Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird and Wessex Internet.

2024-09-12 Thread Charles Uoton
Thanks, I'll look into it. Off to a funeral! Many many thanks I'll work on it pdq - must go now. Charles Upton On Thu, 12 Sep 2024, 09:39 Ralph Corderoy, wrote: > Hi Charles, > > > I had been with Plusnet > > Yes, you were char...@childokeford.plus.com. Are you still in Child > Okeford which is

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird and Wessex Internet.

2024-09-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Charles, > I had been with Plusnet Yes, you were char...@childokeford.plus.com. Are you still in Child Okeford which is a couple miles northeast of Blandford Forum? https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/50.9136/-2.2378 > and moved to Wessex Internet. ... > and I had no Emails. Wessex Intern

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird identity problems

2023-11-09 Thread Hugh Frater
Yep, this is pretty much how I have my system configured, each account has an allocated smtp server and you can pick whichever account to send from. I have an internal server and a 365 account setup on my thunderbird. Sent from my iPhone On Thu, 9 Nov 2023 at 17:56, Tim wrote: > I have Thunde

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird identity problems

2023-11-09 Thread Tim
I have Thunderbird, with three email accounts, Gmail NTLWorld and Windriders.co.uk (I own the domain) In Outgoing Server (SMTP) under Edit >> Account settings >> Outgoing Server (SMTP) each of the above three email accounts has its own SMTP entry, with NTLword (now Virgin) set as default addre

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird identity problems

2023-11-09 Thread Terry Coles
On 09/11/2023 09:39, Peter Merchant wrote: You are correct about the three email accounts. None of them have any identity other than the default. I have filters that filter messages off to my Local Folders  like DLUG Messages.  That is what I am replying to now. In that case, I'm out of ideas

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird identity problems

2023-11-09 Thread Peter Merchant
I have just unset  this on the hotmail account: Reply from this identity when delivery headers match. Peter Stopped and started  T-bird. This has no obvious effect. I will delete Yahoo, and make a note to check it online periodically. Peter -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird identity problems

2023-11-09 Thread Peter Merchant
On 09/11/2023 09:11, Terry Coles wrote: On 09/11/2023 08:37, Peter Merchant wrote: Can anyone suggest a solution. This is on Kubuntu 22.04 with T-bird 115.4.1. I have 3 email addresses on it: petermerch...@hotmail.com p_v_merch...@yahoo.com madsmaddad@netscape,net in that order. Whenever I

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird identity problems

2023-11-09 Thread Terry Coles
On 09/11/2023 08:37, Peter Merchant wrote: Can anyone suggest a solution. This is on Kubuntu 22.04 with T-bird 115.4.1. I have 3 email addresses on it: petermerch...@hotmail.com p_v_merch...@yahoo.com madsmaddad@netscape,net in that order. Whenever I try to reply to an email, it always put

[Dorset] Thunderbird identity problems

2023-11-09 Thread Peter Merchant
Can anyone suggest a solution. This is on Kubuntu 22.04 with T-bird 115.4.1. I have 3 email addresses on it: petermerch...@hotmail.com p_v_merch...@yahoo.com madsmaddad@netscape,net in that order. Whenever I try to reply to an email, it always puts up the yahoo address as the sender.  For a

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird duplicating messages in sent folder

2022-09-07 Thread Peter Merchant
Have fixed it in T'bird settings. Untick button to save a copy. P. On 07/09/2022 21:40, Peter Merchant wrote: I have three accounts using Thunderbird, and it is only the Hotmail one that has this problem. The yahoo and Netscape  accounts are OK. Peter On 07/09/2022 19:29, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatt

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird duplicating messages in sent folder

2022-09-07 Thread Peter Merchant via dorset
Have fixed it in T'bird settings. Untick button to save a copy. P. On 07/09/2022 21:40, Peter Merchant wrote: I have three accounts using Thunderbird, and it is only the Hotmail one that has this problem. The yahoo and Netscape  accounts are OK. Peter On 07/09/2022 19:29, Hamish McIntyre-Bhat

