diff --git a/mailnews/base/resources/content/markByDate.xul b/mailnews/base/resources/content/markByDate.xul
index 0dcf26fc3e0..b3600dace77 100644
--- a/mailnews/base/resources/content/markByDate.xul
+++ b/mailnews/base/resources/content/markByDate.xul
@@ -53,22 +53,17 @@
   <script type="application/x-javascript" src="chrome://messenger/content/markByDate.js"/>
   <script type="application/x-javascript" src="chrome://messenger/content/dateFormat.js"/>
 
-  <description>&markByDateDesc.label;</description>
-  <grid flex="1">
-    <columns>
-      <column/>
-      <column flex="1"/>
-    </columns>
-    <rows>
-      <row align="center">
-        <label control="lowerDate" value="&markByDateLower.label;"/>
-        <textbox wsm_persist="true" id="lowerDate"/>
-      </row>
-      <row align="center">
-        <label control="upperDate" value="&markByDateUpper.label;"/>
-        <textbox wsm_persist="true" id="upperDate"/>
-      </row>
-    </rows>
-  </grid>
+  <hbox align="center" pack="end">
+    <label control="lowerDate"
+           value="&markByDateLower.label;"
+           accesskey="&markByDateLower.accesskey;"/>
+    <textbox size="11" id="lowerDate"/>
+  </hbox>
+  <hbox align="center" pack="end">
+    <label control="upperDate"
+           value="&markByDateUpper.label;"
+           accesskey="&markByDateUpper.accesskey;"/>
+    <textbox size="11" id="upperDate"/>
+  </hbox>
 
 </dialog>
diff --git a/mailnews/base/resources/locale/en-US/markByDate.dtd b/mailnews/base/resources/locale/en-US/markByDate.dtd
index 2699f5073a0..e69de29bb2d 100644
--- a/mailnews/base/resources/locale/en-US/markByDate.dtd
+++ b/mailnews/base/resources/locale/en-US/markByDate.dtd
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-<!-- ***** BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK *****
-   - Version: MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
-   -
-   - The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version
-   - 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-   - the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
-   - http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
-   -
-   - Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis,
-   - WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
-   - for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the
-   - License.
-   -
-   - The Original Code is mozilla.org code.
-   -
-   - The Initial Developer of the Original Code is
-   - Frank Schoenheit <frank.schoenheit@gmx.de>
-   - Portions created by the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 2003
-   - the Initial Developer. All Rights Reserved.
-   -
-   - Contributor(s):
-   -   Frank Schoenheit <frank.schoenheit@gmx.de>
-   -
-   - Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of
-   - either the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later (the "GPL"), or
-   - the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 or later (the "LGPL"),
-   - in which case the provisions of the GPL or the LGPL are applicable instead
-   - of those above. If you wish to allow use of your version of this file only
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-   - the terms of any one of the MPL, the GPL or the LGPL.
-   -
-   - ***** END LICENSE BLOCK ***** -->
-
-<!ENTITY messageMarkByDate.label "Mark Messages as Read by Date">
-<!ENTITY markByDateDesc.label "Mark messages as read:">
-<!ENTITY markByDateLower.label "From:">
-<!ENTITY markByDateUpper.label "To:">