Re: [Pan-users] Making Pan behave like OE/Windows Mail

[David WE Roberts]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:03:25 +0000, Duncan wrote:

> David WE Roberts posted on Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:42:30 +0000 as excerpted:
> 
>> On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:51:12 +0000, David WE Roberts wrote:
>> 
>>> Now fixed email address (I hope).
>>> "David WE Roberts" <address@hidden>
>>> wrote in message news:...
>>>>I asked this question elsewhere and was directed here.
> 
> This would be the place. =:^)
> 
>>>> I can see that I can watch threads, and also (with a bit of
>>>> investigation) write a rule so that I watch any thread I start.
>>>>
>>>> What I would then like to do is sort the header pane so that all the
>>>> watched threads are at the top and threaded, and then the rest of the
>>>> unwatched threads are displayed with the default behaviour i.e.
>>>> threaded and displayed in date order of start of thread.
>>>>
>>>> However in Pan if I sort on score I see the watched threads at the
>>>> top but then the other posts unthreaded below in date order of
>>>> posting (I think).
> 
> Seems you figured out the threaded thing below, but FWIW, pan has a
> toggle for threaded or unthreaded.  There's no threading only half the
> posts.
> 
>>>> Running Pan on various Windows PCs and under Ubuntu as well. One
>>>> version is Pan 0.133 on Windows Vista 32 bit.
> 
> FWIW, 0.133 is now rather old.  I'm not sure how much you know about pan
> history, but Charles Kerr was the lead dev for many years, then
> eventually lost interest as he apparently doesn't do news any longer. 
> He repeatedly asked for volunteers willing to take over, but they didn't
> appear right away, so for some years, pan pretty much stagnated.
> 
> IIRC 0.133 was the last Charles Kerr release, a maintenance release
> integrating a security fix and a few patches to keep pan building with
> current gcc against current libs, but not much else.  So even when it
> was released, little had changed even then for several years.  0.133 was
> released on August 1, 2008.
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Don't know where that version came from - finger trouble probably.
Just upgraded to 0.135 and behaviour hasn't changed.

Going to latest Windows version next.

Cheers

Dave R