As a Long time Outlook Express user, I had specific patterns that I adopted to.
A) I shut off the preview pane, so I could delete an e-mail (spam) without dowloading or observing the contents (the 10 foot pole method). If you have any tips on doing this with T-bird it would be very usefull to me, I think I have that worked out, headers only.
B) OE was configured to view all e-mail in "text only" format, while sometimes that made a mess of HTML, it was simple and still readable, even if HTML. The First HTML based e-mail I get in thunderbird, has one line of text then Nothing, I had to "View Source" to even see the html content as text.
Can a person view HTML e-mails in text only reading mode in T-bird? If I should be able to view HTML in "Text only" reading mode, do you have any tips on settings for that? If this one e-mail was a fluke, is there a quick way to view it , "view source" was not quick :-) Some way to unlock HTML temporarily, for 100% trusted sources?
C) I have a lot of e-mail accounts , without even wanting/needing them, OE handled them all. Is there an E-mail account limitation on thunderbird?
I Would install Outlook Express right back into windows 7 if I could, it never failed me. But I have not got around to hacking that into the system somehow. With Thunderbird I could avoid all that, it comes highly recommended. And it is very similar to OE, I am this > < close to adopting it.
The OS is windows 7 , Thunderbird is 9.0.1, I have it Skinned , if that makes a differance. All account settings and every setting, is being made from scratch , not imported.
Here is the critical parts of the e-mail, mabey there is a clue other than the Obvious :-) code indicating that the plain text ends here :-)
From: Comcast Customer Service <research@posesend.comcast.net>
To: <-munged-@comcast.net>
Subject: Your recent experience with Comcast
X-TokenInfo-NoToken:
X-Bps1: 11285096855
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_NextPart_000_1435173_20111228_133112908"
Message-Id: <4EFB6072.0000003B@posesend.comcast.net>
--_NextPart_000_1435173_20111228_133112908
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
This is a test message for 2060 **<-- This is the one line that shows**
--_NextPart_000_1435173_20111228_133112908
Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<table =0Awidth=3D"600" border=3D"0">
<tr><td>=0A<p>Comcast would like to thank you for your recent call to =
resolve your service issue. The voice of the customer is very important to Comcast as it co=
ntinually monitors and improves its customer service.</p> =0A=0A<p>You can =
provide your feedback on Comcast customer service performance by completing=
a brief survey.
