
When you apply a label to a message (or group of messages), the font of that message changes to the associated color in the thread pane. I like to use labels for different mailing lists, but there are many other possible uses. Unfortunately, Thunderbird is limited to only five labels, but the name and color of each can be customized through the Display tab in the Options window. Right-click on any message in your Inbox - notice the Label option? Thunderbird offers labels for five different types of e-mail: Important, Work, Personal, To Do, and Later. Fortunately, however, a suitable workaround can be achieved with a little work by using Thunderbird's label and filter systems. Thunderbird by default does not offer the same functionality found in Squirrelmail, nor has an extension been written to add this capability. Message highlighting ( overview) is a great feature of Squirrelmail that I sorely missed in Thunderbird. Please see this Thunderbird Help page if you need more information. Note: Many of the tips on this page assume that you are familiar with editing Thunderbird configuration files.

For additional tips and tricks, please visit the links above. This page is intended to provide information on a few Thunderbird tricks that I personally find invaluable. Just for reference, here are a few important links: Thunderbird Home Page If you're reading this page, then you're probably already familiar with Thunderbird so, I won't spend much time on an introduction. Mozilla Thunderbird is a fantastic e-mail client and address book, brought to us by the good folks at the Mozilla Foundation.

Some of the content may still be useful, but I've this here primarily for archival purposes Introduction Note: The information on this page is very likely very outdated, as it was originally written for Thunderbird 2.x and not updated since. Skip to: Message Highlighting | Extensions | Preferences
