> 07-13-16 21:37 Holger Granholm wrote to All about Thunderbird
> Howdy! Holger, Good Afternoon.
> 
>  HG> @MSGID: 
>  HG> Good evening,
> 
>  HG> I was extremely disappointed with the e-mail editor in Thunderbird
>  HG> yesterday. I was writing a mail to a friend and wanted to include a
>  HG> text that I had on another media.
> 
>  HG> I fought more than half an hour to find a way to do it, but couldn't
>  HG> find a way. I had finally to settle for including the text as an
>  HG> attachment.
> 
>  HG> To copy a text into an editor was possible already in the CP/M days,
>  HG> and was included in the WordStar command set, along with many more
>  HG> commands for various other editing functions, that are now missing
>  HG> from one of the leading e-mail programmes.
> 
>  HG> Neither could I find a setting to use an alternative editor in T-bird.
> 
>  HG> Among certainly other editors, including the Semware editor for
>  HG> Windows, there are all those various text copying, including, moving,
>  HG> functions still that we have been accustomed to in all these years of
>  HG> computing.
> 
>  HG> Maybe there is another e-mail program for Windows, that includes a
>  HG> decent editor, or where you can use an alternative editor.
> 
>  HG> Normally I use PMMail in OS/2, but this time I was sitting at a Win-10
>  HG> machine. What a disappointment.
> 
> I use Thunderbird for Email on my XP machine.
> 
> If I am at a web page in Firefox that I want to send in an Email to someone
> I will Copy the URL shown in Firefox's Address Bar, and then Paste it in to
> the message I'm writing in Thunderbird.
> 
> I know what I'm writing to You, is "Elementary, Watson", but I'm sorry to
> learn that You are having Email problems, and just thought I'd say what I do,
> and also write to let You know the Big LID is still around.
> 
> BTW, Since November last year when I Compacted messages in TB and the several
> thousand messages that were in my In-Box disappeared, I have found some
> MozBackup files that I've saved, but I'm concerned if I Restored the last
> MozBack file I made, would all the messages in the TB In-Box and the other
> sub-folders below the In-Box which I have received since I had to start over
> be Erased?
> 
> Guess I ought to take a look-see at the MozBackup web site, HUH?
> 
> I'd appreciate knowing if You or anyone else can assist me in getting my copy
> of Thunderbird to Behave.   Thank You.
> 
> Until the Compact Crash in November 2015 I had been using Thunderbirds In-Box,
> to keep all the messages that I wanted to Save, which included the many
> Emails that You and many Others have sent to me.
> 
> Since last November I have been Moving Email messages that come in the In-Box,
> that I want to keep, down in to a sub-folder (SUB-DIRECTORY) below the In-Box
> because none of the messages were lost that I had stored in any of those
> sub-folders after I Compacted TB last November.     Very Strange.
> 
> 73 and HTH   . .
 

If you restore an older copy of Mozbackup you WILL lose everything in
Thunderbird after the date of the backup being restored. 
 
Typo Tom