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resources:
What's New
  • 27 Dec 15: Outbox 0.1 was released.
  • 27 Nov 03: Outbox project launched.
Thanks
  • Thanks to Gusztav for making Outbox check all accounts.
  • Thanks to Chris Neale for reviewing and cleaning up the code, which will result in an upcoming release.
  • Thanks to the Toggle Preview Pane extension crew. We shamelessly ripped off their code.
Other Stuff

Welcome to the Outbox project

What is Outbox?
Outbox is a simple extension for Mozilla Thunderbird that adds a Send Later button to the Compose windows and Send and Send/Get buttons to the main Thunderbird toolbar, thus making the Send Later and Send Unsent Messages features more accessible.

Outbox is 0.1 software. It works on my OS X Panther computer, running Thunderbird 0.4, and has been tested by a small group of people. I highly recommend that you backup your Thunderbird profile before installing this extension. If you don't know how to do that, you probably shouldn't install this extension.

How to use

  1. Install the extension (Save the extension on your desktop, then install it)
  2. Restart Thunderbird
  3. In the main Thunderbird toolbar, Control-Click (OSX) or Right-Click (Windows, AFAIK) in the Toolbar and click on Customize. Drag the Send/Get or Send buttons to your toolbar
  4. Do the same thing in the Compose toolbar and drag the Send Later button to your toolbar

To-do list (patches are welcome):

Dedicated to the guy to whom I accidentally sent mail calling him bogus.


This is a page with user notes on it.

User Notes: [?]

If you do not get a response to a question posted in this forum, please try sending a message to the project's mailing list or to the project owner directly.

[1] Submitted by: bart Thursday November 27th 2003

Feel free to post your comments here. I'll try to respond from time to time.

[2] Submitted by: David Gruner Thursday November 27th 2003

Tried the extension and it seems to work :)

(I'm using: Win2k, Thunderbird 0.4a)

[3] Submitted by: Lisa Thursday November 27th 2003

Thanks! Seems to be working great here!

(Thunderbird 0.3, winXP pro)

[4] Submitted by: itom_bo Friday November 28th 2003

can integrate this little feature in the next thunderbird release?
thanks

[5] Submitted by: gusztav Saturday November 29th 2003

Could you possibly add a feature to get messages for all accounts with the Send/Recv button? It is most gravely needed.

[6] Submitted by: bart Sunday November 30th 2003

gusztav:
Are you saying that you want a Get All Messages extension? If so, see

Or are you saying that Outbox doesn't work with the Get All Messages extension? If so, please describe the problem.

[7] Submitted by: bart Sunday November 30th 2003

the URL to the Get All Messages extensions got stripped out, so here it is: extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info.php/getmess

[8] Submitted by: gusztav Sunday November 30th 2003

I am saying that Outbox tries to retrieve messages only for the first account, regardless of me having the GAM extension installed. 20031119 respin 3 (I think), official.

Was it designed to interact with GAM?

[9] Submitted by: itom_bo Tuesday December 2nd 2003

please to integrate this feature in the main Thunderbird program. Is foundamental for the 99% of people that change from outlook to moz thunderbird. Is very little and simple to integrate I think.
thanks

[10] Submitted by: gusztav Thursday December 4th 2003

SO, it remains a one-account-only feature, eh?

[11] Submitted by: bart decrem Friday December 5th 2003

Gusztav,

This is not something I know how to fix. So maybe a user will submit a patch that makes Outbox works with GAM (you could try asking the GAM maintainer for help), but otherwise this won't get fixed soon. I'll add this to the to-do list though. Sorry.

[12] Submitted by: brucemc Tuesday December 9th 2003

As both of my grandmothers have passed away, I'll give it a shot-

Thank-you!

[13] Submitted by: Peter Friday December 12th 2003

Thanks! Seems to be working great here!

[14] Submitted by: gusztav Monday December 15th 2003

OK, I'm a lazy f*ck and I didn't feel like learning XUL/XBL, but I eventually forced myself to phish through TB's .xuls -- if the string "cmd_getNewMessages" on the line 20 of outbox.xul is replaced with "cmd_getMsgsForAuthAccounts", the Send/Get button will get new mesages for all registered accounts, which is what I was talking about.

