A Couple of Thunderbird Questions

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Wed May 4 07:28:34 UTC 2005


On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:34:13PM -0700, Ed Fletcher wrote:
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>Alex Mandel wrote:
>| 1. Not sure, point your current install to the old directory in
>| Edit->Account Settings->Server Settings
>| or you could copy the files from your
>| user/.mozilla-thunderbird/profilename/ directory over to the new location
>| I believe the address book is abook.mab, and mail is the "mail" folder
>| at the same level.
>
>OK, found them under ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/nuqi35wy.default/Mail/Local
>Folders/Inbox.sbd
>
>(I have no idea what the 'nuqi35wy' is all about.  Anybody know?)

A "random name" associated with the default user. Full Mozilla and
Firefox does the same. I am not familiar with the exact design rationale
behind it though.

>| 2.Edit->Preferences->Composition->Send Options(Lower Part of Page)
>| Should give you all the options you need.
>
>The upper part of that page refers to the per-recipient rules in the
>address book.  The lower part might work if I can enter *.* for the
>domains to send plain text to.  I'll try playing around with that.  But
>I still think that there must be a global setting so that I never send
>mail as html.

Yes, there is one. I haven't used ThunderBird in quite a while now, but
I do remember finding the option in a rather obscure place...

/M

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