Emoticons In Subject Header - How To Remove ?

[Michael]

I have been getting emails recently sometimes with little emojis if
that's the right name in the subject header. For example I received an
email from Opera this morning with an aeroplane emoji next to the subject.
Can these these be turned off ?
Thank you.

Michael

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[Andy Burns]

Michael wrote:

> Can these these be turned off ?

Not really, they're "just" unicode characters ...

[Grant Taylor]

On 5/22/19 2:40 AM, Michael wrote:
> Can these these be turned off ?

I'm not aware of any way to do this inside of Thunderbird.

You /might/ be able to remove the font that is providing the emojis.
But that will likely leave a place holder for the glyph that wasn't
rendered.

Conceptually you can edit the message outside of Thunderbird (I don't
think Thunderbird has a way to do this). But that's going to be
somewhere between annoying and fraught with complications, including
local DKIM validation.



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[Michael]

Thanks for the reply.
I've been using Thunderbird since "Outlook Express" was no longer
available for Windows operating systems.
Its strange that I have not had these emojis up until last month .
I wrote here in case they were some kind of beacon or malware.

Michael.

[Ken Whiton]

*-* On Wed, 22 May 2019, at 09:40:34 +0100,
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*-* Michael wrote
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> I have been getting emails recently sometimes with little emojis if
> that's the right name in the subject header. For example I received
> an email from Opera this morning with an aeroplane emoji next to the
> subject.
> Can these these be turned off ?

Try the Header Tools Lite extension.

<https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/header-tools-lite/>

> Thank you.

You're welcome.

Ken Whiton
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[Grant Taylor]

On 5/22/19 11:29 AM, Michael wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.

You're welcome.

> I've been using Thunderbird since "Outlook Express" was no longer
> available for Windows operating systems.

ACK

> Its strange that I have not had these emojis up until last month .

I've seen a dramatic uptick in emoji's (and other UTF-8 characters) in
Subjects in the last few months.

> I wrote here in case they were some kind of beacon or malware.

Na. Much of where I see them are legitimate emails. Granted, some of
them are people testing things just to see how it works. But that's not
spam or malware.