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Words being introduced at top of email after pressing send

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satyagrahi
satyagrahi
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In Tbird 45.0 after i press send, a couple of words are introduced into the top of the email. These words are not there in my sent mail copy of my email, but when i (or others) receive the email, there are some words in the top of the email.

These words totally distract and make a mess. They appear to be selected from the email or from the clipboard (i am using flycut).

On Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10.5

My work around is to send emails with "----email begin, ignore all text above ----"

Actual example, the words 'Freud's nephew' and a blank line above were introduced by T-bird 45.0:

Freud's nephew

email begin, ignore all text above ----
In Tbird 45.0 after i press send, a couple of words are introduced into the top of the email. These words are not there in my sent mail copy of my email, but when i (or others) receive the email, there are some words in the top of the email. These words totally distract and make a mess. They appear to be selected from the email or from the clipboard (i am using flycut). On Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10.5 My work around is to send emails with "----email begin, ignore all text above ----" Actual example, the words 'Freud's nephew' and a blank line above were introduced by T-bird 45.0: Freud's nephew ----email begin, ignore all text above ----

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satyagrahi
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Got a clue into the problem. The last 2 words of the subject line were inserted into the email in my case. The subject line was: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: mind control since Freud's nephew

Maybe the subject line is too long?

amanchesterman
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If you have recently upgraded Thunderbird and didn't have this problem before, then it's most likely caused by an old version of an add-on. Try disabling your add-ons one by one to see if you can narrow it down; then remove it, restart Thunderbird, and install the latest version of the add-on.

satyagrahi
satyagrahi Question owner
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I don't believe i have any add-ons. Is there a way to see my add-ons? Maybe because i don't ...

I had a couple of extensions - lightning and flash and have disabled them, but don't believe the problem is solved. Hard to reproduce without sending to the group i am interacting with.

amanchesterman
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You could try restarting Thunderbird in safe mode and simply sending a test message to yourself. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/safe-mode-thunderbird

satyagrahi
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Thanks, i have sent 50 messages to myself between 2 accounts, but it is only when i send mail to an email list that this happens.

Tried "Re: Re: Re: ..." and other long subjects.

Will try safe mode next. Thanks for the tips.

satyagrahi
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Thanks @amanchesterman that worked. Safe mode sending mail to a group did not result in truncated title inside email.

The only solution i can see is to keep using Tbird is safe mode.