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~consul

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Nov 11, 2010, 3:59:05 PM11/11/10

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Using tbird 3.1.6, windows.
You know how when you are in thunderbird, and you reply to a message, you get a little icon that has an arrow pointing to the right, so it indicates that you replied to that email.

Now I sometimes answer emails from my cellphone, and when I look back in thunderbird, it doesn't have that icon. Is there a way to get that icon showing what was answered or not?
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Shisul

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Nov 11, 2010, 4:05:07 PM11/11/10

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> Using tbird 3.1.6, windows.
> You know how when you are in thunderbird, and you reply to a message,
> you get a little icon that has an arrow pointing to the right, so it
> indicates that you replied to that email.
>
> Now I sometimes answer emails from my cellphone, and when I look back in
> thunderbird, it doesn't have that icon. Is there a way to get that icon
> showing what was answered or not?

Doubtful. For starters, how would TB know you answered with another
email client?

S.

John McWilliams

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Nov 11, 2010, 4:39:15 PM11/11/10

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By seeing the notation on the server.
It has to be an IMAP account, though, as it won't work on POP servers.

At least it works for me on updated TB, Mac OS10.6.4 and iPhone 3GS.

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Chris Ilias

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Nov 11, 2010, 5:02:01 PM11/11/10

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On 10-11-11 3:59 PM, ~consul wrote:
> Using tbird 3.1.6, windows.
> You know how when you are in thunderbird, and you reply to a message,
> you get a little icon that has an arrow pointing to the right, so it
> indicates that you replied to that email.
>
> Now I sometimes answer emails from my cellphone, and when I look back in
> thunderbird, it doesn't have that icon. Is there a way to get that icon
> showing what was answered or not?

Are you using a pop account or imap? When I try it on my imap account
using my iphone, the message gets marked as replied in Thunderbird.
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Shisul

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Nov 11, 2010, 5:07:25 PM11/11/10

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All my accounts are POP accounts so I was speaking more from that point
of view. I guess that an (IMAP account would show a particular email had
been answered.

S.

Ken Whiton

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Nov 14, 2010, 4:08:10 AM11/14/10

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*-* On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, at 12:59:05 -0800,
*-* In Article <D_idnVo5r-CLxEHR...@mozilla.org>,
*-* ~consul wrote
*-* About icon indicating "replied" message

> Using tbird 3.1.6, windows.
> You know how when you are in thunderbird, and you reply to a
> message, you get a little icon that has an arrow pointing to the
> right, so it indicates that you replied to that email.

Are you sure of that? In my TB 1.5.0.14 and in other
applications I've seen, the "replied" arrow points to the left, and
the right-pointing arrow indicates "forwarded".

> Now I sometimes answer emails from my cellphone, and when I look
> back in thunderbird, it doesn't have that icon. Is there a way to
> get that icon showing what was answered or not?

Send yourself a "dummy" reply.

1. Open a "Reply" compose window and change the "To:" address to
your own. I have two e-mail addresses, and I send to the one
I'm not sending from.

2. Send the "reply". It's not even necessary to add anything
into the body.

3. If you save copies of sent messages to the Sent folder (or
anywhere else), delete that copy.

4. Delete the received copy from your Inbox or wherever else you
might direct it. I have my TB configured not to automatically
check for or download new messages, so I go to the receiving
provider's webmail and delete the received copy from there
without ever downloading it to my computer.

Ken Whiton
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