Re: why graphical screenshot? from a command prompt console window?
Char Jackson <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:45:18 -0600
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:31:50 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver" <[email protected]> wrote: >On 2026/2/18 18:38:54, Frank Slootweg wrote: >> Paul <[email protected]> wrote: >[] > >>> <[email protected]> >>> >>> mid:[email protected] >>> >>> And maybe one of those strings will work. We'll see. >> >With my Thunderbird (140.7.1esr (64-bit)), hovering over either of those >(they do show in blue) shows them with "mailto:" prepended in the status >line, and actually clicking on them opens an email window; presumably it >noticed the @ sign and reacted accordingly, but ... >> >> The format should be <news:<MID>>, i.e. >> >> <news:[email protected]> > >That one shows in the status line as news:///fl... (yes, three >slashes!); clicking it had no effect. That's expected because you apparently don't have the M-ID extension installed, which I linked to earlier in this thread. >I'm not signed up with 4ax.com (I take it that's a news server); maybe >it would have if I was. (But it didn't give me any error or anything.) No, 4ax.com is the default domain that Forte Agent uses when it creates a Message-ID. It's not a news server and you can't sign up in any way, except to use Forte Agent as your newsreader.