On Tuesday 30 December 2008 12:19:26 Anne Wilson wrote: > I don't recall ever seeing the option on a per-folder basis. ?You can > default to open, default to closed or default to closed with threads > containing new or Important messages open - which is my choice. ?As far as > I can recall that has always been the list of options. ?Could you be > thinking of the last one? It was possible in the earlier versions. I've gotten so used to KDE 4.1.85 and Kmail 1.10.92 that I can't remember how I used to do it. I believe you could set a folder when you were in it, and it would remember - then there was a global setting that affected everything. All I know is, I could set things the way I liked them, and they would 'stick' - now, I find myself having to constantly expand threads as I am refreshing my memory about the flow of a conversation. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD