Installing TB 3.03 over 2.0.0.23

Is TB 3.03 meant to be installed on top of 2.0.0.23 ? Does it use the TB 2 settings ?

Recovering Profile

Is there a procedure to recover a profile folder when it is backed up using Carbonite? I have it set so Carbonite backs up the entire profile. Thanks,

msgs. not displaying from top of list

When msgs load, I have to scroll to up to first msg. I have setup sort by date, unread, ascending. Bob

Email problems 3.0.3

Just now, every time I open the email program, all the existing mails are duplicated. Any clues...XP Pro..POP3 Thanks

other inboxes

My email is set up as IMAP and I want to lave it as it is. However I have a "INBOX" type file of archived old messages. It is a legitimate inbox structure. Where can I put it so I can read it with TB. Do I just copy it into local folders etc? Will a MSF file get created etc? Thanks

Signature above thread with Fwd email

Hello, My TB is configured to include the email thread when forwarding and keep the thread below my message. Ive been wondering for a while why I am unable to have my signature show up above the email thread of a Fwd'ed email instead of below the thread. I couldnt find any resolution to this issue after doing a bit of research. Maybe somebody has figured out a way to achieve this? What I get when I forward an email: [My cursor at the top] [The original message] [My signature] What I want to see when I forward an email: [My cursor at the top] [My signature] [The

New Profile Issue

I just tried to set up a new Profile in Windows and after naming the Profile, I clicked Cancel on the prompt to add a new email address. I later added a fake email in the form of test@test.com because this Profile is supposed to be only for archived email and not newer emails. Now when I start TB I get only this *new* Profile and not the one that I was using originally. Is there a good way to Open TB using the old Profile? TIA.

Windows7 Mail Path Locations

I have three mailing addresses - one is my firstname@mywebaddress.com one is mylastname@mywebaddress.com and the other is my gmail account. What is the difference between: myfirstname@mywebaddress.com: imap:myname@mail.mywebaddress.com/INBOX mylastname@mywebaddress.com: imap://myname%40mywebaddress.com@mail.mywebaddress.com/INBOX gmail: mailbox:///Y:/Documents/Application Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/xxxxxx.default/Mail/pop.gmail-2.com/Inbox All of these are part of the same Profile and I can obviously see the path for this profile in the path for the folder that holds my

TB 3.0.3 reply problem

I selected some text in an email that I wanted to reply to so that I could paste that sentence in at the top. But when I pressed the reply button, the only text from the original that showed up was what I had selected!!! I was really confused for a bit, but I canceled the reply, went back to the original message, and then selected some random text, and THEN hit reply. This time, the entire original message showed up in the reply. Weird, huh?

TB 3 and exit button

Downloaded thunderbrowse and exit button for TB 3.0.3 First works, but I can't find the exit button add-on. The file is there with an xpi extension, but nothing happens if I click on it and it's not in the choices for "customize toolbar." Any suggestions?

Spell-check idiot-proofing

Some may have noticed that I never brag about my typing skills--there is a reason for that. It is especially apparent when I am working with this laptop keyboard. One of the results is that every character I type may have been intended to be any of as many as 8 or 9 characters around the one you see. (If you see an "r", I might have intended to type any from the set 4-5-t-f-d-e-r.) As long as what I type is a letter, there is a chance the spell-checker will save me--if I pay attention (which is another problem entirely--code is not going to help with that). But if the error-

Why the change?

I have got used to marking a folder as read over the years with Ctrl-Shift-C. Now on v3 that brings up the Calendar and I am having to learn to hit Shift-C instead which is involving lots of concious effort and lots of unintended appearances of the Calendar. Was there any logic behind making the change? Tony

Importing Seamonkey mail to Thunderbird

I used Eudora for years (and miss it terribly) but after the last new computer purchase I started using the SeaMonkey mail just because it was convenient. The computer (Dell Studio XPS MT435 desktop running Vista Home Premium) has started to hang up and won't log off or restart or anything after running SeaMonkey, and I thought it might help to have separate programs. Also, I feel myself being edged out of SeaMonkey, as more websites won't view or work properly in it. (I do plan to call Dell but I still want to use TB, this problem is just the reason for doing it now.) Anyway, I do

that TB showing messages in correct date order

I had once posted that when there are some messages in a TB folder, and I move a message from somewhere else to this folder, and this moved has an older date than some of the messages already in this folder, this newly moved message gets added to the bottom of the list. Thus newer messages appear higher than this older message. that was previous behavior. Today I noticed that even if I move an older date message to a folder, TB is showing the messages in correct sequence, date wise. That is a good change. Thanks. -- Rawat

