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Must-Have Extensions for Thunderbird 2.0 262
Operator writes "While Firefox has been in the spotlight for some time now, Thunderbird has yet to enjoy the same wide adoption or glowing praise despite being an excellent email client. It's no surprise that a popular topic has been Firefox's best (and worst) extensions while Thunderbird add-ons have gone largely unnoticed. In celebration of the recent release of Thunderbird 2.0 here are the best extensions for the program along with some honorable mentions."
enigmail extension (Score:5, Informative)
Enigmail adds OpenPGP message encryption and authentication to your email client. It features automatic encryption, decryption and integrated key management functionality. Enigmail requires GnuPG (www.gnupg.org) for the cryptographic functions. Note: GnuPG is not part of the installation.
dispMUA - Display Mail User Agent (Score:5, Informative)
Home Page: http://cweiske.de/misc_extensions.htm [cweiske.de]
Extension Link: http://www.cweiske.de/files/download/misc/dispmua
List of Supported Agents: http://cweiske.de/misc_extensions_dispmuas.htm [cweiske.de]
The list (Score:4, Informative)
Runners-up: Dictionary Switcher, View Headers Toggle Button, Contacts Sidebar.
It also mentions "Mozilla has three recommended extensions, Foxytunes, Enigmail, and an adblocker"
Re:inefficiency of splitting mozilla (Score:5, Informative)
Virtual Identity (Score:5, Informative)
Order by is configurable (Score:5, Informative)
You can sort messages by the contents of any column by clicking on the column header. Click again to sort in the opposite order. So once you have an Order Received column, click on its heading to have messages sorted by the received date instead of the Send Date. The sort order you select is remembered when you exit and restart Thunderbird.
Re:Wait for Penelope ! (Score:3, Informative)
There are huge differences between those two.
I agree that I'd like Thunderbird to handle more of Outlook's work, but there are extensions (like Lightening) that are slowly doing that.
Account Settings > [account] > Composition & Addressing > Select: start my reply above the quote
Personally, I use Thunderbird because I find it very quick and easy to use.
I do get the occasional inbox/email corruption, but that's why I keep my profile folder regularly backed up (something that's hard to do with Outlook Express).
Obligatory end-to-end commentary (Score:5, Informative)
Thunderbird+Lightning connected to a Citadel server [citadel.org] does the job quite nicely. Mail, calendar, contacts, all server-side and end-to-end, 100 percent open source.
Thanks for asking.
Re:Wait for Penelope ! (Score:2, Informative)
Oh, and even if you aren't actually replying to a quote (because, for example, you use GMail and it already reads like a book), please for the love of God strip out all the cruft like signatures ads (I'm in a lot of Yahoo! Groups, which tack ads onto everything... come to think of it, so does plain old Yahoo! Mail), because the rest of us probably didn't want to read it the first time, let alone have it waste our visual real estate when we're trying to read a completely different email.
TB thread sorting (was Re:Because it sucks?) (Score:4, Informative)
Options usually work if you just try them.
Re:A True Must Have (Score:3, Informative)
Re:A True Must Have (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Because it sucks? (Score:2, Informative)
Thunderbird 2.0 has tags, which if I understand correctly is the same as labels, except you get to (or "have to") use folders in addition to tags. It doesn't appear to store the tags on the IMAP server, though, which is bummer and makes it useless for me (haven't tried it myself, but read some forum posting that said it didn't). IMAP is of course still folder based, so eliminating folders altogether is not possible.
The reason I mention IMAP is because I couldn't imagine someone would use POP3 instead of IMAP (unless you're one of those fools who use a webmail provider that doesn't support IMAP *cough*Gmail*cough*)
There is no integration with any reasonable calender (and don't call sunbird reasonable)
I think you mean "Lightning". Lightning isn't that great, but at least I can understand those damn Exchange invites I get from time to time.
Re:Lightning (Score:4, Informative)
It is better than nothing, but it is not a proper calendar either. BTW, is there any way to get rid of it temporarily if I don't want to use it? It takes up so much space that could have better use sometimes.
Anyway, if you need a real calendar, you have to go for a more powerful solution, such as Gmail, KMail, Evolution or Outlook. Note that the later two programs suck quite a lot.
External Editor (Score:3, Informative)
No one mentioned the External Editor [globs.org] extension yet? Nice to be able to kick off your favorite editor without cut-n-pasting. Something every mail client should have, but maybe I'm just old fashioned.
Re:inefficiency of splitting mozilla (Score:2, Informative)
So, in other words, it's you that is not smart.
Other good extensions (Score:2, Informative)
Slideshow [mozilla.org] is extremely useful for people who get a lot of pictures via email, and just want to look at them quickly.
Re:KMail (Score:4, Informative)
It allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc.
Been using it for ages, it's one of the handiest tools I've got.
Cheers!