Bonus tip: Install the Dark Reader extension to add instant dark mode to those articles and videos you're enjoying inside Thunderbird... addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/darkreader/
Is there a way to collect all RSS feed into a single view? Just like with the unified email inbox when using the grouped folders view. Because sometimes it is hard to find the one updated rss feed when you have a big list of them.
Great tips from great Jason Evangelho ! :) I have been listening to your Linux4Everyone podcast for a few years now and have been able to make Linux my daily driver now. I started using Thunderbird today and even added a few RSS feeds, thank you for making these great videos ! I was getting annoyed with ads in the RSS news feeds but after watching this video, was able to install uBOLite extension and all annoying adstuff gone. Glad to see you helping Free Software community, keep up the great work !
it's been years since I have used rss feeds (obviously on Thunderbird) - somehow social media (youtube, minds, rumble) and mailing lists (for the easily cancellable stuff that the cathedrals don't want you to see) have filled that gap completely.
Happy to help! There's also one called "Awesome RSS" which is a great (maybe even superior) alternative: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/
Thank you very much, very helpful. 💐 A video on how to archive e-mails in local folders chronologically, i. e. per year and account would be very interesting.
Love to see a videotutorial made using Plasma!!! Thanks a lot for this tips! I use Akregator, but maybe it's time tho change... who knows!! Keep doing a great work!!
Plasma is this guy's daily driver (Kubuntu 22.04)! Regarding Akregator, you can always export your feeds to an OPML file and import that into Thunderbird. Try it out? It doesn't have the polish of other dedicated RSS software, but there's something nice and comfortable about using it the same way you do email. Thanks for the comment!
I got "no feed found" when I clicked the icon. Oh well. I restarted, and it worked ok with a lot of refreshes, but I never got it to give me YOUR feed.
Been enjoying setting up RSS feeds. Question for you. I have some feeds that have subscriptions, is there a way to pass through the login information? When I click the login in to get the full article, it jumps to the browser to login but logging in there doesn't seem to affect the RSS feed in Thunderbird. Still getting the login pop-up. And Ublocker doesn't block the login pop-up
Glad this helped! Admittedly, Thunderbird's RSS functionality hasn't been prioritized recently, but hopefully that can change in the near future. Long live RSS!
I'm trying to use Thunderbird as an email client but it doesn't do Exchanger Server natively. Yes I can use OWL at a cost and it only seem to do one account I heard a rumor that it was going to be added to TB but don't know when.
Sadly there is no more "feed message body as"-option in current Thunderbird 115.10.1 Someone any idea how to play video in an up to date Version of Thunderbird?
Just came across this tutorial and thought, 'fantastic, just what I need'. Followed the instructions and after a couple of hiccups I have now got a couple of You Tube feeds in my 'Blogs & Feeds' menu. However, if I click on any video to play it, it just hangs with a spinning wheel of death. The videos play normally in You Tube directly. I use Vivaldi browser (Chromium) and of course Thunderbird email client. Any idea why they will not play?
I suspect this may be related to the somewhat recent difficulties Firefox is having with RUclips streaming. I checked some of my own RUclips feeds and they're playing fine, however (Thunderbird 115). This is going to be tough to troubleshoot here. Maybe try starting Thunderbird in Troubleshoot Mode, or disabling uBlock Origin if you have that add-on installed.
I'm Brazilian and broken, due to conditions here But this is a project I would gladly contribute Thank you all. I would love to see other projects from this team, like a smart bookmark manager, like Thunderbird. I simply cant'f find anyone I really like.
@@thunderbirdproject Yeah too bad. Thanks for your reply and -- to take the chance here: Million Thanks for this wonderful blue "bird" embracing the mail envelope :-) which is a very important - it not THE important - tool to keep web communuication independent and Open Source away from proprietary big software companies and their privacy rules. I hope you are aware of your history making impact in the web evolution. I won't stop donating your awesome work and want to invite all people to follow! You go to elections right? So here you can also help making the choice for Freedom and Open Source. Donate for Thunderbird! I want to let you know that MANY people in the world are very thankful for what you do and that it is going on and on! 1+ All the best for you!
Elephant in the room? ALL THE TABS it opens when you read your email or pretty much do anything. My customers don't understand why they can't easily see their inbox after reading or sending an email, like in Outlook. I have to show them Thunderbird is just Firefox with bells on and they're just going to have to live with multiple browser tabs whenever they do anything.
It's difficult for us to speak to the state of a Firefox extension, but I'm sorry if it's no longer working. Can you give me some more detail? Which website are you trying to pull RSS from?
