Hi.

Login to your Admin Interface.

Templates(Top Frame)>Globals (on left frame):

Select the Template that you are working with, say nessa (or brewt whichever is your template) from the drop down list.

Then scroll down and in the left hand empt box add some name for the global say:

display_truncate

In the right box by it's side add the code (perhaps taking it thru notepad as direct copy/paste from forum could cause errors) and then hit Save.

Now you have a global by name of display_truncate which can be used in templates. Go to Template From the Templates>Editor Menu and select the template that you are working with (and should be the same name template set where you have saved the above global).

Load the msgs_list_include.htm template and replace <%msgs_subject%> with <%display_truncate($msgs_subject, '20')%> and Save the template. In fact once you decide upon the limit (ie 20 or whatever) then you would need to similar replacements in all other templates wherever <%msgs_subject%> appears.

Hope this helps.

Anup