{"id":54,"date":"2005-10-30T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2019-03-18T20:10:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T00:10:20","slug":"limiting-the-attachment-window-size-in-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2005\/10\/limiting-the-attachment-window-size-in-thunderbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Limiting The Attachment Window Size in Thunderbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ilias.ca\/Thunderbird-32x32.png\" alt=\"[for Mozilla Thunderbird users]\"\/><br \/>\nEver get an email message in Thunderbird, with so many files attached, the attachment pane <a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/screenshots\/tb-ManyAttachments.png\">takes over the message viewing area<\/a>? In <a href=\"https:\/\/getthunderbird.com\/\">Mozilla Thunderbird<\/a>, you can set a limit to the height of the attachments pane.<\/p>\n<p>Open a text editor, such as Notepad, and paste this text:<br \/>\n<code style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #333399\">#attachmentList {max-height: 4em !important;}<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Save the file as <strong>userChrome.css<\/strong> (not userChrome.css.txt), and put it the <em>\\chrome\\<\/em> folder of your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/support\/thunderbird\/profile\">Thunderbird profile folder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is one caveat. If you do receive a message with so many attachments, that the height limit is exceeded, there will not be a scrollbar for you to browse through the rest. You can use the menu <strong>File&#8211;&gt;Attachments<\/strong> to see the full list.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">UPDATE<\/span>: Try the script in <a href=\"#comments\">comment #1<\/a> first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever get an email message in Thunderbird, with so many files attached, the attachment pane takes over the message viewing area? In Mozilla Thunderbird, you can set a limit to the height of the attachments pane. Open a text editor,&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2005\/10\/limiting-the-attachment-window-size-in-thunderbird\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","category-thunderbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}