@@thunderbirdproject I'm trying to follow the example in the video. I navigated to www.youtube.com/@thunderbirdproject/featured and got that 'No feed found' result. However, on closer examination of your video, you are using a different URL. Am I using the wrong URL?
@@markglover5217 Just checked and the RSS feed definitely still exists. I added it to Thunderbird just now and got expected content results. We DID change our channel ID several months ago, and that may have affected URLs. Here is the feed I successfully used, which was discovered by the Awesome RSS add-on for Firefox: ruclips.net/user/feedsvideos.xml?channel_id=UCuMTCmnwZPiXXVIy_TW6Bnw
@@thunderbirdproject OK, it looks like adding the Awesome RSS add-on for Firefox was the missing ingredient. After adding that, Get RSS Feed URL extension works! The next challenge is the 'Double-click and open in new tab' at 3:50. That doesn't work for me (TB 115.3.1), and the 'App Menu' is no longer where the video shows it to be. This would seem to have nothing to do with the RSS Feed feature, and is more to do with my inability to keep up with the constantly changing nature of the TB UI...
HOW can one GET RID of the "ALL MAIL" folder- forever? I know it comes from Gmail- and I DON"T HAVE Gmail. This stupid folder holds everything - ever- and causes replicated crap on my mail setup that is a waste of time.. I HATE the stupid folders-- ALL of them- NOT NEEDED.... when you get mail- READ AND DELETE it forever..
Hi is there any way to use the thunderbird email app (on Mac) WITHOUT it taking up all my disk space?? Eg. so that it just fetches the email real-time from our gmail/yahoo et al accounts, and can send emails via them, but WITHOUT storing stuff ON our Mac ssd?? If yes, how is this done?
hi do you mind just telling me what to do (so that it just fetches the email real-time from our gmail/yahoo et al accounts, and can send emails via them, but WITHOUT storing stuff ON our Mac ssd) because the link you sent me is a whole "thesis"... I just want one simple answer that tells me how to do this. @@thunderbirdproject
Hey there - sorry for the mixup in the previous reply. Go to Thunderbird Menu > Account Settings > Synchronization and Storage. You can disable local storage by unchecking Message Synchronization. Be sure to see the warning regarding deleting messages, as it will also delete originals.
Thanks for your reply! You are saying that if I uncheck “message synchronization“ that this will stop Thunderbird from storing anything on my hard disk, right? So any incoming or outgoing or draft or deleted emails will remain on my Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail email accounts, they just will not be stored on mine, hard disk. Correct? I’m asking again because “message synchronization”, that you say that I need to uncheck, sounds like me telling Thunderbird not to “synchronize” with my emails on my mobile account, meaning not to go fetch new ones. That’s not what this means, correct? What do I need to uncheck to make sure that no “originals“ as you say will not be deleted? I assume you mean that they could be deleted from my Gmail account via Thunderbird. Or did I understand wrongly?
Thanks for your reply! You are saying that if I uncheck “message synchronization“ that this will stop Thunderbird from storing anything on my hard disk, right? So any incoming or outgoing or draft or deleted emails will remain on my Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail email accounts, they just will not be stored on mine, hard disk. Correct? I’m asking again because “message synchronization”, that you say that I need to uncheck, sounds like me telling Thunderbird not to “synchronize” with my emails on my mobile account, meaning not to go fetch new ones. That’s not what this means, correct? What do I need to uncheck to make sure that no “originals“ as you say will not be deleted? I assume you mean that they could be deleted from my Gmail account via Thunderbird. Or did I understand wrongly? @@thunderbirdproject
Q: can rss messages be moved / collated into a folder using filter rules (similar to making lust content) or are they more like a news group? it might be more useful when you have an eclectic selection of vstis contents and want to have them grouped by topics / platforms. Edits: I wrote the original question on mobile using Samsung Swype, and it has this nasty habit of replacing words. I honestly do not remember what word I used for content and vstis. I guess the question was does it act more like POP (where we are allowed to move mails) or IMAP (which always syncs to the server, so removing posts is not possible, just like on a NG).
Going to assume "lust content" was a typo 😅 but it's an excellent question. The short answer is "YES!" You can use both Saved Searches and Message Filters on RSS feeds, because Thunderbird treats them just like folders and emails. Currently, all of my personal RSS subscriptions are organized into subfolders (Music/Tech/RUclips/Linux/etc). The drawback to this is that you can't view an aggregated list of all the folder's feeds by clicking on the folder. So what I've done is a File > New > Saved Search to aggregate any mention of (as one example) "Foo Fighters" into a dedicated, constantly updating folder with those matching articles. We're planning to a couple short "advanced" tutorials on managing RSS feeds, so please stay tuned for those.
