How do I get TBird to open showing my Inbox?

GaryT

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Aug 9, 2009, 5:25:03 PM8/9/09

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...OOOPS!

Sorry, I managed to send that last email before I finished it.

So, to continue ....

Now, instead of showing my Inbox, the list of messages and the pane
for displaying the selected message are combined into a single space,
with a large-type heading at the top, "Thunderbird Mail - Local
Folders", followed by a section headed, "Accounts", with two sections
under it: "View settings for the account" and "Create a new account".
Below that is another heading, "Advanced Features," with two sections
below that: "Search messages" and "Manage message filters." Each of
the headings and their sections has an appropriate icon.

This is nice, I suppose, but not at all what I want. When Thunderbird
opens; I really want to see my email. To get that I have go to the
left pane and scroll up through all my folders until I can finally
find and click on my Inbox.

I've used Thunderbird happily for many years and many versions. I'm
sure the answer is embarrassingly simple, but scrounging around
through the help screens hasn't revealed the answer, and it has left
me feeling very stupid. Can anyone help me? ... Please?

-- GaryT
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Old Gringo

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Aug 9, 2009, 5:57:16 PM8/9/09

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, In The Beginning God Created The Heavens And Earth, Then I Added My
Two Cents To The GaryT Post:

In box is done with an ad-on you must have forgotten that also. <g>

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GaryT

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Aug 13, 2009, 1:42:54 PM8/13/09

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Thanks for the suggestion .... I guess. But what kind of add-on do
you need ( or SHOULD you need) to get an Inbox? Sounds like something
ANY email program must have to function at all, ... and my
Thunderbird, version after version from the very first Thunderbird I
installed, has always had an Inbox. Up until fairly recently, the
Inbox is what comes up when I open Thunderbird.

Now the Inbox doesn't.come up when I start TBird. The Inbox is
there ... I just have to scroll up and click on it. I don't see how
an add-on would or could fix that, or why such a thing should be
needed at all.

Am I facing a totally unique situation and nobody in the Mozilla world
has any idea of anything I could do to change the way my copy of
Thunderbird is acting? ... or at least explain why my Thunderbird
(version 2.0.0.22 (20090605)) tries to avoid showing me my Inbox when
it opens?
-- GaryT

ken

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Aug 13, 2009, 4:00:03 PM8/13/09

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Perhaps.. http://en-US.www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/2.0.0.22/start/

Miles

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Aug 13, 2009, 4:09:07 PM8/13/09

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* GaryT wrote, On 8/9/2009 14:25:
> ....OOOPS!

> ..

Can only say that I have never seen anything like you mention. TB and
prior have always opened with the inbox at the top of the list just
under my user account heading and it opens defaulting to that user
account.

The only item I can see that could possibly be remotely connected is
options/general/TB start page. Mine is unchecked.

Hopefully someone can direct you to an answer -- perhaps you've set up
additional user accounts that act strangely? I don't have a clue, sorry.
Miles

ken

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Aug 13, 2009, 4:14:45 PM8/13/09

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Opps

should be http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_Inbox_when_starting_Thunderbird

Ron Hunter

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Aug 13, 2009, 4:35:41 PM8/13/09

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Gary,
Opening with the Inbox showing IS the default action. No, go to
Tools/Account settings and make sure your email account that you want
open is the 'default' email account, and then open it, and close TB.
That should help.

rick

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Aug 13, 2009, 6:38:18 PM8/13/09

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rick

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