OT: Thunderbird newsreader

[Ben Barker]

Apologies for this off topic topic...

Does anyone have any experience with why Thunderbird keeps reverting to
displaying every individual post on start-up, however many times I tell
it to display threaded and collapsed?

Cheers,

Ben

 

[jas0n]

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says...
> Apologies for this off topic topic...
>
> Does anyone have any experience with why Thunderbird keeps reverting to
> displaying every individual post on start-up, however many times I tell
> it to display threaded and collapsed?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben
>

I dont know the answer to yourquestion im afraid but I tried it and
could not get on with having different view settings for every single
news group.

Has this changed, is there a global view setting yet?

 

[Tony Raven]

Ben Barker wrote on 05/07/2006 23:04 +0100:
> Apologies for this off topic topic...
>
> Does anyone have any experience with why Thunderbird keeps reverting to
> displaying every individual post on start-up, however many times I tell
> it to display threaded and collapsed?
>

Try mozilla.support.thunderbird Something odd with your setup as I
have no problems with mine.


--
Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

 

[Danny Colyer]

Ben Barker wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with why Thunderbird keeps reverting to
> displaying every individual post on start-up, however many times I tell
> it to display threaded and collapsed?

It seems to be a bug. You soon get used to hitting '\' upon accessing
an ng, although it would be nice not to have to.

Have you tried asking (or Googling) on alt.fan.mozilla? I haven't been
over there for a while, for all I know the question may already have
been answered.

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[Jim Price]

Ben Barker wrote:
> Apologies for this off topic topic...
>
> Does anyone have any experience with why Thunderbird keeps reverting to
> displaying every individual post on start-up, however many times I tell
> it to display threaded and collapsed?
>
It's not something I notice much on startup as I leave Thunderbird
running all the time. I do have the 4th mouse button programmed to send
Thunderbird a backslash to collapse threads and the 5th one to go to the
next unread message, which helps in one way, but doesn't help me migrate
to Linux as I haven't figured out how to do application specific mouse
clicks outside of Windows yet ...

--

JimP

" " - John Cage

 

[Paul - xxx]

Ben Barker came up with the following;:
> Apologies for this off topic topic...
>
> Does anyone have any experience with why Thunderbird keeps reverting to
> displaying every individual post on start-up, however many times I tell
> it to display threaded and collapsed?

When I use MT I open a group, select View - Sort By ...Date, Ascending and
Threaded ... then View - Messages and select All .... then View - threads
and select All. Seems to work fine for me and opens threads as I go to the
next unread article. I don't bother collapsing threads unless I've left the
computer running and MT open for a few days or so and it gets cumbersome.

ISTR that there was a threading bug though in one version, so have a look in
a more specific mozilla support newsgroup, maybe.

--
Paul ...
(8(|) Homer Rules ..... Doh !!!

 

[Paul Boyd]

Ben Barker said the following on 05/07/2006 23:04:

> Does anyone have any experience with why Thunderbird keeps reverting to
> displaying every individual post on start-up, however many times I tell
> it to display threaded and collapsed?

Which version are you using? AFAIK there isn't a way to make it start
up collapsed on any version (which is irritating), but it should hold
your threading options for each individual group (which is brilliant!)

--
Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

 

[jas0n]

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> Ben Barker said the following on 05/07/2006 23:04:
>
> > Does anyone have any experience with why Thunderbird keeps reverting to
> > displaying every individual post on start-up, however many times I tell
> > it to display threaded and collapsed?
>
> Which version are you using? AFAIK there isn't a way to make it start
> up collapsed on any version (which is irritating), but it should hold
> your threading options for each individual group (which is brilliant!)
>
>

Would be brilliant if you could have an overall global view instead of
having to tweak each and every individual newsgroup you happen to
frequent, a pain when you add/remove new groups regularly.