E-Mail Processing

Taking a step up

[grandpa]

After 3 years of Outlook I need a change, and I've settled on Thunderbird. I run an internet business and my sales are all processed as e-mails, using custom scripts.

Obviously, any change in the e-mail content or header will have an effect through my scripts, usually with undesirable results. There is a change in the way that Thunderbird sends header information to a text file, and I'm pretty sure that I can change this header, but I don't know where. Right now it's being manually edited before processing occurs.

If possible I would prefer to change the header instead of my scripts. The reason is that I run similar scripts on two servers, and right now everything is running well.

Is this as simple as locating the correct js file and editing the format?

Here's a sampling of what I intend to change. The first is the Thunderbird header, and the second is what my scripts expect.

Subject:
[domain] Web Site Order: OnlineOrder_99999
From:
[e-mail]
Date:
Sun, 16 Apr 2006 09:15:01 -0600
To:
[e-mail]

From: [e-mail]
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2009 9:15 AM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: [domain] Web Site Order: OnlineOrder_99999

[grandpa]

Bump:

I've been looking at the most obvious source to solve my problem, but so far haven't come up with a solution. Does anyone here know enough about Mozilla to tell me if I can modify a jar file to change the order and appearance of headers when I save a message as a text file? I would also like to change the default file type to TXT when I perform a Save As on a message. Possible? I seems like it would be...

[Mr Bo Jangles]

There are official (and I guess also unofficial) Thunderbird Forums - they might be more appropriate for your issue.

[grandpa]

Thanks, I noticed the same thing. And I'm trying to get the info I need over there. But it's been difficult, so I was hoping another webmaster may be familiar with this info.