Thunderbird 3, which is currently available as a beta version, promises to be an excellent desktop email program far superior to the current version. It comes with many exciting features like powerful search options, archiving, tabbed email reading or message summaries. Most of the add-ons that are currently available at the Mozilla Thunderbird website are [...]
Thunderbird URL Link
URL Link is a very sophisticated add-on for the email client Mozilla Thunderbird that provides advanced link manipulation techniques. The most obvious – and probably common as well – function is to join links that spawn across multiple lines which is often the case when verification emails are send. It also substitutes spaces in links [...]
Faceted Browsing for Thunderbird
Faceted Browsing can be very helpful if you do not precisely know what you are looking for. It gives you choices which narrow down the search results. Seek is a Thunderbird extension that brings that concept to the email client. It displays mails by a variety of variables like recency, tags and from and offers a sophisticated search that narrows done the search results.
Don’t jump to next message in Thunderbird automatically
The problem that Thunderbird is always selecting the next message in line after deleting or moving the previous one has bothered me for some time. It happened more than once that a spam mail was selected and read that way which I did not want to happen obviously.
Redirect Mails in Thunderbird
Mails that have been sent to you in error can be forwarded in Thunderbird to the correct recipient of the email. This is happening regularly in companies for example. The forwarded message however does not look like the original one because it normally has the mail header attached to it. This looks pretty ugly and is not needed most of the times.
Thunderbird Duplicate Contact Manager
I introduced a Thunderbird extension to remove duplicate mails yesterday and I want to continue today by writing about a Thunderbird extension that checks for duplicates in the Thunderbird address book. The add-on handles one address book at the time currently which is a little unfortunate but the author promises to deliver the possibility to check all existing address books in a future version.
Productivity Tip for Thunderbird
Drag and Drop is probably the more comfortable way to move emails around but keyboard shortcuts can speed up the process tremendously. That is what Nostalgy, a Mozilla Thunderbird add-on, is all about. It adds keyboard shortcuts to move and copy messages, change folders and display the folder pane.
