getting rid of the tree view of a message

[Basil Chupin]

On 17/08/2010 07:46, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>    
>> On 17/08/2010 02:54, Michael Hirsch wrote:
>>      
>>> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>    wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> On 16/08/2010 14:46, Michael Hirsch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> I just upgraded my family to KDE 4.5.  Now my wife is pretty unhappy.
>>>>>
>>>>> Her biggest problem is with kmail.  When she looks at a mail message
>>>>> (double click the entry in the message list) is always shows her the
>>>>> message structure.  Even worse, the frame showing the structure takes
>>>>> up half the window.  She can shrink it to something smaller, but the
>>>>> next on she looks at has it back to half the window again.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone know what is causing this and how to fix it?  Preferably, she
>>>>> could make it go away entirely.  She has no interest in that
>>>>> structure.  She doesn't care that there is a text body part and an
>>>>> HTML body part.  She cares about attachments, but those are displayed
>>>>> at the top of the message, too.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have to say I agree with her.  That structure pane seems only of
>>>>> interest to mail geeks.  Why should anyone care about it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, anyone know how she can get rid of it, or at least make it smaller?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Michael
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> By "message structure" do you mean the Header of the message (showing
>>>> From, To, Subject, etc etc)?
>>>>
>>>> If so, then there should be a setting in kmail' preferences to either
>>>> see the "Full View" of the header or to see it in "Normal View - or
>>>> words to this effect?
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> No, I mean the part at the bottom of the mail message that tells you
>>> what the structure of the MIME mail is.  Often it is a text body, an
>>> html body, and some number of attachments.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> I see. You can't left-click, hold, and drag down (or up or sideways,
>> whatever) the border(s)?
>>      
> Yes, I can do that.  But then the next message has them back where
> they were.  On my personal kmail they are unobtrusively down at the
> bottom, taking up very little room.  And as a geek I don't mind seeing
> them there and getting some insight into how mail is structured, but
> on my wife's kmail they take up have the message window.  Even I agree
> that is intolerable.
>
> Michael
>
>    
OK, getting the picture...

Are you both running the same OS and if so have you done a comparison of 
the settings between the two systems? In line with this, are new 
messages being opened in the same window or in a separate (new) window?

(Just as an aside, I did read somewhere very recently (as in yesteday I 
think) that kmail has gone the hill rather badly recently and that it is 
now better to switch over to Thunderbird. Have you considered this?)

BC


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