Slightly OT - Posts not replied to

andy baxter andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk
Sat Jul 26 22:12:37 UTC 2008


Caputo, Luke A SPC RES USAR wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 23:03 +0100, andy baxter wrote:
>   
>> Alan Milnes wrote:
>>     
>>> Is there an add-on for Thunderbird, or another email client, that will 
>>> let me instantly see what posts have not been replied to?
>>>
>>> When I have a few minutes spare I like to browse back up the list for 
>>> such messages and see if I can answer them, or request more information.
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> You can nearly do this in thunderbird, but not quite - if you add the 
>> 'total' column to the list display, this shows the total number of 
>> messages in the thread; unfortunately thunderbird won't let you sort on 
>> this column at the moment, so it doesn't quite work. Maybe you could 
>> submit a bug report asking them if they could add the ability to sort on 
>> 'total'?
>>
>> andy.
>>
>>     
>
> umm, if you set it up in thread view, itll show which one hasnt had any
> replies, because it wont be stacked. thread view follows the threads in
> order of post. so, the last addition to the thread would be the last
> post. and if there are no additions to the thread, noone replied.
>
>
>   
Yes, this has already been said, but as far as I can see, the OP wanted 
a solution which shows all the recent threads with no replies together 
in a list. If you do it your way you have to scroll down to look for 
unstacked threads, but this isn't what the OP wants, I think.

andy





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