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird duplicating messages in sent folder

2022-09-07 Thread Peter Merchant
I have three accounts using Thunderbird, and it is only the Hotmail one that has this problem. The yahoo and Netscape  accounts are OK. Peter On 07/09/2022 19:29, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: All the sent messages are duplicated in Thunderbird for me too, always have been AFAIR. Let me know i

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird duplicating messages in sent folder

2022-09-07 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
All the sent messages are duplicated in Thunderbird for me too, always have been AFAIR. Let me know if you figure out why, I've never really spent the time to find out. Hamisb On 7 September 2022 18:06:11 BST, Peter Merchant wrote: >I have just noticed that all the messages in my sent folder

[Dorset] Thunderbird duplicating messages in sent folder

2022-09-07 Thread Peter Merchant
I have just noticed that all the messages in my sent folder are duplicated. I think we discussed this problem some time ago, but cannot find it. As I cleaned out that folder recently I cannot tell when this started occurring. It seems to be just in my Hotmail account. Any idea why? Peter -

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread Tim
On 10/08/18 22:22, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, let it import all the settings and emails (3 accounts with many sub folders). OK, that's different to the earlier requirement where it was just the emails to be taken from the old profile. See if http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_profile_fo

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread Tim
I am in IT but nothing to do with Red Hat, sure that not the other Tim in the group?? Tim On 10/08/18 21:49, Hamish MB wrote: Yes, I renamed it before and it worked. If it doesn't you can always revert :). I thought you were employed by Red Hat? Hamish On 10 Aug 2018, at 21:45, Tim mailto

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, > let it import all the settings and emails (3 accounts with many sub > folders). OK, that's different to the earlier requirement where it was just the emails to be taken from the old profile. See if http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_profile_folder_-_Thunderbird#Create_a_new_profile_

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread Hamish MB
Ah I see 😂 On 10 Aug 2018, at 22:09, Ralph Corderoy mailto:ra...@inputplus.co.uk>> wrote: Hi Hamish, I thought you were employed by Red Hat? There's at least three Tims on the mailing list. `Thunderbird' Tim isn't the one you saw on Tuesday at the pub. :-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: B

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Hamish, > I thought you were employed by Red Hat? There's at least three Tims on the mailing list. `Thunderbird' Tim isn't the one you saw on Tuesday at the pub. :-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-09-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dors

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread Hamish MB
Yes, I renamed it before and it worked. If it doesn't you can always revert :). I thought you were employed by Red Hat? Hamish On 10 Aug 2018, at 21:45, Tim mailto:t...@xendistar.co.uk>> wrote: On 10/08/18 14:52, Ralph Corderoy wrote: No, Tim should `create a new profile' before `Tools→Impor

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread Andrew
On 10/08/18 21:44, Tim wrote: I am pretty sure deleting or removing current profile folder .Thunderbird, normally found in the users home folder, Thunderbird should recreate one when it next launches. It should do, however: thunderbird -P This will make Thunderbird open the profile manager wh

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread Hamish MB
Yes, I renamed it before and it worked. If it doesn't you can always revert :). I thought you were employed by Red Hat? Hamish On 10 Aug 2018, at 21:45, Tim mailto:t...@xendistar.co.uk>> wrote: On 10/08/18 14:52, Ralph Corderoy wrote: No, Tim should `create a new profile' before `Tools→Impor

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread Tim
On 10/08/18 14:52, Ralph Corderoy wrote: No, Tim should `create a new profile' before `Tools→Import the copies'. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-multiple-profiles I am pretty sure deleting or removing current profile folder .Thunderbird, normally found in the users home folder, Th

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread Tim
On 10/08/18 14:58, Ralph Corderoy wrote: If Thunderbird is already happy with the contents of its own mbox files then give them back to it. I did see `the application automatically discovers new mbox files and makes them into folders' on that page I suggested to Tim. He could avoid the Import

