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Due to a change in Thunderbird's handling of the
"reply_header_authorwrote" prefs [1] TorBirdy users which use
Thunderbird 31 and later leak their system language to recipients* of
reply messages.

Usual TorBirdy quoting behaviour when composing a reply looks like
this (author name is not followed with "wrote"):

John Doe:
> .....


leak ("wrote" in the case of an English system) introduced with newer
Thunderbird versions:

John Doe wrote:
> .....


Whether the system language is actually leaked depends on the content
of the email body. If the sender (you) manually remove the entire text
in the composing window - the "authorwrote" line is not included and
no leak occurs.

*) If the message has not been end-to-end encrypted this leak is not
limited to the intended recipients.

Workaround
- ----------

Until TorBirdy gets ready for Thunderbird versions >= 31
affected users may set the following preference to avoid this leak:

mailnews.reply_header_authorwrotesingle = #1:


[1]
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1009585
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=995797

[2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13480
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