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Just starting to drop Outlook Express and going to Firefox/Thunderbird.

How do I stick a "Mark Unread" button on the Toolbar, and how do I get a
"Combine and Decode" on a marked bunch of messages before they get
displayed through Windows Media Player (or its equivalent)?

Thanks!

Ross

Ross M. Greenberg wrote:
> Just starting to drop Outlook Express and going to Firefox/Thunderbird.
>
> How do I stick a "Mark Unread" button on the Toolbar, and how do I get a
> "Combine and Decode" on a marked bunch of messages before they get
> displayed through Windows Media Player (or its equivalent)?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ross

View>>Toolbars>>Customize

Drag the Mark button onto whatever toolbar location you like. Its a
dropdown with the various Mark options. I don't use it, preferring to
right click and get it from the context menu.

Combine and Decode is another issue, TB is not set up to accomplish this
easily. Ed Mullen may be around in a while to offer help, but here is a
link to his page:

http://ed.mullen.home.comcast.net/Mo...z_combine.html

Lee

Leonidas Jones wrote:
> Ross M. Greenberg wrote:
>> Just starting to drop Outlook Express and going to Firefox/Thunderbird.
>>
>> How do I stick a "Mark Unread" button on the Toolbar, and how do I get
>> a "Combine and Decode" on a marked bunch of messages before they get
>> displayed through Windows Media Player (or its equivalent)?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Ross
>
> View>>Toolbars>>Customize
>
> Drag the Mark button onto whatever toolbar location you like. Its a
> dropdown with the various Mark options. I don't use it, preferring to
> right click and get it from the context menu.
>
> Combine and Decode is another issue, TB is not set up to accomplish this
> easily. Ed Mullen may be around in a while to offer help, but here is a
> link to his page:
>
> http://ed.mullen.home.comcast.net/Mo...z_combine.html
>
> Lee

Gosh, Combine-and-Decode in TB seems like a lot of work to
maybe-get-something-not-as-good-or-as-esy-as-OE.

And the Mark-As-UnRead seems easier in OE, too.

TB's half-assed way of sorta doing things will force me to stay an OE
user, I'm afraid. And I can't be the only one!

Ross

gwtc wrote:
> Ross M. Greenberg wrote:
>
>> Just starting to drop Outlook Express and going to Firefox/Thunderbird.
>>
>> How do I stick a "Mark Unread" button on the Toolbar, and how do I get
>> a "Combine and Decode" on a marked bunch of messages before they get
>> displayed through Windows Media Player (or its equivalent)?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Ross
> "Mark Unread" button -- why do you need a button for that? Inbetween
> the Subject and Sender column is a little column with Glasses. In this
> column are a bunch of what looks like little dots or Large Green Dots.
> That is the toggle for read and unread. When read, you get a little
> dot, when unread you get the Green Circle. Also, the keyboard shortcut
> is to hit the Letter "M"


Ah! That's more like it!

Thanks!

Ross

Ross M. Greenberg wrote:

> Just starting to drop Outlook Express and going to Firefox/Thunderbird.
>
> How do I stick a "Mark Unread" button on the Toolbar, and how do I get a
> "Combine and Decode" on a marked bunch of messages before they get
> displayed through Windows Media Player (or its equivalent)?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ross
"Mark Unread" button -- why do you need a button for that? Inbetween
the Subject and Sender column is a little column with Glasses. In
this column are a bunch of what looks like little dots or Large Green
Dots. That is the toggle for read and unread. When read, you get a
little dot, when unread you get the Green Circle. Also, the keyboard
shortcut is to hit the Letter "M"

Ross M. Greenberg wrote:

> Leonidas Jones wrote:
>
>>Ross M. Greenberg wrote:
>>
>>>Just starting to drop Outlook Express and going to Firefox/Thunderbird.
>>>
>>>How do I stick a "Mark Unread" button on the Toolbar, and how do I get
>>>a "Combine and Decode" on a marked bunch of messages before they get
>>>displayed through Windows Media Player (or its equivalent)?
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>Ross
>>
>>View>>Toolbars>>Customize
>>
>>Drag the Mark button onto whatever toolbar location you like. Its a
>>dropdown with the various Mark options. I don't use it, preferring to
>>right click and get it from the context menu.
>>
>>Combine and Decode is another issue, TB is not set up to accomplish this
>>easily. Ed Mullen may be around in a while to offer help, but here is a
>>link to his page:
>>
>>http://ed.mullen.home.comcast.net/Mo...z_combine.html
>>
>>Lee
>
>
> Gosh, Combine-and-Decode in TB seems like a lot of work to
> maybe-get-something-not-as-good-or-as-esy-as-OE.
>
> And the Mark-As-UnRead seems easier in OE, too.
>
> TB's half-assed way of sorta doing things will force me to stay an OE
> user, I'm afraid. And I can't be the only one!
>
> Ross
thats one of the downfalls of TB. As a side note, someone is working
on a way for this decoding problem.

>> Gosh, Combine-and-Decode in TB seems like a lot of work to
>> maybe-get-something-not-as-good-or-as-esy-as-OE.
>>
>> And the Mark-As-UnRead seems easier in OE, too.
>>
>> TB's half-assed way of sorta doing things will force me to stay an OE
>> user, I'm afraid. And I can't be the only one!
>>
>> Ross
> thats one of the downfalls of TB. As a side note, someone is working on
> a way for this decoding problem.

Binary use in OE is rubbish as well. Once you have used a binary
newsreader, you will never use TB or OE for that side of things again.
For text based though TB does outdo OE. Although, like you, there are
a couple of things I wouldn't mind tweaked. Such as a single click to
Mark ALL read and a filter that allows all posts on a thread you have
contributed in to be highlighted in a different colour (that filter is
possible on OE by marking all threads you have contributed in as watched
and highlight all watched threads as red)

David

[davodavo]

Originally Posted by gwtc

Ross M. Greenberg wrote:
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"Mark Unread" button -- why do you need a button for that? Inbetween
the Subject and Sender column is a little column with Glasses. In
this column are a bunch of what looks like little dots or Large Green
Dots. That is the toggle for read and unread. When read, you get a
little dot, when unread you get the Green Circle. Also, the keyboard
shortcut is to hit the Letter "M"

Hi--I just tried both these approaches for marking a message unread on Penelope / TB 2.0.0.4 on WinXP-SP2. The little green dots don't appear as columns in the message sorter window, and the M keyboard shortcut does nothing (ctrl-M makes a new message).

Where can I look to reset these things for the behavior you're talking about?

(If this is an RTFM, please reply with the URL of the FM page I need to know about.)

Thanks