19 August 2008
Eric Rasmusen, erasmuse@indiana.edu
This file is now at http://www.rasmusen.org/a/mozilla-rasmusen.txt


These are Eric Rasmusen's tips and tricks for Thunderbird and Firefox,
the Mozilla applications for email and browser.

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DELETING DUPLICATE ROWS (for email)
 First, export the address book  to *.csv comma-separated format. 

From: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA010346261033.aspx

Open the file in Excel. Select all of it. Do DATA then FILTER, then
ADVANCED FILTER, then check off UNIQUE RECORDS ONLY. That will show
only the unique records. Then COPY what is showing to the clipboard.
Go back to DATA then FILTER then ADVANCED FILTER then Do NOT check off
UNIQUE RECORDS ONLY. Then the whole file will show. Press the DELETE
key to delete all the rows. Then do CTRL-V to paste in the uniquely
filtered rows. Then SAVE the file, and all the duplicates will be
gone. Then import the *.cxv file back into the email address book. 

There isn't a way I know of to filter on just duplicates in one column
and deleting all rows that have duplicates in that column even if they
are different in other columns.

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 GOOD THUNDERBIRD EXTENSIONS:

Send Later Extension [SL8TR] sl8tr.xpi

Display Quota

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GOOD FIREFOX   EXTENSIONS:

Duplicate Tab 0.9

 Foxmarks Bookmark Synchornizer

Tab X 2.0

PDF Download 0.7.9 (less important)


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SEND MAIL AT A LATER TIME.
 This was supposed to be built into Thunderbird 2.0 but wasn't. There
is a great plug-in, though, at http://www.unsignedbyte.com/?page_id=4,

Send Later Extension [SL8TR] sl8tr.xpi

Install it, and then compose a message, and then look in FILE, SEND
LATER.

I will use this for my weblog.

To see what you've got scheduled, go to the server's DRAFTS folder,
not the local one. The time given is the time of writing, not the time
of sendng. To see the time of sending, go to VIEW and HEADERS and
click so you can see ALL the headers for each message, not just the
normal ones. The time-of-sending info is in the header.

Still, I think Lettermelater is better
(http://www.lettermelater.com/account.php, a free website) It does not
format your email to put in end-of-line markers.


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Thunderbird does not do intelligent merges of address books, it seems,
or give any easy way to prune addresses.  What I have to do is export
them to text and then delete. See

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sharing_address_books

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Thunderbird Local Folders

Local Folders are put in a bad place. I thought you could see in
Thunderbird,  Account
Settings, Local
Folders for the location, but that seems to be wrong. Instead, it is
here:

mailbox:/D|/My
Documents/Thunderbird/Profiles/default/6y4wkvgp.slt/Mail/Local
Folders/2006-incoming


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For my spam filter, look in my webmail account.



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 OPTIONS.
 Change to inline forwarding.

Change to not have notifications of new emails pop up.






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