@@thunderbirdproject Another way might be: 1. create a filter in the original feeds folder(s) 2. copy the rss feed while setting the original to "read". (3) bonus tip: use quickFilters custom templates to create new filters in 3 clicks. I am always a bit sceptical about search folders, which are only as good as your last database update / repair folders action.
The part about adding Ublock was really unclear. I watched it 48,000 times in slo-mo, and the link does not go where you say it does. The git hub page has two choices, a zip and a tar.gz. The tar.gz is seemingly invisible, the zip produces an error message saying it is corrupted. Also, your cursor kind of wanders around as you say just download it, etc. It works like magic for you, but I could make neither head nor tail of it, and either something slower or more explicit is what a low-IQ normie like me needs, I'm afraid.
I would be lot more impressed with Thunderbird if Mozilla would stop breaking shit with every update. Like subfolder, Sent Mail, and Trash refresh. And don't tell me to check the boxes. I never unchecked them.
Bonus tip: Install the Dark Reader extension to add instant dark mode to those articles and videos you're enjoying inside Thunderbird... addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/darkreader/
it's been a while since I used rss on Tb. is it possible to exclude the messages from the "go to next unread" command somehow?
Thunderbird has gotten so much better. Love it
Thanks peaceful. We're just getting warmed up!
So good to see Thunderbird back in development!!
Love you Thunderbird ♥ Can't wait for the mobile version!
We 💙 you too, thanks for the excitement!
Is there a way to collect all RSS feed into a single view? Just like with the unified email inbox when using the grouped folders view. Because sometimes it is hard to find the one updated rss feed when you have a big list of them.
Great tips from great Jason Evangelho ! :) I have been listening to your Linux4Everyone podcast for a few years now and have been able to make Linux my daily driver now. I started using Thunderbird today and even added a few RSS feeds, thank you for making these great videos ! I was getting annoyed with ads in the RSS news feeds but after watching this video, was able to install uBOLite extension and all annoying adstuff gone. Glad to see you helping Free Software community, keep up the great work !
Who knew that RSS would feel so abandoned that we'd be celebrating its inclusion in Thunderbird?!
Really lovesd thunderbird especially E2E encryption Open PGP features keep it up !!
it's been years since I have used rss feeds (obviously on Thunderbird) - somehow social media (youtube, minds, rumble) and mailing lists (for the easily cancellable stuff that the cathedrals don't want you to see) have filled that gap completely.
This one was and is handful.
Thanks for bringing Thunderbird for us.
Thank you for the browser extension tip 💙
Happy to help! There's also one called "Awesome RSS" which is a great (maybe even superior) alternative: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/
Thank you very much, very helpful. 💐 A video on how to archive e-mails in local folders chronologically, i. e. per year and account would be very interesting.
Love to see a videotutorial made using Plasma!!! Thanks a lot for this tips! I use Akregator, but maybe it's time tho change... who knows!!
Keep doing a great work!!
Plasma is this guy's daily driver (Kubuntu 22.04)! Regarding Akregator, you can always export your feeds to an OPML file and import that into Thunderbird. Try it out? It doesn't have the polish of other dedicated RSS software, but there's something nice and comfortable about using it the same way you do email.
Thanks for the comment!
This is great just wanted to say this video explained a lot thanks a lot.
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching.
RUclips has successfully blocked the rss feed extension. I tried it on your sight and it says there is no link wtf
I got "no feed found" when I clicked the icon. Oh well. I restarted, and it worked ok with a lot of refreshes, but I never got it to give me YOUR feed.
This is fantastic. Such a great tutorial.
Thanks R C! Really glad you got some value out of it.
I am unable to locate the uBlock add-on. Can anyone share the link please?
Been enjoying setting up RSS feeds. Question for you. I have some feeds that have subscriptions, is there a way to pass through the login information? When I click the login in to get the full article, it jumps to the browser to login but logging in there doesn't seem to affect the RSS feed in Thunderbird. Still getting the login pop-up. And Ublocker doesn't block the login pop-up
How you can get a SSL signature which is free and it signed your identity ? Also to encrypt the message? Could it be made with let’s encrypt?
A very informative video. Thank you.
Thanks I had a hard time working out where to add feeds, the feed account thing is far from obvious.
Glad this helped! Admittedly, Thunderbird's RSS functionality hasn't been prioritized recently, but hopefully that can change in the near future. Long live RSS!
Great feature 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Does Thunderbird support TTS plugins? Thank you for the great Tut.
I'm trying to use Thunderbird as an email client but it doesn't do Exchanger Server natively. Yes I can use OWL at a cost and it only seem to do one account I heard a rumor that it was going to be added to TB but don't know when.
