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David C. Rankin

15 Dec 2009 15 Dec '09

7:21 a.m.

Guys, If any of you had done as I did and abandon thunderbird in favor of another mua and haven't looked at thunderbird 3.0 yet, you are in for a real treat if you view messages with threading. There is a new thread summary you are presented with when you select a collapsed thread that displays the first 3-4 lines for each message in the thread -- and -- gives you the option to delete the entire thread after reviewing the summary with a single click. Very handy when needing to quickly pick through a long thread to find the relevant info: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/ss/moz/tbird-thread-summary.jpg -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Ng Oon-Ee

15 Dec 15 Dec

7:40 a.m.

New subject: [arch-general] speaking of Thunderbird 3.X - great new thread summary view

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 01:21 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:

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Guys,

If any of you had done as I did and abandon thunderbird in favor of another mua and haven't looked at thunderbird 3.0 yet, you are in for a real treat if you view messages with threading. There is a new thread summary you are presented with when you select a collapsed thread that displays the first 3-4 lines for each message in the thread -- and -- gives you the option to delete the entire thread after reviewing the summary with a single click.

Very handy when needing to quickly pick through a long thread to find the relevant info:

http://www.3111skyline.com/download/ss/moz/tbird-thread-summary.jpg

Hmm, it just shows ... for me for all messages.

Nathan Wayde

7:46 a.m.

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On 15/12/09 07:40, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

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Hmm, it just shows ... for me for all messages.

top-left near the 'Subject' header, the button?/header with the icon that looks like a lower-case t, to the left of the star header - click it.

Ng Oon-Ee

8:54 a.m.

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On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 07:46 +0000, Nathan Wayde wrote:

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On 15/12/09 07:40, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

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Hmm, it just shows ... for me for all messages.

top-left near the 'Subject' header, the button?/header with the icon that looks like a lower-case t, to the left of the star header - click it.

You mean the 'expand thread' triangle? That's not it, that just expands the thread to a view identical to in Thunderbird2. I'm unable to get a '3-4 line preview' view on any of my mails, as in the picture by the first poster in this thread.

Magnus Therning

9:25 a.m.

2009/12/15 Ng Oon-Ee :

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On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 07:46 +0000, Nathan Wayde wrote:

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On 15/12/09 07:40, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

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Hmm, it just shows ... for me for all messages.

top-left near the 'Subject' header, the button?/header with the icon that looks like a lower-case t, to the left of the star header - click it.

You mean the 'expand thread' triangle? That's not it, that just expands the thread to a view identical to in Thunderbird2. I'm unable to get a '3-4 line preview' view on any of my mails, as in the picture by the first poster in this thread.

Unexpand the thread, then click on the first message, it should result in that view. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

Ng Oon-Ee

9:33 a.m.

New subject: [arch-general] speaking of Thunderbird 3.X - great new thread summary view

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 09:25 +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:

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2009/12/15 Ng Oon-Ee :

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On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 07:46 +0000, Nathan Wayde wrote:

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On 15/12/09 07:40, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

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Hmm, it just shows ... for me for all messages.

top-left near the 'Subject' header, the button?/header with the icon that looks like a lower-case t, to the left of the star header - click it.

You mean the 'expand thread' triangle? That's not it, that just expands the thread to a view identical to in Thunderbird2. I'm unable to get a '3-4 line preview' view on any of my mails, as in the picture by the first poster in this thread.

Unexpand the thread, then click on the first message, it should result in that view.

It does, but every line just shows like this:- Poster 1 Date ... Poster 2 Date ... And so on. I'm getting the correct view, what I'm not getting is the '3-4 lines' talked about.

Nathan Wayde

7:20 p.m.

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On 15/12/09 09:33, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

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On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 09:25 +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:

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2009/12/15 Ng Oon-Ee:

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On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 07:46 +0000, Nathan Wayde wrote:

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On 15/12/09 07:40, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

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Hmm, it just shows ... for me for all messages.

top-left near the 'Subject' header, the button?/header with the icon that looks like a lower-case t, to the left of the star header - click it.

You mean the 'expand thread' triangle? That's not it, that just expands the thread to a view identical to in Thunderbird2. I'm unable to get a '3-4 line preview' view on any of my mails, as in the picture by the first poster in this thread.

Unexpand the thread, then click on the first message, it should result in that view.

It does, but every line just shows like this:-

Poster 1 Date ... Poster 2 Date ...

And so on. I'm getting the correct view, what I'm not getting is the '3-4 lines' talked about.

Oh, sorry I misread... It doesn't display '3-4' lines, it's the first sentence or so, you see 3-4 lines because of the screen width.

Ng Oon-Ee

10:43 p.m.

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On 15/12/09 09:33, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

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On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 09:25 +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:

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2009/12/15 Ng Oon-Ee:

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On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 07:46 +0000, Nathan Wayde wrote:

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On 15/12/09 07:40, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

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Hmm, it just shows ... for me for all messages.

top-left near the 'Subject' header, the button?/header with the icon that looks like a lower-case t, to the left of the star header - click it.

You mean the 'expand thread' triangle? That's not it, that just expands the thread to a view identical to in Thunderbird2. I'm unable to get a '3-4 line preview' view on any of my mails, as in the picture by the first poster in this thread.

Unexpand the thread, then click on the first message, it should result in that view.

It does, but every line just shows like this:-

Poster 1 Date ... Poster 2 Date ...

And so on. I'm getting the correct view, what I'm not getting is the '3-4 lines' talked about.

