Mozilla Thunderbird question
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Right Darren, get your seatbelt on, boffin-reply follows.
When I used the Mozilla Suite email client, I had the same problem, and there was one solution to create a user-defined configuration file (named "user.js"), and enter personal settings, that aren't available through the graphical interface.
I don't know if exactly this feature works with Thunderbird, but Thunderbird does as well use the same principle of user-defined config file "user.js".
You have to create the user.js file yourself using notepad.exe.
Create it in the profile-directory of Thunderbird.
On Windows 2000/XP, the path is usually %AppData%ThunderbirdProfilesdefaultxxxxxxxx.slt, where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters. Just browse to C
ocuments and Settings[User Name]Application DataThunderbirdProfiles and the rest should be obvious.
Add the following lines to that file & save. (lines starting with // are comments. leave them, so you know what it means at a later date)
// 0=bottom 1=top 2=select+bottom 3=select+top
// Mozilla defaults it to 0, but Netscape defaults it to 1 (yuck).
user_pref("mailnews.reply_on_top", 1);
>> Edit: look out on the path, Ted took all the backslashes away; or get a Unix - they use proper slashes
>> Edited by Bodo on Friday 21st May 11:35
When I used the Mozilla Suite email client, I had the same problem, and there was one solution to create a user-defined configuration file (named "user.js"), and enter personal settings, that aren't available through the graphical interface.
I don't know if exactly this feature works with Thunderbird, but Thunderbird does as well use the same principle of user-defined config file "user.js".
You have to create the user.js file yourself using notepad.exe.
Create it in the profile-directory of Thunderbird.
On Windows 2000/XP, the path is usually %AppData%ThunderbirdProfilesdefaultxxxxxxxx.slt, where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters. Just browse to C
ocuments and Settings[User Name]Application DataThunderbirdProfiles and the rest should be obvious. Add the following lines to that file & save. (lines starting with // are comments. leave them, so you know what it means at a later date)
// 0=bottom 1=top 2=select+bottom 3=select+top
// Mozilla defaults it to 0, but Netscape defaults it to 1 (yuck).
user_pref("mailnews.reply_on_top", 1);
>> Edit: look out on the path, Ted took all the backslashes away; or get a Unix - they use proper slashes
>> Edited by Bodo on Friday 21st May 11:35
user.js will 'overwrite' prefs.js
Have you tried the other values 0,2,3?
See if something changes, otherwise, I'm afraid, the feature isn't implemented yet.
I haven't found anything on http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php?c=8 either.
> Hang on:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=67727&highlight=replyontop
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=57260&highlight=replyontop
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=35056&highlight=replyontop
Have you tried the other values 0,2,3?
See if something changes, otherwise, I'm afraid, the feature isn't implemented yet.
I haven't found anything on http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php?c=8 either.
> Hang on:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=67727&highlight=replyontop
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=57260&highlight=replyontop
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=35056&highlight=replyontop
I've got it sorted.
I was initially looking in the Options/Composition pages, where you would expect it to be.
Then in the account settings/composition page you have to set all the mail accounts, the one I was using to test was not the one I had changed.......(I have 4 seperat mail accounts on here) didn't notice the reply I was testing wasn't the one......etc....bugger....etc..
To cut the long story short, thanks everyone..... I need a coffee
I was initially looking in the Options/Composition pages, where you would expect it to be.
Then in the account settings/composition page you have to set all the mail accounts, the one I was using to test was not the one I had changed.......(I have 4 seperat mail accounts on here) didn't notice the reply I was testing wasn't the one......etc....bugger....etc..
To cut the long story short, thanks everyone..... I need a coffee
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