From: Tom von Alten (tom_vonalten@boi.hp.com)
Date: Wed Nov 10 1999 - 16:15:06 CST
I've got a problem with the v2b25 thread and date indexes.
The message list column widths for "subject" "author" and "date" are sized
based on the content. Subjects and dates are fairly predictably riddled
with white space on which long lines can wrap.
The "author" string is not -- in particular, I have a person with a long
pseudonym (having a descriptive pseudo-middle name, used to distinguish
between several people with the same first and last name), and a long
machine.domain identifier -- coming out to 52 (!) characters total. His
MUA does not give a "real name" string that hypermail could use.
In a typical browser display, this forces the 'author' column to about
2/3rds of the display width, and the subject and date get crammed into the
remaining 1/3rd.
The "hm_usetable" resource only affects headers and footers, and not the
bulk of the index display itself. Is there an existing configuration
choice that could help me?
Failing that, is this a reasonably straightforward modification for v2 or
an easy derivative of it?
Thanks,
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