With the recent update Mozialla make Thunderbird less secure again. Not only does it still not have an option to display the sender address instead or at least in addition to the sender's "Name" (In quotes, because more often than not that part of the from field has nothing to do with the sender's actual … Continue reading Thunderbird got less secure – again
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Thunderbird 102.0.3 no longer asks to accept a self signed certificate for IMAP
One of my computer's hard disk didn't survive a recent power failure so I had to set up its Thunderbird client again (a backup didn't work, don't ask). My internal IMAP server uses a self signed certificate which worked like a charm until now. Normally, the first time Thunderbird connects to the server after the … Continue reading Thunderbird 102.0.3 no longer asks to accept a self signed certificate for IMAP
Spammers are stupid
I just got an unsolicited offer on the catchall email account of my employer, meant for a guy who no longer works there. Usually I simply delete emails like that but this one was a rare case that actually looked as if it might be of interest to some other guy in the company (No, … Continue reading Spammers are stupid
Display text attachments inline in Thunderbird 68 and later
Apparently there has been a change in Thunderbird 68 so it no longer displays text attachments inline even though View -> Display Attachements Inline is turned on. There is a solution to this though: Open Tools -> Options Select the Advanced page Switch to the General tab Start the Config editor (button on the bottom … Continue reading Display text attachments inline in Thunderbird 68 and later
When Mozilla Thunderbird gives you 0 bytes attachments
.. make lemonade. Yes, that would be nice, but unfortunately we are not talking about life and lemons here. Today a coworker had a problem with Mozilla Thunderbird: She could no longer open attachments sent to her. Saving these attachments resulted in 0 byte files. This nearly drove me nuts: The email source looked fine … Continue reading When Mozilla Thunderbird gives you 0 bytes attachments
Thunderbird and plain text e-mails
One of the things that have irked me with Thunderbird from the beginning was its insistence of defaulting to HTML e-mails. E-mail for me is about the text, not about formatting and even less about embedding pictures and what have you. But Thunderbird descends from Netscape Communicator who was the pioneer in this annoying HTML … Continue reading Thunderbird and plain text e-mails