Mozilla Help: Mailnews FAQ

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Mozilla Mailnews FAQ

Last updated on July 13, 2006.

Account set up:

Can I use Mozilla to access webmail accounts, such as Hotmail or Yahoo?
How do I set up a MOVEMAIL account on Unix/Linux?
What is the purpose of "Local Folders"; and how do I get rid of it?
How do I change the location of the "Unsent" folder to appear in your account?
How can I re-order the accounts in the left pane?
How do I set up multiple SMTP servers?
How can I use the @ sign in my username?
Changing Internet Service Provider.

Sending and receiving messages:

How do I check all IMAP folders simultaneously?
How do I disable the send progress box?

Composing messages:

How do I create and append a signature file to my messages?
How can I use more than one identity on one account?
How do I customize the "Author wrote" reply intro line?
Where can I download more spellchecker languages?
How do I send a message with a remote image?
How do I send an attachment as an attachment?
When I forward several messages at once, how do I prevent Mozilla from opening several windows?
How do I change the colour of the quoted text when composing messages?
How do I style the text that is used when composing messages in text mode?
How do I increase the width of the attachments box in the message composition window?

Organizing and finding messages:

What is "Junk Mail Controls", and how do I use it?
What is the size limit of each mail folder?
How do I get the "Advanced" button back on the search bar?
When using the search bar, how do I make Mozilla wait until I press <enter> to start the search?
Is there an "Empty Junk Folder" option?

Reading and printing:

How do I add the location toolbar to the Mailnews component?
How do I style the text in each pane?
How do I remove the underlines that appear when a collapsed thread has unread messages?
How do I make collapsed threads with unread messages display in bold?
How do I change the backgound colour of each pane?
How do I change the colour of folders with unread messages?
How do I change the colour of unread messages?
How do I change the display structure of the date on messages?
How do I make Mozilla display the message time stamp, instead of my time zone?
How do I make http links open in another browser?
How do I change the emoticon images that Mozilla displays graphically?
How do I customize which tags are allowed, when viewing as Simple HTML?
What are structured words, and how do I disable it in Mozilla?
How do I remove structured words symbols?
How can I have the classic ">" instead of the vertical bar?
How can I prevent Mozilla from displaying the quoted text?
How do I make font size in messages permanent, without affecting the browser?
How can I change the colour of the quoted text?
How can I change the colour of the signature?
How do I limit the height of the signature?
How do I limit the height of the headers pane?
How do I change the colour of email addresses in the headers pane?
How do I increase the width of the attachments box?
How do I configure the Normal Headers View to display the Organization header?
How do I configure the Normal Headers View to display the user-agent header?
How do I delay the time it takes for Mozilla to mark a message as read?
How do I decode ROT13 messages?

The address book:

How do I get rid of the IM button in the Address Book?
How do I make Mozilla use the Outlook Express address book?
How do I make Mozilla use my Outlook Contacts list?
How do I style the text used to display an address book card?

Newsgroups:

What does 'Watch Thread' do?
How do I purge newsgroups of old messages?
How do I maintain threaded view, when changing the sort order of messages?
How do I prevent messages with the same subjects, without leading Re:'s, from being threaded together?
How do I use a separate username/password for each newsgroup on one server?
How do I combine and decode multi-part binary newsgroup posts?
How do I get the thread back from killed status?
Netscape Communicator would display "Reference" links to previous messages in a discussion, can I make Mozilla do that?
How can I add the "X-No-Archive" header to my messages?
How do I disable the Advance to next unread message in folder prompt?
How do I disable newsgroup name abbreviations?
How do I re-order the list of subscribed newsgroups?
How do I make Mozilla remember which news accounts were left open between sessions?
How do I make Mozilla generate the message ID?

Security:

How do I remove an attachment from a message?

Miscellaneous:

How do I make Mozilla my system default mail client?
Mozilla does not put a shortcut to "Mail" on my Windows desktop. How do I create one?
What is Compacting folders, and why should I do it?
Does Mozilla come with a mail notifier application?
What happened to the sidebar in the Mailnews component?
What are emoticons, and how do they work?
What is Format = Flowed, and how do I de-activate it (classic line break)?
Can I make Mozilla ask for confirmation, when I empty the trash folder?
How do I save the background image of a message?
How can I open the mailnews client in a browser tab?
Is the Mozilla mail & newsgroups client available as a stand-alone application, without the browser?