Quick File: Snappy filing extension for Thunderbird
If you use Thunderbird and are interested in “productivity” or just working your email smarter and more efficiently, you will like Quick File.
It is a Thunderbird extension that quickly files messages into the folder of your choice, the closest thing that I have seen to Mail Act-on 
for Thunderbird.
The extension’s preferences allow to set a user-defined hotkey to activate its filing window:
The developer suggests Control-Q for Mac users and that does work.
If you have selected a message and hit the hotkey, Quick File pops up a filing window:
Type in the first few letters of the folder into which you want to file the message, and it lists the matches. You can keep typing until there is only one left, or navigate through the options with the arrow keys. Hit return, and it’s filed.
You can get the extension from the Mozilla Add-ons site .
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June 23rd, 2006 at 10:59 am
Ma users? :-)
I use Mail Act-On, but a Mail plugin like this would make it convenient to quickly select less frequently accessed mailboxes out of the +400 under my nested IMAP hierarchies.
I’d really like to combine most of those mailboxes but still heavily rely on their names as a reminder of different senders/recipients and can easily find/browse messages with those groupings. I’ve considered using Smart Mailboxes instead, which would eliminate manual filing once they’re created. But there’s not enough match criteria (e.g. any header), plus performance could become intolerable and stability might suffer. I’m hoping MailTags will partially help when it officially supports IMAP. I’d rather be tagging messages than filing them.
June 23rd, 2006 at 12:35 pm
Yeah, that’s people who exploit their mothers. :)
Thanks for picking that up.
November 16th, 2006 at 9:59 pm
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