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Date/Time display within an email on MAC

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denna.theives
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I am new to Thunderbird and I run a mac mini using macOS Catalina 10.16.7 with Thunderbird v115.4.1. how do I get the date/time to display within the email so I know when it was sent? after installing the app the date/time only seems to be displayed in the listing of email. when looking at the email itself I do not see any date information, even if I open the email in a new window.

My apologies if this has been asked/answered but I did not see this topic when looking at the FAQs

I am new to Thunderbird and I run a mac mini using macOS Catalina 10.16.7 with Thunderbird v115.4.1. how do I get the date/time to display within the email so I know when it was sent? after installing the app the date/time only seems to be displayed in the listing of email. when looking at the email itself I do not see any date information, even if I open the email in a new window. My apologies if this has been asked/answered but I did not see this topic when looking at the FAQs

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Toad-Hall
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The date/time should display below the 'Reply, 'Forward', 'Archive', 'Junk', 'Delete', 'More' buttons in the 'Message Header' which is the area above the actual message but below the Message List. See image below as a guide.

If the email was received today then you will only see the Time, but if it was received yesterday or previous then it will display the Date and Time.

The date format displayed uses whatever you have set up in the computer date format settings. The date and time is also using your computer settings for date, time and timezone.

The Headers can display the short form eg: From, To, Subject The setting for this is: View > Headers > 'Normal' OR display the full headers: View > Headers > 'All'