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Office 365 (Thunderbird) - Change View settings
This document contains instructions on using a non-Microsoft email client, such as Apple Mail or Thunderbird. Microsoft does not recommend these clients for use with Office 365, and there are often significant limitations in client functionality as a result. Because of this, the DoIT Help Desk is only able to offer best effort support for these clients, and certain issues may require the use of a Microsoft client in order to be resolved. For more information on Office 365 client support, please see: Office 365 - Which clients/protocols will be supported?.Best Effort Support Only
Changing the way you view messages and folders in Thunderbird is quick and easy, just follow the steps below.
- Open Thunderbird
- Click the Menu button to the right of the search bar (three horizontal lines)
- Select Preferences
- From the bottom of the preferences menu, select Layout (For Windows: choose Options menu)
- From Layout, your options are:
- Classic View (default) - Folder Pane on the left and Message Pane on the bottom in roughly equal proportions
- Wide View - Folder Pane and Inbox list small and Message Pane large across the bottom
- Vertical View - all Panes vertical and proportional
- You can also toggle the Message Pane and the Folder Pane on and off from Layout
- Open Thunderbird
- Click the swirl on the top of the message list (For Windows it is a
)
- Conversations are now grouped and when you click on a message with a swirl by it, you will see the entire conversation thread nested under the original message of the group