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ImportExportTools NG

Adds tools to import/export messages and folders

EML, MBOX, HTML PDF , Plaintext Support and CSV support with indexes and file naming.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (220)
254,018 users

QuickFolders (Tabbed Folders)

The "Swiss army knife" of folders. Turn your favorites into tabs - open folders and subfolders, move mails without scrolling around or searching. powerful + easy.

See new mail at a glance after automatic filtering - supports quickFilters addon!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (190)
14,806 users

LocalFolders

Add as many local folders as you want to.
New folders can reside on mapped or network locations.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (39)
13,117 users

quickFilters

Quickly generate mail filters on the fly, by dragging and dropping mails and analyzing their attributes. Create a filter in less than 10 seconds, it's as easy as: drag, click, click.

By popular demand, supports SORTING filters alphabetically.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (72)
12,263 users

Full Address Column

Adds a full sender and recipient e-mail column to message list panel.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (73)
5,621 users

Disable DragAndDrop (New)

Disable drag and drop on the folder tree in order to prevent unintended folder movement.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (21)
3,515 users

Nostalgy++/ Manage, search and archive emails

Shortcuts to move/copy/archive messages, with folder name completion.
Rules for moving messages to folders.
Automatic rules by statistical observation/ by folder of conversation/thread.
Search dialog in a tab, with message display /folder tree.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (77)
3,514 users

Colored Folders Requires Restart

Add colors to your folders in Thunderbird!
Must-have for better organisation + intuitive and speedy workfow...

This is project "Color Folders" (originally by Fisheater), corrected, resurrected, restaurated, extended and republished.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (151)
3,464 users

Folder Pane View Switcher

Folder view arrows; switch to "All Folders" view when hovering during drag & drop; allow user to select which views are enabled or tied to the view arrows.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (68)
3,426 users

Expression Search - NG

Powerful message search:

* Fuzzy search: Sylvia also finds Silvia
* Visual search query builder
* General search in a tab
* Type:
"fn:Vortrag" for messages, attachment name contains 'Vortrag'
"t:(oo -pp)" for messages to oo, but not pp.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (48)
2,395 users

Filter Manager

Adds a Filters Button, opens Filter Manager

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (7)
2,010 users

Hide Local Folders Requires Restart

Removes the "Local Folders" entry from the folder pane.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (46)
1,933 users

Search for

Context menu on message allowing quick filtering based on email/sender or domain

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (7)
1,387 users

Filter on Folder Button

act. version 1.6.1 for Tb >= 128.x

Toolbar menu button with filter functions.
- run filter on folder
- run filter on message
- show filter dlg
- create filter from message

with hotkeys, theme support, languages de, en, fr, es, it

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (26)
1,353 users

Start with Inbox

Selects the latest message in the Inbox after start of Thunderbird.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (19)
1,287 users

quicker quicksearch

make searching for emails faster:

Automatically insert into the quickfilter box: the author, subject or the email domain of the selected email.


No need to retype the address, if you want to search for all emails of this author.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (7)
1,178 users

QuickArchiver

Get things done and clean up your inbox! When you move an e-mail the first time, QuickArchiver remembers the destination folder and lets you move more e-mails with a single click. You can apply rules by sender, recipient, and subject.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (31)
1,129 users

Mark All Read:WE

Mark all read (Web extension) - Adds a toolbar button to mark all unread messages in current folder as read.

*Note*
Version 2: Requires Thunderbird v128+
Version 1: Works best with Thunderbird v91+

Rated 3 out of 5 stars (19)
997 users

Search Results Sort By Date Not Relevance Requires Restart

Makes search results sort by "date" instead of "relevance" by default.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (30)
931 users

Quick Folder Key Navigation

This extension makes it possible to quickly navigate to a particular folder in the folder pane simply by typing the first few letters of the folder name when the folder pane has focus.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (15)
903 users