Re: [PLUG] Thunderbird questions

[Alan McConnell <alan@his.com>]

On 10/19/2018 05:41 PM, Greg Helledy wrote:
> I use TB on linux (Mint 17), I'm sorry I didn't see this thread 
> earlier.  It sounds like you got what you needed though.
        Hi, Greg, thanks for your message.  I'm making progress. For 
instance, I now can put
        what TB calls "smiley faces" into my message. :-) :-(  etc.  I 
feel very enriched.  But still
        no diacritical marks.   I am, obviously, now writing this in 
what I've learned to call HTML-mode,
        otherwise you wouldn't see the smileys.  But shouldn't there be 
a "diacritical" in the long
        row of stuff lying above the actual message?

        I am also having a problem with what TB-ers call my 
"profile".   I found quite a while ago my
        directory .thunderbird, and there are indeed copies of E-mails 
from my two E-mail accounts,
        alan@his.com, and alan17b0@gmail.com.  And I've put sym-links 
from them to files in my
        ~/Mail directory, so I can use mutt(for me invaluable!), to 
move them to places where I want
        them to end up.  But how often does TB copy the files down to 
the directories in .thunderbird/.. . ?
        Can I cause that to happen?  Also: this copying is sometimes 
messed up; two or more E-mails
        dumped on top of each other in one single entry.  I have no 
idea how to disentangle them.

        So I'm making progress, yes.  But still a long way to go.  I 
have no idea how to find the
        various commands/techniques I've been told about.  "Hold shift 
key"!  "Hit F10"!  "Hit Alt 9"!
        Is there, somewhere, a compendium of where all this stuff is?

        Best wishes,

   Alan

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