Hi!
If we need to move things around in order to get more space in the footer then I suggest to find a new place for the quota display. This is not diretly related to the message list (or the folders list) but the other links are.
Thread support code being developed utilizes footer too. And it requires a lot of space in some localizations. May be it is possible to introduce second row in a footer? Or move quota display indeed... Or even move navigation buttons too... Alternatively we could move message selection (and thread expansion) links somewhere. Or replace text links with icons and tooltips?
Vladislav
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