{"id":99,"date":"2006-07-05T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T06:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2019-03-18T19:46:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T23:46:01","slug":"give-attachment-names-more-room-in-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2006\/07\/give-attachment-names-more-room-in-thunderbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Give attachment names more room in Thunderbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while, since I&#8217;ve posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getfirefox.com\/\">Firefox<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getthunderbird.com\/\">Thunderbird<\/a> tip; which I assume is the primary reason I have any subscribers. I apologize. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2005\/10\/limiting-the-attachment-window-size-in-thunderbird\/\">another<\/a> Thunderbird attachment box tip, that I&#8217;ve found useful.<\/p>\n<p>Thunderbird has a width limit on the display of attachment names, which means if an attachment has a long name, the full name may not be displayed. Instead you&#8217;ll get an abbreviated version. For example, &#8220;abcd&#8230;xyz.eml&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You can increase the width limit, to fit your tastes. This is particularly useful for those with large screen resolutions. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/support\/thunderbird\/edit\">Add the following script<\/a> to your <strong>userChrome.css<\/strong> file:<br \/>\n<code style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #333399\">#attachmentBucket, .attachmentBox {min-width: 30em;}<\/code><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;30em&#8221; is what I use, but you can modify that to your liking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while, since I&#8217;ve posted a Firefox or Thunderbird tip; which I assume is the primary reason I have any subscribers. I apologize. Here&#8217;s another Thunderbird attachment box tip, that I&#8217;ve found useful. Thunderbird has a width limit&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2006\/07\/give-attachment-names-more-room-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-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","category-thunderbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}