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Emails have chaged format

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Some of my older emails, which were in HTML, now appear as text with full headers and formatting data, making them unreadable. How do I convert them back to HTML?

Thunderbird 128.2.0esr (32-bit)

Some of my older emails, which were in HTML, now appear as text with full headers and formatting data, making them unreadable. How do I convert them back to HTML? Thunderbird 128.2.0esr (32-bit)

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Right click the folder, select properties and then repair button. Sounds like you might not have an up to date index on the folder and repair does rebuild that.

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Try this: click view>message body as and tick 'original HTML' (If menu bar is not visible, click Alt key first)

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It does not work as either Original HTML or Simple HTML. It just continues to show text. The problem applies to some, but not all, emails. Although I have not checked everything, it seems to apply to sub-folders, rather than the Inbox.

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Right click the folder, select properties and then repair button. Sounds like you might not have an up to date index on the folder and repair does rebuild that.

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Matt

That's great. It seems to have solved the problem. If i find it in other folders, now I know what to do.

Many thanks. Paul

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