TB search user interface: old style

I tried out the new TB version but am having a hard time getting used to the "new" search UI. I like the older format much better. Is there a way to install the new TB but force it to present searches the old way? -- Rahul

Bug??? compose window gets stuck on attachment file not found in hdd

I was composing a mail. I added an attachment (xls file) from my hdd to the compose window. It got duly added. I thought that name of the file is not correct, so I went to HDD and changed the name of the xls file. Whooshhhhh. TB gets stuck. It kept on giving message after message that "attachment not found so can't save draft" or something like this. Clicking on ok would make that message instantly reappear. Now allowing me to anything. I went to hdd and reverted the name of the file to previous one, and TB went ahead silently. -- Does it seem a bug? Methink it shou

Removing near duplicate email

I am on several genealogical mailing list. Because of the way some of them work I some times get several near duplicate emails. These emails may be the same for 90% of the message with maybe a line or two where there is a difference. Sometimes the difference is only in the header information and forward information. Is there an addon that would review the messages and tell me the amount of material in two emails that are the same, and if the differences are in the header information or in the content? If there is no addon could someone recommend a FAST way of reviewing and

Separate profiles for mail and news/RSS

I'm considering splitting my TB profile into a mail profile and a newsgroup/RSS profile and running them separately. Any thoughts on this? Would I be able to run the two TB instances simultaneously? -- Herbert Eppel www.HETranslation.co.uk

Odd behaviour in news group threads

I subscribe to various Corel news groups, and they have set up several new web forums such as: http://coreldraw.com/forums/544.aspx If I read these using TB 3.0.3 via: news://coreldraw.com:119/graphics_suite_products.coreldraw_graphics_suite_x5 the messages all appear as a single thread. This doesn't happen with the X4 forums such as: http://coreldraw.com/forums/245.aspx Another user of the forums says this isn't happening with OE. I've tried unsubscribing and resubscribing. Can anyone else reproduce this and/or help? Andrew

transferring email from one profile to another

I'm moving mail from one computer to another computer and I seem to have picked up some email on the new computer on a new profile that I would like to put "back" into the older profile (the one that I transferred to the new computer). Is there a way other than the Plug-In Profile Switcher to get this newer email into the Profile that I have been using? I'm now on Mac and I'd ideally like to not have to "backtrack" to the PC to get this done. Thanks, Jonathan

Indexing - starting again from fresh

Having removed several large mail archive folders from my main TB profile I want to start the index again from fresh. I assumed that the index file would re-build itself with a smaller size, but it is still around 3.3 GB, as it was before I removed the archive folders from the profile. Can/should I simply delete global-messages-db.sqlite to 'reset' the index, or are there other files I should/need to delete too, or is there another way to do this? -- Herbert Eppel www.HETranslation.co.uk

How to use the new tab system in tb 3

I had installed thunderbrowse addon, so tabs were already there, though I could not find any use of them except that any clicked link opened in a new tab (my setting). Now, TB3 itself has tabs, but how do I use them? Thanks. -- Rawat

Memory

I have no idea if this is relevant to anything we have been discussing, but I just had what I think was an odd occurrence happen. I was running as I often do -- collection of small toys like 'clock" "D4" and things like that active, one occurrence (window?) of Thunderbird (has 5 "accounts"), three occurrences of Firefox (one with about 50 tabs open, one with one tab active tab open, one with nothing active). I was doing the experimenting with the eternal-september problem documented else where when I got a Windows whine about memory (dang, I forgot which kind it was talking about-

Application Error

In addition to losing old Inbox emails, when I close Tbird 3.0.3 I get an error message: The instruction as "0x00487f5d" referenced memory at "0x000000024". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program. When I originally installed the program it gave me a similar message, which I ignored. Any suggestions?

v3 indexing all my folders

I've recently updated to v3.0.3 from v2 and Thunderbird is going through all my mail folders and indexing them with all the speed of a sloth on prozac and hogging system resources to that everything else slows down. So far its been indexing for several days and still only part way through. Is this necessary and can I disable it? Tony

Insert file - Thanks! Comment level next? I like TB3!

People, I have been following some of the complaints about TB3 and am a little surprised. I converted from Evolution some time ago and have been pretty happy about it. There have been some issues but I am generally happy with the continued development. I just noticed that I can now insert a text file from the "Other v" button (on the odd occasions I had to do this I had been manually editing the "Drafts" file). About the only thing that I miss occasionally now is the ability to change the comment level up or down by highlighting a block and clicking buttons. TB3 works

TB 3: Font changes in message reply

When replying to a message, my default font is used for about the first two lines, then it switches from "Times" to "variable width" in a smaller size. Never had this problem in TB2.

