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Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform email, newsgroup, news feed and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation.

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How to disable automatic mail check in Mozilla Thunderbird

I got 4 email accounts added to Mozilla Thunderbird. I need 3 of them check for new email automatically and 1 only when I press "Get Mail". I went to Tools->Account Settings->my@account.com->Server Settings and removed tick from "Check for new…
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ThunderBird Event for Viewing a Message

I'm trying to modify a message before it is displayed in the main window in Thunderbird. I can't seem to find 1) An event that will be triggered when a new message is opened/viewed 2) A way to modify the displayed contents of a message. I believe I…
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how to import mails into thunderbird from maildir format

I have a local imap server which used to pull mails from external mail server and distribute mails locally. This server is now used by a sngle user, as other users are comfortable using the webbased gmail hosted account. I want to close this local…
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How to implement Drag & Drop from outlook mail or thunderbird to a delphi form?

Does anyone already implemented Drag & Drop of email messages from Outlook and/or Thunderbird (from now on "OT") to a Delphi form. I need to give the user a way to store important emails in my application database without writing OT plugins.…
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How do I enable XAMPP to locally use the php's mail() function so I can test my mail() scripts locally without having to upload to my server?

I am currently using XAMPP and Thunderbird 3 and wish to set up my local server to send mail to e-mails like gmail/hotmail/(anymail) so I can test out my php scripts that are using the mail() function. It would save some time as it would bypass the…
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Debugging a Thunderbird extension

I'm working on a Thunderbird extension, and, unfortunately, can't sort out what's still valid from what's not. There's lots of stuff online, but, most of it is no longer applicable to recent Thunderbird. At a minimum, I need a way of seeing log…
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Where does Thunderbird store the UID of the last message downloaded via POP?

I use Thunderbird to receive email using POP3. I have Thurnderbird configured to leave email on the server. Lets say one day I uses POP3 to retrieve (RETR) 10 email messages, then I logout for the night. Overnight 10 more messages are sent to my…
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How do you insert email headers with a Thunderbird extension?

I'm building a Thunderbird extension and would like to add my own header to all outgoing email (e.g. ). Any idea how to do this? I know it's possible since this is done in the OpenPGP Enigmail extension. Thanks!
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Thunderbird "Tags" in IMAP / PHP

Thunderbird allows to flag messages with predefined (or own) Tags, e.g. "To Do", "Later". (Press "1" while reading a msg to see.) These tags are replicated to the IMAP server (I verified that by using two TB clients: I saw the same tags on both…
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Thunderbird compose email in a batch script - continue to next command

Using the following line in a batch script to call thunderbird and compose an email: thunderbird.exe -compose "to='email@domain.com',subject='Some Subject',preselectid='id1',body='Message Body',attachment='File.txt'" The command performs perfectly…
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Resolving the thunderbird phantom folder issue (gray, italics folders)

Definition of "Phantom Folder": The term "Thunderbird Phantom Folder" seems to be a standard expression (and you will find hundreds of hits in google -- it's extremely strange that there is no StackOverflow entry for this yet). It refers to folders…
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Create button in Thunderbird 60+ plugin

So basically I am trying to create a really simple Thunderbird-Add-On with a button that opens a URL. So I tried some of the Firefox-Example-Plugins (https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/master/tabs-tabs-tabs) but they all fail because…
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How to print an email to pdf programmatically

I want to generate a PDF document from a "raw" email. This email could containt html or just text. I don't care for attachments. The resulting pdf should contain the proper formatting (from css and html) and also embedded images. My first idea was…
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Python: Open Thunderbird to write new mail with attached file

I would like to open Thunderbird on Debian AND Windows with an attached file for a new email. So I would like to do the same as in this thread but the posted solution does not work: Python open email client with attachment I have the very same…
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Access thunderbird emails by python

I need to get informations out from my tree of Thunderbird message folders (which contains a large amount of email). I need to be able to search the messages (optionally the attachments) and to report to the calling program. There is some python…
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