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Help for Thunderbird newbie... thanks!

Rowland Croucher

2007-04-03, 7:12 am

I've been persuaded by some well-meaning and informed friends that
Mozilla Thunderbird is a better proposition for emails/posts than
Outlook Express... (especially after my OE exploded and I lost half my
folders)

And generally I like it, but I'm stuck in several places:

* In the Account settings, I've registered a BCC address for all mail,
but when I go back the email address I provided isn't there (there's no
'Apply' button)
* I'd like the print in emails and Usenet posts to be larger, but can't
see where to do a global enlarge (rather than ctrl+ manually on each page)
* I've tried to register a sig which will automatically attach to each
email/post, but it doesn't work either
* In Usenet when I mark posts as 'read' the same posts in other
newsgroups to which it is cross-posted don't also register 'read' so
I've got to do it manually...

That'll do for a start.

Thanks my friends

Rowland Croucher \
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/ (19,300 articles, 4000 humor)

Leonidas Jones

2007-04-03, 1:13 pm

Rowland Croucher wrote:
> I've been persuaded by some well-meaning and informed friends that
> Mozilla Thunderbird is a better proposition for emails/posts than
> Outlook Express... (especially after my OE exploded and I lost half my
> folders)
>
> And generally I like it, but I'm stuck in several places:
>
> * In the Account settings, I've registered a BCC address for all mail,
> but when I go back the email address I provided isn't there (there's no
> 'Apply' button)
> * I'd like the print in emails and Usenet posts to be larger, but can't
> see where to do a global enlarge (rather than ctrl+ manually on each page)
> * I've tried to register a sig which will automatically attach to each
> email/post, but it doesn't work either
> * In Usenet when I mark posts as 'read' the same posts in other
> newsgroups to which it is cross-posted don't also register 'read' so
> I've got to do it manually...
>
> That'll do for a start.
>
> Thanks my friends
>
> Rowland Croucher \

Where in Tools>>Account Settings do you register a BCC address? I'm not
familiar with that function.

To enlarge fonts:

Tools>>Options>>Display
'
Click the Fonts button and set a higher minimum font size.

For a signature:

Tools>>Account Settings>>(account)

Check the box for attach this signature, then browse to the location of
your signature text file.

TB cannot mark cross posts as read.

Lee

Peter.Potamus.the.Purple.Hippo@gmail.com

2007-04-03, 1:13 pm

On Apr 3, 8:18 am, Leonidas Jones <Cap...@att.net> wrote:
> Rowland Croucher wrote:
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> Where in Tools>>Account Settings do you register a BCC address? I'm not
> familiar with that function.
>

under Copies & Folders. "When sending messages, automatically BCC
these email addresses:"

Rowland Croucher

2007-04-04, 7:12 am

Leonidas Jones wrote:

> For a signature:
>
> Tools>>Account Settings>>(account)
>
> Check the box for attach this signature, then browse to the location of
> your signature text file.

> Lee

Thanks Lee

Typed it into MS Word, saved on my desktop as .doc and also as .txt and
got the same interesting result (below)

Any further suggestions?

--
ÐÏà¡±á

Rowland Croucher

2007-04-04, 7:12 am

Peter.Potamus.the.Purple.Hippo@gmail.com wrote:
<>
>
> under Copies & Folders. "When sending messages, automatically BCC
> these email addresses:"

Did that three times - two for email accounts, once for news account;
typed in my @gmail.com address, closed the box and when I reopened them
they weren't there...

C'mon friends, what am I not doing?

--
ÐÏà¡±á

dino

2007-04-04, 7:12 am

Peter.Potamus.the.Purple.Hippo@gmail.com

2007-04-04, 1:13 pm

On Apr 4, 1:49 am, Rowland Croucher
<rccrouc...@chopthisoutooptusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Leonidas Jones wrote:
>
>
>
> Thanks Lee
>
> Typed it into MS Word, saved on my desktop as .doc and also as .txt and
> got the same interesting result (below)
>
> Any further suggestions?
>

If you create it in doc then thats what you get -- strange
characters. You MUST save it as a plain text file. No formating
whatsover. Use windows WordPad or NotePad or something similar. OR,
you can creating it using HTML.

Miller

2007-04-04, 7:13 pm

*Rowland Croucher* wrote on 04.04.07 11:08:
> Peter.Potamus.the.Purple.Hippo@gmail.com wrote:
> <>
>
> Did that three times - two for email accounts, once for news account;
> typed in my @gmail.com address, closed the box and when I reopened them
> they weren't there...
>
> C'mon friends, what am I not doing?

Have you checked if your Thunderbird-profile could be read-only
for some reason? Or maybe the prefs.js or so?

cu, Miller

Lukan

2007-04-05, 1:13 am

>> Typed it into MS Word, saved on my desktop as .doc and also as .txt
> Try it using a plain text editor like Notepad

BINGO

Rowland Croucher

2007-04-05, 7:12 pm

Rowland Croucher wrote:
> Leonidas Jones wrote:
>
>
>
> Thanks Lee
>
> Typed it into MS Word, saved on my desktop as .doc and also as .txt and
> got the same interesting result (below)
>
> Any further suggestions?
>
Now... got it somehow for newsgroups, but after 8-10 attempts couldn't
attach it to emails (what did I do?)

--

Shalom! Rowland Croucher

http://jmm.aaa.net.au/ (20,000 articles, 4000 humor)

Doug G

2007-04-09, 1:12 pm

Rowland Croucher wrote:
> Peter.Potamus.the.Purple.Hippo@gmail.com wrote:
> <>
>
> Did that three times - two for email accounts, once for news account;
> typed in my @gmail.com address, closed the box and when I reopened them
> they weren't there...
>
> C'mon friends, what am I not doing?
>

Changes aren't saved when the "X" button is used to close the Account
Settings box. The "OK" button must be used.