kevin........, I am worried about you. I hope you don't go back to a more insecure email client. You are much better off with Thunderbird and so are the people you send messages to.

I get the feeling that you are one of those people that regularly receives emails that may have been forwarded several times before they get to you and then you forward them to a group of your friends. If I have guessed correctly, you are involved in a practice that will eventually result in your computer being infected with destructive malware as well as your friends that you have forwarded to.

I will not open a forwarded message. There are no exceptions to that rule. When you want to share a message with someone, it is far safer to copy and paste the text into an new message.

One thing that might be causing you problems is that OE and TB use different terms for the same operation. I don't know of any operation that you can accomplish in OE that cannot also be accomplished in TB.

If I am not understanding your problem, clarify what you want to do. Someone should have an answer.