Thunderbird Birthday Reminder

Birthday Reminder is a sweet little add-on for Mozilla Thunderbird which does exactly what the name implies: It reminds you of upcoming birthdays of users that are in your address bock in Thunderbird. It is relatively easy to add new birthdays to the address bock which then get automatically picked up by the Birthday Reminder extension.

Birthdays can be added by opening the address bock in Thunderbird and right-clicking on an entry that you want to edit. Select Properties in the right-click menu and click on the other tab. Custom 1 is the default location for the birthdays. Add the birthday in the format 8.2.2007 (day / month / year).

The new birthday will be picked up automatically by the birthday reminder extension. Two options exist how you will be reminded of birthdays. The first reminder is send by email - you specify how many days in advance you want to be notified and an email will be send with the information about the upcoming birthday.

The second reminder is a simple popup window which opens everytime Thunderbird is opened. I do not like the second option that much because I tend to open and close Thunderbird a lot and it soon becomes annoying to close the birthday reminder popup.