GAM does just that; it adds a widget for this function that is internally present in TB. This would pretty much obsolete it.

I really can't judge whether you knew this. My two percent of a US Dollar.

[15] Submitted by: bart Monday December 15th 2003

Thanks Gusztav. I've added that command and spun a new release. It seems to work great.

[16] Submitted by: dave Tuesday December 16th 2003

Had some trouble installing 0.1 when the older version was already present. Cleaned my chrome dir and reinstalled TB (0.4 deDE) and now it works.

I'm not sure but i think i read something about plans, to make a localised build of the plugin. Because i have a german build of TB i'm really interessed in this :)

[17] Submitted by: bart Tuesday December 16th 2003

Make sure to uninstall the old version of Outbox before upgrading to a new version. The installation page contains simple (but brutal) uninstall instructions. If someone wants to offer better uninstall instructions, that'd be helpful.

[18] Submitted by: Alex Wednesday December 17th 2003

Have a look on my extension MagicSLR:


It is available in en-US (link in mozillazine) and de-DE ( ).

[19] Submitted by: Alex Wednesday December 17th 2003

Ups, where have my links gone...

You can have a look in MozillaZine Forums > Extensions > MagicSLR.

German Version available on the Thunderbird DE:
thunderbird. diepause. de

[20] Submitted by: dave Wednesday December 17th 2003

Seems that the MagicSLR plugin does the same as the Outbox plugin, but the current version (0.2) doesnt work for me :)

[21] Submitted by: bart Wednesday December 17th 2003

Alex, that's great. We should definitely combine our efforts. I'm happy to discontinue my extension if yours works better and will get more attention.

[22] Submitted by: Alex Wednesday December 17th 2003

The actual MagicSLR version is now 0.2.3

In the versions BEFORE 0.2.3 I've integrated locales - they are not working properly at this moment - don't know why. So I've decided to release version 0.2.3 without locales.

@bart:
I've been working on this extension for some time now. But until yesterday I was not able to fix a problem with the popup-menu. Last night I got the solution with the help of an user out of XUL-Forums.

You should give it a try (version 0.2.3!)

The next release should have working locales and future-releases should be compatible to themes.

[23] Submitted by: brucemc Friday December 19th 2003

With appreciation for the work already done, if we could progress this to be able to tag a held message with a date and time, upon which it would be sent. Yeah, previously mentioned, but it sure is slick-

[24] Submitted by: bart Tuesday January 13th 2004

alex, could you send me email to bart at mozilla dot org so we can discuss how we can work together on one extension?

[25] Submitted by: aingman Wednesday January 14th 2004

Damn this stuff is too complecated. all I wanted to do was transfer a documant to E-mail

[26] Submitted by: Fred Sunday January 18th 2004

Can't seem to get it to work with WINSE & TB.4. Says it installs but icons not available in "customize". Gotta be doing something wrong. Help!

[27] Submitted by: Fred Sunday January 18th 2004

I got it now!

[28] Submitted by: David Monday January 19th 2004

There is a note in the Thunderbird forums that tells you how to set TB to get messages from all accouts on startup. Is there a similar change that would allow TB to get all messages and then send all messages from the outbox without having to click on the Get/Send button?

[29] Submitted by: Udo Tuesday January 20th 2004

Hi,
I found the two extensions MagicSLR and Outbox. What is the current state of merging them? Are you working on that? And what will be the new project name?
Udo

[30] Submitted by: Alex Tuesday January 20th 2004

@David:
MagicSLR has this function

[31] Submitted by: David Tuesday January 27th 2004

Alex,

I downloaded and installed MagicSLR but can not figure out how to activate this function. All the docs I can find on this extension are in German.

[32] Submitted by: JasonM Friday January 30th 2004

Thanks for writing this extension! I have one question about it. Does anyone know how to *continue* editing an email from the Unsent Messages folder? I've discovered "Edit as new", but I would rather have something like "Edit as draft" which doesn't create a new email.

[33] Submitted by: Alex Saturday January 31st 2004

@David:
You've been asking for a function to get AND send all messages AT STARTUP.

Sorry, therefor I've no working solution yet.

[34] Submitted by: JasonM Monday February 2nd 2004

Thanks for writing this extension! I have one question about it. Does anyone know how to *continue* editing an email from the Unsent Messages folder? I've discovered "Edit as new", but I would rather have something like "Edit as draft" which doesn't create a new email.

