> 07-13-16 21:37 Holger Granholm wrote to All about Thunderbird   
   > Howdy! Holger, Good Afternoon.   
   >    
   >  HG> @MSGID: <57880DC0.14784.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
   >  HG> Good evening,   
   >    
   >  HG> I was extremely disappointed with the e-mail editor in Thunderbird   
   >  HG> yesterday. I was writing a mail to a friend and wanted to include a   
   >  HG> text that I had on another media.   
   >    
   >  HG> I fought more than half an hour to find a way to do it, but couldn't   
   >  HG> find a way. I had finally to settle for including the text as an   
   >  HG> attachment.   
   >    
   >  HG> To copy a text into an editor was possible already in the CP/M days,   
   >  HG> and was included in the WordStar command set, along with many more   
   >  HG> commands for various other editing functions, that are now missing   
   >  HG> from one of the leading e-mail programmes.   
   >    
   >  HG> Neither could I find a setting to use an alternative editor in T-bird.   
   >    
   >  HG> Among certainly other editors, including the Semware editor for   
   >  HG> Windows, there are all those various text copying, including, moving,   
   >  HG> functions still that we have been accustomed to in all these years of   
   >  HG> computing.   
   >    
   >  HG> Maybe there is another e-mail program for Windows, that includes a   
   >  HG> decent editor, or where you can use an alternative editor.   
   >    
   >  HG> Normally I use PMMail in OS/2, but this time I was sitting at a Win-10   
   >  HG> machine. What a disappointment.   
   >    
   > I use Thunderbird for Email on my XP machine.   
   >    
   > If I am at a web page in Firefox that I want to send in an Email to someone   
   > I will Copy the URL shown in Firefox's Address Bar, and then Paste it in to   
   > the message I'm writing in Thunderbird.   
   >    
   > I know what I'm writing to You, is "Elementary, Watson", but I'm sorry to   
   > learn that You are having Email problems, and just thought I'd say what I do,   
   > and also write to let You know the Big LID is still around.   
   >    
   > BTW, Since November last year when I Compacted messages in TB and the several   
   > thousand messages that were in my In-Box disappeared, I have found some   
   > MozBackup files that I've saved, but I'm concerned if I Restored the last   
   > MozBack file I made, would all the messages in the TB In-Box and the other   
   > sub-folders below the In-Box which I have received since I had to start over   
   > be Erased?   
   >    
   > Guess I ought to take a look-see at the MozBackup web site, HUH?   
   >    
   > I'd appreciate knowing if You or anyone else can assist me in getting my copy   
   > of Thunderbird to Behave.   Thank You.   
   >    
   > Until the Compact Crash in November 2015 I had been using Thunderbirds   
   In-Box,   
   > to keep all the messages that I wanted to Save, which included the many   
   > Emails that You and many Others have sent to me.   
   >    
   > Since last November I have been Moving Email messages that come in the   
   In-Box,   
   > that I want to keep, down in to a sub-folder (SUB-DIRECTORY) below the In-Box   
   > because none of the messages were lost that I had stored in any of those   
   > sub-folders after I Compacted TB last November.     Very Strange.   
   >    
   > 73 and HTH   . .   
       
      
   If you restore an older copy of Mozbackup you WILL lose everything in   
   Thunderbird after the date of the backup being restored.    
       
   Typo Tom   
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