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View Message Body as this or that should apply to the displayed message only?

Thunderbird Customization
Mark Starr replied mobu 1 eleki
Mark Starr
Mark Starr

Context: I'm moving from Outlook to Thunderbird so still adjusting. Bear with me.

I prefer to view all incoming messages initially as plain text. I believe this prevents tracking-images and other detritus from coming in with the message. So with Outlook, everything come in plain text; I can change the currently displayed message to HTML when I trust the source and want view it that way. It does NOT affect the other messages.

Now, with TB, it seems that when I choose the View / Message Body As / Original HTML then all messages viewed subsequently are displayed as Original HTML.

I've looked around for a little while and don't see the how to default all messages to Plain Text and apply the View-as-Original-HTML to only the currently-displayed message.

Is this possible? Thanks for your help, Mark

Context: I'm moving from Outlook to Thunderbird so still adjusting. Bear with me. I prefer to view all incoming messages initially as plain text. I believe this prevents tracking-images and other detritus from coming in with the message. So with Outlook, everything come in plain text; I can change the currently displayed message to HTML when I trust the source and want view it that way. It does NOT affect the other messages. Now, with TB, it ''seems'' that when I choose the View / Message Body As / Original HTML then all messages viewed subsequently are displayed as Original HTML. I've looked around for a little while and don't see the how to default all messages to Plain Text and apply the View-as-Original-HTML to only the currently-displayed message. Is this possible? Thanks for your help, Mark

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sfhowes
sfhowes

Solution eye oponami

See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1485754#answer-1703375

Mark Starr
Mark Starr Nkolo motuna

Thanks @sfhowes. I guess I neglected to consider that messages wouldn't automatically show remote content - which may cover my immediate concerns. I'll keep the add-in in mind if I need something else.

Cheers,