How to make "threaded" the default

[Pete Holsberg]

I had several folders set up with messages displayed as threads. Then I
needed to look for a message by a particular sender so I resorted by
Sender name. Then I sorted as threaded.

When I return to this folder the messages are not displayed as threads.

How do I set that and make it stick?

Thanks.

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Pete Holsberg
Columbus, NJ

When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather,
not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.
- Will Rogers and others

[Jay Garcia]

On 27.10.2010 10:16, Pete Holsberg wrote:

--- Original Message ---

> I had several folders set up with messages displayed as threads. Then I
> needed to look for a message by a particular sender so I resorted by
> Sender name. Then I sorted as threaded.
>
> When I return to this folder the messages are not displayed as threads.
>
> How do I set that and make it stick?
>
> Thanks.
>

IIRC, sorting is accomplished "on the fly" and no way to make it
permanent. Could be wrong but that's what I remember.

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[Mike Easter]

Pete Holsberg wrote:
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228)

> I had several folders set up with messages displayed as threads. Then I
> needed to look for a message by a particular sender so I resorted by
> Sender name. Then I sorted as threaded.

I flip back and forth all the time between threaded and unthreaded with
my linux Tb 2.0.0.24. I use View/ Sort by/ to do that.

> When I return to this folder the messages are not displayed as threads.

On my system, if I sorted as threaded or unthreaded the last time I was
in the folder, that is the sort I get when I return to the folder.

> How do I set that and make it stick?

It sticks to the configuration I used last on mine, by default. That is,
I haven't changed anything in about:config to influence that.

Also, on mine, threaded is the default. If a new folder such as a
newsgroup is subscribed, the view will 'automatically' be threaded, so I
always have to change it to unthreaded.

I wonder what this integer function means:

mailnews.ui.threadpane.version

--
Mike Easter

[Pete Holsberg]

Mike Easter has written on 10/27/2010 11:42 AM:

In about:config, I have

mail.thread_columns_win string v1 6 5:23 2:5981 4:23 1:1990 3:1744 6:273
12:23 7:241 8:241 10:493 9:493

Any idea what that means?

I found this (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=3075712):

Prefs are named as follows; first three apply to Mail and RSS folders,
the second three to Newsgroups.

mailnews.default_sort_order
mailnews.default_sort_type
mailnews.default_view_flags
mailnews.default_news_sort_order
mailnews.default_news_sort_type
mailnews.default_news_view_flags

In about:config (Tools | Options | Advanced | General, Config Editor),
you can
enter "news._def" to filter out all the prefs but these.

sort_order:
byNone 17 byPriority 23 byLocation 29
byDate 18 * byStatus 24 byTags 30
bySubject 19 * bySize 25 byJunkStatus 31
byAuthor 20 * byFlagged 26 byAttachments 32
byId 21 ** byUnread 27 byAccount 33
byThread 22 byRecipient 28 byCustom 34

* = commonly desired values
** = by Order Received (?)

sort_type:
ascending 1
descending 2

view_flags -- the second group of values can be added to one of the
first group to combine effects, with several limitations:

Unthreaded 0
Threaded 1
Grouped 64 [mail only (?)]

ShowIgnored 8 [news only]
ShowUnreadOnly 16
ShowExpanded 32 [doesn't seem to work]
ShowUnreadOnly will check the View|Threads|Unread menu; this will cause
only unread items to be seen, but doesn't force a threaded view.

Someone suggested that you had to rebuild the .msf files to make changes
work!!

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Pete Holsberg
Columbus, NJ

Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way you are right.
- Henry Ford