It's a Monday morning, we're sipping coffee and listening to jazz, and thinking about productivity and Thunderbird Add-ons!
We'd love to know what Add-ons help you get things done for our next productivity blog coming next week. (Also, I'll probably install all of them. You know, for research! - Monica) We love seeing your productivity tips and tricks, and we know you've got some great suggestions. So start your week off right and let us know!
Joachim Weinbrenner
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Thanks for your great work!
GenTollis
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •No Message Pane Sort - disables mouse clicks on the column headers so I don't re-sort my mail when I mis-click.
Lookout (fix version): opens winmail.dat files from Exchange/Outlook users
ThunderHTMLedit - adds an HTML tab in the composition window
*cloud - Filelink for Nextcloud & OwnCloud - makes sharing large files easy by integrating with Nextcloud
Owl for Exchange - lets my use Thunderbird with my work email
uBlock Origin - no ads
TuxOnBike
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Victorhck
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Would like to be available that way to see messages with no addons...
Brett Edmond Carlock
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Mail Summaries is the only one I want/miss. I wish it were core functionality:
addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/t…
#Thunderbird #Productivity #OpenSource
Mr. Kindle
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •matiu bidule
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/t…
is very helpful to keep track of long going conversations
Martin
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Fabián Rodríguez 🛡💾 🇨🇴 🌴
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •here are a few I always include in new installations :
* LanguageTool (premium)
* ImportExportTools NG
* Display Mail User Agent T
* Quicktext
* Tagger
And sometimes :
* LookOut (fix version)
I wish the LookOut functionality was default in TB!
PondAI
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •I also wanted to theme it, but there are hardly any compared to Firefox and Color extension doesn't create themes for Thunderbird. I also had very annoying theming issues with Flatpak.
Relevant Mozilla Connect Ideas:
connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/m…
connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/u…
TheTomas
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Well if you are in need of a new task:
Please make it possible to use Thunderbird without any Browser-Engine and Addons. Just pure plain Text-Only Mails.
Quentin
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Quentin
in reply to Quentin • • •And Expression Search !! Essential because the search engine is not efficient enough to have multiple criterias
We wrote a tutorial of different useful addons for our collegues here, if it's can be useful 🙂
In french 🇫🇷
librairie.grap.coop/books/mail…
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in reply to Quentin • • •Alexander Brăteanu 🇪🇺
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Cardbook is ... not good but the only way I found to sync contacts with nextcloud addons.thunderbird.net/de/thun…
uhuru
in reply to Alexander Brăteanu 🇪🇺 • • •Alexander Brăteanu 🇪🇺
in reply to uhuru • • •uhuru
in reply to Alexander Brăteanu 🇪🇺 • • •both in latest versions, but using it for at least 2years (iirc).
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nextcloud documentation is probably outdated/old.. tbsync is not needed anymore, and lightning is included in thunderbird, not an addon.
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in reply to uhuru • • •HomemadeAdvanced
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Richard Broekman
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •QuickFolders to easily move mails to folders that don't fit in the folder pane.
Quicktext for template answers or requests.
XNote++ to add notes to mails, e.g. why I didn't answer yet, what I need to look up before answering.
LorenAmelang
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/t…
#Thunderbird
timetunnel
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •"CardBook": Because of its CardDAV/vCard support. The ability to sync the address book with other devices is essential and necessary. This should be an integrated feature of TB.
"Allow HTML Temp": Extremely useful, because some emails are HTML-only and I *have* to read them. Even more useful is that you can configure it to *not* load external images while viewing the HTML mail.
Diogo Constantino
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Stefan Neufeind
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •It would be great if you could support Klaus (opto) from Nostalgy for his amazing work.
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in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •vam103
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •- Markdown Here Revival (for the maths rendering)
- Smileyfixer to save from Microsoft stupidity
- Unmangle Outlook Safelinks as above.
- *cloud for when tje AARNET had sensible file storage (they got rid of it)
- Arcus for encryption using Rust.
- Davmail - not technically a Thunderbird add-on but still useful to get to the Office365 Mail server.
forolinux
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Jeff
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Michael Gale
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Mehrad
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •I don't use addons because Thunderbird gives unrestricted access to all my computer and emails (according to Thunderbird itself), which is extremely invasive.
But if I would have used any addons, it would have been the featured addon "DKIM Verifier" (which I don't understand why needs full access to my computer):
addons.thunderbird.net/EN-US/t…
Nick G
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Folder Account is my most important addon, as I need some folders to have different default From addresses.
I also used Manually Sort Folders but unfortunately it's no longer maintained so doesn't work with recent TB versions. I'd like to see the ability to change folder order manually incorporated into standard TB functionality.
R. L. Dane
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •None yet! Its pretty great as is!
I do use a theme, "Grey and grey," on my secondary profile to distinguish that window from my main one.
Carlos Saltos
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Ian H
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Compact Headers
Compose Responsive Images
LookOut (fix version)
Message Header Toolbar Customize
Remove Duplicate Messages
Safelinks Cleanup
Smileyfixer
uBlock Origin
URL Link
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
in reply to Ian H • • •Stefan Fendt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Speed? Again? Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate your work, but with the latest releases Thunderbird is *extremely* slow/lagging when dealing with more than one mail using IMAP.
Even K9 is faster (on a much slower CPU with much less RAM). K9 on my smartphone even outperforms Thunderbird (Ryzen Threadripper with 128GB) when deleting (or marking as "read") 50+ messages from my IMAP inbox...
Please fix this.
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
in reply to Stefan Fendt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 • • •@stefanfendt Is there any chance you're having this slowness with the quick filter? There's a workaround in Comment 5 on the bug report below, and improving performance via upgrading the message database is a top priority this coming year.
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
Stefan Fendt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
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in reply to Stefan Fendt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 • • •Evan
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Markdown Here Revival - Absolutely mandatory: Compose in markdown then convert to formatted.
tbkeys - Just to make ctrl-D to delete email. (Can't find site, might have to try tbkeys-lite.)
Quick Folder Move
mailmindr - Similar to the snooze feature in gmail.
External Editor Revived - Edit emails in external editors such as Vim, Neovim, Emacs, etc.
EditEmailSubject MX - github.com/cleidigh/EditEmailS…
ThreadVis - Perhaps not particularly essential but comes in handy occasionally.
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
in reply to Evan • • •HerrThees
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Sadly, the official version of the add-on doesn't longer work with "the new" Thunderbird.
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
in reply to HerrThees • • •HerrThees
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Etam
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Monoka
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •The most important Thunderbird productivity add-on for me is certainly:
• QNote (or the similar XNote++) substantially increases my productivity!
followed by:
• Send later
• Correct Identity
• EDS Calendar Integration (essential on Linux/Gnome)
• Birthday Calendar
They all should be default in #Thunderbird!
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in reply to Monoka • • •Ronny Adsetts
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
in reply to Ronny Adsetts • • •Ronny Adsetts
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Kohan Ikin
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Ooh - actually my ultimate Productivity add-on for Thunderbird is Priority Switcher, which lets you set the priority of an individual message (so you can sort your inbox by priority - *your* priority, not set by the sender):
addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/t…
BUT the add-on doesn't work with modern Thunderbird! One reason I also use Postbox 7, I was able to successfully port the Priority Switcher plugin there.
I would LOVE to get this working on Thunderbird Linux, or built-in to TB!
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in reply to Kohan Ikin • • •tops
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in reply to tops • • •Aaron
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