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Sunday, March 20, 2005

Desired Thunderbird extension

Desired Thunderbird extension: something that will, upon replying to a message, ask you into what folder to move both the message you're replying to and your response. As it is I have to reply to the message, then drag the message to the folder I want, then go into my sent messages folder and drag the message I just sent into the same folder. It's time consuming and tedious.

The interface should provide not a folder browser, but an auto-completing list of folders that you type into until you've typed enough of the folder name you want to identify it uniquely (or, if you haven't identified it uniquely yet, you can scroll through the list to pick one), pretty much exactly like jEdit's Switch Buffer plugin.

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Bryan wrote:

Hi,

I'm also looking for the similar extension but without any success so far...

I trield the "Quick File" (www.paultomlin.com/my-projects/quick-file/) extension, it's cool, but this only works when the numbers of folders are not too many... it refuse to work if I've 30, 50, 100, or more folders in my local folder.

I just hate the way the Thunderbirds handles mail filing... it's super time consuming and tiring task. Honestly, I don't even need the "auto-completing" feature as you have mentioned, it will be good enough for me if TB can provide a "folder browser" like what Outlook Express has.

If you have find any nice extension that can overcome this problem, please don't forget to drop me an email.

Thanks!
Bryan

∴ Bryan | 16-May-2005 11:16pm est | #7666

How about just giving Thunderbird users the option to have all sent items filed in the same folder as the message they're replying to (other than the In Box), as Outlook 2003 provides in the Advanced Email Options dialog, where there is a checkbox labeled "In folders other than the inbox, save replies with original message."

Hmm... since one generally replies to e-mails when they're in the inbox, that feature doesn't seem like it'd be very useful, unless it's smart enough to move the replies when you file messages from the inbox.

∴ Keith | 11-Jun-2005 8:37pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #7713

John wrote:

How about routing the Fcc to a folder based on the address in the "To:" field rather than a single "Sent-Mail" folder.

For example, if I send an email to "bob_user@example.com" my sent message would be stored in a folder called "bob_user".

Or, store it in such a folder only if that folder already exists, otherwise throw it in the default "Sent-Mail" folder.

∴ John | 16-Jan-2006 1:19pm est | #9001

John has it just right. At the moment I use elm/mutt from the Unix command-line, because it's the only mail reader I know that will save incoming and outgoing messages based on the localpart of the To: header.

I've tried many, many mail clients and no graphical (GUI-based) ones seem able to do this. It's a feature that I've come to rely on, and I can't migrate to Thunderbird until it exists (or someone writes an extension for it).

Lots of wine and fine chocolate to whoever comes up with a solution!

∴ Stuart | 16-Mar-2006 6:25am est | http://www.keele.ac.uk | #9319

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