[sylpheed:32886] Re: New nntp abbreviated folder names

[Dennis Nezic]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:10:51 +0900, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 22:39:35 -0400
> Dennis Nezic <dennisn at dennisn.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 
> > I use the news.gmane.org nntp server, for example, which mirrors
> > mailing lists and has folder names like
> > "gmane.mail.sylpheed.general", which gets abbreviated to
> > g.m.s.general here, which is pretty hard to understand :|. For
> > example, my folders looks similar to:
> > 
> > x.y.z.user
> > x.y.q.user
> > x.m.n.devel
> > x.m.p.devel
> > g.m.s.general
> > etc.
> > 
> > :)
> > 
> > Is there any way to manually rename/override these folder names?
> 
> Modify the number of 'Common prefs - Display - Abbreviate newsgroups
> longer than __ letters' (default is 16).

Awesome!

(The description of that setting is a little hard to understand--what
it really appears to do is more like: "Do not abbreviate the last __
letters of folder names" :b.)

(I love sylpheed :]).