Review for MarkSubfolders by Jan Schoubo
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I can confirm that George's "trick" works for my Thunderbird 6.0.2, when I substitute 6.0.2 (in 2.) and 6. (in 4.)
I run Thunderbird 6.0.2 on Ubuntu 11.04, 64bit
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