How do I get thunderbird back to autofilling email recipients?

thunderbird is not auto filling the recipient of email like it used, every once in a while out of the blue it will.

From the Menu Bar select '''Tools-Options-Composition-Addressing'''
Make sure you have that option checked.
No menu bar? Press the alt key.

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