551064 - List of CCd e-mails should not default to only one plus more link, or this should be configurable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 456596

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Benjamin Melançon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3

The need to click more to see even the second CCd recipient of an e-mail is an unnecessary annoyance.  At the very least 3 should be shown (my preference would be for a setting to show all, or a few lines worth, by default).

These links indicate that there is both the ability to set this differently and a demand to change it:

http://blog.vinay-srini.com/2010/02/thunderbird-3-hack-fix-number-of.html

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.thunderbird/browse_thread/thread/bbfe2acae6f21473/251b009533ca5344?lnk=raot

Unfortunately, not only is there no user interface to change the number of addresses shown to a more sensible default, but the code that must be modified is in Thunderbird itself which is replaced and not a user profile.

ben

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive an e-mail with multiple recipients.
2. Try to tell at a glance who else is receiving it.
Actual Results:  
Need to click the more link; if you miss it, you do silly things like forward an e-mail to people who already received it.

Expected Results:  
See a reasonable number of recipients before additional are hidden behind a more link; or at least have a user interface configurable setting or an overridable profile-based configuration file setting.