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.

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

marking nsbeta1-

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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).

(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".

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.

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.