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Tips of the day: Thunderbird

December 12, 2008 2:39 pm Dave Neary General

I 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>'