{"id":82,"date":"2006-03-06T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2009-11-29T19:56:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T23:56:25","slug":"newsgroups-automatically-updating-in-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2006\/03\/newsgroups-automatically-updating-in-thunderbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsgroups automatically updating in Thunderbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getthunderbird.com\/\">Mozilla Thunderbird<\/a> to read newsgroups may like this one.<br \/>\nNotice how when you expand the list of subscribed newsgroups in the folder pane, Thunderbird automatically connects to the server, to update the unread\/total messages count on each subscribed newsgroup? Then, when you click on a newsgroup, Thunderbird automatically downloads new messages. Both actions can be disabled.<\/p>\n<p>In Thunderbird, go to <strong>Tools -&gt; Options -&gt; Advanced -&gt; General<\/strong>.<br \/>\nClick on <strong>Config Editor<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThere are two preference settings to look for, in the Config Editor:<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #333399\">news.update_unread_on_expand<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #333399\">news.get_messages_on_select<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>To prevent Thunderbird from updating the unread\/total messages count, when you expand the list of subscribed newsgroups, search for the preference setting <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #333399\">news.update_unread_on_expand<\/span>, and double-click on it (setting the value to <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #333399\">false<\/span>).<br \/>\nTo prevent Thunderbird from automatically downloading new messages when you click on a newsgroup, search for the preference setting <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #333399\">news.get_messages_on_select<\/span>, and double-click on it (setting the value to <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #333399\">false<\/span>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People using Mozilla Thunderbird to read newsgroups may like this one. Notice how when you expand the list of subscribed newsgroups in the folder pane, Thunderbird automatically connects to the server, to update the unread\/total messages count on each subscribed&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2006\/03\/newsgroups-automatically-updating-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-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","category-thunderbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}