Oh, sorry I misread... Not a problem It doesn't display '3-4' lines, it's the first sentence or so, you see 3-4 lines because of the screen width. I don't even get any sentences, just the "..." (literally I see 3 dots

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 19:20 +0000, Nathan Wayde wrote: per message) as mentioned above. Looks like I'm alone on this...

Arvid Picciani

16 Dec 16 Dec

2:34 a.m.

New subject: [arch-general] speaking of Thunderbird 3.X - great new thread summary view

On 12/15/2009 11:43 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

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It doesn't display '3-4' lines, it's the first sentence or so, you see 3-4 lines because of the screen width. I don't even get any sentences, just the "..." (literally I see 3 dots per message) as mentioned above. Looks like I'm alone on this...

same here. are you on imap? might be related to the imap offline index being broken. Random guess, though. -- Arvid Asgaard Technologies

Ng Oon-Ee

2:03 a.m.

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On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 03:34 +0100, Arvid Picciani wrote:

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On 12/15/2009 11:43 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

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It doesn't display '3-4' lines, it's the first sentence or so, you see 3-4 lines because of the screen width. I don't even get any sentences, just the "..." (literally I see 3 dots per message) as mentioned above. Looks like I'm alone on this...

same here. are you on imap? might be related to the imap offline index being broken. Random guess, though.

Hi Arvid, yes I'm running on imap, a local dovecot store... Any links? I'll search for more info on this when I get into the office.

Jeroen Op 't Eynde

8:59 a.m.

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On 12/16/2009 03:03 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

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On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 03:34 +0100, Arvid Picciani wrote:

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On 12/15/2009 11:43 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

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It doesn't display '3-4' lines, it's the first sentence or so, you see 3-4 lines because of the screen width. I don't even get any sentences, just the "..." (literally I see 3 dots per message) as mentioned above. Looks like I'm alone on this...

same here. are you on imap? might be related to the imap offline index being broken. Random guess, though.

Hi Arvid, yes I'm running on imap, a local dovecot store...

Any links? I'll search for more info on this when I get into the office.

I'm on IMAP too, but it works here. -- Jeroen Op 't Eynde jeroen@xprsyrslf.be http://xprsyrslf.be How to set up a cheap professional hosting @ XprsYrslf.be See my latest work: www.jhdeput.be

Dan Martins

17 Dec 17 Dec

6:20 a.m.

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On 15/12/09 04:33 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

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On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 09:25 +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:

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2009/12/15 Ng Oon-Ee:

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On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 07:46 +0000, Nathan Wayde wrote:

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On 15/12/09 07:40, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

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Hmm, it just shows ... for me for all messages.

top-left near the 'Subject' header, the button?/header with the icon that looks like a lower-case t, to the left of the star header - click it.

You mean the 'expand thread' triangle? That's not it, that just expands the thread to a view identical to in Thunderbird2. I'm unable to get a '3-4 line preview' view on any of my mails, as in the picture by the first poster in this thread.

Unexpand the thread, then click on the first message, it should result in that view.

It does, but every line just shows like this:-

Poster 1 Date ... Poster 2 Date ...

And so on. I'm getting the correct view, what I'm not getting is the '3-4 lines' talked about.

I believe that the messages need to be indexed before you will get the new thread summary view, or whatever you want to call it. On my thunderbird install, I think the messages are indexed after being downloaded. Sometimes it takes a little while before they are all complete. Sometimes I don't see the summary view either, but it seems to work just fine after indexing. I'm using IMAP on a gmail account, if that makes any difference.

Arvid Picciani

7:36 a.m.

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On 12/17/2009 07:20 AM, Dan Martins wrote:

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I believe that the messages need to be indexed before you will get the new thread summary view, or whatever you want to call it.

yeah exactly my suspecion. Looks like i never get a stable index here. probably because 1) i have over 120K messages 2) i disabled their new offline sync thing which both is likely an supported use case. unfortunately i can't reach their bugzilla. times out... -- Arvid Asgaard Technologies

Ng Oon-Ee

11:10 a.m.

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On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 08:36 +0100, Arvid Picciani wrote:

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On 12/17/2009 07:20 AM, Dan Martins wrote:

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I believe that the messages need to be indexed before you will get the new thread summary view, or whatever you want to call it.

yeah exactly my suspecion. Looks like i never get a stable index here. probably because 1) i have over 120K messages 2) i disabled their new offline sync thing which both is likely an supported use case.

unfortunately i can't reach their bugzilla. times out...

Ah, that would explain it, I also have 'download messages for offline' unselected. Doesn't make sense for me who already keeps the mail in a local maildir to have thunderbird download a second copy from my local dovecot...

Ng Oon-Ee

12:59 p.m.

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On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 19:10 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

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On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 08:36 +0100, Arvid Picciani wrote:

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On 12/17/2009 07:20 AM, Dan Martins wrote:

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I believe that the messages need to be indexed before you will get the new thread summary view, or whatever you want to call it.

yeah exactly my suspecion. Looks like i never get a stable index here. probably because 1) i have over 120K messages 2) i disabled their new offline sync thing which both is likely an supported use case.

unfortunately i can't reach their bugzilla. times out...

Ah, that would explain it, I also have 'download messages for offline' unselected. Doesn't make sense for me who already keeps the mail in a local maildir to have thunderbird download a second copy from my local dovecot...

Just checked, this was indeed the issue. Thinking a bit more about it, I think its just to be expected that if the mails aren't stored locally we wouldn't be able to get summary of body content? Wonder whether raising a bug would do anything more than blow hot air....

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