch the app. There are no error messages. The server is configured to use POP. </p>,r-totsuka;siffemoz;,false,false,false,";useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/147.0.0.0;tb_version:Emails that arrive;os:Windows 11",1,0,0,,,
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1577262,2026-04-20 06:36:53 -0700,2026-04-20 06:36:53 -0700,en-US,thunderbird,How to display categories in messages (applied in Thunderbird for Windows),false,,,false,,"",tags,thunderbird;tags;,philippe.bruyere,<p>Hello. How to display categories in messages (applied in Thunderbird for Windows) ? On Thunderbird for windows messages are displayed withe the color of the category. Best regards. </p>,philippe.bruyere;,false,false,false,";useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/147.0.0.0;tb_version:18.0;os:Android 16;kb_visits_prior:[""/fr/kb/nouveautes-thunderbird-android-version-8""]",0,0,0,,,
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1577269,2026-04-20 08:05:15 -0700,2026-04-20 11:32:19 -0700,en-US,thunderbird,Emailsicherung auf thunderbird bei wechsel von ewe zur deutschen glasfaser,false,,,false,1812621,1812621;,import-and-export-email,windows-11;thunderbird;import-and-export-email;,pwhanke,"<p>Sicherung der vorhandenen E-mail- ordner mit Inhalt auf Thunderbird, um einen weiteren Zugriff auf diese Emails nach dem Wechsel zu Deutscher Glasfaser zu erhalten </p>",pwhanke;davidsk;,false,false,false,";useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36;tb_version:149.02;os:Windows 11;kb_visits_prior:[""/en-US/kb/switch-pop-imap-account""]",1,0,0,,,
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1577270,2026-04-20 08:16:05 -0700,2026-04-20 08:57:03 -0700,it,thunderbird,NON PARTONO COME SPESSO SEGNALATO LE MAIL DA ALICE.,false,,,true,1812588,1812588;,send-and-receive-email,windows-10;thunderbird;send-and-receive-email;needsinfo;,davide.scorrano,"<p>COME SPESSO ACCADE NON PARTONO LE MAIL DALL'ACCANT DI ALICE DA TIM FUNZIONA, GMAIL FUNZIONA..PREGO VERIFICARE E' METTERE IN FUNZIONE </p>",davide.scorrano;,false,false,false,";useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/147.0.0.0;tb_version:NON SO;os:Windows 10",1,0,0,,,
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1577279,2026-04-20 10:46:26 -0700,2026-04-20 12:39:10 -0700,en-US,thunderbird,How to see attachments in Thunderbird,false,,,false,1812629,1812616;1812626;1812629;,attachments,thunderbird;attachments;,giorgio.furlani80,"<p>Hi everyone, </p><p>I’m new to Thunderbird. I’m using version 149.0.2 (aarch64), and I’ve noticed that when I receive one or more attachments, I only see a file called winmail.dat. </p><p>Is there a way to view the actual attachments, whether they are PDFs or other file types? Thank you! </p>",giorgio.furlani80;davidsk;,false,false,true,";useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36;tb_version:149.0.2;os:Mac OS x 10_15_7",3,0,0,2026-04-20T05:48:16.270558-07:00,"{""username""=>""davidsk"", ""display_name""=>""david"", ""avatar""=>""https://firefoxusercontent.com/5eed5ecf74d9e1ec85435ea262bc016e""}",
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1577279,2026-04-20 10:46:26 -0700,2026-04-20 12:39:10 -0700,en-US,thunderbird,How to see attachments in Thunderbird,false,,,false,1812629,1812616;1812626;1812629;,attachments,thunderbird;attachments;,giorgio.furlani80,"<p>Hi everyone, </p><p>I’m new to Thunderbird. I’m using version 149.0.2 (aarch64), and I’ve noticed that when I receive one or more attachments, I only see a file called winmail.dat. </p><p>Is there a way to view the actual attachments, whether they are PDFs or other file types? Thank you! </p>",giorgio.furlani80;davidsk;,false,false,false,";useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36;tb_version:149.0.2;os:Mac OS x 10_15_7",3,0,0,,,
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1577282,2026-04-20 11:07:21 -0700,2026-04-20 11:07:21 -0700,en-US,thunderbird,How to get a list of senders from an email account,false,,,false,,"",email-and-messaging,windows-11;thunderbird;email-and-messaging;,paulgu,<p>I want to get a list of email senders to an email account in Thunderbird as it is going to be closed and I want to notify those who still use it. Is there a way to do this? </p><p>This is a POP account and the emails are only available in Thunderbird. </p>,paulgu;,false,false,false,;useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:149.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/149.0;tb_version:140.9.1esr 64 bit;os:Windows 11,0,0,0,,,
