It'll (the information posted above) still be here when you get back... including most of us, hopefully. Just holler if you need more assistance once you get things settled down a bit in your life so that you can tweak/fix this stuff.

Regards,

~Eric

Wow. I can't say I've heard of anyone having that kind of trouble with T-bird before. I don't use a lot of odd plugins -- only "Lightning" and "Send Later" -- and don't have any troubles but I have changed a fair amount of the standard settings. Setting font sizes through me for a while -- application fonts set at the desktop level, composition fonts set within T-bird -- but I haven't had colors change on me suddenly.

What you're experiencing reminds me of a problem I encountered some years ago when a Linux upgrade included a KDE upgrade that had big problems using the previous version's config files---I re-setup my desktop customizations from scratch.

If settings aren't being saved, I wonder if some "chmod" command went awry and has protected a T-bird config file you should have write access to.

My only beef with T-bird was the decision a while back to disallow one from tinkering with the locale to display the "Date" columns of the folders using ISO8601 date/timestamps. (Not serious enough to make me want to switch. I'm hopeful that the development team will come to their senses one day.)

I can't think of any that would not be compatible with Ubuntu.

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Thanks Eric.

Had a look at the "new" place today, and I can move in any time within the next couple of weeks, but there's a lot to do (packing, moving, getting rid of stuff), and I don't know how long it's going to take to get my internet subscription (is that the right word?) transferred to the new address.

I'll certainly be back once everything is settled, and I'm thankful to the people who have contributed to this thread.

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Moving sucks. I own a truck, so I get "volunteered" to move family, friends, girlfriends, etc. all the time.

Love TBird.
Only issue I had with it was migrating email addresses to TBird from MS Outlook using a CSV file.
It didn't end well but that was probably my fault.

Have the same problems with T-bird. I use a 14" laptop and the text size is very small, next to unusable. If I go to Preferences > Preferences > Display > Formatting I should be able to set the default font, but whatever I do here, nothing happens! I use all-standard Ubuntu with Gnome 3. I am now on the brink of ditching Thunderbird for webmail - which I rather not do because I do love the added value of a true e-mail client

Never mind, you already put me on the right track for the solution. I installed gnome-tweak-tools and increased the text scaling factor from 1.0 to 1.25 and that makes all the difference

For me BOTH Thunderbird and Seamonky make duplicates of most every msg I delete. Sometimes this can happen 4 times with the same msg. Just check the trash and they are all there. Thunderbird looks pleasing to my eye.
Seamonkey looks like a holdover from the days of Windows 3.x What frosts me about it is when a link is clicked Seamonkey browser pops up. EGAD, I want my default browser to spring into action but is no way to do that.

KMail is difficult to set up and then it looks like a calendar with an afterthought added to do email. I hate it.

Command line email clients? It is time to enter the 21st century. HTML email is the norm and that is what I want.

No alternatives can be found and believe me I have looked. The next time I get a new phone I will use it exclusively for email and ignore my computer fer that task like the younger generations do.

Rant over. Thanks for your time.

Sorry everyone. I wasn't expecting to be "missing" for so long. The move, the worldwide shutdown of almost everything, the stress of having everyone's lives destroyed over a "virus" that may not even be real. It all gets a bit much.

I still have to set the paragraph spacing every day, sometimes more than once a day, and the font style and size still changes whenever it feels like, but I just can't be bothered any more.

My keyboard and mouse both need replacing when the computer shops are allowed to open again (not interested in ordering "blind" on-line), so I'll just put up with Thunderbird the way it is until I can start to get my life back.

It's definitely real.

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I am a medical doctor also treating COVID-19 patients over here in The Netherlands. It is definitely real. Happily most recover after 3 weeks, some don't. Our hospital has had a lot of very sick COVID-19 people and with a lot of effort we expanded our ICU unit to threefold its normal size. It was bad, things are scaling down right now. However we stay on alert because we have some restrictions lifted so we wait "in the trenches" on the next wave to appear. We hope it will be small and short.

I can somehow understand people can't grasp the idea: the sick are strictly isolated so you don't see them. The hospital is out-of-bounds for anyone that does not really has to be there. And there you are, fired because there is no work anymore, maybe no money in the bank and no end in sight. Then you start to wonder, is it all true?

Then please take a moment and look at the simple reality: if you let it roam freely the hospitals will have to shut the doors in no time and health care will not be available for anyone. Then everyone will be worse off.

I am sorry to post this off-topic post - I just had to.

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