Thunderbird Forwarding

10 Sep 2008

I’ve been using Thunderbird for a while now. I think I lost Microsoft Outlook at some point (while upgrading my OS) and found Thunderbird as a suitable alternative. One minor annoyance has been the way it handles forwarding emails. By default, it chooses to send them as attachments. People receiving attachments usually do not open them, especially when Stanford’s mail server prefixes all emails with

[POSSIBLE VIRUS] Fwd: …

You can send forwarded emails as attachments but you have to go through the menu which is annoying. Why can’t I just click on that big button? Well, now you can! To configure Thunderbird’s default behavior, all you do is Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Config Editor. A window, similar to Firefox’s about:config should popup. Type in forward in your filter and you’ll see a preference, mail.forward_message_mode. Setting it to 1 will change the default forwarding to inline. Sweet.

Posted by Edward Luong on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 10:48 PM | 0 TrackBacks

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There's an easier way to do it:
Tools -> Options -> Composition and it's the 1st option under the General Tab.

Vako | December 8, 2009 6:02 AM | Reply

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