[ale] Expand newsgroup names in Mozilla Thunderbird

[Alan Dobkin]

Ben,

You can download and install about:config for Thunderbird as an extension:

http://aboutconfig.mozdev.org/

Or, you can just edit user.js or prefs.js in your profile the old 
fashioned way (with a text editor):

// Don't abbreviate newsgroup names:
user_pref("mail.server.default.abbreviate", false);

As to your second question, you can add a column for "Total" to the 
mailbox pane.

Alan

On 1/4/2005 4:27 PM, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:

> Does anyone know how to stop the newsgroups listing from using the 
> shortcuts (i.e. comp.jobs becomes c.jobs) in Thunderbird? Under the 
> full Mozilla its an option under about:config but I can't figure out 
> how to do it in the standalone Thunderbird. Also - does Thunderbird 
> have an option to display the number of total or read messages in a 
> mail folder rather than just the unread count?
>    thanx & later,
>
>       Ben Scherrey