Thunderbird Tutorials

Note: This was written BEFORE the Thunderbird Stationery Extension, now available here, which makes this irrelevant! The extension makes Tbird work almost like OE.

But I'll leave these instructions up as long as anyone's still finding them helpful.

Thunderbird is the coolest email program!  

What it can do that I constantly appreciate:  

Right-click the subject line of an email to delete it without the body ever appearing in the preview page 

Keyboard shortcut "N" to go to next unread message in any folder

Ctrl + Z to get back a message you just deleted without having to go dig it out of the trash 

Header display options, so you can see the sender's email or copy the subject line conveniently 

The "paste without formatting" option 

The Search bar!  

Option to block loading of remote images in email unless the sender's in your address book

What Outlook Express does better:  

Checking accounts sequentially

Stationery!  

And yet, you can use stationery with Thunderbird!  It is possible to be girly and send pretty emails.  It just takes a little extra effort.  With Thunderbird you won't gather a huge collection of stationery, you'll just make a few favorites for everyday use.  

You have to make and save "Templates" and then double-click on a Template to compose a new email.  

Tutorials on how to make Thunderbird Templates:  

Absolute Simplest Stationery  Easy allover graphic. 

Template with left-border graphic  Using traditional email stationery and custom font.  

Allover design using a background and table  This can be used to make some cool outgoing letters.  

More about Thunderbird topics:

How to Use stationery in your reply  

Here's a way to Save Incoming Backgrounds in Thunderbird 

Stationery Tutorial  How to make a left-border email background like this one using your own graphic and Paintshop Pro 7