Re: Thunderbird and MIDs

Daniel70 <[email protected]> Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:39:41 +1100

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On 21/02/2026 7:46 am, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> R.Wieser <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Frank,
>>
>>> I don't know if it still works in Outlook Express (Rudy?).
>>
>> Yes, it does.  Both when clicking the news:// link inside a post, or when
>> putting it into my webbrowser (FF 52) (which than handed it off to OE).
> 
>    Thanks! Outlook Express rocks, but you already knew that! :-)
> 
>> I also tried to put your posts message-ID
>> ([email protected]) after the news:// protocol
>> header, but although OE tried, it told me that it could not find the server
>> (ID-201911.user.individual.net).
> 
>    No, for a message-ID, the format is <news:MID> without the two
> slashes, i.e. for my post:
> 
> <news:[email protected]>

In my SeaMonkey suite, when I hover over your <news link, my SeaMonkey 
suite re-inserts the three '///', so clicking on it fails to do anything.
-- 
Daniel70