Sadly there is no more "feed message body as"-option in current Thunderbird 115.10.1
Someone any idea how to play video in an up to date Version of Thunderbird?
Just came across this tutorial and thought, 'fantastic, just what I need'. Followed the instructions and after a couple of hiccups I have now got a couple of You Tube feeds in my 'Blogs & Feeds' menu. However, if I click on any video to play it, it just hangs with a spinning wheel of death. The videos play normally in You Tube directly. I use Vivaldi browser (Chromium) and of course Thunderbird email client. Any idea why they will not play?
I suspect this may be related to the somewhat recent difficulties Firefox is having with RUclips streaming. I checked some of my own RUclips feeds and they're playing fine, however (Thunderbird 115). This is going to be tough to troubleshoot here. Maybe try starting Thunderbird in Troubleshoot Mode, or disabling uBlock Origin if you have that add-on installed.
I'm Brazilian and broken, due to conditions here
But this is a project I would gladly contribute
Thank you all.
I would love to see other projects from this team, like a smart bookmark manager, like Thunderbird.
I simply cant'f find anyone I really like.
Has sth changed? On RUclips it says "no RSS feed found" in the Get RSS Url addon.
Indeed :(
It appears RUclips is actively fighting against RSS discovery, or has eliminated it completely. We're not sure which.
@@thunderbirdproject Yeah too bad. Thanks for your reply and -- to take the chance here: Million Thanks for this wonderful blue "bird" embracing the mail envelope :-) which is a very important - it not THE important - tool to keep web communuication independent and Open Source away from proprietary big software companies and their privacy rules. I hope you are aware of your history making impact in the web evolution. I won't stop donating your awesome work and want to invite all people to follow! You go to elections right? So here you can also help making the choice for Freedom and Open Source. Donate for Thunderbird! I want to let you know that MANY people in the world are very thankful for what you do and that it is going on and on! 1+ All the best for you!
Elephant in the room? ALL THE TABS it opens when you read your email or pretty much do anything. My customers don't understand why they can't easily see their inbox after reading or sending an email, like in Outlook. I have to show them Thunderbird is just Firefox with bells on and they're just going to have to live with multiple browser tabs whenever they do anything.
Would this Add-on be useful? addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/no-tabs/
I can connect to an Exchange server with Apple Mail.
Ah... is this now broken? I've followed the video instructions exactly and the Firefox Get RSS Feed URL extension reports 'No feed found'.
It's difficult for us to speak to the state of a Firefox extension, but I'm sorry if it's no longer working. Can you give me some more detail? Which website are you trying to pull RSS from?
@@thunderbirdproject I'm trying to follow the example in the video. I navigated to www.youtube.com/@thunderbirdproject/featured and got that 'No feed found' result. However, on closer examination of your video, you are using a different URL. Am I using the wrong URL?
@@markglover5217 Just checked and the RSS feed definitely still exists. I added it to Thunderbird just now and got expected content results. We DID change our channel ID several months ago, and that may have affected URLs. Here is the feed I successfully used, which was discovered by the Awesome RSS add-on for Firefox: ruclips.net/user/feedsvideos.xml?channel_id=UCuMTCmnwZPiXXVIy_TW6Bnw
@@thunderbirdproject OK, it looks like adding the Awesome RSS add-on for Firefox was the missing ingredient. After adding that, Get RSS Feed URL extension works!
The next challenge is the 'Double-click and open in new tab' at 3:50. That doesn't work for me (TB 115.3.1), and the 'App Menu' is no longer where the video shows it to be. This would seem to have nothing to do with the RSS Feed feature, and is more to do with my inability to keep up with the constantly changing nature of the TB UI...
Best video!!
Wow, thanks! Appreciate the comment!
Great feature!
Thanks! It's one of our favorites!
Thunderbird! 😎👍
HOW can one GET RID of the "ALL MAIL" folder- forever? I know it comes from Gmail- and I DON"T HAVE Gmail. This stupid folder holds everything - ever- and causes replicated crap on my mail setup that is a waste of time.. I HATE the stupid folders-- ALL of them- NOT NEEDED.... when you get mail- READ AND DELETE it forever..
TB is the Best!!
Hi is there any way to use the thunderbird email app (on Mac) WITHOUT it taking up all my disk space?? Eg. so that it just fetches the email real-time from our gmail/yahoo et al accounts, and can send emails via them, but WITHOUT storing stuff ON our Mac ssd??
If yes, how is this done?
