Newbie: Highlight of collapsed thread with unread message within

[RzzB]

It would appear that the default highlighting mechanism for collapsed
threads that contain an unread message is to underline it.

Is there some way to change this to something more visible. Different
colour of perhaps bold?

I have searched Help, Forums and Googled but can't find an answer.

BTW - I have only switched to Thunderbird in the the last few days but
it's looking like a great application.

Thanks,
Roy

[Nir]

Close Thunderbird.
Goto Tb profile folder .
open ( or create if doesn't exist ) chrome folder.
open ( or create if doesn't exist ) userChrome.css file in your word
editor.

put this code within that file

/* change unread thread color */
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(container, closed, hasUnread, read)
{
color: red !important;
}

Save file . Start Thunderbird.

[RzzB]

Excellent!! Many thanks for your help!

For any other newbies - I found that I had to create the chrome folder a
little deeper than the profiles folder... thus...
C:\Documents and Settings\[Name]\Application
Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\nw7f4eh5.default\Chrome

my guess is that the nw7f4eh5 is probably also variable??

(XP Pro this is...)

If I want to learn more about how to configure Thunderbird where is the
best place to start reading.

Many thanks,
Roy

[Nir]

RzzB wrote:
> Nir wrote:

> For any other newbies - I found that I had to create the chrome
> folder a little deeper than the profiles folder... thus...
> C:\Documents and Settings\[Name]\Application
> Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\nw7f4eh5.default\Chrome
>
> my guess is that the nw7f4eh5 is probably also variable??

Yes, default profile folder's name, 8 characters long, is always randomly
chosen for security reason.

> (XP Pro this is...)
>
> If I want to learn more about how to configure Thunderbird where is
> the best place to start reading.

You may start with these page

"http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/"

"http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Thunderbird"