Thunderbird: useful tips

Updated on 2011-01-19 by Elen Virabyan

Switzernet

2008-07-09

There are some add-ons or modifications of default configuration of Thunderbird that should be installed/done after the main installation of thunderbird.

Adding date-time of sender’s email into your reply. 1

View the number of mails per folder 2

Installing French spell-check. 4

Adding date-time of sender’s email into your reply

Double-click on mailnews.reply_header_type and set it to ‘2’.

Now your replies will contain the date of reception of the sender’s mail:

View the number of mails per folder

Installing French spell-check

1) Go to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

2) Click on ‘Add-ons’

3) Go to ‘Dictionaries & Language Packs’ section

4) Follow instructions to download and install the French dictionary

To instal French spell-check for Thunderbird versions starting from 3.0, follow the instructions below:

1) Go to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

2) Click on ‘Add-ons’ – ‘All Add-ons’

3) Go to ‘Dictionaries & Language Packs’ section

4) Download Dictionary (Modern).

5) Click on Download Now and follow the instructions available on Screen shot below.

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