Hi! We'd suggest starting with the steps in this Wiki article: wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Memory_Usage_Problems
hi do you mind just telling me what to do (so that it just fetches the email real-time from our gmail/yahoo et al accounts, and can send emails via them, but WITHOUT storing stuff ON our Mac ssd) because the link you sent me is a whole "thesis"... I just want one simple answer that tells me how to do this. @@thunderbirdproject
Hey there - sorry for the mixup in the previous reply. Go to Thunderbird Menu > Account Settings > Synchronization and Storage. You can disable local storage by unchecking Message Synchronization. Be sure to see the warning regarding deleting messages, as it will also delete originals.
Thanks for your reply! You are saying that if I uncheck “message synchronization“ that this will stop Thunderbird from storing anything on my hard disk, right? So any incoming or outgoing or draft or deleted emails will remain on my Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail email accounts, they just will not be stored on mine, hard disk. Correct?
I’m asking again because “message synchronization”, that you say that I need to uncheck, sounds like me telling Thunderbird not to “synchronize” with my emails on my mobile account, meaning not to go fetch new ones. That’s not what this means, correct?
What do I need to uncheck to make sure that no “originals“ as you say will not be deleted? I assume you mean that they could be deleted from my Gmail account via Thunderbird. Or did I understand wrongly?
Thanks for your reply! You are saying that if I uncheck “message synchronization“ that this will stop Thunderbird from storing anything on my hard disk, right? So any incoming or outgoing or draft or deleted emails will remain on my Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail email accounts, they just will not be stored on mine, hard disk. Correct?
I’m asking again because “message synchronization”, that you say that I need to uncheck, sounds like me telling Thunderbird not to “synchronize” with my emails on my mobile account, meaning not to go fetch new ones. That’s not what this means, correct?
What do I need to uncheck to make sure that no “originals“ as you say will not be deleted? I assume you mean that they could be deleted from my Gmail account via Thunderbird. Or did I understand wrongly? @@thunderbirdproject
Ok, now ublock will wont import as a zip file or as an extracted folder wassup
Q: can rss messages be moved / collated into a folder using filter rules (similar to making lust content) or are they more like a news group? it might be more useful when you have an eclectic selection of vstis contents and want to have them grouped by topics / platforms.
Edits: I wrote the original question on mobile using Samsung Swype, and it has this nasty habit of replacing words. I honestly do not remember what word I used for content and vstis. I guess the question was does it act more like POP (where we are allowed to move mails) or IMAP (which always syncs to the server, so removing posts is not possible, just like on a NG).
Going to assume "lust content" was a typo 😅 but it's an excellent question.
The short answer is "YES!"
You can use both Saved Searches and Message Filters on RSS feeds, because Thunderbird treats them just like folders and emails.
Currently, all of my personal RSS subscriptions are organized into subfolders (Music/Tech/RUclips/Linux/etc). The drawback to this is that you can't view an aggregated list of all the folder's feeds by clicking on the folder.
So what I've done is a File > New > Saved Search to aggregate any mention of (as one example) "Foo Fighters" into a dedicated, constantly updating folder with those matching articles.
We're planning to a couple short "advanced" tutorials on managing RSS feeds, so please stay tuned for those.
@@thunderbirdproject Another way might be: 1. create a filter in the original feeds folder(s) 2. copy the rss feed while setting the original to "read". (3) bonus tip: use quickFilters custom templates to create new filters in 3 clicks.
I am always a bit sceptical about search folders, which are only as good as your last database update / repair folders action.
@@thunderbirdproject I love these tutorials! Extremely helpful. Are the advanced RSS tutorials coming soon? Thanks in advance!
So glad you're enjoying these! And an RSS tutorial sounds like a great idea! 🤔 💡
THANK YOU
Love it
I am in Lovvveee.!!
this browser even alive anymore?
The part about adding Ublock was really unclear. I watched it 48,000 times in slo-mo, and the link does not go where you say it does. The git hub page has two choices, a zip and a tar.gz. The tar.gz is seemingly invisible, the zip produces an error message saying it is corrupted. Also, your cursor kind of wanders around as you say just download it, etc. It works like magic for you, but I could make neither head nor tail of it, and either something slower or more explicit is what a low-IQ normie like me needs, I'm afraid.
PS I found what looks like the page you displayed with the xpi file, but then it said 404 page not found.
Not really interested in more junk. Suggest focus on productivity and email organisation.
I would be lot more impressed with Thunderbird if Mozilla would stop breaking shit with every update. Like subfolder, Sent Mail, and Trash refresh. And don't tell me to check the boxes. I never unchecked them.
emacs
DONT CARE IM A MUTT FIEND
Outlook is now nothing butn a Thunderbird wannabe.
ƤＲＯ𝓂Ｏ𝕤ᗰ 🤔