When Thunderbird opens

When Thunderbird opens it does not open in Inbox. How do I get it to open in Inbox? Dan

Compacting and Archiving

I'm in the process of "archiving" older emails that currently reside in my Local Folder. Ideally I would like to do this in an organized way. Can anyone advise me as to what is involved with compacting and whether I need to do this for a particular profile or if I can do it with a specific folder (and/or subfolders) within the Local Folders (I've organized data that I am getting out of the way in the Local Folders. Also, is there a convenient way to access this information once it has been "archived"? Any advice and or assistance would be really appreciated. Thanks.

Date Sent and Date Received

I sent this message to the list in June last year, but did not get any replies. Anybody around now who can help? I'm using TB 2.0.0.23 under Windows Vista. In the list of columns that can be displayed, Date appears and that is the date the email was sent. But there does not appear to be any Date Received. I know that one can get that for a specific message by View > Headers > All, but that's a bit tedious. I can see also that an approximation can be deduced from the Order Received column in the display (also a bit tedious). Why can't we just have Date Sent and Date

TB Extensions on the Mac

Is there a good way for me to get the following extensions "re-loaded" into my Mac TB? I was using them with my Win XP TB and they are currently greyed out with a red exclamation point next to them. addressContext 0.8.1 Duplicate Contact Manager 0.6 MoreFunctionsForAddressBook 0.5.6.2 Plaxo 1.109 Thanks.

Toolbar icons no longer animate

I liked the mouse roll over animation effect in prior releases. Is there a theme available (or other way) on TB 3.0.2 to get this behavior back? I am running TB 3.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.2 Thanks Kelvin

Statusbar's URL preview shows for only one second

Hi, I just noticed that URLs being previewed in the Statusbar, when hovering over them with the mouse pointer in the body of emails, only shows for about one second and then disappears. I don't recall this ever being the case before. Is there any way to eliminate the timeout factor here? Thanks, p. -- T-Bird 3 for mail; Dialog for news; WinXP-h.

local ISP xml file for thunderbird 3 autoconfiguration

Hello, I'm trying to set up a local xml file with the ISP informations for our company using the wiki at <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration:ConfigFileFormat> The xml example is not working, so I've downloaded a running xml file from the online ISPdb, renamed it and changed the config for our needs to get our mailserver configuration automatically. But there are some options not documented on the wiki that I need for a running isp file in our company too! To get a working default isp xml file for our mail server I need to - add an IMAP server directo

Problem upgrading TBird 3 in Windows 7

Running as a Standard User (which one should) in Windows 7 Home premium, not only am I NOT notified of available updates, but when I eventually find out that there is an update available, I then have to run TBird "as administrator" in order to use the Update function. Is this a problem with my setup, a known problem with a work-around, or should I file a bug in Bugzilla?

Fwd: Basic Setup Mystery - Please Help

I'm running TB3 on an older laptop with Win2K, SP4. I've had a real good look and tried all the settings that seem relevant, although I don't understand all the language. No matter what, the inbox, deleted, and sent files match what is left on my ISP. Is there a way to keep archives off-line, not subject to size limits? Four years ago, TB was saving everything, even the deleted spam. Now, I can't get it to save anything. I don't mind being your "test dummy" - this has me stopped. TIA Bob Stuart.

TB3 Slow Reading Threads vs. TB2

Environment: Win7, TB3.0.1, TB 2.0.0.23 On each Tb version: 1. Select View>Threads>Unread. 2. Select a long-thread list newsgroup like, m.s.firefox, 111601 on my system. 3. Click the Global Search drop-down selector and select, "Subject or From filter". 4. Select the Search text box and enter a blank, i.e., a space. This should find most of the thread list. 5. Time how long it takes to finish search (from time the blank is entered to when scrollbar stops moving.) Results: Tb2 = 10 seconds Tb3 = 35 seconds Any idea why the significant time delay in Tb3? -

How to edit attachment reminder keywords?

Can someone please remind me how to edit/add attachment reminder keywords? -- Herbert Eppel www.HETranslation.co.uk

re-hooking/pointing Mozilla Bookmarks

Hi All. Is there a way to "repoint" Mozilla web browser to my backed up .html file? I had a hard drive crash and am doing a clean install with my backed up data but I can't seem to find the correct way to do this. I'm may be moving to Safari but I need to get these exported out of Mozilla first. Thanks, Jonathan

TB3 folder: cannot access its messages.