[35] Submitted by: Paul Friday February 6th 2004

Outbox 0.1 works great and I find it incredibly useful. However (knew this was coming) it doesn't work in conjunction with Enigmail 0.83.0.

My account is setup to sign all messages in the profile, and if I send now, it works as I expect. However, if I use send later, the email is placed in the unsent messages folder in Local Folders, but it doesn't go through the signing (or encryption for that matter).

Don't know if this is an integration issue or not, but really needs to take into account security settings of the profile. I've not tried it with built-in SMIME support yet as I don't have an smime key. Can anyone try this to see if the problem also occurs using the inbuilt secure email support. If it does then it is the way in which Enigmail works.

[36] Submitted by: freddy Tuesday February 17th 2004

Like many laptop users, I have a problem in that I have to use the SMTP server associated with the connection I am using at the time, and I have different ISPs at home and the office, so I have to keep diving into ToolsAccounts... etc. and changing the default SMTP server.
Would it be possible for the Send button to have a dropdown menu that enables you to select which SMTP server to use as default ? This would make this extension much more useful for me and others in my position.
And even if it is not possible, thanks for a really useful bit of work !

[37] Submitted by: eidolona Tuesday February 24th 2004

tried to install outbox. downloaded program to desktop. opened thunderbird. rt clicked toolbar. clicked customize. but the only icons available to drag to toolbar are separator, flexible space, space, file, previous, next and mark, but no send later, or send/receive. I've got a get mail icon on my toolbar, but the outbox is not there to use . I'm foxed completely. Can anyone help?

[38] Submitted by: freddy Wednesday February 25th 2004

You have to install it as an extension ( Tools Options Extensions Install New Extension ).
Once it is installed, outbox appears as a new folder in your local folders called 'Unsent Messages', instead of 'Outbox'.

[39] Submitted by: Andrew Thursday March 4th 2004

Another vote for brucemc's request: it would be great to be able to schedule a specific date/time for when a message will be sent. Is that possible?

[40] Submitted by: bart Thursday March 4th 2004

Looks like Outbox 0.1 doesn't work with Thunderbird 0.5. I don't have time to fix this, so patches are most welcome.

[41] Submitted by: James Monday March 8th 2004

Nice feature, just what was needed. However, can something be done with the icons so that they are not just other ones reused (i.e. the send and forward buttons) as it can get a bit confusing if the button labels are turned off

[42] Submitted by: bart Wednesday March 10th 2004

As far as I can tell, Outbox DOES work fine with Thunderbird 0.5.

[43] Submitted by: Alain Wednesday March 10th 2004

Yes, I have OutBox working in Thunderbird 0.5 (Win98se), but: 1) you have to add the icons to the toolbar manualy, 2) in the insertion windows one of the icons apears with a very strange image.

[44] Submitted by: Cheri Wednesday March 17th 2004

I just installed TB .5 on Win2k (have been using an earlier version quite well, I really like it.) Have been installing extensions, then had trouble ... after downloading and installing Outbox I exited TB per instructions and when I tried to restart, got this message: " A previous install did not complete correctly. Finishing install." So I deleted TB and reinstalled it, then reinstalled Outbox. With the same results.
I read the instructions here, doesn't sound like there's much to go astray. Can you tell me if I'm doing something wrong? I successfully installed some other extensions today. Thanks for any help.

[45] Submitted by: Cheri Wednesday March 17th 2004

After going through the above process once again, I somehow managed to successfully install Outbox. At least, I found the "SEND/GET" button... however, I do not see a folder in my Local Folders called "unsent messages" or anything else similar. I read an earlier post that I should see a new folder ... any insights? Other than the obvious, that I am waaayy new at this
:-) I freely admit I need help. But I really want to use TB and I need to help my friends to set up these extensions also so they will convert ... thanks.

[46] Submitted by: Gus Sunday March 21st 2004

Outbox doesn't work to me on TB 0.5 and WinXPHome.
The installation was successful but no new button appears, nor I can figure out how to add them manually.
In Local Folders I already had a Unsent Message folder.
Thanks.

