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How stop random characters in emails.

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Question marks and other characters randomly insert all through emails I send with Thunderbird. All accounts. I just migrated my profile from PC to Mac. But also had problem with PC. Makes reading my emails difficult. Thank you.

Question marks and other characters randomly insert all through emails I send with Thunderbird. All accounts. I just migrated my profile from PC to Mac. But also had problem with PC. Makes reading my emails difficult. Thank you.

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On a Mac, double-click mail.strictly_mime to true in Preferences/Advanced/General/Config. editor.

The problem is with any account that sends through a Yahoo-type smtp, even non-Yahoo-types that use the Yahoo smtp. Select an account in the left pane of Tools/Account Settings, then look at Outgoing Server (SMTP) in the right pane.

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Are you sending through a Yahoo-type account, i.e. Yahoo/AOL/Verizon/ATT/Rogers etc.?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1247134#answer-1189872

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Thanks. I'm on a Mac and I cannot find these options for solving under Tools or in Preferences. Can you please direct me for Mac version.

I am using ATT/Yahoo, but am also using a number of IMAP accounts through GoDaddy.

Thank you.

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On a Mac, double-click mail.strictly_mime to true in Preferences/Advanced/General/Config. editor.

The problem is with any account that sends through a Yahoo-type smtp, even non-Yahoo-types that use the Yahoo smtp. Select an account in the left pane of Tools/Account Settings, then look at Outgoing Server (SMTP) in the right pane.

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Thank you.