Hello everyone.
I read a lot, but still couldn't find answers to a few questions relating to my news-reading habits. Probably you can help me out..? I changed from Forte Agent and used to download all headers AND bodies, when connected to the Internet for offline reading. No problem so far, although I am badly suffering from the download/syncing-problems (mozilla doesn't download & sync all selected newsgroups). 1. How am I supposed to mark a thread "interesting" for me in mozilla? In Agent I used the "Watch thread feature", which is still buggy in current mozilla. You could simply type "W" on any message in a thread and the whole thread became clearly labeled with the watch-icon. Will that be possible in mozilla, too? 2. How does one keep interesting messages in mozilla (especially keep them from being deleted by the save-diskspace-runs)? Again, in Agent, one could just type "K" (eep, not kill ;)) on a message and a lock-icon indicated that this message would not be deleted after the default storage time, but instead would be kept forever. (On a collapsed thread "K" would keep the whole thread.) What's the equivalent concept in mozilla? Probably copying all interesting messages to "Local Folder"s? Could work, although not that comfortable. But still: How do I keep the messages from being deleted in the Local "Archive" Folders? How do you guys archive interesting messages, and (more difficult) interesting and probaly still living threads? 3. And now to something completely different... ;-) "Cursor right" expands threads, but "Cursor left" only collapses the actual thread, when on the first message. When anywhere inside a thread "Cursor left" just moves up one message, while "Cursor up" would do the same. So, when one is anywhere inside a big thread and decides to move to the next thread, it is not possible to collapse the actual thread with just a "cursor left"-tap (the intuitive opposite of the "cursor right"-expansion), when focused to the cursor-keys (sorry). Can I (easily) change this behaviour for me? Any help & hints greatly appreciated! I like mozilla really much (well, although the mail&news-client stills seems to need a lot of polishing ;-)), but it will take me a tough time to regain my old news-reading-speed, if I can't find any help on the above topics. Greetings, UW(e)