[47] Submitted by: Joel Wednesday March 31st 2004

Need new icons for Outbox Extension for Mac OS X, to match the new default theme in the newest nightlies.

[48] Submitted by: dejy_good Wednesday April 7th 2004

salam
khobi

[49] Submitted by: Gus Wednesday April 7th 2004

With respect to number 46: excuse me, it was probably my error. Now Outbox works with TB0.5 on WinXPHE: the Send Later button was automatically added on the Compose window when I went Offline, while the Send and Get buttons can be manually added.
Thank you,

gus

[50] Submitted by: Scott Wednesday April 21st 2004

I really appreciate this extension. Thanks for all the hard work. I am just wondering if there is some piece of code or something I can use to mark unsent msgs as unread so I will see something in my Unsent Msgs folder?

[51] Submitted by: Kirk Sunday May 2nd 2004

Thanks for working on this.

Is there a way to uninstall Outbox? (I have a lot of extensions, but no way to get them out of Firefox/Thurderbird) Thanks.

[52] Submitted by: Alex on Thursday May 27th 2004

Er.. bit new to this. I downloaded the extension and it said it was installed but it didn't change anything. I tried to customize the windows to add the buttons but they weren't there to add. I just installed 0.6, is that something to do with it?
Alex

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
[53] Submitted by: Emma on Wednesday June 2nd 2004

Hi
I've installed the outbox extension, and so by default all messages get treated as "send later" - rather than send now.

However, when I then select "Edit as New" - as I've changed my mind (the reason for wanting the default to be send later), I end up with the original message in the out box, as well as the editied one.

Is there an extension that will automatically delete the original one?

Emma

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[54] Submitted by: lou on Thursday June 3rd 2004

I guess I am thick or something... I have XP home, Firefox 0.8, Thunderbird 0.6. When I go thru the process to add the "outbox" extension, it winds up as an extension to Firefox! What did I do wrong??

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[55] Submitted by: Lincoln on Monday June 7th 2004

Is it possible to get the rule to apply to all profiles in Thunderbird, not just "local folders". eg an unsent messeges folder in each profile.
Thanks......Lincoln

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
[56] Submitted by: Len on Thursday June 10th 2004

Like 54 I have ended up on all 3 attempts with outbox as an extension to Firefox. Rather frustrating

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[57] Submitted by: Ken on Sunday June 13th 2004

I have tried to install Outbox twice. Didn't get any icons either time. Yes, I rebooted. Yes, I even looked in Firefox and they weren't there. I noticed that after the install, the dialog box that says to restart the program says to restart Firefox, not Thunderbird.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
[58] Submitted by: Paul Easton on Wednesday June 23rd 2004

After installing this, I now have two send later buttons, can no longer send messages immediately, and can no longer customize my compose window's tool bar.

DETAILS:

I installed this extension with TB 0.7. I right-clicked on compose window tool bar and selected customize. The customize dialog had a mess of icons (prob. because my Theme - Charamel - doesn't support it). I dragged the mess to the tool bar and got another send mail icon from a different theme it seems. But strangely, my original send mail icon *and* the new send mail icon, now *both* send mail to the outbox. IOW I now have two "send latter buttons." Also, I can no longer customize my tool bar. When I right-click, the "customize" context menu choice is no active.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
[59] Submitted by: Paul Easton on Wednesday June 23rd 2004

The extension uninstalled from the TB 0.7 extension manager w/o any problems and I now have my compose toolbar back to normal.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
[60] Submitted by: Lisa on Saturday July 3rd 2004

Would it be possible to change the version number of Outbox whenever you make a change? And maybe have a changelog page? Otherwise the only way people can tell a change has been made is to read through everyone's comments, which may or may not be relevant to simply finding out the outbox extension has been updated.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
[61] Submitted by: BigBob on Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:24:08 -0400

Would like a "Send at" feature, i.e. t given time & date.

