Thunderbird 2.x question

Hi all,

Is there any way I can get Thunderbird to timestamp replied messages?
At the moment, when I hit reply, I just get the text <sender> wrote:, but ideally, I'd like the timestamp details to show as they do with most other mail clients, like On DD/MM/YY HH:MM:SS <sender wrote>:
Is this possible? I've searched through all the menus and options, but can't see anywhere to configure this.

Many thanks.

You should get something like -
On Mon, 25 June, 2007 1:28 pm, Joe Bloggs wrote:

That's a copy from my mail apart from the name. As far as I remember, I got that by default but wonder if you have looked in the Account Details as well as just on the menus. Usually, if you can't find an option in the main interface menu system, it's somewhere in the Account Details. I can't actually find anything at the moment, though.

I haven't used it but ...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/306

edited to add:

just had a quick play and for the price of pressing shift ctrl t this will insert any sort of date/time text you choose. You need to select the date/time text in extension preferences.

Edited by deleted (Wed 27-Jun-07 20:24:14)

Hi and thanks for your reply,

Yes, I have looked in account details - I've looked literally everywhere but I can't find a way of editing that line to reflect the date/time that the message was sent.

Thanks for your help, anyway - It is appreciated.

Hi and thanks for your reply,

When I get the chance, probably sometime over the weekend, I'll DL that extension and have a play, to see if it helps.

Does this help here:http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=556059
I just read a bit that said

In reply to:

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If you are just interested in adding the time stamp, you can go into the configuration editor Tools > Options > Advanced > Config Editor, then type "reply_header" (without quotes) into the search bar. The main option is "mailnews.reply_header_type" with a value of '1' for the default "somebody wrote:" header; '0' means no header at all; '2' will include the date as "On sometime, somebody wrote:"; and, '3' reverses date and author. There are some other options to change the wording, where the "%s" will be replaced by the actual text. Works for me without any extension!

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Worked for me as well but had to use (IceDove)

Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Config Editor

Not heard of IceDove before, me goes googling

Glad it worked for you

ThunderBird and FireFox have too restrictive licenses for Debian so they recompile from the original sources and release as IceDove and IceWeasel respectively.

Thanks for explaining that, I was getting confused reading about it

Your explanation saved me having to concentrate too hard on a Friday evening

Cheers John