Tips of the day: Thunderbird
December 12, 2008 2:39 pm GeneralI may be the last to find some of these out out, but anyway…
In Thunderbird, if you want to select all messages in a thread, there are two ways to do it. The shortcut, which is revealed in the Edit menu, is Ctrl-Shift-A. I’ve been using this for years (it broke in Thunderbird 1.5).
The other way, which I discovered recently, is to click on the little threading logo beside the +/-. This is extremely useful if you use the mouse to move messages to other folders from the inbox – just click & drag the little thread icon, you’re done.
To move messages to a different folder without taking your hands off the keyboard, install the Quickmove add-on, and configure shortcuts for common folders in the options.
To move messages to the same folder as the last move in TB, use the Ctrl-Shift-M shortcut.
In Mutt, “ESC t” tags a thread and “;s+.” saves it to a given folder.
Update: One more Mutt tip, which I found a few minutes ago: Adding the following to .muttrc sets up a Trash folder – deleting mail in any other folder saves it to trash, deleting in trash really deletes.
# set up trash folder-hook . 'macro index d "<save-message>=trash<enter>"' folder-hook =trash 'macro index d <delete-message>'
December 12th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Check out the “trash” option, useful with IMAP, eg.:
set trash=”+[Gmail]/Trash”