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Thunderbird default folder sort order

Before you visit any folder, you'll need to set these defaults. Any folder which has been viewed before setting them will kept its old settings.

You CAN right click on the headers, head right down the bottom and go "Apply Columns to..", but this reportedly does not do sort order. And also reportedly does not. Anyway, set the defaults so that any new folders get the correct settings, and then try out this UI method.

Extracting mime parts from oversize emails

Sometimes people have the strange idea to send files via email, despite it being a method of communication and not file transfer. Emails encounter a 34% overhead for the transfer of files! Compared to <1% for HTTP, FTP and SCP.

Install mpack to get the munpack utility.

The email can then be pilled/saved from the mail server into a text file that can be unpacked into the current directory:

Specifying a domain does not receive or send email with DNS (and SPF for good measure)

There are a number of times when a domain is being used for something else other than web sites and emails. It should never send email, nor should it ever need to receive it because it does not generate abuse.

Telling everyone else about your choice never to send email from this domain means that it has less chance of being abused in a Joe Job, and you have less to worry about when it comes to that domain. It might even save a few people on the internet from seeing a couple more spam messages.

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