I'm using TB3 in W 7 64 bit. I have a folder called Thunderbird (created under Local Folders) to which I save messages I want to keep about TB. It shows that it has 7 unread messages, but when I try to open it I just get the screen that shows: Accounts: View settings for this account Create a new Account etc. the "waiting" circle keep going so that when I go to Properties/Rebuild index I get a message that says "The operation failed because an other operation is using the folder. Please wait for that operation to finish and then try again." Of course the operation neve

Importing my identity from a pre-existing vCard

I'm trying to make the move to Thunderbird from an Outlook system that I've convinced the sysadmins that I really don't need, and all is well... Except for one thing. We use vCards that conform to a company standard, and they need to be attached to each outgoing mail item, and at the moment I can't find an option in Thunderbird that allows me to specify a card as my identity, I have to create a new one from scratch. This isn't an option for all kinds of dull and boring reasons. Can anyone help, or point me toward an extension might be able to?

TB3: TB warning for news messages limit?

I have many newsserver suscribed with around 10 newsgroups each one. In TB2 when i made a click over the name of the newsserver for expand the tree, the number of new messages are showed appened to the name of the newsgroup, and only when i made a click over the newsgroup with more messages over the limit a warning is show. In TB3 when i made a click over the newsserver, i get one warning for for each newsgroup over the limit at the same time(a warning is showed, i closed this and then another is showed). Each warning is showed for the newsgroup over the limit related to the

Download Headers bug

Since I upgraded to TB3 the other day, I've been battling all its new stupidity. By far the biggest problem had been the inability to find new posts in a newsgroup since some idjit thought it would be a good idea to download all new posts in all newsgroups when opening an account. This causes the "New" status on new posts not to appear when I start reading the newsgroups. I'm currently getting around this by setting the Tools-> Account Settings-> Server Settings-> Ask me before downloading more than N posts to 0 then selecting Download All Headers manually as I proceed to read

recipient "you"

Emails sent to me appear as "you". How can I disable that behavior? Thanks. Jeff

TB3: Is it possible to expand the recipient list permanently? I'm tired of clicking 'more'

I'm starting a new thread on this in case the question got lost in one of the other recent threads or I missed the answer. The subject line says it all really, i.e.: Is it possible to expand the recipient list I see in incoming messages permanently? I'm tired of clicking 'more' -- Herbert Eppel www.HETranslation.co.uk

Apparent resolution of Bug 549105 with TB 3.0.3

Thanks to everyone who posted constructive comments and suggestions when as a newbie, I attempted to play with the big boys. Thanks especially to Wayne Mery, who helped guide me through the process of creating a bug report and then took the time to edit my bug report after I posted it, based on my narrative in this group, to more accurately describe the technical issues. Apparent closure. I did an automatic update to 3.0.3 and since then, have been unable to provoke a crash. Wouldn't have predicted that, given that the fix provided by 3.0.3 sounds to me as unrelated to the be

red "X" does not delete?

I just installed TB303 and noticed that the red "X" on the mail toolbar does not do as the tooltip indicates. If I select a message and click the "X" it only toggles the read status and does not delete the message. Is this a new "feature" or have I missed a setting to be tweaked? -- (^\pop/^) I'm lost... I've gone to look for myself. If I should return before I get back, keep me here. --

addressee text colour

Normally when I select and click on an address when preparing an email the address is in black on the screen. But if I type in an address which does not appear in the address book it appears red. Recently I've found one particular address sometimes appears red even though it's in the address book. Is this significant? Why does it happen? Does it matter? I've also noticed that the emails are not always received by this addressee (although I haven't yet linked this failure to the red address). Rob Graham

Serious bug in Rebuild Index

There appears to be a serious bug in the Rebuild Index function on mail folders when dealing with big files in TBv2.0.0.23. I copy all my emails off the IMAP account into an Inbox folder. Occasionally the inbox gets itself into a mess and needs rebuilding. Three times now when that has happened the emails have been truncated to exactly the same email and date of 7 Dec 2009. Everything thereafter disappears. Whether its truncating on message numbers or file size is unclear but it truncates to exactly the same point every time and any more recent emails disappear. The second time

Getting TBird data from XP to Mac OS

Hi All. Anyone willing to hold my hand as I try this? I had a hard drive die in my desktop - which contained Thunderbird on the XP OS - in the process of making the move back to Mac. Fortunately I back up religiously. I have copied all of my data from my backup external hard drive to the new Mac Laptop and read all the pertinent articles I can find multiple times. I have also loaded Thunderbird on the new MacOS. I am running Vista via Parallels on this new machine but since this virtual machine is a new process for me (as is the laptop keyboard) I would dearly love to bypas