"Must-Have” Thunderbird Addons? [closed]

Question

One per answer, please.

Answer 1

Lightning!

Answer 2

Nostalgy, which adds very configurable keyboard control (e.g. 'S' then start typing a folder name and it moves current mail to that folder).

Answer 3

I love Virtual Identity

Answer 4

Absolute must have: Enigmail

Adds GPG/PGP support to Thunderbird. I'm surprised nobody else mentioned it!

Answer 5

Attachment Remember to stop you sending emails without the attachment if certain keywords (like "attach*") are in the subject or body of the email.

Answer 6

Quicktext allows you to create templates for frequently sent emails. It allows you to add variables to easily "personalize" emails.

Answer 7

Mail Redirect is useful if you receive mail intended for other people. Or if you want to forward an email while having replies go to the original sender.

Answer 8

gContactSync will sync your Thunderbird Address Book with your Gmail Contacts.

The developer's blog is here: http://pi3141.wordpress.com/

Answer 9

This addon isn´t only for Thunderbird. It works for all the "mozilla windows". My favourite: MinimizeToTray.

Answer 10

quotecollapse is nice.

Answer 11

Display Mail User-Agent

As some commentors at that addon opine, I too use it to determine who might not like me to attach that Word 2007 document in my reply, or send HTML mail at all.

Answer 12

Folderpane Tools is useful.

Answer 13

I use XPunge to reduce the size of my mail folders just before I back them up.

Answer 14

Send Later, as it lets you send a mail automatically at a time you specify. It's good if you are doing some work off hours and want to send it during the normal work day. Or if you just want to give yourself some time to change the message before it leaves your computer.

Answer 15

I use GMailUI mainly because it makes the Quick Search box actually useful.

I have set up a search folder that lists all my mail. I select this folder and with GMailUI installed, use the all: search modifier to search for any string in any part of all my messages. If it's there, this method will find it.

It's slow and buggy (sometimes it lists a false positive, could just be a Thunderbird bug) but I'm prepared to put up with that if there's a message I know I have that I have to find.

However, Thunderbird 3 greatly improves on search functionality, so hopefully soon I'll be able to do without it.

Answer 16

Don't forget about Clean Subject

Answer 17

Unselect Message prevents Thunderbird from selecting the next message after you've deleted or moved the previously selected ones.

Answer 18

Get All E-mails is the best one I use to...

Answer 19

Starred list lets you see list of emails marked by star from the currently selected folder. Very convenient if you have some filters automatically adding stars to some of email you should review.

Answer 20

AttachmentExtractor is extremely useful for batch detaching attachments from IMAP messages -- keeps your IMAP folder size way down, a great little Add On.

Answer 21

Mail Merge is pretty sweet (just discovered this one myself).

Answer 22

I widely use Dictionaries & Language Packs, because I usually send message in many different languages and these add-ons help me to write my letter correctly.

Answer 23

Copy Sent to Current

Allows to place a copy of sent messages into the currently active folder or any other folder you choose, when you create the message. Usually the copies are placed into the 'Sent' folder. For replies, you may also move the original message.

Answer 24

Quote Colors allows you to select text and background colors of different quote levels which are applied when reading or printing mail/news messages. Additionally, you can choose between graphical and traditional plain text quoting display mode.

Answer 25

ThreadVis

Displays a small graphic visualising the context (thread) of the currently selected email.

Answer 26

Disable DragAndDrop - to prevent accidentally moving your folders around (especially IMAP folders)