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread Tim
Hi Ralph On 10/08/18 10:59, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, But over time little niggles have crept in (I posted about those issue a few months ago) Is that https://www.mail-archive.com/dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk/msg07654.html ? I've just watched the video of Thunderbird's window not repainting

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Hamish, > I use a plugin called ImportExportTools to help with this, which is > perhaps a better option than copying the files manually. If you export > in EML format, you should be able to re-import. That's two translations, and two chances of corrupting the emails. Even for mbox format ther

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > > Can you exit Thunderbird, cp(1) those elsewhere, start Thunderbird, > > create a new profile, and Tools→Import the copies of the mbox files? > > At the bottom of the tools menu, there are a number of Import/export > options for mail. But this doen't cover the option of setting up a n

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 10/08/18 14:40, Hamish MB wrote: Hi Tim, I use a plugin called ImportExportTools to help with this, which is perhaps a better option than copying the files manually. If you export in EML format, you should be able to re-import. You can also save in a nice HTML format (and various others) if

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread Hamish MB
Hi Tim, I use a plugin called ImportExportTools to help with this, which is perhaps a better option than copying the files manually. If you export in EML format, you should be able to re-import. You can also save in a nice HTML format (and various others) if you don't need to view them in thun

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 10/08/18 10:59, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, But over time little niggles have crept in (I posted about those issue a few months ago) Is that https://www.mail-archive.com/dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk/msg07654.html ? I've just watched the video of Thunderbird's window not repainting content un

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, > But over time little niggles have crept in (I posted about those issue > a few months ago) Is that https://www.mail-archive.com/dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk/msg07654.html ? I've just watched the video of Thunderbird's window not repainting content until you run the mouse pointer over each

[Dorset] Thunderbird profiles

2018-08-09 Thread Tim
In the past as I have changed distro or done fresh installs I have simply copied an existing profile from my old install and pasted it in to my home folder on the new install and that was my email setup and running. But over time little niggles have crept in (I posted about those issue a few

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird issue

2017-08-12 Thread Tim
Hi Ralph Thanks for the reply, I tried in safe mode, no difference, I tried with a new Profile (simply renamed my old one) no difference so it looks like either an update to either the distro or Thunderbird has broken something and as the OS is Sparky Linux (Debian Testing for the most part) it

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird issue

2017-08-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, > I have done a complete reinstall (including the OS) What's the OS? > Any thoughts Have you tried starting Thunderbird in "safe mode" so extensions are disabled? Google suggests holding down Shift whilst starting it does this. Or, use it as it stands and disable any Add Ons you've in

[Dorset] Thunderbird issue

2017-08-12 Thread tim
Morning all I am having issues with Thunderbird starting up and not displaying correctly, see the link below for a short video of what I mean. No other program is affected I have done a complete reinstall (including the OS), I am using an existing profile, Thunderbird is the ESR version 52.2

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird stacking problem - Re: Syntax for aplay

2016-11-11 Thread Tim
On 11/11/16 14:01, Terry Coles wrote: On Friday, 11 November 2016 13:57:29 GMT PeterM wrote: On Friday, 11 November 2016 13:47:40 GMT PeterM wrote: Thanks Terry. Glad you've got your bits working. I have been struggling for a week to get my R-Pi to light a couple of LED's and last night discove

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird stacking problem - Re: Syntax for aplay

2016-11-11 Thread Tim
On 11/11/16 13:51, Terry Coles wrote: On Friday, 11 November 2016 13:47:40 GMT PeterM wrote: On 11/11/16 13:38, Terry Coles wrote: Never mind, I've done it. Usually Thunderbird stacks all responses under the initial email so that they are easy to follow, but on this occasion it has not happen

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird stacking problem - Re: Syntax for aplay

2016-11-11 Thread PeterM
On 11/11/16 15:11, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, Usually Thunderbird stacks all responses under the initial email so that they are easy to follow, but on this occasion it has not happened. It does this using an email's Message-ID header that's then referenced in later Reference headers. Th

