Re: Thunderbird

[Steven Stern <subscribed-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > Albert Graham wrote:
> > > It seems you are correct, this future (menu option called 
> > > "messages") has been removed in Thunderbird 2.x - what a  shame :(
> >
> > Sounds like someone is jumping to conclusions.  I'm using the current 
> > official Fedora 8 thunderbird 2.0.0.9 update, and was previously 
> > using the stock Fedora 8 thunderbird.  Prior to that I used 
> > thunderbird 2.x on Fedora 7.
> >
> > The "View->Messages" submenu on the main window's pulldown menus has 
> > been there in every single release as I use it all the time.  As 
> > mentioned in a previous mail in this thread, it is the main 
> > thunderbird screen that must be used, not the message composition 
> > window.
>    Of course and I have got the view-messages working by configuring 
> the the main panel to have Get Mail instead of just plain Mail. This 
> caused view-messages to be available. But this is NOT the problem. The 
> problem is that I only want to view only 5 total messages in any  main 
> window. I do not know how to do this.
If you mess around with the size of the sub-panes, you can see only the 
5 most recent unread messages.  (I use the class view with message pane 
enabled.)