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Everything ∞

// Change the reply header

// 0 - No Reply-Text
// 1 - "[Author] wrote:"
// 2 - "On [date] [author] wrote:"
// 3 - User-defined reply header. Use the prefs below in conjuction with this:
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 3);

// If you set 3 for the pref above then you may set the following prefs.
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote", "%s said the following");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_ondate", "on %s");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_separator", " ");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_colon", ":");
// The end result will be [authorwrote][separator][ondate][colon]

// This should change attached image and text files from inline to attachment.
user_pref("mail.content_disposition_type", 1);

// Turn off those damned animated gifs!
// I'd rather be able to block certain attached images, but I don't see how.
user_pref("image.animation_mode", "none");

Fixing dates to use the ISO 8601 date format (YYYY-MM-DD) ∞

Tested and works with PCLinuxOS 2007 (2008-07-08) and Thunderbird version 2.0.0.14 (20080514)

\mkdir  -p ~/.thunderbird/init.d
\nano  ~/.thunderbird/init.d/S00Locale.sh

and paste this, and exit:

export LC_TIME=en_DK

then continue:

\chmod  +x  ~/.thunderbird/init.d/S00Locale.sh

Fix quote levels ∞

https://web.archive.org/*/www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/tips#app_quotelevels

This tip does not work. Sigh.

Change the reply header ∞

When replying or forwarding, include the timestamp. The idiots don’t do this by default. Sigh.

https://web.archive.org/*/www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/tips#beh_replyheader

edit user.js

// Change the reply header
// 0 - No Reply-Text
// 1 - "[Author] wrote:"
// 2 - "On [date] [author] wrote:"
// 3 - User-defined reply header. Use the prefs below in conjunction with this:
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 3);

// If you set 3 for the pref above then you may set the following prefs.
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote", "%s said the following");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_ondate", "on %s");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_separator", " ");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_colon", ":"); 
// The end result will be [authorwrote][separator][ondate][colon]

Changing the default Web Browser ∞

2.0.0 ∞

It’s “simple” =/

(source)

1. Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General > Config Editor

2. If Config Editor is launched, add two lines network.protocol-handler.app.http and network.protocol-handler.app.https with string value /usr/bin/firefox (or the equivalent). To add lines, right click on any line, and choose “New > String”.

Go into the about:config advanced configuration editor

network.protocol-handler.app.http
  /path/to/the_shell_script
network.protocol-handler.app.https
  /path/to/the_shell_script

Firefox

I did “mozilla-firefox” for earlier PCLinuxOS versions, but “mozilla” seems to be correct for PCLinuxOS 2007.

Konqueror

Settings > Configure Konqueror > Web Behavior >

• Open links in new tab instead of in new window

• Advanced > Open as tab in existing Konqueror when URL is called externally

In PCLinuxOS 2007 and Konqueror 3.5.6 this doesn’t actually work. New Konqueror windows appear. =(

Copying filters between accounts ∞

source

One way to copy the filters manually, I’ve found, is to go into the folder for the account that has the filters already set up. The file is called msgFilterRules.dat. This file can be copied to folders for other accounts in order to duplicate the rules for those accounts.

Still would be nice to have this in the functionality of Thunderbird.

Fixing mime types ∞

See Thunderbird tricks and tips, fixing mime types

Removing the saving and sending progress windows ∞

Go to the Config Editor

mailnews.show_send_progress false

Colouring quoted text in plain text emails ∞

edit /chrome/userContent.css (create it if it doesn’t exist) and add:

/* Quoted text in plain-text replies */
span[_moz_quote=true] {color: green;}

Password protect the message pane (IMAP only) ∞

With this trick, Mozilla Thunderbird will password protect the message list pane (aka the thread pane) by keeping it blank until you log in and enter a password for that account. In the Config Editor, search for the preference mail.password_protect_local_cache, and change its value to true.

This is pretty pathetic, since this can be changed at the commandline.

Resources ∞

• user.js

• https://web.archive.org/*/www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/tips