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird stacking problem - Re: Syntax for aplay

2016-11-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > Usually Thunderbird stacks all responses under the initial email so > that they are easy to follow, but on this occasion it has not > happened. It does this using an email's Message-ID header that's then referenced in later Reference headers. The emails in this thread had those hea

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird stacking problem - Re: Syntax for aplay

2016-11-11 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 11 November 2016 13:57:29 GMT PeterM wrote: > > On Friday, 11 November 2016 13:47:40 GMT PeterM wrote: > Thanks Terry. Glad you've got your bits working. I have been struggling > for a week to get my R-Pi to light a couple of LED's and last night > discovered one LED is dead. Bah! Exact

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird stacking problem - Re: Syntax for aplay

2016-11-11 Thread PeterM
On 11/11/16 13:51, Terry Coles wrote: On Friday, 11 November 2016 13:47:40 GMT PeterM wrote: On 11/11/16 13:38, Terry Coles wrote: Never mind, I've done it. Usually Thunderbird stacks all responses under the initial email so that they are easy to follow, but on this occasion it has not happen

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird stacking problem - Re: Syntax for aplay

2016-11-11 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 11 November 2016 13:47:40 GMT PeterM wrote: > On 11/11/16 13:38, Terry Coles wrote: > > Never mind, I've done it. > > Usually Thunderbird stacks all responses under the initial email so > that they are easy to follow, but on this occasion it has not happened. > They are showing up as i

[Dorset] Thunderbird stacking problem - Re: Syntax for aplay

2016-11-11 Thread PeterM
On 11/11/16 13:38, Terry Coles wrote: On Friday, 11 November 2016 13:35:27 GMT Terry Coles wrote: Now I am trying to work out how to direct the output of mpg123 to the same audio devices. The format of the command seems to be different to aplay and it keeps defaulting to the PC sound card. Any

Re: [Dorset] thunderbird refreshing emails.

2015-08-15 Thread Natalie Hooper
Could that link help? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1010895 On 13 August 2015 at 12:22, Peter Merchant wrote: > Annoying problem with T-bird 31.8.0 on Kubuntu. > > I am using it to manage mail from 3 sources - Netscape, Yahoo and Hotmail. > The problem seems to be with Hotmail onl

[Dorset] thunderbird refreshing emails.

2015-08-13 Thread Peter Merchant
Annoying problem with T-bird 31.8.0 on Kubuntu. I am using it to manage mail from 3 sources - Netscape, Yahoo and Hotmail. The problem seems to be with Hotmail only. If I delete a number of emails, in the next few days they will be collected again. The only cure is to go online into Hotmail a

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird - sharing Address Book

2013-03-15 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Graeme On 14/03/13 16:55, Graeme Gemmill wrote: On 14/03/13 12:00, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: How did you do this? Are you able to update from Thunderbird or are you using Jxplorer for this? Cheers Tim Hi Tim; I can search for individual names or groups when creating an emai

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird - sharing Address Book

2013-03-14 Thread Graeme Gemmill
On 14/03/13 12:00, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: How did you do this? Are you able to update from Thunderbird or are you using Jxplorer for this? Cheers Tim Hi Tim; I can search for individual names or groups when creating an email, but there is no interface for updating. In fact, i

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird - sharing Address Book

2013-03-13 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Graeme On 13/03/13 14:35, Graeme Gemmill wrote: Interesting - I remember looking at LDAP for exactly this a few years back but recall Thunderbird couldn't do updates. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ldapaddrbook/ may be the answer? Take a look at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sharing_address_book

[Dorset] Thunderbird - sharing Address Book

2013-03-13 Thread Graeme Gemmill
Interesting - I remember looking at LDAP for exactly this a few years back but recall Thunderbird couldn't do updates. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ldapaddrbook/ may be the answer? Take a look at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sharing_address_books for lots of suggestions. Tim I'm feeling please

