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Thunderbird 3.1 has a quick filter bar, very convenient. You click 'starred' and only the starred messages are shown.
Is there some trick or way to also apply the inverse filter, for example show all NOT starred messages?
Edit: I don't want to create a custom filter. I am thinking along the lines of for example alt-clicking the button or so.
The documentation for Thunderbird 3.1 states:
The Quick-Filter bar is not customizable, but there is a "qfb-pivot" extension to add further search options and a feature to search by properties of the currently displayed message.
But said "qfb-pivot" extension appears to no longer be available.
As an alternative you could consider creating the view filter yourself:
Add the view filter widget (Mail Views) to the Thunderbird toolbar.
Click it, and select "Customize..."
Click "New..."
Set your new filter up like this:
Status | isn't | Starred
Your new filter can then be found under "Custom Views".
I've found (at least when searching by tags) that if I right-click a tag, it will cross out the label, thus allowing for a NOT function. Now if I could only figure out a quick-filter version of AND -- clicking multiple tags seems to default as OR.
