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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: [OT] Thunderbird Reply-button (was Re: <subject that has now for long
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Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 05:26:04 +0100
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On 23.11.2024 04:49, James Kuyper wrote:
> On 11/22/24 18:06, Dan Cross wrote:
> ...
>> a) Please stop emailing me this stuff _and_ posting it here.  I
>> have asked you this in the past, and previously you'd said that
>> it was because you switched news readers.  That's fine, but that
>> was a year ago or more.
> 
> Actually, Thunderbird made the change to how the "Reply" button works
> sometime around April 2021, and I'm still making the mistake of hitting
> it when I should hit "Followup". At my age it's hard to change a habit
> acquired over a couple of decades of posting to usenet; I'm doing my
> best to change it, and still failing frequently.

Been there. I desperately looked for a way to fix or alleviate that
horrendous user-interface misconception. Eventually I was able to
fix it, but unfortunately cannot quite recall how that was done.

Now in my old TB 45.8.0 I I have

  Followup v     Forward     ...     More v
  --------
  Reply All
  Reply

where Followup is the default and the Reply buttons are a drop-down
menu, while in TB 102.11.0 I have a similar menu like this

  Followup v     Reply      Forward     ...     More v
  --------                                      ----
  Reply All                                      ...
  Reply                                         Customize Toolbar

I seem to recall that the leftmost menu items were called something
like *cough* "Smart Reply" (or so), and I indeed see such an entry in
my newer TB version under  More -> Customize Toolbar ; maybe it helps
to fix it [on your TB version] (or to find some hints on the Web with
that keyword).

Janis