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird address book

2013-02-15 Thread Graeme Gemmill
On 15/02/13 12:00, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: Implement an LDAP address book. Not trivial, but it will do precisely what you want. I concur - a great way to get to know OpenLdap on your Linux machine ;-) Thanks for all the comments. 1.I've tried sym-linking to the addre

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird

2013-02-15 Thread Tim Allen
On 14/02/13 21:08, Simon P Smith wrote: On 2013-02-14 2:00, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:34:29 +, graeme@gemmill.namesaid: it's not easy to have one address-book/mail lists shared between two (or more) machines. Does anyone have a suggestion/solution? Implement an LD

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird

2013-02-14 Thread Simon P Smith
On 2013-02-14 2:00, Keith Edmunds wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:34:29 +, graeme@gemmill.namesaid: > >> it's not easy to have one address-book/mail lists shared between two (or more) machines. Does anyone have a suggestion/solution? > > Implement an LDAP address book. Not trivial, but i

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird

2013-02-14 Thread Peter Merchant
On 13/02/13 17:12, Starry wrote: I use gmail to sync between the 3 machines I use, because the mail is kept on their server until you clear it down. Once you've created a gmail account you can set it in Thunderbird as an imap type account and create various sub folders to sort the mail, then

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird

2013-02-14 Thread Starry
I use gmail to sync between the 3 machines I use, because the mail is kept on their server until you clear it down. Once you've created a gmail account you can set it in Thunderbird as an imap type account and create various sub folders to sort the mail, then forward to the gmail account from

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird

2013-02-13 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:34:29 +, gra...@gemmill.name said: > it's not easy to have one address-book/mail lists > shared between two (or more) machines. Does anyone have a > suggestion/solution? Implement an LDAP address book. Not trivial, but it will do precisely what you want. -- Love Linu

[Dorset] Thunderbird

2013-02-13 Thread Graeme Gemmill
I'm very happy using Thunderbird as my mail and news-group reader apart from one thing - it's not easy to have one address-book/mail lists shared between two (or more) machines. Does anyone have a suggestion/solution? TIA Graeme -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-03-05 20:00 Meets, Ma

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird encoding format

2010-04-27 Thread C A Wills
Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi again, > >> Depending on the coverage of Unicode in the font you're using, you may >> find some glyphs (characters) are replaced with your font's one for >> "missing glyph". > > To see what it *should* look like, see > > http://www.mail-archive.com/dorset@mailman.l

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird encoding format

2010-04-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi again, > Depending on the coverage of Unicode in the font you're using, you may > find some glyphs (characters) are replaced with your font's one for > "missing glyph". To see what it *should* look like, see http://www.mail-archive.com/dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk/msg01446.html mail-archiv

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird encoding format

2010-04-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Clive, Did Andrew's good long explanation answer your questions? Since my email client lets me concoct a MIME mail message consistenting of chunks of text in different character sets, I thought I'd give it a go. This is my default, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf-8 and some fun "charac

Re: [Dorset] Thunderbird encoding format

2010-04-25 Thread Andrew Morgan
On 25/04/10 12:09, Clive A Wills wrote: > Information and guidance sort on character encoding in Thunderbird and > Ubuntu 9.10. (may not just apply on e-mail programs). > > For some reason I've started getting strange characters appearing in > some e-mails, a black diamond with a ? mark in the cent

[Dorset] Thunderbird encoding format

2010-04-25 Thread Clive A Wills
Information and guidance sort on character encoding in Thunderbird and Ubuntu 9.10. (may not just apply on e-mail programs). For some reason I've started getting strange characters appearing in some e-mails, a black diamond with a ? mark in the centre. Now my encoding was set to Unicode UTF-8. I

[Dorset] Thunderbird attach files dialog modified date

2009-12-17 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Using Thunderbird on Debian Etch. In the Attached Files dialog box, files only show the modified date, not time. Does anyone know the setting to change this to show full date and time? Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ C