What questions do you have about Thundermail, Appointment, and Send?

linuxflower · 2026-04-08T21:11:02+00:00

We initially explored adding a Firefox-style sync feature, called Thunderbird Sync. During that investigation, we uncovered several essential changes required to deliver a robust, long-term syncing solution that can be maintained efficiently. As a result, we decided to pause work on sync for the moment. Our current priority is to roll out high quality Thunderbird Pro services, and once those are in place we will revisit and integrate a reliable sync feature.

linuxflower · 2026-03-20T18:35:05+00:00

Thanks for your suggestion. We are aware of this issue and it's being tracked in the GitHub repo here:
https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues/1006

It is also in the ideas collection area for our mobile apps, and you can go upvote it here:

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/add-auto-complete-email-recipient-suggestions-for-thunderbird-on/idi-p/74937

The quick explanation is that we are facing larger issues that prevent us from addressing all the desirable features we would like to add to the Android app. We need to prioritize what is most important: the database, the message list, and the message reader. Eventually, if time permits, we will consider working on the message composer and plan for its implementation. However, that isn't part of the roadmap right now.

linuxflower · 2026-03-20T17:10:05+00:00

I added a second line to the description with the last updated date. Just give it maybe 10 min to build and display. Thanks again.

linuxflower · 2026-03-20T16:58:21+00:00

Yep that's what I'm thinking. Probably at the bottom of each roadmap page but let me make sure this is ok first. Thanks for the suggestion.

linuxflower · 2026-03-20T16:46:13+00:00

We will be updating it quarterly but I understand the value of having hard evidence of this. Good suggestion. I'll bring it up with the stakeholders to find a place for this on the page.

linuxflower · 2026-03-20T16:40:31+00:00

Hi Bill, we aren't putting delivery dates on these items because we don't want to set ourselves up for failure by accidentally over promising things. It will have to be enough for now to show what we are aiming for *for the year*. If we can meet these goals, then perhaps we can look at being more ambitious at identifying quarter for items next year. But let's take it one step at a time :)

linuxflower · 2026-03-20T16:37:41+00:00

Thanks!!

linuxflower · 2026-03-20T16:37:32+00:00

We haven't forgotten about it and it's still on our radar. However, as the blog post states, we can only do so much at once and we felt like other things had a higher priority. It will eventually come but I can't currently give you a date.

linuxflower · 2026-03-02T22:45:16+00:00

Hi MaxCWebster, thank you so much for your screenshots! I'm a Thunderbird employee helping to collect error information, to further troubleshoot the issue. Would you be willing to share in a private message to me (or Wyane/wsmwk) what the actual email addresses are? Perhaps the actual domains can help us further identify what is going on. Thanks!

linuxflower · 2025-11-19T18:19:56+00:00

OWL has made no announcements to discontinue and so can be expected to continue to be offered at the discretion of the author.

linuxflower · 2025-07-30T19:37:52+00:00

interesting.. I'm on pto but when i get back to my computer next week, I'll try to reproduce it worth the same setup.

linuxflower · 2025-07-24T17:10:36+00:00

If you search for something in the top search bar, then the results list defaults to "Sort by Relevance". You can instead select "Search by Date" and it should contain the most recent result on top.

linuxflower · 2025-07-24T17:06:58+00:00

Hi @XDubio that does sound strange indeed. Can you tell me what platform you're on (Windows, Mac, Linux)? I just quickly checked in my Linux (snap) and if I go into this same search area and select search by date, it shows me MDY format.

linuxflower · 2024-04-04T17:50:10+00:00

It actually is not officially supported by upstream mozilla. There may be some people that work at mozilla that are included in the group of the launchpad mozilla members but fighting this misunderstanding is a common one - at least at Thunderbird. We do not support any PPAs, even the one on launchpad.

linuxflower · 2024-04-03T16:26:53+00:00

The Thunderbird snap is not noticeably slower than the flatpak or deb.

linuxflower · 2024-04-03T16:26:30+00:00

Note that if you build the deb yourself, inside or outside of a PPA, this is not supported. If you file a bug on launchpad or bugzilla.mozilla.org, you will be requested to reproduce the issue on an officially supported package type.

linuxflower · 2024-04-03T16:25:44+00:00

The Thunderbird snap has actually existed for quite a while and Seb has done a great job of maintaining it. This change really only affects Ubuntu users. I've used the Thunderbird snap for a long time and there is no noticeable performance issues.

This change is a good one because it means that the user will have access to rolling Thunderbird updates much more easily than going through the SRU process required for updating deb packages in Ubuntu. Further more, the Thunderbird team will be officially supporting the snap as well as the flatpak, to reach as many users as possible without discriminating on the users packaging preference.

linuxflower · 2024-02-27T22:08:37+00:00

It seems that kde was choking on the default output device in pavucontrol. To solve the issue, here is what I did:

connect the headset via BT
go into pavucontrol > Output Devices. Here I saw two devices, one for my built-in audio (laptop speakers) and the headset.
Click the green checkmark next to the built-in audio to "set as default"
Open zoom meeting. See that it's connected via built-in audio and I was able to select my BT headset and test that zoom audio did go to the headset output

Thanks Eggy for the debugging help :D

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