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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Adding an outbox to Mozilla Thunderbird

I have used Mozilla Thunderbird for a few years but I miss having an outbox so that emails aren't sent immediately after writing them, like Outlook Express and Eudora had when I last used them. Is it possible to have an outbox in Thunderbird? Daggi Kröschel-Willis

Not surprisingly, there is a simple extension that you can download to add the outbox facility. Alternatively you could think of going back to Eudora (http://www.eudora.com/).

Eudora is about to switch to open source development, and Qualcomm says it will "cease sales of Paid mode Eudora" after April 30.

Backchat: Christefano points out that now, according to MozillaZine: "The Outbox extension is obsolete, doesn't support uninstalling and is not recommended."

Brian Marsden adds: "Thunderbird doesn't have an outbox, but does have an Unsent folder. After composing a message, select File|Send Later (or Ctrl+Shift+Return) from the Compose menu, rather than the Send button. (Unfortunately there's no button for send later, which is why it's so easily missed.) The message then gets put in the unsent folder. To send it from there, go to the main Thunderbird menu and select File|Send Unsent Messages."

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