Now that I'm back, I want to customiz MEPIS to make it worth the time.
I did stop by the booth today at Linux World and got a tip on Synaptic.

"Mozilla Thunderbird has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of the sources list." Per Synaptic this evening. I want another email client for my
personal messages; I use Kontact for Professional messages. I am between a rock and a hard place at this time.

Meanwhile, I'll head back to Linux World Friday and hope to show the MEPIS rep the error message I received from Synaptic, maybe he'll have a solution.

Knoppix is too difficult and picky to install. I wish they had an "install icon"
on the live CD.

Thunderbird hasn't been obsoleted - it is very much still active. You can download it manually from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird, or you might have to update your sources.list file.

Hi Salmanal, if you could post your repositories we can see if that is the problem as I have no problem getting thunderbird. Thanks, Woob

I went to the MEPIS booth again to get more details
on using Synaptic. I was missing one step when I did it myself.
Deafness does cause one to miss information; this time,
it was written down.

I came home to download and use T-Bird.

Thanks anyway,

Is there a way to get Thunderbird to show HTML messagaes? I've clicked on every clrickable spot I can find to no avail.

Thanks

Thunderbird should automatically show HTML messages in HTML format and plain text messages in plain text. There is a menu item to force it one way or the other, I think it's on the View menu but I'm not certain as I don't have thunderbird on this PC.

Thank you! Thank you!

It's under <View> "Message Body As."

I don't how I missed it. I was sure I had clicked on everything.

Enjoy!