Hi! Jean,

On 12/26/2015 08:26 AM, you wrote:

 JP> I just got on Thunderbird again for the fun of it. Got version 38.5.0
 JP> and I have a small aggravation. My incoming messages does not show the
 JP> author. No way can I find where to set it as to show who wrote a
 JP> particular message, it only shows the origin eg: the-estar.com

 JP> Can you help an old friend ?  Be good.  VE2NIC.

This sort of nonsense started with the release of T'bird v38.1 back in
July.  I made a report in a local echo here, warning users about the
sillyness plus also a fix.  I'll quote some of my post here for you...

I had  to revert T'bird back to version 31.7.0 using the instructions I found at:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Go_back_to_an_old_version_of_Thunderbird#Go_back_to_a_recent_release

(All on one line, BTW.)  The Lightning add-on took a little extra since the
old one (in fact new & unusable) had to be uninstalled and a matching
version for the old T'bird had to be re-installed.  It all went smoothly of
course, since I had backups of everything.  That's the only time anything
similar ever goes smoothly.

After doing that, a setting change to stop T'Bird from doing future updates
is required.  Hope it helps you, blue leader.

Cheers,
Paul.

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