A while back I upgraded Icedove/Thunderbird on some of my machines. Since then I have been able to add events to my calendar, but they have been disappearing on reload. It has been doing my nut in a bit, so I have written up the issue in case others hit the same problem.The problem …

This is a quick tute for folk who want to send email from the commandline under the various Unices, especially those who also need to include attachments. This has been tested on Debian GNU/Linux with Icedove/Thunderbird. We start by simply sending an email from the commandline. I shall use th …

Its true. By default Icedove (that’s Thunderbird to non-Debianists) puts the newest emails at the bottom of the message list. This is wrong and evil (I may be exaggerating). It took me a while to find the proper solution and then a bit longer to figure out I needed to delete the .msf …