Hi, sorry I didn't supply any additional information as to how the bug has been resolved, but to cut a long story short. I had to reinstall as a direct result of Bug#392915 and due process involved there caused this bug#441951 to become resolved, so it is no longer a problem, but I don't know exactly how I fixed it, but I would hazard a guess at the configuration files in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/
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