Re: Icedove news

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>]

On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:30:41 Ralph Katz wrote:
> Hi Jan -- No.  On up-to-date Etch, using icedove version 1.5.0.14pre
>  (20071018), there is no problem here.  You could close icedove, move
>  your ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/default.lgh/News/ out of the way, and
> let icedove rebuild it upon restart.  Then re-subscribe to your
> groups. I've never had your particular problem, but this solution has
> worked for re-setting subscriptions and message-read data for me
> before on earlier versions of thunderbird.

Thanks. This seems to have done it. I renamed the whole
~/.mozilla-thunderbird to ~/.mozilla-thunderbird-old, then dpkg
 --purge'd mozilla-thunderbird, thunderbird, and icedove, then
re-installed icedove. It proceeded to import settings (from where, I
cannot guess); but anyway it works now, and the pop-ups no longer occur.
Only the font of the messages had changed, but that could be fixed easily.

Thanks again, Jan