Sat, 08 Dec 07

Thunderbird Plugins: Lightning

Posted in Thunderbird at 12:47 pm by moore

If you live in your email and you use Thunderbird, I’d recommend taking a look at Lightning.  It’s a calendaring plugin to Thunderbird.  It has changed the way I schedule my life–I used to have a mishmash of emails, paper calenders, todo lists  on the back of envelopes and memories that coordinated my life.  Now I just have one place that I go to.  You can have calendars on remote servers, using HTTP (readonly), webDAV or ftp, multiple calendars, and reminders.  It’s still beta software (version 0.7) and under active development, so, of course, buyer beware, but I’ve found it to be quite useful.  If you want to follow future progress, visit the Mozilla Calendar Weblog.

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Sat, 10 Feb 07

Thunderbird tip of the day: Using the pipe operator in the search box.

Posted in Thunderbird at 7:47 pm by moore

If you’re searching in Thunderbird, use the pipe (|) operator to do an ‘or’ search. So, if you want to find mail from both Brian and Grady, search for ‘brian|grady’ (if you have the default ’search subject and/or sender’ search criteria). I looked around the Thunderbird Help, which has a helpful list of shortcuts and tips and tricks, and didn’t see this tip mentioned. I tried other special characters (& and *), but neither worked.

This was with Thunderbird 1.5.0.9.

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