My return receipt has disappeared - help please!

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rcorke
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My return receipt has disappeared - help please!

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A new version of Thunderbird - version 60.3.0 - has automatically installed itself on my Mac and my Return Receipt button has disappeared. When I tried to add it back on, it says that it's incompatible with 60.3.0.

The reason I use Thunderbird over Mac Mail is that it gives me the option of a Return Receipt. Is there another Return Receipt add-on that I can use? I can't find one. Or could I go back to an earlier version of Thunderbird that will allow me to use a Return Receipt and, if so, how do I install it? I've got an older version - 52.9.1 - installed on my Macbook, with its trusty Return Receipt. Could I install that on my Mac and, if so, how?

Help please!
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tanstaafl
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Re: My return receipt has disappeared - help please!

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Are you talking about https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/th ... on/?src=ss ?
Have you tried setting extensions.strictCompatibility false using the config editor?

The toolbar buttons add-on - https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/th ... ns/?src=ss - claims to support version 60, and lists Return Receipt as one of the buttons it provides. However, the comments on the web page says it doesn't actually work, and the developer is trying to fix that. So that might be a long term solution. I was able to install the add-on (due to extensions.strictCompatibility false ) but it doesn't appear to provide extra buttons. I suggest you keep an eye on the http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3041270 thread, which lists several fixes to add-ons to get them to work with version 60..
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See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Go_back_to_an ... hunderbird if you want to go back to 52.9.1. You can keep your existing profile if you do that.
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Re: My return receipt has disappeared - help please!

Post by makaiguy »

You may know this already, but just in case ...

The return receipt functionality is still there, however. In the composition window tool bar, click Options | Return receipt. It's less convenient than a direct button, but only by one click.
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rcorke
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Thank you everyone but especially Doug. I can live with an extra click!
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Re: My return receipt has disappeared - help please!

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I think the following extension is broken in Thunderbird 60.

Return Receipt
http://addons.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/addon/6038

The gComposeRecyclingListener object is not defined.

Did the extension work in Thunderbird 52?

Reference
http://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-esr60/searc ... ngListener
http://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-esr52/searc ... ngListener
http://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-esr45/searc ... ngListener

Edit:

Fix for Return Receipt Toolbar Button in Thunderbird 68
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p14865144
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sfhowes
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Make a Return Receipt button add-on here:

https://codefisher.org/toolbar_button/t ... messenger/
Orwel
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Post by Orwel »

The solution (working at the time of writing this post in TB 60.5) for re-activation of helpful add-ons Return receipt Button and RR BUTTON AND ICON (https://freeshell.de//~kaosmos/index-en.html#nrrh, adds an icon on headers panel, when the message had a return receipt request, for checking if a RR was asked in the past) is:
1.Menu-Tools-Options-Advanced-Config.editor
2.Look for "extensions.strictCompatibility" and set it to FALSE.
This re-activates many of non-working add-ons.
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