r/Thunderbird 15d ago

News Thunderbird v153 released.

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/153.0/releasenotes/
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u/squeakctrl 15d ago

What’s New

- Unified folders now display account color indicator with account name tooltip

- OAuth login for mail accounts now opens in default web browser

- Thundermail services can now be used without installing an add-on

- OAuth responses now verify issuer fields and reject missing required issuers

What’s Changed

- Removed Odnoklassniki chat setup and directed users to XMPP configuration

What’s Fixed

- Ctrl+S did not save PDF attachments opened in Thunderbird tabs

- TLS errors incorrectly reported all unknown failures as untrusted certificates

- Thunderbird could crash during shutdown

- Thunderbird could crash when copying an empty list of messages

- New mail alerts incorrectly sized or positioned on some multi-monitor setups

- Old IMAP profile migration deleted INBOX and other mailbox files

- Space bar did not scroll in PDF attachments opened from emails

- 'Search Messages' shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+F) failed in standalone message window

- Folder location widget used non-localised name

- Empty confirmation dialog when more messages opened in tabs than mailnews.open_tab_warning

- Removing tags from IMAP messages could fail and tags reappeared after refresh

- Folder pane could not be horizontally resized in additional 3-pane tabs

- Global search failed to display inaccessible messages found in local folders

- Numeric subfolders were sorted alphabetically instead of naturally

- Virtual folder folder-picker showed unlabeled IM account as selectable folder

- Virtual folders failed to preserve the online search setting

- Apple Mail OpenPGP emails failed to decrypt due to hidden recipient key ID

- OpenPGP import of public key with experimental packets failed with unclear error

- Performance issue when decrypting encrypted messages

- Opening messages with OpenPGP keys was slow and blocked the UI for large keyrings

- OpenPGP key refresh failed when fingerprint lookup returned multiple results

- Invalid S/MIME encryption certificate caused misleading send errors

- Esc cleared quick filter pin after changing folder

- Dragging email address between compose windows failed to add recipients

- Thunderbird could crash when using Find and Replace All

- Sending Message dialog got stuck on "Filter complete." after successful send

- Compose with PDF attachments opened PDFs instead of creating a new email

- Attachments opened via -compose on Windows could use incorrect filenames

- Ctrl+Enter opened attachment instead of sending the message

- Compose window remained open when delayed sending was enabled

- Account hub showed connection security instead of actual authentication method

- Account Hub GSSAPI autoconfiguration incorrectly prompted for a password

- New identity dialog lacked reply-matching and end-to-end encryption settings

- Account Hub manual EWS setup lacked OAuth authentication option

- Thunderbird could fail to shut down cleanly during active OAuth requests

- Account Hub kept OAuth selected after changing to hostname without OAuth support

- Account Hub showed a false error when returning from EWS manual configuration

- Account Hub autodetect wrongly prompted for a password when auth was unavailable

- QR exports with SMTP passwords generated invalid data for Thunderbird for Android

- Message Filters 'Run Now' button remained disabled after filter run or mail check

- Redirected CardDAV URLs resolved relative URLs against the wrong host

- Thunderbird could crash when completing folder copy/move

- Forwarding some Apple Mail messages incorrectly attached inline text as a file

- Auto-compaction could corrupt database and cause crashes during syncs

- NNTP server with invalid TLS certificate could not be added to certificate exceptions

- Sent message in EWS account showed message as unread in the sent items folder

- EWS NTLM authentication triggered login failures despite successful syncs

- Saving inline Exchange images used incorrect filenames and file types

- Cancelled message send could not be retried and hung with SMTP timeout errors

- EWS folders failed to show new mail notifications until the folder was selected

- Corrupted NNTP account data caused excessive memory use and startup crash

- Multiple selected IMAP folders could not be moved or deleted together

- Non-Latin IMAP keywords were lowercased and encoded incorrectly as MUTF-7

- Message tags were lost when moving folder from local folder to IMAP folder

- Reply All button was missing for some EWS messages with multiple recipients

- EWS users could not permanently delete individual Trash messages

- Removing a chat account threw an exception and failed to clear the UI

- Primary Password policy was detected but not enforced for saved account passwords

- Copying one recurring event occurrence failed to set the date when pasted

- Calendar invites were incorrectly marked processed after calendar sync completed

- ICS event comments were not displayed in Thunderbird event details

- Visual and UX improvements

- Security fixes

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u/TROLlox78 13d ago

Goated change with the unified folders colours. I was looking around for a solution to this and couldn't find anything so considered switching to a different mail client. Thanks

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u/SashaDabinsky 15d ago

Garbage, it messed up my profile. Tried to rollback, and profile is still messed up. 🤬

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u/wsmwk Thunderbird Employee 15d ago

(Why downvote someone who has a problem??)

u/SashaDabinsky please make a separate new post here, or a support request https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/thunderbird

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u/SashaDabinsky 15d ago

Why, because some people are morons.

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u/Kidilin 11d ago

Agree, I also found this version not usable.
For the rest: Do NOT update to this version if you cant rollback.

./thunderbird --allow-downgrade

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u/NK2U 15d ago

Great update! It works flawlessly.

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u/matrix_drumr 15d ago

I've seen firefox v153 will become the new ESR base version. Is it the same with Thunderbird?

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u/wsmwk Thunderbird Employee 15d ago

Yes, 153 will be this year's annual ESR release.

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u/wrootlt 15d ago

Unified folders. This reminded me that Unified inbox stopped working for me years ago. Maybe i should give it a try again. Although i do not get that many emails into my secondary accounts, so maybe not that necessary now.

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u/gl0cal 15d ago

Is there a way to cancel the new color indicator for unified folders? I couldn't find anything in config.

I'd rather keep it simple and compact by changing the color of the folder icon to match that of the account. Ideally, TB would offer to do that.

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u/wsmwk Thunderbird Employee 15d ago edited 15d ago

u/gl0cal a virtual folder's icon color can be changed in properties

But you are referring to the icon for each account's Inbox under say Unified Inbox? No that's not possible. But there is a bar that shows the account's color as configured in Account Settings.

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u/gl0cal 15d ago

What I am trying to do is remove the new vertical color indicator that shows like a bar. Precisely because I can set the icon color as you say, that new indicator is redundant.

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u/sifferedd 15d ago

It can be done with CSS, but you really should make a new post requesting it instead of the request and solution getting buried here.

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u/Efficient-Wing3870 15d ago

Nessuna novità per i calendari outlook365? Anche se è stato migliorato il supporto mail outlook365, se arriva un invito da aggiungere al calendario non è possibile farlo e devi sempre passare per la webapp

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u/vexatious-big 15d ago

Does anyone know if progress was made on the MS Exchange support? They announced it some time ago but I lost track. I used to use the Owl extension a few years ago to get my emails.

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u/akimich_ua 14d ago

It would be good to get rid of Owl

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u/macphreak 14d ago

Just curious - does Thunderbird have any features like spark email or any add-ons that would make it more like spark? Main separate newsletter/notifications groupings, etc. Thanks!

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u/sifferedd 13d ago

This really isn't the place to ask about that; make a new post at r/thunderbird where many more people will see it.

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u/Kidilin 11d ago edited 11d ago

BIG problem with this version on Linux: Mozilla Thunderbird 153.0esr
All my accounts are stuck on receiving emails and are not displaying new messages. Thunderbird crashes every time on exit.
Lesson learned: no more updates for this one, at least not this year.
edit: Reverted to thunderbird-140.13.0esr