Fool people into thinking you were working late Sunday night ;-)

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[62] Submitted by: emichael brandt on Wednesday 21st July 2004 at 21:27 -0400

Try as I might, I can not get a SendLater icon, or Outbox, or any indication that the Extension installed despite the fact that it said it did. (Nor does it appear in the Tools/Extensions window.) Running WinXPpro and Thunderbird 0.7.1. Anyone else have this problem?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8
[63] Submitted by: nichead on Tuesday 3rd August 2004 at 13:40 -0400

hello,

is there any chance to get this extension into the new extension manager system on update.mozilla.org?

would be great, since it's a handy extension!

thanks!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
[64] Submitted by: shiv on Friday 6th August 2004 at 23:37 -0400

I've been unable to install Outbox, though the installation process appears to be successful. No SendLater icon appears. I'm running XPpro and TB 0.7.3.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
[65] Submitted by: shiv on Saturday 7th August 2004 at 00:06 -0400

Figured it out!

I saved the extension to disk (right click on the link, save as...) and installed it directly from Thunderbird, rather than via Firefox.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
[66] Submitted by: Zenon Pylyshyn on Thursday 12th August 2004 at 19:27 -0400

Okay I installed the Outbox extension. My Write toolbar has the SEND LATER button, as directed. So I wrote a message and hit SendLater. Now what? Where is the message? It has disappeared! Should there be an Outbox in my list of folders?

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
[67] Submitted by: - on Monday 16th August 2004 at 02:11 -0400

Nice extension, was driving me nuts waiting for (large) messages to send!

How hard would it be to make it send in the background.
(ie, after clicking send later, it tells Thunderbird to Send/Recieve?)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
[68] Submitted by: Court Skinner on Saturday 21st August 2004 at 01:34 -0400

I tried outbox - two versions. The 0.1 failed to show up at all, the .21 seemed to work, but didn't work with my AVG virus checker which changes the "real" mail server to a local mail server and new port (127.0.0.1:5001) and when the outbox is used (or just installed) a message comes back that realmailserver:25 is not available. AVG is a free virus tool that works with win2k and I'm using Thunderbird and Firefox as email and browser tools.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
[69] Submitted by: Andy on Tuesday 7th September 2004 at 00:44 -0400

I use Send-Later so I have some time to reconsider what I've written or add after-thoughts or corrections, more addressees or whatever. For this use, it is most useful if the outbox queue auto-flushes (delivers) periodically so I don't completely abandon the messages I put there. The easiest modality would be to modify the auto-get mail with the added option to send queued messages on check. This is how Eudora does it.

This sort of ties in with the "deliver after date/time" feature which is also really useful.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
[70] Submitted by: Morpheus on Sunday 12th September 2004 at 07:27 -0400

I have TB 0.7.3 under Windows XP Pro.

After i installed outbox, the "Send" buttons appears, but the outbox plugin doens't show up in the Tools->Extensions list. I choose for installation in my profile directory.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040625 Firefox/0.9
[71] Submitted by: PLA on Wednesday 15th September 2004 at 15:55 -0400

Andy said "The easiest modality would be to modify the auto-get mail with the added option to send queued messages on check. This is how Eudora does it."

I fully agree with this request. I've tried to replace Eudora with Thunderbird, and found it so cumbersome to use with a modem connection, so that I gave up this idea : it was too complex to use for my father compared to the way Eudora does it.
In Eudora, when you are setup for a modem connection, all message are queued waiting the connection, and automaticaly send when checking mail.
And Eudora also handles perfectly the dialin process, and hangs up at the end of transmission... I couldn't get a similar easy usage of Thunderbird.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i686) Opera 7.51 [fr]
[72] Submitted by: peter on Thursday 16th September 2004 at 16:40 -0400

Not working with Thunderbird 0.8. Using winXPpro. Can't see any difference since before I installed it.

Will check back for an update again.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
[73] Submitted by: AndyC on Friday 24th September 2004 at 14:10 -0400

Not working here with TB 0.8 and Win2K

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
[74] Submitted by: Scott Caplan on Saturday 25th September 2004 at 00:33 -0400

Hi,

Thanks for making this program, but I have a question about using it. I'm used to using Eudora which has a feature that allows me to specify a time that I want my mail to be sent, so that I can have mail sent from my account while I'm at lunch for example. That's what I thought Outbox was, but I don't see how I can do this with Outbox. If I can't, I guess that's my suggestion for a later release. If anybody out there has an answer for me, I'd appreciate if in addition to posting it you could email me at scott.caplan@yalenospam.edu (remove "nospam").

