We are often able to assist, if you are requesting assistance. Are you? Or is your post just a parting comment? Please understand that those of us on the forum have no involvement in Thunderbird's development. Thank you for sharing your views.

Thank you. . Assistance would he great but I suspect only programmers can fix the issues in my example. If you have a solution or workaround I'm listening.

I haven't seen any evidence that programmers are listening. I keep manually checking for updates. I guess I'm expressing desperation. Loss of hope too.

I've implemented a number of the workarounds to restore functionality. It is possible that those create bugs which won't be fixed. If I can't compose email than all I can do to extend staying with Thunderbird is to compose via webmail. I think you would agree that is a particularly kludgy workaround.

There have been so many problems since the redesign that at this point there doesn't seem to be any hope left. Going back to a pre-redesign version that just works is possible. Then I would have to prevent updates and I would be eternally missing security updates and be unsafe using the software. I don't see any path forward for Thunderbird. It is broken. This bird is on the endangered species list.

Thank you. I will be sure to share your views upward. I regret you were not able to get Thunderbird to function as you needed.