Folders and Filters

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ImportExportTools NG

Adds tools to import/export messages and folders

Thunderbird v115 Support Available !

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (207)
246,024 users

QuickFolders (Tabbed Folders)

The "Swiss army knife" of folders. Turn your favorites into tabs - open folders and subfolders, move mails without scrolling around or searching. powerful + easy.

See new mail at a glance after automatic filtering - supports quickFilters addon!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (186)
15,217 users

quickFilters

Quickly generate mail filters on the fly, by dragging and dropping mails and analyzing their attributes. Create a filter in less than 10 seconds, it's as easy as: drag, click, click.

By popular demand, supports SORTING filters alphabetically.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (69)
14,337 users

LocalFolders

Add as many local folders as you want to.
New folders can reside on mapped or network locations.

New 102 version released !

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (38)
12,885 users

Colored Folders Requires Restart

Add colors to your folders in Thunderbird!
Must-have for better organisation + intuitive and speedy workfow...

This is project "Color Folders" (originally by Fisheater), corrected, resurrected, restaurated, extended and republished.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (151)
4,056 users

Nostalgy++/ Manage, search and archive emails

Shortcuts to move/copy/archive messages, with folder name completion.
Rules for moving messages to folders.
Automatic rules by statistical observation/ by folder of conversation/thread.
Search dialog in a tab, with message display /folder tree.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (71)
3,566 users

Folder Pane View Switcher

Folder view arrows; switch to "All Folders" view when hovering during drag & drop; allow user to select which views are enabled or tied to the view arrows.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (68)
3,537 users

Disable DragAndDrop (for Thunderbird 68+)

Disable drag and drop on the folder tree in order to prevent unintended folder movement.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (17)
3,175 users

Expression Search - NG

Powerful message search:

* Fuzzy search: Sylvia also finds Silvia
* Visual search query builder

* Type "f:fred fn:Vortrag" for messages from Fred, attachment name contains 'Vortrag'
* Type "t:(oo -pp)" for messages to oo, but not pp.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (41)
2,399 users

Hide Local Folders Requires Restart

Removes the "Local Folders" entry from the folder pane.

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2,328 users

Filter Manager

Adds a Filters Button, opens Filter Manager

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (5)
1,642 users

Full Address Column

Adds a full sender and recipient e-mail column to message list panel.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (67)
1,388 users

Filter on Folder Button

new in version 1.5.1:
code optimised for Thunderbird version >= 115

new in version 1.5:
code changed to popup menu

functions:
new menu button with filter functions, with hotkeys, theme support, more languages

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (25)
1,177 users

Search Results Sort By Date Not Relevance Requires Restart

Makes search results sort by "date" instead of "relevance" by default.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (30)
1,119 users

quicker quicksearch

make searching for emails faster:

Automatically insert into the quickfilter box: the author, subject or the email domain of the selected email.


No need to retype the address, if you want to search for all emails of this author.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (7)
1,116 users

Start with Inbox

Selects the latest message in the Inbox after start of Thunderbird.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (18)
1,092 users

QuickArchiver

Get things done and clean up your inbox! When you move an e-mail the first time, QuickArchiver remembers the destination folder and lets you move more e-mails with a single click. You can apply rules by sender, recipient, and subject.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars (30)
1,087 users

Search for

Context menu on message allowing quick filtering based on email/sender or domain

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (7)
1,063 users

New Folder Filters Button

Toolbar button to execute Run Filters on Folders from Tools menu
(based on Folder Filters Button Add-on for Thunderbird 68 by Chris Malek)

Rated 5 out of 5 stars (8)
994 users

Mark All Read:WE

Mark all read (Web extension) - Adds a toolbar button to mark all unread messages in current folder as read.

*Note*
This addon works much better in newer versions of Thunderbird (v91). Thunderbird's WebAPI's were very patchy in older versions.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars (19)
992 users