A long awaited feature was landed on the Thunderbird trunk last night. It is the ability to filter newsgroup messages based on any header. You can test it by downloading and using the latest Thunderbird trunk builds.
Thanks to Joshua Cranmer for creating the patch.
[modified version for Thunderbird 2 users. Thunderbird 1 users go here.]
Every once in a while, someone on news.mozilla.org will enquire about receiving an error message “A News (NNTP) error occurred: xpat not supported“, when trying to search newsgroups on news.mozilla.org; so I thought I’d post my ’stock’ answer.
News.mozilla.org is hosted by Giganews, who’s [...]
Three months ago, I met with Paul Kim, to discuss ways of improving Mozilla user support web content. I initially thought we wouldn’t need all 45 minutes, but it turned out that 45 minutes wasn’t nearly enough. He asked if there was a page anywhere in which I outlined my thoughts on improving support. I [...]
After we worked out how to limit the height of the attachments pane in Thunderbird, Windows users now have to deal with big attachment icons.
What’s up with that?
Here’s how to make those icons small:
Go to Tools–>Options–>Advanced–>General, and click on “Config Editor“. In the Config Editor, search for the preference mailnews.attachments.display.largeView. Double-click on it, [...]
I wanted to have an options reference page ready for the Thunderbird Help site, when Thunderbird 2 is released; but it looks like I won’t be able to get it done on time.
I’ve updated the wiki page, with screenshots in a table, and my work so far. If anyone is willing to contribute to [...]
Users of Mozilla Thunderbird, may have noticed that if you are viewing messages in threaded view, clicking on a column name (other than the thread column) will turn off threaded view.
What if you want to keep threaded view on? Go to Tools–>Options–>Advanced–>General, and click on “Config Editor“.
In the Config Editor, search for the preference mailnews.thread_pane_column_unthreads. [...]
This is something I’d like to help draw some attention to. If you are using a Mozilla product, that is not a web browser, figuring out how to install an add-on turns into a very user-unfriendly experience. Too many times, I’ve seen questions from Thunderbird users, wondering why the extensions they want to install are [...]
In Thunderbird, when you receive new mail, an alert will pop up in the lower right corner of the screen (at least on Windows). Some people think it stays up for too long. Others feel that it goes away too fast. There is actually a setting for the duration of the new mail alert, that [...]
This has the makings of a great new feature for Thunderbird, and I’d like to help get the word out for testers test it. As Scott writes,
One of the goals in Thunderbird 2 is to make account setup easier for folks using large ISPs (like google, yahoo!, etc) for e-mail. In fact ISPs can now [...]
I was saving this tip for today, because it’s a bit of a Christmas present, courtesy of alta88.
Users of both Firefox and Thunderbird may have noticed that when you get the feed preview screen in Firefox 2, and use the drop-down list to add the feed to Thunderbird, it does not work. [...]