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-====== Thunderbird_Hacks ======
-===== Useful Extensions =====
-This is a list of extensions I find useful to have installed in Thunderbird:
-  * **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).
-===== Advanced Config Editor =====
-Thunderbird has a similar advanced configuration editor to the one found in Firefox. It can be accessed via:
- Tools->Options->Advanced->General->Config Editor
-The advanced config editor will be needed to apply most of the hacks documented on this page.
-==== 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.
-To invert the default sort order, open the config editor and use the filter to search for the <tt>mailnews.default_sort_order</tt> key. Change the value to <tt>2</tt>, for descending sort order.
-The field on which the folder is sorted can also be changed using the <tt>mailnews.default_sort_type</tt> key.
-The following keys are related to this hack:
- 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
-The following values are acceptable for the above keys:
- 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 (?)
- sort_type:
-  ascending   1
-  descending  2
- 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]]
-This hack was brought to you from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86845#c74.