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suba2014-05-21 15:19:27
Inserting one of the Macros like [[DATE]] followed by an right-angle bracket > will break XML-structure and render template.xml or something derived of it unparsable:

Timestamp: 21/5/14 15:01:42
Error: not well-formed
Source File: moz-nullprincipal:{9ef7c1a9-1acb-2041-9878-37b41b6029d2}
Line: 647, Column: 31
Source Code:
<body><![CDATA[[[DATE]]>]]></body>

On top of this: the problem will be noticeable only after restarting Thunderbird, so you may notice very late. Even after restarting no error will be shown (apart from error console). After any edit of quicktext preferences the original xml will be completely overwritten.

Original template.xml file can be restored from backup and edited with external editor. Deleting the right-angle bracket fixes the problem.

(This is not terrible arcane: I stumbled upon this bug because I want to send an individual URL pulled from clipboard. Enclosing it in angled brackets protects it from becoming unclickable due to linewrap).


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