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Keyboard shortcuts

From Keyboard Shortcuts TB:

M Mark message as read / unread
R Mark thread as read

Add-Ons

Currently in use

Nostalgy
  • Note: Auto-completion does not appear at first.
Copy Sent To Current
  • Allows to (additionally) save a copy of sent messages to the current folder or choose folder on send
  • Not working when used with MRC Compose.
Virtual Identity
MRC Compose
  • Provides standards fields (TO, CC, BCC) with autocomplete to Thunderbird's compose pane. (See bugzilla 440377).

Tested or no longer used

Quick Folder Move
  • Nostalgy is a better alternative

Enigmail - GPG support

Recommended settings for Enigmail

  • Disable loading of IMAP parts on demand
  • Disable flowed text (RFC 2646)
  • View message body as plain text
  • Use 8-bit encoding for message sending
  • Do not compose HTML messages

Tips

Automatically sync all folders in Thunderbird

From here:

  • open the Config Editor (Tools → Options → Advanced → General → Config Editor),
  • change the mail.server.default.check_all_folders_for_new setting to true.

Troubleshoot

Sent folder not updated

Like a corruption of the TB database [1]. Go to ~/.thunderbird/*.default:

sqlite3 global-messages-db.sqlite vacuum

Mail not deleted

Deleting a mail seems a hard task in Thunderbird [2]:

  • Set mail.imap.expunge_after_delete to true.

Missing mails, IMAP folder not synced

  • Right click on IMAP folder, select Properties.
  • In the General Information tab, click Repair Folder button.

Sync bugs

About IDLE, and CONDSTORE flag/support.

Proxy not working

  • Refuse to connect to localhost in all possible ways.
  • Only work-around is to keep the proxy disabled, and enabled it only when e.g. to sync Owncloud address book.

Broken text edition mode

Fix:

  • In Preferences → Composition → General → HTML Font, select Variable Width. This way this makes apparent that edition is in HTML mode. Also, there will not be a weird font change when pasting text at the end of a reply.
  • To force text-edition mode, use Shift-click on either Write, reply or forward.

IMAP folder list not updated

  • Relevant questions on SO question 392320
  • Thunderbird does a refresh on startup. One can force a refresh by collapsing / expanding the parent folder in folder tree view.