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Thunderbird view sortby unthreaded

Also getting annoyed by always have to go to the menu item
View – Sort By – and then select ‘Unthreaded’?

Just change the default for new folders and views!

Thunderbird Unified Folders

Another issue …. suddenly the unified folders view was not showing the e-mails anymore from one of my e-mail accounts. Solution? Delete some files and force Thunderbird to recreate it’s unified folders cache.

Descending Sort Order Thunderbird

I prefer my most recent emails at the top of the list. Unfortunately Thunderbird (and many other mail clients) do this different.
So how do I change the default sort order?
Change the advanced options!

If you want to sort all mail by Date, Descending (newest at top), change the preferences in the config editor to:

mailnews.default_sort_order:    default     integer      2
mailnews.default_sort_type:     default     integer     18

So, what does that 2 stand for? And why 18?

Send To Outlook

Client with a question:

Windows file explorer,
on document do a right-click,
select Send to – Mail recipient

…. and this opens Windows Live Mail instead of the default Outlook.
You would suspect Windows-Settings-Apps-Default Apps to be set incorrectly, but this was not the case.

Thunderbird outlook hotmail messages appear twice in SENT-folder

How can I keep sent messages from appearing twice in the ” sent ” folder. I am using outlook.com and hotmail.com e-mail addresses with IMAP.
Each time I send a message with Thunderbird the sent message is put in the “sent” folder two times.
What setting needs to be changed to in order to have only one copy of the message put in the “sent” folder?

The answer:
Outlook/Hotmail and gmail automatically put copies of sent mail in the imap sent folder. If you have settings to also keep a copy then two are being put in the sent folder.

right click on imap mail account in Folder Pane
select 'Settings'
select 'Copies & Folders'
in 'When sending messages, automatically:'
uncheck : 'Place a copy in:'
click OK

Solution was found here.
Have a nice day!

PHP mail on IIS Windows 2016 Server

How?

IIS MANAGER
Configure SMTP E-mail here to send using an external mailserver will work for ASP scripts – Deliver to SMTP server with credentials

IIS 6.0 MANAGER
Configure the SMTP server here to make the PHP mail-function work.
Properties:
Access-Connection – Grant only your own server IP and 127.0.0.1
Access-Relay – Grant only your own server IP and 127.0.0.1
Delivery-outbound security – Basic Auth login details TLS
Delivery-Advanced – Smart Host smtp server name

PHP.INI
SMTP = 127.0.0.1
smtp_port = 25

SERVICES
configure SMTPSVC to start automatic, so you won’t go crazy after your next reboot…