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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.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/

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Disable keyboard shortcuts in Thunderbird

Is there a way to disable those evil keyboard shortcuts in Thunderbird? When I accidentally hit a, suddenly the message gets archived and a new Archives folder is created. Similarly other keys bring havoc to my workflow. While googling, I have found…
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How to use the same email account when replying in Thunderbird independently of the folder?

I have several accounts set up in Thunderbird. If I reply to a message, I would like Thunderbird to always use the same e-mail address as the one the original mail was addressed to. However, it doesn't seem to work that way. If I move an e-mail from…
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“User is authenticated but not connected” after changing my Exchange password

When I start Thunderbird (31.2.0 under Ubuntu 14.04), my Outlook 365 account [email protected] accessed over IMAP is completely unreachable (I can't even see the list of folders, even though I have local archives). I see the following message in…
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Disable gnome-keyring-daemon

Methods I have tried: https://wiki.gnupg.org/GnomeKeyring https://blog.josefsson.org/tag/keyring/ Removing the GNOME Keyring applications from Startup…
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Thunderbird fails to connect to Dovecot and Postfix

I set up Dovecot and Postfix, but when I try to authenticate with Thunderbird, it gives this error: "Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email account." ==> /var/log/dovecot-info.log <== Apr 06 10:42:16 auth: Debug: auth client…
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Pasting in Thunderbird turns line breaks into spaces

$ cat test.txt a b $ xclip test.txt Pasting the content in an email in Thunderbird will result in a b Any idea why? I'm running Arch Linux (64-bit) and I paste the code via a mouse wheel click (though I also tried CTRL+V without having any luck).…
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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…
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How can I customize the look of Thunderbird's mailbox list, message list, and headers?

Mozilla Thunderbird's message list, mailbox list, and headers use a font size that is so large, I can barely see any content in the message preview pane. I'd like to reduce these to 10px, and reduce the headers to 8px or less. How can I do this?
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How can I make the Gnome3 calendar use Thunderbird instead of Evolution?

Can it be done? I don't want to use Evolution's calendar... I want to keep using Thunderbird... I have to add some addons (like lightning) first right? My goal is to have some calendar-like on thunderbird and replace the one of Evolution.
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Using mutt and thunderbird together

I'd love to use both thunderbird and mutt together. At times I just want a GUI over CLI or the reverse. I also love thunderbird's search and contact features. I especially love its mail filtering capabilities. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Thunderbird: deleted emails are still in local IMAP folder

I am using Thunderbird + IMAP. Thunderbird caches messages locally in: .icedove/asdfgh.default/ImapMail/mail.example.com/ For each IMAP folder, there are files Folder and Folder.msf. I have noticed, when I delete an email with large attachment, and…
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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: How to transfer CalDAV/CardDAV Connections from one Machine to another?

On my main machine I am running Thunderbird with Lightning and have several CalDAV calendars connected. Furthermore there is also a CardDAV address book hooked up. How can I transfer those CalDAV and CardDAV connections to a further machine? To get…
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How to remove the "Received: from" from an e-mails source?

I'm using: thunderbird-10.0.3-1.el6_2.x86_64 on Scientific Linux 6.1 and if I send an e-mail (with Gmail) from my Thunderbird then I can see that the e-mail I sent contains a very-very bad thing: Received: from [192.168.1.142]…
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Thunderbird tray icon for mail notifications

I was trying to write a script which would add a new mail icon to my system tray, but apparently Thunderbird does not support checking for new mail from the command line. I've tried a number of plugin, but they all seem to have only a vague…
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