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Thnuderbird and Date Display format

To make Thnuderbird display the date in a more readable format, I made the following customizations:

In the prefs.js added these lines:

user_pref(“mail.ui.display.dateformat.default”, 2);
user_pref(“mail.ui.display.dateformat.thisweek”, 4);
user_pref(“mail.ui.display.dateformat.today”, 0);

just to have a more compact date for the last week messages.

Then to have the date in my locale it_IT, you need something like this:

export LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8

and the trick is done!
The usage of [...]

Thunderbird or Shredder and Lightning compatibility

Under Ubuntu, if are you using the latest version of Thunderbird from the PPA (rebranded as Shredder), you may encounter some problems with the Lightning plugin, especially if you are using the 64 bit version.

For example, with Shredder 3.0.6 you have to use the Lightning plug-in version 1.0b1 and not the latest 1.0b2.

For the X86_64 [...]