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-====== Thunderbird_Hacks ====== 
  
-===== Useful Extensions ===== 
-This is a list of extensions I find useful to have installed in Thunderbird: 
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-  * **British English Dictionary** 
-  * **Enigmail** - Handles PGP signing and encryption of mail. Requires gnupgp or similar to be installed on the system. Doesn't like anything but text/plain format emails though. 
-  * **Lightning** - Outlook style calendaring for Thunderbird. 
-  * **Mail Redirect** - Allows you to bounce (rather than forward) email to another address, amongst other things. 
-  * **Provider for Google Calendar** - Bidirectional sync to your Google calendars. Doesn't always play nicely; need to spend some time working out why. 
-  * **QuoteCollapse** - Uses folding to hide away the quoted parts of emails so you can see the real content. Useful if your contacts insist on replying below the a quoted message (which happens to be the Thunderbird default too). 
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-===== Advanced Config Editor ===== 
-Thunderbird has a similar advanced configuration editor to the one found in Firefox. It can be accessed via: 
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- Tools->Options->Advanced->General->Config Editor 
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-The advanced config editor will be needed to apply most of the hacks documented on this page. 
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-==== Default folder sort order ==== 
-By default, Thunderbird sorts IMAP folders by date ascending, so that new emails appear at the bottom of the mail list. For reference, this is the date sent, not date received; mail sent from a machine with a broken system clock will not appear at the correct place in the folder. 
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-To invert the default sort order, open the config editor and use the filter to search for the ''mailnews.default_sort_order'' key. Change the value to ''2'', for descending sort order. 
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-The field on which the folder is sorted can also be changed using the ''mailnews.default_sort_type'' key. 
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-The following keys are related to this hack: 
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- mailnews.default_sort_order 
- mailnews.default_sort_type 
- mailnews.default_view_flags 
- mailnews.default_news_sort_order 
- mailnews.default_news_sort_type 
- mailnews.default_news_view_flags 
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-The following values are acceptable for the above keys: 
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- sort_order: 
-  byNone        17         byPriority    23      byLocation    29  
-  byDate        18 *       byStatus      24       byTags        30  
-  bySubject     19 *       bySize        25       byJunkStatus  31  
-  byAuthor      20 *       byFlagged     26      byAttachments 32  
-  byId          21 **      byUnread      27      byAccount     33  
-  byThread      22         byRecipient   28      byCustom      34  
-    * = commonly desired values 
-   ** = by Order Received (?) 
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- sort_type: 
-  ascending   1 
-  descending  2 
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- view_flags -- the second group of values can be added to one of the first group to combine effects, with several limitations: 
-  Unthreaded       0 
-  Threaded         1 
-  Grouped         64  [[mail|only (?)]] 
-  ShowIgnored      8  [[news|only]] 
-  ShowUnreadOnly  16 
-  ShowExpanded    32  [[doesn't|seem to work]] 
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-This hack was brought to you from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86845#c74. 
thunderbird_hacks.1416795231.txt.gz · Last modified: 2014/11/24 02:13 by ben