Subj : Re: Thunderbird To : Paul Quinn From : Holger Granholm Date : Mon Jul 18 2016 19:38:00 In a message on Monday 07-17-16 Paul Quinn said to Holger Granholm: Good evening Paul, HG> Things like that happen when you get older. OTOH, I didn't see any HG> advice in your mail, how to do what I wanted to achieve ;o( PQ> Yeah, I know. I've been fretting about that for the last couple of PQ> days. I'm glad you replied. I was really bereft of the specifics PQ> of what you struggled with but am glad you took my jibes in good PQ> humour. Well, I'm not so easily angered, especially not when I'm struggling with things new to me. HG> Hey, just came to think of it, maybe the Windows e-mail program is HG> on the laptop I got for xmas. After all he used it in his job. PQ> Ah, not a good idea. The Outlook program is another MS product with PQ> a big target on its back for hackers and their ilk. Maybe I should try Gmail, but I really don't like that idea either. I have a feeling that Google (Gmail), plays in the same league as M$. OTOH, my GS created a Gmail address for me, because he uses that, but when I tried to get into it, I didn't succed. The reason was that one character in the password was wrong. I haven't tried since, though I got the correct chr from my GS. The chr was a capital one, but I had tred with a lower case letter. Gmail is case sensitive, you know. PQ> Ahmm, Thunderbird is just another Windows program. It has direct PQ> access to & from the Windows "clipboard". Anything that you can get PQ> -to- the Windows clipboard usually can be pasted into a Thunderbird PQ> email window. I know about cut-and-paste, my problem was (is) to get the wanted text displayed. Even that had been unnecessary, because the wanted text was already on that other media. I just wanted it inserted into the e-mail. It's easy as a pie, doing it with this QWK program, with the QEdit or Semware Editor. Just Ctrl-KR (read) f:\dir\file.txt, and voil  it's here PQ> Either using the 'Edit' menu option in a text-drafting window or by PQ> simply right-clicking the mouse on its window will work. Well yes, there is an edit command in the T-bird menu, but I didn't become successful with that either. PQ> How about a demonstration? This node's Sunday afternoon's PQ> maintenance run produced this echo report for my main node in a PQ> _netmail_ (partial extract only)... PQ> -----8<-----C-U-T--H-E-R-E----->8----- PQ> 3:640/384.0 Statistics since: 2-Feb-12 PQ> Sent netmails: 295/3227 KB PQ> Received netmails: 0/186 KB PQ> Sent echomails: 10780/17 MB PQ> Received echomails: 463341/827 MB PQ> Dupes: 5362 PQ> -----8<-----C-U-T--H-E-R-E----->8----- Easy as a pie in this QWK editor, but apparently I have to first show it before I can cut-and-paste it into T-bird. I just wish that I could replace the T-bird editor, with for example, The Semware Editor, that is available in two Windows versions, and can be configured to use WordStar, Borland, Word Perfect, etc. commands. PQ> Now. What was it you were trying to do again? ;) As I wrote, I'm newbie trying to learn how to do things in Thunderbird. Consequently, I appreciate all the help I can get. Have a nice evening, Holger --- þ MR/2 2.30 þ 'Keep the smoke inside.' -- 1st Rule of Electronics. * Origin: Coming to you from the Sunny Aland Islands. (2:20/228) .