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I recently migrated an XP Virtual machine from VMWare to KVM. The process required doing a system repair using the XP install cd.

After doing this image attachments in Thunderbird were being opened by IE instead of the Windows Image Viewer. The image viewer wasn’t even an option to use.

I had to run the following from a command prompt to resolve the issue:

regsvr32 /i shimgvw.dll

The other day, by chance, I came across the built in status bar quota usage display.  I had accidentally set the storage limit on one of my mailboxes to ‘null’.  In turn Thunderbird presented me with a red bar warning me that I was way over my quota.

Today, I decided I wanted the usage to display on my IMAP accounts at all times.  This is what needs to be done:

1. In Thunderbird go to Tools -> Options…
2. Select the ‘Advanced‘ panel, under the ‘General‘ tab, click the ‘Config Editor…‘ button.
3. Find the following setting:  ’mail.quota.mainwindow_threshold.show‘ and set it’s value to ‘0‘

Thunderbird needs to restart for this setting to take effect.

Additionally, there are options for setting the Warning and Critical thresholds.  These cause the precentage bar to change to yellow and red.

mail.quota.mainwindow_threshold.warning
mail.quota.mainwindow_threshold.critical