76702 - Need the ability to have different columns for mail and news (or per-folder)

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Ninoschka Baca]

Build 2001-04-19-04: NT4, Mac 9.04
haven't tried linux yet.

Overview: According to the Mail spec there should be the option to see one set 
of columns in the thread pane for Mail and another set for News.

Actual Results: I cannot see a different set of columns for Mail vs News. They 
are always the same.

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsbeta1. Open the Mail spec and go to the "Column" section and it 
explains this feature.

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

marking nsbeta1-

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

How about remembering different column settings for different folders instead of
just mail versus news? F.i. it makes sense to have the junk status in the Inbox,
but not in folders which have already been selected not to be junk. One might
also want to exclude the label, enlarge the subject etc.

Comment 4

[Jure Repinc (JLP)]

I agree this would be very usefull. We should have one default news and one
default mail view. And then there should be an option for specific folders to
use some other then default view.

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

With the fix for bug 36492, a this feature becomes even more desirable, 
I daresay urgent.

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 148901 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I posted this in the newsgroups a week ago or so:

I find that I have about four different folder configurations I want: one for 
Inbox, one for Sent/Drafts/Templates, one for archives of whatever form, and one 
for Newsgroups.  If there were some way to configure any folder to either follow 
a "master" or be a master (in my case, I'd have four masters), that would keep 
the number of types of displayed folders (and so the size of the .RDF file) 
down.

One advantage of this is, if I made a change in the Inbox for one account, that 
change would be picked up when I switched to an Inbox for another account.  Of 
course, that could be a disadvantage too -- perhaps only one Inbox needs an 
extra-wide Subject column -- but then that Inbox could be made its own master.

Comment 8

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 269316 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 286976 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Continuing comment #7, here's a way to do what Mike said would suit him while
maintaining the complete per-folder flexibility:

Have the ability to save a set of selected columns, their relative order and
their size as a 'column layout template'. The saving of such templates and the
switching of a specific folder to use this template will be handled by the
pop-up menu at the edge of the column view (which now only allows
showing/removing specific columns). And if you save a certain column layout
template over an existing template, all the folders which adhere to that
template will be affected. The templates can be saved, say, as prefs, or as a
multiline/multifield pref (like adblock's filter list).

Comment 11

[Ger Teunis]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I find that I have about four different folder configurations I want: one for 
> Inbox, one for Sent/Drafts/Templates, one for archives of whatever form, and one 
> for Newsgroups.

I would like this as well.
I'd like to configure my folders containing emails originating from myself (like
Drafts/Sent/Templates) to display "Recipient" column. And the Inbox to display
the "Sender".

Comment 13

[Brandon Sterne (:bsterne)]

Is this bug still valid?  On my Linux and Mac systems, both with 2.0.0.12 installed, I have different columns displayed in different folders.  Per comment 11, my Inbox displays the sender but not the recipient, while my Sent folder displays the recipient but not the sender.  All this appears to be the default behavior of Thunderbird.

It is still the case, though, that some columns, e.g. Status, will be displayed globally in all folders if selected in any folder.

Comment 14

[Sander]

Sender/recipient is special-cased for the sent folder; the behaviour doesn't work for any other column. So yes, the bug is still valid.
Also note that this is the SeaMonkey bug for this behaviour. The Thunderbird version is bug 259609.