hoffies blog

Some weeks ago I switched back to Thunderbird (I was using claws-mail in the meantime) and well, there were only two annoying issues left. The first issue were the English dates which got inserted in mail replies (On wrote:). There is a hidden option (meaning: you have to use about:config to change it) called mailnews.reply_header_locale. This variable is supposed to influence the mentioned date format, but it doesn’t. Why? Because it’s broken and apparently the fix will only be part of Thunderbird-3… :( The solution is: Don’t use that option (i.e. make sure it is empty) so that Thunderbird falls back to LC_TIME and just set LC_TIME to a locale which has ISO dates by default. I chose en_DK and it just worked (make sure you don’t set LC_ALL or it will override LC_TIME!).

I haven’t been able to solve the second issue yet which is an annoying crash when closing windows which are still loading web content (so this primarily affects RSS/Atom feeds). So, I’d appreciate any suggestions. :)