- These release notes apply to Thunderbird version 65 beta 4 released January 29th, 2019. What’s New new FileLink for WeTransfer. New WebExtensions FileLink API to facilitate FileLink add-ons. WeTransfer is already included and Dropbox is available as add-on.
- Add experimental Dropbox support to Mozilla Thunderbird by Martin Brinkmann on July 26, 2012 in Email - Last Update: July 26, 2012 - 4 comments If you are a user of the Mozilla Thunderbird email client you are probably aware by now of the program's Filelink feature that allows you to upload files that you want to send to recipients instead of.
- Hey folks, this is a rather small community, but still, maybe someone's got an idea. Every evening at exactly 20:33 (or 8:33 pm for those prefering 12h clock; I haven't checked if it's always the same second though), my Thunderbird taskbar symbol (TB is attached to the taskbar, but always running, minimised most of the time) starts blinking as if it got some notification for me.
I'm trying to understand the best way to set up my email to deal with my mail provider's quota limits and my desire to keep the total size of the emails on my laptop within reasonable bounds. I'm using IMAP with message synchronization so that I have access to my files offline, but over time my mailbox has grown too large - getting close to 20 GB. My nominal work account quota is 5 GB, so I'm annoying my system guy and would like to make him happy by moving most of my mail off his server. I would also like to recover most of that disk space since I've got a limited size SSD drive.
Ideally, I'd like to move most of my current mailbox to an archive stored off my primary laptop (but accessible when I need to dig out an old email), but I can't figure out the best way to do that. To decrease how much mail was stored locally, I tried going to the 'Synchronization and Storage' section and setting the 'Disk Space' settings to 'Synchronize the most recent [6 months]' on the assumption that that would delete a significant chunk of the past five years' worth of email from my local machine (leaving it on the IMAP server), but that didn't seem to change the size of the local mail file (still at 20 GB), so my first question is whether I have to manually delete older messages on my local machine and, if so, if having this setting checked will prevent TB from re-downloading these messages.
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If I can get this to work, I'll still have too much mail on my IMAP server. My thought was to find some way to archive those messages off the server. I could download them into Local Folders, but that's still on my laptop, which has limited hard drive space. I'd rather put those emails in an archive on Dropbox in an unsynced folder or on my home NAS, but I use some Local Folder subfolders on a daily basis, so don't want to put the whole Local Folder in Dropbox. Is it possible to have a second Local-Folder-type account on TB that could be placed on an external drive or Dropbox and periodically disconnected from my laptop?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thunderbird is not natively supported by CardDAV, so you must download it first and install SOGo Connector plugin from SOGo Connector for a CardDAV Thunderbird extension.
Setting Up CardDAV Thunderbird
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Make a new remote address book. After installing the plugin, refresh Thunderbird and open an address book. Then, select File/ New/ Remote Address Book.
Pick a name and type the contact folder location:
http://localhost:1080/users/[email protected]/contacts
Change the [email protected] with your actual user email address.
Choose OK and launch synchronization in the Synchronize option. Enter your credentials, log in is Active Directory account name, domain or account, and email address.
Google contacts Synchronization with CardDAV Thunderbird
If you wish to sync your Google contacts with CardDAV Thunderbird, you must have a Google account, SOGo Connector Thunderbird extension as well as the latest Thunderbird email client latest version. Firstly, you must install the extension in Thunderbird in your local system.
Then, choose Tools > Add-ons in the menu. Tap small settings to search under Extensions and choose Install add-on from file tab. Choose the downloaded extension and continue the installation process.
Open the address book through Tools> Address Book. You can also prefer the Ctrl-Shift-B shortcut. Next, tap File>New>Remote Address Book and add these values on the form:
Name: A custom name that can identify your new remote address book and Google Contacts
URL: https://google.com/m8/carddav/principlas/_uids_/[email protected]/lists/default/. If you wish, you can check the Read-Only box. Then, choose OK to save. Right-click the latest created address book and chose Synchronize on the context menu.
You will be asked to enter your username and password. You must remember to make application-specific password in using a 2-factor authentication in your Gmail account.
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Calendar and Address Book Synchronization with CardDAV Thunderbird
SOGo Connector Download and Installation
If you want to synchronize calendar and address book with CardDAV, you can download the SOGo connector in the SOGo website: https://sogo.nu/download.html#/frontends.
Launch Thunderbird and choose Tools > Add-ons. Next, choose gear icon and tap Install Add-on from File. Next, choose downloaded SOGo Connector xpi file for installation and restart the Thunderbird.
CardDAV ThunderBird configuration
In using the SOGo address book, you must have the SOGo Address Book link.
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- With this, you must log in to SOGo and tap Address Book.
- Next, pick the address book you wish to sync and choose among 3 vertical dots and select Link to this Address Book.
- Then, you can copy the CardDAV URL.
- You must note that some SOGo releases still utilize 127.0.0.1:2000 as its server address in the URL of CardDAV, so you must change it into a real server address like https://<your_server_name_or_ip>/SOGo.
You can now launch Thunderbird:
- Open Address Book
- Then, choose File> New> Remote Address Book
- You must also configure the properties of the Address Book:
- Name: SOGo Address Book name (your option)
- URL : insert the link from SOGo like: https://<host>SOGo/dav/userName>/Contacts/personal/
- Check the Periodic sync
With CardDAVThunderbird, you can have a secure, more stable, and user-friendly interface for the app. You can also efficient calendar and address book synchronization. The app is now supported by Gmail for more usability.