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1577283,2026-04-20 11:23:50 -0700,2026-04-20 12:27:21 -0700,hu,thunderbird,Lista az egy napon érkezett vagy küldött levelekről,false,,,false,1812627,1812627;,search,windows-10;thunderbird;search;,alaszloa,<p>Ki lehet listázni egy időszakra (akár egy napra) az érkezett és küldött leveleket? </p>,alaszloa;meskobalazs;,false,false,false,";useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36;tb_version:140.9.1esr;os:Windows 10",1,0,0,,,
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1577284,2026-04-20 11:26:16 -0700,2026-04-20 11:26:16 -0700,en-US,thunderbird,not possible receive mails,false,,,false,,"",send-and-receive-email,thunderbird;send-and-receive-email;,aog1,"<p>Error message : Échec de la connexion au compte « <a href=""mailto:aog@bluewin.ch"" rel=""nofollow"">aog@bluewin.ch</a> » Échec de la connexion depuis le serveur <a href=""http://imaps.bluewin.ch"" rel=""nofollow"">imaps.bluewin.ch</a> avec le nom d’utilisateur <a href=""mailto:aog@bluewin.ch"" rel=""nofollow"">aog@bluewin.ch</a>. </p><p>I click on ""Saisir un nouveau mot de passe"" I enter the correct pass word I get from bluewin. </p><p>new error, new error olny errors </p><p>I am lost HELP ! </p>",aog1;,false,false,false,";useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36;tb_version:140.9.1esr (aarch6;os:Mac OS x 26.3.1 (25D2128)",0,0,0,,,
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1577287,2026-04-20 11:41:27 -0700,2026-04-20 11:41:27 -0700,pt-BR,thunderbird,Deleted emails,false,,,false,,"",send-and-receive-email,windows-10;thunderbird;send-and-receive-email;,heldercjr,"<p>Good morning </p><p>In version 149.0.2, when reading a received email, the email disappears from the inbox, and all previously read emails have also disappeared from both the inbox and the sent items folder. </p>",heldercjr;,false,false,false,";useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36;tb_version:149.0.2;os:Windows 10",0,0,0,,,
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1577290,2026-04-20 12:29:03 -0700,2026-04-20 12:29:03 -0700,en-US,thunderbird,je epux recevoir des Mails mais je ne peux pas envoyer des Mails ?,false,,,false,,"",send-and-receive-email,windows-10;thunderbird;send-and-receive-email;,aet.sirisin,<p>remerciements de m'indiquer comment remettre en ordre le système pour envoi des Mails </p>,aet.sirisin;,false,false,false,";useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/147.0.0.0;tb_version:140.9esr;os:Windows 10",0,0,0,,,
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1577291,2026-04-20 12:29:48 -0700,2026-04-20 12:29:48 -0700,en-US,thunderbird,Kann in thunderbird mit meiner A1 Mail nicht senden nur empfangen,false,,,false,,"",send-and-receive-email,thunderbird;send-and-receive-email;,karllovse61,<p>Kann seit heute bei meiner A1 mailadresse im thunderbird nicht senden nur empfangen </p>,karllovse61;,false,false,false,";useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36;tb_version:149.0.2 (64bit)",0,0,0,,,
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1577296,2026-04-20 13:21:57 -0700,2026-04-20 13:21:57 -0700,en-US,thunderbird,Can't search in newsgroup message bodies.,false,,,false,,"",search,windows-11;thunderbird;search;,Alan37,<p>In a newsgroup I have a message containing the word 'werewolf' in its body. If I do a control-K search for 'werewolf' I see 'No messages match your search'. In the left of the display I also see 'Filters From Me (0) To Me (0). I don't know what this means and I don't know why the search couldn't find a message containing 'werewolf'. If I do a control-shift-K search and select the 'Body' button I see 'No message found'. The control-shift-F search will not look in message bodies. Why can't I find the message that contains the word 'werewolf'? What am I missing? Alan. </p>,Alan37;,false,false,false,;useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:149.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/149.0;tb_version:149.0.2;os:Windows 11,0,0,0,,,

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