Today's Thunderbird "update"

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

On 18/09/13 23:16, D. R. Evans wrote:
> Following today's so-called update to Thunderbird 24.0, folders that receive
> new mail no longer seem to be displayed in any manner that's obviously
> different from those that don't. It used to be, until today, that folders
> containing unread mail were displayed in bold, and folders that received new
> mail had a different icon. The net result of this was that when one performed
> a "Get Mail", it was instantly obvious which folders had received new mail.

v.24.0b1 is the latest version on the Thunderbird web site and appears 
to be a beta release. I'll be surprised if it's available via any 
standard repository, so how you obtained it is a mystery.

Peter HB