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Some recipients of email from my Thunderbird have a bunch of strange characters in them.

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When SOME people respond to my emails, my original email has a bunch of odd characters in them. They say that is how they received my email. How can I fix that?

When SOME people respond to my emails, my original email has a bunch of odd characters in them. They say that is how they received my email. How can I fix that?

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Which account are you sending on, e.g. Yahoo, AOL AT&T etc.?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1247134

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I'm using Yahoo/Att. I looked at what you sent, and it's a year old. Apparently TB has updated and changed. Is there a new alternative ...because Tools/Options/Advanced/General/Config doesn't get me to an "editor" to set mail.strictly_mime to "true." Thanks for your quick response

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In TB 78, Config. editor is under Options/General/Indexing.

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Okay, I'm there, but the only two choices are: Enable Global Search and Indexer Use Hardware Acceleration when available.

Both are checked.

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Okay. I found it in the configuration and clicked it. It changed it to "true." Hopefully this will take care of it. Thanks for your help.

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