Tame Your Email With Thunderbird
Pretty-fying Thunderbird
We’re almost done. Now that you’ve got Thunderbird set up just the way you like, why not go ahead and make it look pretty?
Firefox has a lot more themes than Thunderbird, however, there are some nice ones out there (my personal favorite is Cross Over) and for those of you who miss Outlook Express, there is a theme that will set your heart at ease.
Aside from changing the actual theme of your email app, you can also change the start page you see when Thunderbird opens up to just about anything you want - I personally use a script I developed to randomly deliver a website out of a list I provide. When I get around to cleaning it up, I may just release it for general use.
That’s about it for now - if you have any other tips for using Thunderbird to its fullest potential, I’d love to hear it.
Tom wrote,
okay, okay! I’ll try it!
Comment Link | May 21st, 2005 at 9:17 pmteli wrote,
Don’t forget to let us know how you get on with it
Comment Link | May 23rd, 2005 at 3:42 pmPhill wrote,
Fantastic Teli
Personally I love thunderbird, and had only recently found the crossover theme, the only problem I had was that it didn’t work with the calendar extension, and so ended up downloading Sunbird instead, but otherwise it’s fantastic, especially for sorting your mail and it’s junk filter, definitely better than OE. There’s one thing you forgot to mention, on the fly plain text to HTML viewing through the view menu, it’s so much more flexible than OE’s rigid one or the other approach, I would give it 10/10
Comment Link | May 27th, 2005 at 4:19 pmteli wrote,
Thanks Phill,
I’ve heard a lot of people say that about the Cross Over theme, that it’s not compatible with the Calendar, but it works just dandy with mine (maybe he upgraded the plugin when I wasn’t looking :D)
And you’re right…the plain text to HTML viewing on the fly is much better than OE.
Comment Link | May 27th, 2005 at 5:33 pm