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Get Toodledo in Thunderbird – no add-on needed

Posted on July 18, 2011 Written by adriano 4 Comments

Fastest way to get some sort of integration between Toodledo and Thunderbird to handle your tasks and emails within the same app:

1- Bring up the Thunderbird error console

2- Copy the code below and paste it in the “Code” textbox of the error console:

Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1'].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator).getMostRecentWindow("mail:3pane").document.getElementById("tabmail").openTab("contentTab", {contentPage: "http://www.toodledo.com/views/folder.php"});

Press “Evaluate”

Done — a new tab with your Toodledo task list will appear next to the “Inbox” tab.

How to send email in the background with Thunderbird

Posted on September 25, 2010 Written by adriano Leave a Comment

An “hidden” feature in Thunderbird, makes the email client queue the message and send it in the background, one of the neat Outlook functionalities I’ve been missing since I switched to Thunderbird years ago.

The “send in background” capability is not exposed in the preferences (at least as of TB 3.1.1) — to enable the it, go into Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Config Editor, change mailnews.sendInBackground to true and restart Thunderbird.

According to the Mozilla Wiki:

The following parts are implemented:

Basic send in background.
Sending a message will temporarily (for about a second) put it in the Outbox in Local Folders, and then Thunderbird will attempt to send it.
Activity Manager progress and notifications
The activity manager will echo progress and notifications of sending messages in the background (or via Send Later).
Partial shut down support.
Sending a message and attempting to quit should bring up a dialog which is retained until the message is sent. On Windows and Linux this will only happen if File -> Quit is used not the ‘x’ on the window.

Not implemented:

If there is an error, Thunderbird won’t attempt to automatically send the message a second time (until another message is sent).
If there are multiple messages queued, Thunderbird won’t attempt to automatically send other messages that are queued.
Thunderbird won’t notify the user if messages are being sent during shutdown.

Fully backup your IMAP mailbox with IMAPSize

Posted on January 18, 2009 Written by adriano Leave a Comment

If you use IMAP as storage method for your email account(s) — that is, you leave all the messages on the mail server — along with enjoying being able to get to all your email from anywhere you might also be concerned by the “what if something happens to my email provider / server / storage / etc.?” sort of doubt.

IMAPSize takes care of this source of concern by providing an easy way to backup the complete mailbox.

This is a great little tool with an impressive feature set, and allows for pretty much any sort of manipulation on the remote mailbox and related files, including attachment stripping, in case you have storage quota restrictions.

Backups are stored in the simplest and most straightforward way, i.e. directly accessible folders matching your mailbox folders structure, and related messages.

Messages are saved in .eml format, ready to be viewed through Oultook Express or Thunderbird. Oh, and works with Gmail IMAP (including the Google Apps flavor).

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