Mozilla Thunderbird

[SoupDragon]

I already use Firefox so thought I'd give this a try. I want to like it, I really do but it has a few niggles/bugs that will send me skipping back to Outlook Express and selling my soul back to microsoft.

the main one is that, if I have more than one email, the headers appear repeated right over the top of all bar the first message so I get illegible text. How do I make this stop??

Bit baffled by that Soupy, not a problem I have come across. First instinct is to try fiddling with settings in the 'view' menu and see if that improves things. I have used Thunderbird for about 6 months now and much prefer it to OE.

Away this weekend, but will check back Monday to see if you have solved it.

It's not one I've come across either and I've been using Thunderbird for two years now. Sorry I can't help. Under View what is your setting for message body. If it's not at original HTML set it to that. That might be the problem.

no I dont have that here either sorry

I've fiddled with loads of things [snurk]w but nothing changes.

this is what it looks like. Any blank bits are just where I've deleted people's names

It is original HTML btw.

[pleading]

[sniff]

I'm going back to Outlook Express.

OK another gripe... why does it keep telling me that the recipient is not marked as being able to receive HTML emails??

Hi Soupy, sorry been too busy to get online this week.

That is just a warning so you have the option to remove all HTML or send it in plain & HTML to cover all possibilities. I think Outlook just changes it to plain text without telling you in the same circumstances.

As for the overlapping text problem, I am currently baffled but still working on it

I think I solved the HTML thing - there's an option in the address book about the recipient's preferences [snurk]. I had changed this but for some reason the address had been added twice to my address book and mail wasbeing sentto the duplicatewhich I hadn't changed. Clear as mud

The overprinted text is still there and most email headers are completely illegible! I'm too scared to post it on the firefox community thingy because it all looked too, er, geeky! There were suggestions that similar problems were related to duplicate fonts but I think this was for mac users as it didn't make sense for a PC.

We have Thunderbird running on a pc and it's fine - no overlapping.

So it's just you Soupy

I've used mozilla and thunderbird for years on a number of machines both windows(xp and NT and 2000) and linux - I have never seen it.

How about saving all your mail, then reinstalling it - maybe it didn't setup properly the first time.

There is also a setting within Tools, Options. You can choose how to default send emails if you don't know the recipients preferences. Saves the problem of the question coming up for duplicate/new addresses.