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On 09/05/15 17:21, Julian Hall wrote: > Hi All, > > The subject says it all and I am getting more and more *bleep*ed off > with it. Every time I reply to a mail from the list instead of sending > from the address it was sent to (this one) it sends from my personal > mail which of course fails. Now it's started sending mail from a > separate IMAP account for a museum I volunteer at which I /never/ want > mail sent from as it's for incoming mail from our website. On the > latter I suppose I could just delete the SMTP info for that account but > the other issue is damned annoying. > > Any ideas please? > > Kind regards, > > Julian > Presuming you're on something Debian-ish, I'd start off with: sudo apt-get purge thunderbird* && sudo apt-get install thunderbird-locale-en-gb Which if I remember rightly should obviously enough pull in the thunderbird package as well as a dependency whilst retaining the correct localisation (seems to work in my Thunderbird instance as it didn't redline localisation with an "s"!). That probably won't work as I suspect your profile has got corrupted instead. Have you tried setting up Thunderbird identically with all your accounts/plugins on another machine? I bet if you do, it will work perfectly. If you can try that it would be ideal. If your second Thunderbird instance works absolutely perfectly, which it will, that means your profile is corrupt. Back it up just to be on the safe side (you should actually do this first: come to think of it, the above purge command will probably nuke everything so do the backup before anything else) and start a clean Thunderbird instance. It will be a pain restoring your address book, contacts, etc from files but shouldn't take longer than five minutes at max. I've had almost exactly the same problem and whenever anything goes wrong with Thunderbird - or Firefox - I fix it exactly the same way. You could also just start up Thunderbird with the -profilemanager flag and create a new one whilst retaining the old data in place. Um, actually I'm an idiot and didn't even bother looking on my own PC first: before you do any of that check in Edit > Account Settings and right down at the bottom there's a setting for "Outgoing Server (SMTP)" - it's probably set to the wrong default. Hopefully that's the case, otherwise do all the irritating stuff above. Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq