On Tuesday 30 December 2008 12:37:31 Garry T. Williams wrote: > You don't say what version of what program you're talking about. > > I will assume that you are referring to kmail 1.10.92, which I have > installed from the fedora kde-testing repository. ?It seems that kmail > has changed dramatically in this area. ?You want to click the Select > Aggregation Mode button to right hand side of the search box above the > list view. ?That will drop down a menu which includes Configure... > > This opens a dialog box and you want to select the Groups, Threads and > Sorting tab. ?You will find what you are looking for in here. ?In > particular, the Thread Expand Policy setting will control expanding > threads. ?This seems to be a global setting, though. Sorry about not mentioning version, but, you guessed correctly, and your suggestion has worked, at least partially. I prefer to keep them all expanded if I have to, but I would prefer the old folder-by-folder configurability... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD