Subject Re: Program locks up Reply 2
From Lee Grant <camilee@nospam.comcast.net>
Date Sun, 27 Oct 2019 21:05:49 -0400
Newsgroups dbase.getting-started

Bruce,

Mine are identical to yours, for all practical purposes (names,etc)

What are your Output Server Settings? Maybe different?

Lee


On 10/25/2019 8:01 PM, Bruce Beacham wrote:
> I'm on 60.9.0 too.    I clicked on Reply to write this.
>
> See the attached image.
>
>
> Bruce
>
> On 18/10/2019 13:03, Mervyn Bick wrote:
>> On 2019-10-17 12:09 AM, Bruce Beacham wrote:
>>> https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
>>>
>>> I disagree with Mervyn on one point only - the Reply button works for
>>> me (as in this case) for a straightforward NG reply.
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps you are using Thunderbird 68 which is available for download
>> but isn't yet available as an upgrade for earlier versions of
>> Thunderbird. It would make sense to have an "intelligent" Reply button
>> which either send email or a newsgroup message depending on what one
>> was replying to and this is probably one of the improvements to the
>> new version. I'm still using Thunderbird 60.9.0 which is definitely
>> not "intelligent". :-)
>>
>> With Thunderbird 60 clicking the Reply button opens a draft email.  As
>> can be seen from the attached screenshot it uses the bogus email
>> addresses we've both used for our newsgroup postings.
>>
>> If I click Reply for an actual email from you it would use our correct
>> email addresses from the email header.
>>
>> Clicking the Followup button opens a draft message addressed to the
>> newsgroup.
>>
>> Mervyn.
>>