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Is it possible to make the Thunderbird message list display each message as two rows (one row for the sender, and one row for subject, like Mac Mail does?)

Here is what my version of Thunderbird (version 45) shows:

Thunderbird message list row

And here is what I'd like Thunderbird to be able to show (screenshot from Mac Mail):

Mac Mail message list row

Mateusz Piotrowski
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Taylor R
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This is impossible with the current UX (User Interface) framework that Thunderbird uses.

See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213945

There are some bug bounties out there, but no one has picked up the torch for it yet.

David T
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Currently, Thunderbird cannot do multi-line view as per your question. However, Betterbird, a fork of Thunderbird, has the feature. You might want to either wait for the feature to be implemented in Thunderbird, or simply use Betterbird for now.

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Ade Malsasa Akbar
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This feature has now arrived in Thunderbird 115 (July 2023). It is called "card view".

See this support article on how to activate it.

user11784
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