[TriLUG] new "feature" in Thunderbird on Ubuntu 18.04

Pete Soper via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Thu Nov 15 17:31:16 EST 2018


Think of email as an "email browser". :-) Brain slipped out of gear. 
Yes, using the tbird client.

I binary searched it. Version 45.8.0 works (from March, 2017 if the date 
in the web archive is right). Later versions don't.

-Pete


On 11/15/2018 05:28 PM, Roger W. Broseus via TriLUG wrote:
> I don't understand the browser part of this. Thought you are using 
> tbird client. More, below.
>
> -- 
> Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
>     Email: RogerB at bronord.com
>     Web Site: www.bronord.com
>
> On 11/15/18 5:08 PM, Pete Soper via TriLUG wrote:
>> On 11/15/18 4:52 PM, Roger W. Broseus via TriLUG wrote:
>>
>>> Ideas:
>>>
>>> Have you tried to send in another fashion, e.g, from a gmail account?
>> Mail from any other computer, phone, etc, is not affected. No address
>> book in use.
>>> If the address is being recalled from an address book, enter the
>>> address by hand
>>> Set up a new user account and a new user therein. See if you can send.
>> Aha. I have a biz email account in the same browser and setting the
>> "from" to that address prevents a message to that same address from
>> getting through. It fails with the same symptoms. So my guess that this
>> is a new "feature" might be right. If this turns out to the be the case
>> I hope it can be disabled.
> I had a problem with Verizon if my "from" address was different from 
> my registered email address. Emails were rejected by their smtp 
> server. SO, I just gave up on them. My personal email is with my 
> hosting service, bluehost, and I use their smtp server. Maybe the 
> problem is not with Tburd?



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