Package: thunderbird Version: 1.5.0.5-1 Severity: wishlist
To change the attribution line (reply_header) when replying to messages, one has to "jump through hoops": So far I have for Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.X on Linux: Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Config Editor... In the Filter box, type reply_header then select mailnews.reply_header_type and set its value to 3 I had also tried the QuickQuote extension which was not found when searching the Thunderbird extensions page, but that appeared not to work even after the obligatory restart of Mozilla Thunderbird. What I still want to do is to have full control of the date format, use of day-of-week and email-address in addition to user name. This is just too difficult compared to the old days of using tin for newsgroups and elm (or pine) for email. Still, that wasn't enough. I further had to: to set the date format that you want, you need to use the en-DK locale to define your LC_TIME environment variable. The following links were informative for me. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format http://myy.helia.fi/~karte/international_iso-8601_date_on_thunderbird.html I ended up putting a script in /usr/local/bin for thunderbird with: #!/bin/sh # # ISO 8601 Date extension to Mozilla Thunderbird # must have the locale generated via # dpkg-reconfigure locales # export LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 /usr/bin/thunderbird If you are missing the locale, you'll need to generate using: dpkg-reconfigure locales as root. [end quote] Don't forget a couple of other "obvious" things: chmod +x /usr/local/bin/thunderbird If running KDE, edit the K menu entry for Thunderbird to use the path /usr/local/bin/thunderbird Arthur. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17 Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages thunderbird depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.3 Debian configuration management sy ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.1-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.2.4-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration library ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-13 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.3-3 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.3-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.2 PNG library - runtime ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-8 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:3.0.1.2-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii myspell-en-au [myspell-dict 2.1-3 English_australian dictionary for ii myspell-en-gb [myspell-dict 1:2.0.3-2 English_british dictionary for mys ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime thunderbird recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * thunderbird/browser: Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
