I like using tags in Mozilla Thunderbird, but I found an odd problem.

I only need 2 tags… lets call them “me” and “wife”.

Since Thunderbird 2.x has a few built-in tags, I just added 2 extra tags via: right-click on a message, then select: tag -> new tag

But how do you remove existing tags like: “to do”, “important”, “work” ?

I was surprised to find very little info about it.

A google search either found people not being able to tag/untag messages, or people saying it can’t be done.

Yet I was sure I saw a way during my initial test of Thunderbird.

And then I found it:

tools -> options -> display -> tags -> select the tag you don’t want -> press delete button.