Comments on: Testing Thunderbird 3: What to do if it ‘shreds’ your threads

By: plz

plz — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:37:41 +0000

thanks very much for the tip, but in my case (win xp) it still won’t organize threads from some messages…that’s really odd, because the sender and email of those odd messages are the same. Would appreciate any thoughts on how to fix that.

Settings:
mail.correct_threading = true
mail.operate_on_msgs_in_collapsed_threads = false
mail.strict_threading = false
mail.thread_without_re = true (i require that for the messages from the same sender to be organized in threads as well)

By: Pierce

Pierce — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:25:18 +0000

Just a heads up for any Windows XP users: I had to keep the factory setting mail.correct_threading = true. When I set that one to false (per the instructions) the threading didn’t work. Meanwhile, I’m back where I used to be under T2. Thanks for the great post!

By: David

David — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:50:25 +0000

Thank you for helping me to fix the threads in thunderbird 3. My mailing lists are now easily readable.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:02:27 +0000

Thanks! You saved me from going back to TB2

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:04:02 +0000

Thank you. I run Thunderbird in Windows Vista so the process was a bit different, but I now have proper threading.

I had to go to Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General (tab) -> Config Editor… (button). I then filtered by thread and double clicked on each of the three config items you showed above. I closed Thunderbird and re-opened it. Right-clicked on the folder and rebuilt indexes and poof! Beautiful logical treading.

By: jv

jv — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:42:19 +0000

Well, I was having the same messed up threading problem you were so I tried your fix.
Now I have no threads in my folder no matter if I tell it to display threaded or unthreaded :(

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Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:54:36 +0000

[...] Thunderbird 3 is available for testing, currently in beta 4. Our own Bill Fraser has been testing it and posted a great blog on how to get it installed on your Ubuntu system, and how to fix some issues with email threads. See Testing Thunderbird 3: What to do if it ’shreds’ your threads. [...]