Hi! All,

FYI.  I am writing to advise of a problem I had during the week with the T'bird
38.1.0 update for Windows.  38.1 was heralded as a 'must have' security patch
so naturally it seemed that I must have it.

Immediately after the update, I started browsing around and found that _new_
posts presented by JamNNTPd had the from addressee mangled.  It only displayed
the Fido address minus the punctuation marks.  I.e. no colon or slant.  Just
the digits all rolled into a large integer.

Maybe the new version works fine for other NNTP servers.  I don't care.  I
don't read anything other than Fidonet traffic presented by JamNNTPd.

Now, I should add that this particular T'bird installation resides in a
VirtualBox VM and the Windows version is XP SP2.  (The only one that has T'bird
installed.)  Earlier today I spent 10-15 minutes 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.

I don't know about other OS flavours or distros but I have disabled auto
updates for all of my other T'Bird incarnations.  They're all now frozen at
whatever version state they were at this morning.

Yippee Ki-yay!

Cheers,
Paul.

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