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[wellinghall]

When I try to forward an email in Thunderbird, I get a problem. The original text vanishes, to be replaced by a blank attachment. It's not a huge problem, as replies still work fine, and I can "reply" then over-type the address, but it's still a bit of a nuisance. Any ideas?

And in Firefox, the text sometimes vanishes off the right-hand side of the screen. Not much - just a few mm, up to 1cm or so - but again, it's a nuisance.

Both these things first happened after I upgraded to Firefox 2.0. I then went back to 1.5.0.8, but the problems still happened. I've uninstalled and reinstalled them - same thing.

Any ideas?

Comments

[purplecat]

IIRC there is a preferences in Thunderbird - forward email as attachment vs. forward email inline. On Safari its in Thunderbird -> Preferences Composition section, General Tab. Might help.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Got it! That's great - thanks.

[purplecat]

That should read On a Mac - not on Safari

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

And in Firefox, the text sometimes vanishes off the right-hand side of the screen. Not much - just a few mm, up to 1cm or so - but again, it's a nuisance.

This is usually caused by broken CSS making invalid assumptions about available fonts, screen resolution etc. Or, slightly more generally, by people trying to misuse HTML+CSS as a full-fledged page description language, rather than a markup language with formatting extensions bolted on.

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

Does that mean there's not much that can be done about it? It happens to me, too, and I find it rather irritating.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Usually not, sorry ....

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that.