[PLUG] Thunderbird behavior

[Richard C. Steffens]

Michael M. wrote:
> Richard C. Steffens wrote:

>> Do any of you t-bird users know some other place from which startup 
>> behavior is controlled and/or what you call this "feature"?

> There's a preference pane item (Edit=>Preferences) under "General" 
> called "Thunderbird Start Page" (which, IMO, is an odd thing to call it, 
> just 'cause I don't think of an email program as having "pages" in the 
> same way, say, a web browser does -- but whatever).  I have never 
> changed that setting from the default, but that should be where you can 
> control what Tbird shows on start-up.  The default on my install is:
> chrome://messenger/content/start.xhtml

That's for something different. When I check that box, I get a "Welcome 
to Mozilla Thunderbird!" web page in the pane that displays the contents 
of a selected message. It has links to various pages at mozillaZine or 
the main mozilla page, that it brings up in Firefox.

> As for connecting and downloading mail, that's done on a per account 
> basis, so you need to go to Edit=>Account Settings and adjust the server 
> settings from there.  It's the same setting you mention -- "Check for 
> new messages at startup."

I understand that, and for awhile I had T-bird set up to handle more 
than one account. But it always used to start up with a list of folders 
in the left pane, and a list of messages in the top-right pane. Now, it 
starts up with the list of folders in the left pane, and a single pane 
on the right with what you get if you click on the account name at the 
top of the list of folders.

I'm trying to have Inbox selected automatically on startup.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens