Hi! Jean,   
      
   On 12/26/2015 08:26 AM, you wrote:   
      
    JP> I just got on Thunderbird again for the fun of it. Got version 38.5.0   
    JP> and I have a small aggravation. My incoming messages does not show the   
    JP> author. No way can I find where to set it as to show who wrote a   
    JP> particular message, it only shows the origin eg: the-estar.com   
      
    JP> Can you help an old friend ?  Be good.  VE2NIC.   
      
   This sort of nonsense started with the release of T'bird v38.1 back in July.    
   I made a report in a local echo here, warning users about the sillyness plus   
   also a fix.  I'll quote some of my post here for you...   
      
   I had  to revert T'bird back to version 31.7.0 using the instructions I found   
   at:   
      
   http://kb.mozillazine.org/Go_back_to_an_old_version_of_Thunderbi   
   d#Go_back_to_a_recent_release   
      
   (All on one line, BTW.)  The Lightning add-on took a little extra since the   
   old one (in fact new & unusable) had to be uninstalled and a matching version   
   for the old T'bird had to be re-installed.  It all went smoothly of course,   
   since I had backups of everything.  That's the only time anything similar ever   
   goes smoothly.   
      
   After doing that, a setting change to stop T'Bird from doing future updates is   
   required.  Hope it helps you, blue leader.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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