On 11/18/19 1:24 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 11/18/19 2:01 PM, Tim via users wrote:
> On Sun, 2019-11-17 at 21:51 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>> I communicate with others during the day via text messaging via
>> Thunderbird. I simply address them with 'phonenumber(a)vzwpix.com and
>> they respond using my fastmail.us email address, this is an essential
>> feature and we have been doing it routinely for several years, it
>> worked perfectly until Fedora-31. Now the message is received but the
>> message itself is not displayed. I can double click on the line at
>> the bottom that shows a .txt attachment and it will offer the option
>> of viewing it in mousepad, a really crude method that adds extra
>> steps.
> That sounds more like a change in how they were sent. Though you could
> look for options like display as plain text. Or the opposite, if
> they're being sent as HTML.
>
> If the texts are being sent as attachments, rather than being the
> message content, I think you're going to be stuck with this problem.
> Most mail clients do not show attachments directly, though some can
> have a click to view option for some kinds of attachments. A sender
> can suggest to automatically show the attachment, but that depends on
> the sender doing it, and your client supporting it, and it being the
> kind of data that the client can display by itself.
>
The best thing to do would be to post the headers to the list.
But, yes, that sounds like this is the case.
This may help, but with T-Bird you can go to
"Edit---Perferences--->Attachments"
and for Incoming *.text files you can pick the application you want to use to open
the text message. On a KDE system it defaults to KWrite. But you can pick
your preferred editor.
.
I see in the message header:
Sat, 16 Nov 2019 22:03:49 +0000
account1
1464709152.61470
0001
Doing ""Edit---Perferences--->Attachments" and for Incoming *.text files
you can pick the application you want to use to open the text message."
and selecting mousepad does get the message text displayed by clicking
on the "Attachment:text_0.txt" notation at the bpttom of the display.
That may be a workable solution if it doesn't affect anything else ...
Thank you for the help.
--
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA