Users of Mozilla Thunderbird, may have noticed that if you are viewing messages in threaded view, clicking on a column name (other than the thread column) will turn off threaded view.
What if you want to keep threaded view on? Go to Tools–>Options–>Advanced–>General, and click on “Config Editor“.
In the Config Editor, search for the preference mailnews.thread_pane_column_unthreads. Double-click on it, which should change the value to false.
That’s it. 🙂
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Show CommentsThis is a great tip — I accidentally do this often!
However, it doesn’t appear to work in the TB 2.x bleeding edge build that I use. Have something changed that would break this?
Jason
Why is it needed to remove this feature by default? I love this one.
Indeed, as localhost says, why not have this feature on by default? At this point, the default behaviour is confusing…
There’s a fix for this?! Thank you thank you thank you thank you.
I had just given up on being able to easily sort my mail!
Please please please please turn this off by default!
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Thanks for digging this up. You inspired me to dig up the preference key for changing the default sort order for dates to be reverse chronological, though unfortunately it only helps with new folders. So I almost have all my Tbird headaches cured.
http://kwc.org/blog/archives/2007/2007-05-10.fix_for_my_1_thunderbird_headaches.html
Hi I am using the release candidate 2.0 (2.0.20070326)
Doesn’t seem to work for me either
Any thoughts?
Came here via Lifehacker btw
🙂
Yes i am using 2.0 with Imap also and it does not work for me.
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Cool, thanks a million, that had annoyed me so much. 🙂
Great! Thank you very much!
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So, there is an easy solution for TBird 2. Simply click the leftmost column header, which is (as if by magic) “click to display message threads”.
Viola! your threads are restored.
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Since you’re so smart (honestly, this is amazing!), do you know how to show more than 7 levels of threading?
Thanks for the tip regarding Thunderbird 2.0
You have to use plugins in thunderbird 2.x
Here is one of them.
https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/thunderbird/addon/9743