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Thunderbird layout - how do i enlarge the classic view current message pane window? it's too short/compressed, and i can only drag it up a little, then it stops. In the prior TB versions, I only saw the last 3 or 4 messages in the upper message list portion of the classic view layout. Now I'm seeing almost 10 messages in my messages list. Meanwhile, the actual current message viewing pane is now horizontally compressed so that the ratio of message list to message view is closer to 40% message list, 60% actual message text plus the header info. I have tried click and drag the upper border of the current message being viewed, towards the top of the screen, but it stops, and still shows me 10 most recent messages in my list, which is really useless. I only need to see the last 3 or 4. The rest of the viewing pane should be more of the text area of the current message being viewed. Is there a "config editor" tweak to reduce the messages list to 3 or 4 messages, and increase the actual current message viewing area? Or some other fix for this?

Hi!

I'm trying to help my elderly father with Thunderbird, but I just can't get it the way he used to have it.

The problem is that he wants to have a reading pane below the list of emails, and he no longer can make the list of emails show less, like only three emails or so. Because he has poor eye sight, he needs to have Windows on low resolution, and because of this, only half of his screen is used for actual showing the content of the email.

I have attached a screenshot of his screen, and as you can see, the reading pane at the bottom shows very little of the email. He can of course double click on it to get a full screen view, but he would prefere not to. So what he is asking for is how to make the box with the list of emails smaller, the box that is right above the reading box.

Thank you very much in advance for any help.

Regards, Ulf