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Get a larger mailbox list in Thunderbird

ThunderbirdEvery now and then I open up Thunderbird to remind myself why I don’t use it.

Because Mail Act-on doesn’t work in Thunderbird and the available quick-filing extensions like Nostagly aren’t quite as slick, I find myself doing much more dragging and dropping than I do in Mail.app.

A neat little tweak from Horst Gutmann makes it all easier by creating a bigger mailbox list and, hence, larger targets on which to drop the emails.

His tip changes the look of the mailbox list from this to this:

Thunderbirdmailboxlist

(Or, if you are not making a screenshot to demonstrate the difference, something in the middle perhaps).

You will need to add some text to your userChrome.css file, which you will find on your ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default/chrome/ folder.

Open it up in your text editor of choice and add the following code:

#folderTree > treechildren {
font-size: 25px !important; }
#folderTree > treechildren::-moz-tree-row {
height: 30px !important; }

(You might want to change the pixel size to something slightly more modest).

Save. Close. Open up Thunderbird and enjoy bigger targets and a list that is easier to read. thunderbird, mailboxes list, hack, productivity, drag and drop, filing, tips, userChrome.css

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5 Responses to “Get a larger mailbox list in Thunderbird”

  1. hugo ahlberg says:
    October 27th, 2006 at 12:51 am

    how come your thunderbird interface looks so nice?

  2. Jon Hicks says:
    October 27th, 2006 at 5:23 am

    Yeah, spill the beans! This must be UNO with a Thunderbird theme applied, yes?

  3. Tim says:
    October 27th, 2006 at 9:04 am

    It’s just Thunderbird’s default theme, but as Jon has pointed out, I’ve applied UNO over the top.

  4. Dennis says:
    October 27th, 2006 at 11:58 am

    I do the same thing. Use Tbird to remind myself of why I don’t use it. I use SpamSieve and it won’t work with TBird, same with MailTags or Mail Act-On. These plugins cause me to come back to Mail all the time.

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