messages versus conversations
When I select a range of e-mail messages in Thunderbird, it tells me how many "Conversations" are in that range. Not how many messages. I find that a little inconvenient. Is there a way to get to it just give me a count of the number of e-mails that I've selected? That is, when I select a days worth of e-mails, I want to know how many e-mails I got that day. I guess I would be happy to get BOTH a count of conversations and a count of messages, but my system seems to assume that the former number is always what I want.
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If you have the Status Bar enabled under View/Toolbars, the number of selected messages is shown in the lower right corner.
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Make sure you don't use threaded view in the thread pane.
I have
View>Threads>All and View>Sort by>Unthreaded
and I still get counts of conversations rather than messages.
If I select View>Sort by>Threaded
I still get counts of conversations rather than messages
Ah, bingo. Thank you. That gives me what I was looking for.
"Selected:" is the number of e-mails you've selected, and "Total:" is the total number of e-mails displayed in the pane.
Now, it is a little odd that "Conversations" is displayed so prominently in larger font. Kind of gratuitous. Why not display that down at the bottom in small font with the others?