getting rid of the tree view of a message

[Clay Weber]

On Tuesday, August 17, 2010 01:28:13 am Basil Chupin wrote:
> 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

Sorry for the delay, I was at work until 1 AM, away from my Kubuntu laptop.
I am surprised no one so far has mentioned the toggle to enable/disable this:

View - Show Message Structure - uncheck that 

No need to switch email client just yet :)

Clay Weber