Solved - Re: Thunderbird not displaying content of some messages

[Robert Moskowitz]

For some reason these messages had:  View->Message Body As

set to text.  Once I changed it to 'simple html' they displayed. Thanks 
for your time, Ed.

On 08/06/2014 09:44 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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> On 08/06/2014 09:12 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 08/06/14 20:50, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> I have some messages that Thunderbird is not displaying.  And I 
>>> looked back in a couple folder archives and messages that use to 
>>> display are now not displaying.
>>>
>>> So obviously something changed.  Anyone else seeing this?  ANy 
>>> tips?  Anyone interested, I could forward one of the messages off-list.
>> I'm not seeing this.  However, it has happened to me before when 
>> using "local folders".   Have you tried right clicking on the folder 
>> containing the messages, selecting Properties, and then "Repair Folder".
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> Oh, the content of the message.  I see the messages in the list no 
> problem.  I open one and the message body comes up blank.  View 
> ->MessageSource shows there is html mime body in the message. I might 
> suspect that the emailer in use for these messages is building 
> messages for a specific Windows font that Linux does not have.
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