Disable Thunderbird 3's show "more" email addresses feature?

mtxbo...@gmail.com

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Jan 14, 2010, 11:18:14 PM1/14/10

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Hey,

In Thunderbird 3 if I receive an email that's been sent to more than 2
people instead of showing these other addresses Thunderbird puts a
little link titled "more" and I have to click on this to show the rest
of the recipients.

I'm wondering how to turn this off, and have Thunderbird show me all
the addresses from the start, like with 2.

Thanks.

Sumant Sankaran

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Feb 16, 2010, 1:04:18 AM2/16/10

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I just upgraded to thunderbird3 and find the feature of show more
email addresses a bit annoying.I would like to see who were the
recipients without having to click on more any time.Is there an option
to disable this.?

Thanks
Sumant

Wayne Mery

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Feb 18, 2010, 2:57:48 AM2/18/10

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I don't know of an option to disable. However, there is work in progress
to improve the behavior in this area.

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Ron Hunter

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Feb 18, 2010, 3:35:52 AM2/18/10

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I find it easier to just click on 'view/ message source' if I want to
see everything. Of course, it isn't as neatly formatted....

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Ron Hunter -- rphu...@charter.net

Vinay Srini

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Feb 19, 2010, 1:32:02 AM2/19/10

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I hacked the messenger.jar to fix the problem. If you up to it,

1. find your messenger.jar
2. unzip mailWidgets.xml from the jar
3. look for maxAddressesBeforeMore in the file and replace 1 with 10
4. rezip the file into messenger.jar
5. restart thunderbird-3

more details here:
http://blog.vinay-srini.com/2010/02/thunderbird-3-hack-fix-number-of.html

regards,
Vinay Srini.

> Ron Hunter -- rphun...@charter.net

Sumant Sankaran

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Mar 4, 2010, 4:15:19 AM3/4/10

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On Feb 19, 11:32 am, Vinay Srini <vina...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I hacked the messenger.jar to fix the problem. If you up to it,
>
> 1. find your messenger.jar
> 2. unzip mailWidgets.xml from the jar
> 3. look for maxAddressesBeforeMore in the file and replace 1 with 10
> 4. rezip the file into messenger.jar
> 5. restart thunderbird-3
>

> more details here:http://blog.vinay-srini.com/2010/02/thunderbird-3-hack-fix-number-of....

Thanks vinay .that works.However setting it to 10 or higher
number,will not wrap text into multiple lines
change singleLine=false as well in this field

<content>
<xul:hbox class="headerValueBox" anonid="longEmailAddresses"
flex="1"
singleline="false"
align="baseline">

John Doue

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Mar 4, 2010, 7:50:15 AM3/4/10

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Thanks for all who contributed to this thread which I caught a bit late.
Very nice tip.

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John Doue

Matt Ball

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Mar 14, 2010, 11:01:01 AM3/14/10

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I put together a Thunderbird extension that basically follows these
instructions, for those who don't like to manually hack their
Thunderbird installation. It's called "Show More Recipients", and
displays 10 recipients instead of the default of 1. It also puts them
all on multiple lines.

See http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/96304

Cheers,
-Matt