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Who should be contacted to get the Thunderbird version number included in the message header

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Fred S
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With "Supernova" Thunderbird has stopped including the Thunderbird version information in the header.

Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:54:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 

Thunderbird/102.13.0


Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2023 03:33:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird

Can the developers be encouraged to return the version information?

With "Supernova" Thunderbird has stopped including the Thunderbird version information in the header. Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:54:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2023 03:33:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Can the developers be encouraged to return the version information?

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sfhowes
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The default was changed for 'privacy concerns':

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1809356

but if you toggle mailnews.headers.useMinimalUserAgent to false in Config. editor in Settings/General, the full user agent string is included.