alan_m wrote:

The most annoying thing I've found with Thunderbird is when the email is
received in a html(?) format and a web browser has to be called up to
open and to read it.

Huh? never had that, if it's received in html I can view original html
or simplified html within TB. If it has a plain text alternative, I can
read that if I choose. The only time I have a problem is if it came
from an old version of outlook in TNEF and just appears as a winmail.dat
attachment.