Thunderbird automatically wraps lines by 72 characters by default. But wrapping in 72 characters may not look well on all clients. We may want Thunderbird not to wrap lines and let the receiver’s email client to choose the length to wrap lines. This post introduces how to make Thunderbird not wrap lines automatically. First, open
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Outlook-style Email Reply Header in Thunderbird
Posted onThunderbird’s email reply header is short and not like the ones in Outlook and other email clients. Thunderbird provides several integrated reply headers. However, the Outlook-style reply header with sender, receiver, date, and other information are clear and useful (e.g. my boss cc’ed an email to me to let me handle a request and I
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Thunderbird Tips: Default Descending Email Sort Order and Inline Quote When Reply
Posted onThunderbird is a great email client and what make it special is deeply configurable like Firefox. For me, I like to view email in the descending sort order and inline quote relied email content when replying emails. Let’s look at how to set the default order as descending sort order and quote mode as inline
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Vim as KMail’s External Editor
Posted onVim is my favourite text editor and I also prefer to use Vim to compose Email. I ever used Vim as Thunderbird’s External editor with the help of plugin. I started to use KMail as my email client on KDE and I find it is not hard to configure KMail to use Vim as email
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Vim as Thunderbird’s External Editor in Linux
Posted onVim is an excellent editor which I use every day. Thunderbird is a nice email application. However, Thunderbird’s integrated editor is not efficient enough to a Vim user. Why not use Vim as Thunderbird’s editor? In this tutorial, we will introduce how to integrate Vim with Thunderbird together in Linux. Install the “External Editor” Thunderbird
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Minimizes Thunderbird Windows into the System Tray
Posted onI usually keep Thunderbird open when my computer is open. But Thunderbird is minimized to the taskbar. It will be more convenient if it is minimized or closed to the system tray as an icon.It will be better if it can display the number of unread messages. Mozilla’s software’s addon system give the method to
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