Mozilla.org Discussion (Mozilla, FireBird, Thunderbird, etc)

[Heeter]

Hi Gonaads,

While using version4 for a week or so, I noticed that when someone using a hotmail (xxxxxx@hotmail.com) email account to send me an email, I would double-click in my inbox, and a new window opens, and nothing is written in the email body. Only the sender across the top and subject is written. The first couple of times this happened, I wrote the person back and asked why they sent me an email with nothing in it. This actually happened to three different senders. So I just resorted to going back to Ver3.

As for the middle toolbar, I did change my visual style to the MS Longhorn Aero, but I did revert back to default and tried again, to no avail. Thunderbird is original, no skins.

Heeter

 

[sboulema]

be sure that you are composing in html and not in plain text...
Tools->Account Settings->Adressing & Composition

 

[SPeedY_B]

That wouldn't affect the rendering of the mail, also HTML mail is bad and pointless

There's an option in the View menu somewhere to view all messages in plain text (Great feature, stops images loading and reporting your account is active to spam servers) try using that. It wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft have included some of their retarded home-brew HTML in hotmail messages which is causing problems rendering it.

 

[gonaads]

Heeter, as for the missing Tool Bar try reinstalling Version 0.4 but to another Directory (name it T-Birb2 or whatever). Then launch it with the Default XP VS and with the default Thunderbird skin (Make sure you have rebooted the System after reverting back to the default XP VS but before you re install Thunderbird). and see if it is still missing.

 

[Heeter]

That is one thing I didn't do, that was rebooting after returning to default visual style. I will try that right away, Gonaads.

Heeter

 

[Heeter]

Okay, I returned to original Luna, rebooted.
Re-installed the newer V4 Tbird, made it my new "default" email client. so it is using the same C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Thunderbird folder as V3. I still cannot see the middle toolbar when writing a new email. I really would like to have it back, or be able to access it from the dropdowns up top. Maybe I should delete a pref. or js folder in the Application Data/Thunderbird folder? It is a setting that is being carried over from the previous V3 thunderbird. There must a setting the folder hat I could modify. Isn't there?


Heeter

 

[lynchknot]

Links in Outlook express not opening, when Firebird is default browser. Does anyone have a solution? Thanks.

 

[sboulema]

check that the url protocol is associated with firebird.

 

[lynchknot]

How does on check that?

 

[sboulema]

in explorer: Tools->Folder Options->File Types and somewhere in the top of the list is the URL: Protocol.

 

[lynchknot]

Ok, I set it for Firebird but it does not work.

 

[sboulema]

put this after the path to firebird: -url "%1"

 

[lynchknot]

That is already there. Here is the full path: "C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\MozillaFirebird\MozillaFirebird.exe" %1-url

Someone said I need to use the FB installer - so I tried that and it still does not work.