Re: Saving Sent Messages with Thunderbird

[Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com>]

On 12/28/2017 09:45 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2017-12-28 at 09:37, Dan Norton wrote:
>
> > On 12/22/2017 08:46 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
> > > On 2017-12-22 at 20:25, Dan Norton wrote:
> > > > Interesting. You're not going to see Edit however unless you have
> > > > a Write in progress.
> > > Eh? In the main Thunderbird or Firefox window - with the folder
> > > list, message list, and (in my preferred layout) selected message -
> > > I most certainly do see an Edit menu; it's right next to the File
> > > menu.
> > No File or Edit menu in the main window here.
> >
> > > >  From the window where you read email, you can get to Preferences
> > > > via some mouse gymnastics and then to Account settings. This
> > > > window could use a tool bar.
> > > No complicated gymnastics are required; it's simply Edit ->
> > > Preferences. (I don't even know what gymnastics you're proposing.)
> > I installed Thunderbird on a netinst of Debian 8 and 9 using
> > synaptic. Same result for both: no File or Edit menu.
> >
> > What version of Thunderbird are you using? How did you install it?
> (I replied to your off-list response before seeing this one. Sorry.)
>
> I'd forgotten that apparently Thunderbird now ships with the menu bar
> disabled by default, for the same (IMO wrongheaded) reasons as Firefox
> does.
>
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/display-thunderbird-menus-and-toolbar
> explains how to turn it back on; it's been so long since I did so that
> I'd forgotten that having it off was even an option, especially since I
> don't understand (on any but an intellectual level) why anyone would
> want to have it off.

Thank you! The default is wrongheaded for sure. I started using Palemoon 
because of that. Even the way to get the toolbar back is weird: 
"right-click on an empty section of the Tab Strip..."