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

[Dan Martins]

On 15/12/09 04:33 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 09:25 +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:
>    
>> 2009/12/15 Ng Oon-Ee<ngoonee at gmail.com>:
>>      
>>> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 07:46 +0000, Nathan Wayde wrote:
>>>        
>>>> On 15/12/09 07:40, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
>>>>          
>>>>> 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.