Essential Thunderbird Add‑Ons

Serge Y. Stroobandt

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Add‑ons

Essential Thunderbird Add‑Ons
icon	add-on	use
	Enigmail	Here is the developer site.
	External Editor	Allows one to compose e‑mail messages with an editor of choice (say Vim!) Current releases are found on GitHub. There is no official Mozilla Thunderbird page for this add‑on.
	Markdown Here	Here is the developer site.
	Sieve	The Mozilla page for this add‑on lags behind quite a bit. One is better off installing the latest development build.
	Signature Switch	Here is the developer site.

Wrapping to window width

To have the wrap length adapt automatically to the window width, open the configuration editor:

Edit → Preferences → Advanced → General → Config Editor

Set mail.compose.wrap_to_window_width to true.

External Editor settings

Tired of the limited capabilities of Thunderbird’s text editor?
Wanting to hit Vim key combinations?

No problem, install the External Editor add‑on and configure it as follows:

/usr/bin/gvim -f --servername THUNDERBIRD --remote-tab

Hitting Ctrl+E in a Thunderbird write window will no evoke a gvim instance.

To avoid default textwidth wrapping with Vim, add the following line to .vimrc:

autocmd FileType mail setlocal textwidth=0

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