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(OT) Help w/Thunderbird again?
I'm trying to get Thunderbird to sort ng posts the way I'm used to in
Windows Mail (and before that, Outlook Express). I'd love to use it as my newsreader because it does quote correctly. It's irritating the heck out of me. I would like it to display the latest posts first, in descending date order with followups threaded below, regardless of date or who the poster is. Is this too much to ask? It's giving me fits. I'm not even sure this application will even allow me to sort posts this way. Anyone care to email me if they know how/if I can accomplish this kind of sorting via Thunderbird? Thanks in advance. Jill |
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jmcquown wrote:
I'm trying to get Thunderbird to sort ng posts the way I'm used to in Windows Mail (and before that, Outlook Express). I'd love to use it as my newsreader because it does quote correctly. It's irritating the heck out of me. I would like it to display the latest posts first, in descending date order with followups threaded below, regardless of date or who the poster is. Is this too much to ask? It's giving me fits. I'm not even sure this application will even allow me to sort posts this way. Anyone care to email me if they know how/if I can accomplish this kind of sorting via Thunderbird? Thanks in advance. Jill Try this: Click on the newsgroup name in the left-hand pane to select it. Then go to the View menu and hover your mouse over the "Sort By" option. It will expand to a sub-menu with 3 sections. I have mine set to Date, Descending, Threaded. This keeps all messages from the same thread grouped together under the original subject, each subject is sorted in descending order by date (latest at the top). Replies to posts appear under the post they are replying to, also sorted in descending order by date. You might also want to set View--Threads to All, so it doesn't hide the threads you've already read and make you think you've lost all the old posts :-) With this configuration, I see all the subjects (threads) sorted by date, newest at the top, and all subjects that have unread messages are in bold. Is that more or less what you want to do? I hope this helps. I am running a pretty old version of Thunderbird (2.0.0.24), but hopefully newer versions haven't changed too much and you can still sort posts in the same way... Nadia, Kotyo and Sweety -- Little Monster pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/Kotyo Sweety pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/Sweety Kotyo and Sweety together: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/KotyoAndSweety |
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(OT) Help w/Thunderbird again?
On 9/5/2012 12:52 PM, Nadia N. wrote:
jmcquown wrote: I'm trying to get Thunderbird to sort ng posts the way I'm used to in Windows Mail (and before that, Outlook Express). I'd love to use it as my newsreader because it does quote correctly. It's irritating the heck out of me. I would like it to display the latest posts first, in descending date order with followups threaded below, regardless of date or who the poster is. Is this too much to ask? It's giving me fits. I'm not even sure this application will even allow me to sort posts this way. Anyone care to email me if they know how/if I can accomplish this kind of sorting via Thunderbird? Thanks in advance. Jill Try this: Click on the newsgroup name in the left-hand pane to select it. Then go to the View menu and hover your mouse over the "Sort By" option. It will expand to a sub-menu with 3 sections. I have mine set to Date, Descending, Threaded. This keeps all messages from the same thread grouped together under the original subject, each subject is sorted in descending order by date (latest at the top). Replies to posts appear under the post they are replying to, also sorted in descending order by date. You might also want to set View--Threads to All, so it doesn't hide the threads you've already read and make you think you've lost all the old posts :-) With this configuration, I see all the subjects (threads) sorted by date, newest at the top, and all subjects that have unread messages are in bold. Is that more or less what you want to do? I hope this helps. I am running a pretty old version of Thunderbird (2.0.0.24), but hopefully newer versions haven't changed too much and you can still sort posts in the same way... Nadia, Kotyo and Sweety That still works in Thunderbird 15.0 which I would strongly advise you to upgrade to. New versions of Firefox and Thunderbird are were security holes get fixed, and 2.0 is a little on the ancient side ;-) -- Nik Simpson |
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nik Simpson wrote:
That still works in Thunderbird 15.0 which I would strongly advise you to upgrade to. New versions of Firefox and Thunderbird are were security holes get fixed, and 2.0 is a little on the ancient side ;-) Yeah, it's probably time to upgrade :-) I didn't know Thunderbird had gotten to version 15 already. I assume they've started releasing new versions every few months, like Firefox? I held on to FF 3.6 for as long as I could, too. I just have this aversion to upgrading :-) Of course, as soon as I upgraded FF I lost some of my favourite add-ons - they hadn't been updated to work with the newer FF versions, and it doesn't look like they ever will be. Which is one reason for my aversion to upgrading :-) Nadia, Kotyo and Sweety -- Little Monster pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/Kotyo Sweety pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/Sweety Kotyo and Sweety together: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/KotyoAndSweety |
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(OT) Help w/Thunderbird again?
On 9/5/2012 1:52 PM, Nadia N. wrote:
jmcquown wrote: I'm trying to get Thunderbird to sort ng posts the way I'm used to in Windows Mail (and before that, Outlook Express). I'd love to use it as my newsreader because it does quote correctly. It's irritating the heck out of me. I would like it to display the latest posts first, in descending date order with followups threaded below, regardless of date or who the poster is. Is this too much to ask? It's giving me fits. I'm not even sure this application will even allow me to sort posts this way. Anyone care to email me if they know how/if I can accomplish this kind of sorting via Thunderbird? Thanks in advance. Jill Try this: Click on the newsgroup name in the left-hand pane to select it. Then go to the View menu and hover your mouse over the "Sort By" option. It will expand to a sub-menu with 3 sections. I have mine set to Date, Descending, Threaded. This keeps all messages from the same thread grouped together under the original subject, each subject is sorted in descending order by date (latest at the top). Replies to posts appear under the post they are replying to, also sorted in descending order by date. You might also want to set View--Threads to All, so it doesn't hide the threads you've already read and make you think you've lost all the old posts :-) With this configuration, I see all the subjects (threads) sorted by date, newest at the top, and all subjects that have unread messages are in bold. Is that more or less what you want to do? I hope this helps. I am running a pretty old version of Thunderbird (2.0.0.24), but hopefully newer versions haven't changed too much and you can still sort posts in the same way... Nadia, Kotyo and Sweety Thanks, Nadia, that helped. I still don't like Thunderbird but I'm trying... Jill |
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