newsgroup account and long folder names

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Manfred Lotz
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newsgroup account and long folder names

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Hi there,
Having a newsgroup account the folder names are usually pretty long.
Example: gmane.text.docbook.misc or gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general

This means in the folder view they are to be seen as g.t.d.misc and g.l.r.f.general which is pretty bad from a usage point of view. I think I'm not the only person facing this problem.

Therefore my question: Is there any way to assign some readable display names to newsgroup folders?

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Thanks, Manfred
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Re: newsgroup accout and long folder names

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Not that I know of.
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WaltS48
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Re: newsgroup account and long folder names

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I thought there was an about:config setting, but can't find it.

A tool tip with the full name is shown when the mouse is hovered over the name of a newsgroup.
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Re: newsgroup account and long folder names

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You can make the fullname appear by setting pref mail.server.%serverkey%.abbreviate to false. In the config editor you have to create the boolean pref, and first find the server key for the nntp account.
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Re: newsgroup account and long folder names

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Thanks! I found the one I was thinking about.

Setting

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mail.server.default.abbreviate
to false works, without needing a server key for my news.mozilla.org and Usenet-News accounts.

Of course that requires the Folder Pane to be wider to read the complete newsgroup names, and reduces the size of the Thread and Message Panes.

I prefer abbreviated.
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Re: newsgroup account and long folder names

Post by Manfred Lotz »

Yeah the full name doesn't help much because usually it is too long.

Therefore I would prefer to be able to specify an alternate readable name.
Something like this:

gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general --> fedora.general
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