Subj : smapinntpd
To   : Paul Quinn
From : Tommi Koivula
Date : Fri Nov 16 2018 12:03:12


 >   TK> Anyways, I'm still wondering why the latest Thunderbirds mess the
 >   TK> "from" line... It is not the " -> ", because "def_showto" can be set
 >   TK> "off".
 >
 > It's beyond my pay grade too.  Through a comedy of errors, I have only a
 > single functioning Thunderbird and that's the one: version 31.4 on my
 > netbook, since any later models fuck up in some way or another.  Or, I
 > haven't bothered to install one.  If I do, it will be an older version.

Somehow I think that TB is trying to be too smart and may look for anything between "(" and ")"... Including the origin line. Dunno.. :)

Sylpheed is quite nice for reading newsgroups. It's available for linux as well as windows.

'Tommi

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