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Strange content in new emails in Thunderbird.

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martin388
martin388

Hello, I've just downloaded and started to use Mozilla Thunderbird on my Windows 11 desktop, and have encountered a strange problem. Whenever I compose a new email - it contains a lot of gibberish that looks a bit like a mixture of HTML coding and binary. I've tried changing the format of new emails between HTML and Plain Text and nothing seems to overcome this issue. 

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Regards, 

 Martin
 martin@baughan.org.uk
Hello, I've just downloaded and started to use Mozilla Thunderbird on my Windows 11 desktop, and have encountered a strange problem. Whenever I compose a new email - it contains a lot of gibberish that looks a bit like a mixture of HTML coding and binary. I've tried changing the format of new emails between HTML and Plain Text and nothing seems to overcome this issue. %PDF-1.7 %µµµµ 1 0 obj <</Type/Catalog/Pages 2 0 R/Lang(en) /StructTreeRoot 11 0 R/MarkInfo<</Marked true>>/Metadata 24 0 R/ViewerPreferences 25 0 R>> endobj 2 0 obj <</Type/Pages/Count 1/Kids[ 3 0 R] >> endobj ..... á)S«++Ü>_æcåZ[aCyبµå]$úÌÎñvö¤ãÜ.;[P°6øêæT‡Õ:TêP+;:¶„p_E¸ïº\rc¸¿¿¢2ð£±ñÓŽ<€‡õÙv¿·ãk†Îû÷z¬§.ê1dÛ¿fBŠ!™&äKÍÐ7ôãóùD_Îé ²H„Û§VSÚ˸#,X¨ +µ"ç™ã ‰œv™s¤z­ß'–ª²6ú½ºÙn_àÍëÙ×¾³ñ|oXÍ©]Pß,¸®±Ã_QAó6£:¬€ÖEÇZÙYX€òuµÄ"1 S«ÃþÖp²€Ã+Ö`Ñôj­J´Z8¹<Ìj룵•¢_ÞÊŽÚ ê hË?µzÔý~g‘×½c+b5¢á”r,JNeGuCSØSënÀþlòV»}á` ¦¯Æ_ÝX#VÉo÷}óiOÔjalÇ•–…ÅȍÙ&oµâVkÄjÁá­Â‡Ôpdر\ZR¬è¨áÞjîf²ž-!Ô1í ¡f—Yª¨Z>Æí«ñ‘ýH—ÜÑ>é³Ã¦mÙá8Ò'zÎvJ‹õõV6Vôèà1ê£Œ¶ö·û©ˆ¹ˆ>5Lb9ÇÈ,5'>Íh.±Š.o˜MñVûý5~ì¡à”j161×ÚúŽŸî?uVµ¶ÚÑ]2ã˜å—P*Ì|È– ¥{°*à–˪¥Gké#É1Çe•Ù~ѯŽŽ†N¦f‹­ìîäšÐ—ŸSž¨ñ‡ü>Ñϼþ&fõͨ-ÇY­B¸óWÕù½voUG]Wwû‚ŽÎ`°£µ²¶y(ÎE‡lC‡zõp·ÖùiÕÜëijÙx>~Æ(4¥°Q~~ÖÔÎ ?kú¬ê]vƼgͨŽ(\)¯UÓ™…¼ê]^Æ‚šW^á ¯Hˆ–¦!aÒÊ»wk×rušCK×wq¦ùLÒÇY}—B>;=(G{P·“ú.åei|&òµSéÜhirì"g7SÄ}Kd’u21ÁA³>h Æ­J¼‚)®<»Q6Ž³VÏݝhsšæîâíqA÷.­¥iÑ’í()|íG|è¹(Ö£!<::‚ЬêV†öµO”% »ÐÕŒ=„÷I¥·Aì¿õ5͵5"z°ìU|ó0÷`aÅ?=6XÃf㨰Å?JøË„¿Œüá7bçóŽÅA·£Ö@ŒSÍܜΚ*šôvuwϨö=çÞ_ãÃYš̪ÇðrÓgC¹Ñµp·×׉~°Pµ¨kÌ[_ƒs)D‘±á8´m%ª´:⼡R=öZ_“p#t´×„kâ¡Õ‹j´ój³1þ¡aCµ©Ï*¨éHôÔ‚κ9{‹ 8ôM¯&I<¬†&ÉhEÏëýȪ¯õÒ™Ž³L/ ³›<ˆùºœF fw4“‰a©Ù–xs8. ..... trailer <</Size 27/Root 1 0 R/Info 10 0 R/ID[<8A940EF8C93B1F468E504337B8F1ED8B><8A940EF8C93B1F468E504337B8F1ED8B>] /Prev 38146/XRefStm 37845>> startxref 38843 %%EOF Regards, Martin martin@baughan.org.uk
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Thanks Lin, that was exactly the problem. All OK now. Regards, 

 martin388
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Lin
Lin

I remember a thread here a while back about a similar situation. It turned out that it was due to the user using (accidentally) a PDF file as a signature. Thunderbird can incorporate images in a signature, but not other binary files, like PDFs.

Could this apply to you?

martin388
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Thanks Lin, that was exactly the problem. All OK now. Regards, 

 martin388
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