Thanks again for helping to make an amazing product even better.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
[75] Submitted by: floorball on Thursday 21st October 2004 at 13:37 -0400

Hi, I would like to install outbox. But if I click on the download thing, nothing happens. Should it open a new window? Thanxs for your help. Andrea

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[76] Submitted by: nsiyer on Monday 1st November 2004 at 23:26 -0500

This is excelelnt stuff ! Any plans to update Outbox to support it for TB 1.0 ?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
[77] Submitted by: Bob Brown on Monday 15th November 2004 at 22:43 -0500

Is Outbox compatible with Thunderbird 0.8 (20040913)?

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[78] Submitted by: johnmacI on Monday 29th November 2004 at 09:50 -0500

I have XP Home, and Thunderbird 0.9. I tried several times to install Outbox, following all instructions exactly, but without success. I now have and Unsent Messages folder in my Local Folders tree, but the Customise function (rt click in tool bar)doesn't offer the icons described in the Outbox installation instructions. I noted the button on the Outbox section in the Extensions website is Install, not Download. I tried clicking it, and dragging and dropping to the desktop, but only move the link reference. Help please!

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[79] Submitted by: Steen on Sunday 5th December 2004 at 20:08 -0500

Installed Outbox - worked = GREAT, BUT BUT it would be super if when quitting Thunderbird, onw would be asked if user wants to send unsent messages...most other email app got that neat feature...
Thanks-Steen

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[80] Submitted by: bagadat on Wednesday 8th December 2004 at 00:53 -0500

i've managed to install outbox on thbd 1.0 but it's icon is not in proportion with the others and it's not adapted to thbd's new default look... any plans of updating that...? thx again...

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[81] Submitted by: bemc on Wednesday 15th December 2004 at 15:29 -0500

One of Eudora's features that I love is being able to set an exact date and time to an email (yep, I'm the same guy from about a year or so ago). Any plans to try to develop such functionality? It's one of those last items that is still holding me back!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
[82] Submitted by: dswogger on Sunday 19th December 2004 at 15:41 -0500

I'm running Win2K, SvcPk4 with all updates installed. After installing outbox for review purposes I chose to uninstall it --- it wiped out something in Thunderbird. After restarting Thunderbird the Get Mail button was gone, the Write button was gone, there was nothing listed in the Folders panel and there was no "options" item under tools --- I had to do a complete reinstall.

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[83] Submitted by: Alain Mouette on Tuesday 28th December 2004 at 16:15 -0500

First of all, congratulations. Maybe OutBox is a simple program, but it is THE ONLY IMPORTANT ONE that I care of.
Now that we have Thunderbird 1.0, would it be possible for you to release a new version with updated icon size and this the most needed feature: try to send every few minutes if a conection is a available.
The fact is that that will make W$ used feel at home ;-)
thanks in advance, Alain

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pt-BR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041118 Firefox/1.0
[84] Submitted by: BatBat on Thursday 6th January 2005 at 13:14 -0500

Hi,
Try this :
it's a french site but i know you'll find where to download. :) Of course the extension is in english too and is compatible with Thunderbird 1.0+.
BatBat

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[85] Submitted by: BatBat on Thursday 6th January 2005 at 13:16 -0500

the link below was h t t p : / /extensions. gekozone. org / Outbox

:/

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[86] Submitted by: WolfHawke on Saturday 8th January 2005 at 09:59 -0500

Nice going on that French site. Any chance of getting those guys to submit it to the official TB site? Would make life a *lot* easier.

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[87] Submitted by: Matt on Thursday 13th January 2005 at 20:55 -0500

Installed old Outbox on 1.0 and it did not work. Was not aware of the incompatibility issue. Saw French site and downloaded but does not work. Followed uninstall procedures out lined on

but the unsentmessages.sbd folder and the .msf file won't go away no matter how many times I try and delete them. Any ideas?

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[88] Submitted by: Ian Park on Saturday 29th January 2005 at 07:16 -0500

Nice one BatBat! I downloaded the extension, installed it, restarted Thunderbird and it worked a treat. One small point: I had to do some tweaking on the URL after I'd copied & pasted it from the posting (to remove redundant spaces, and add the "c" which got missed from "geckozone"). The URL which worked is:

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[89] Submitted by: Ian Park on Saturday 29th January 2005 at 07:19 -0500

I see I had the same trouble as BatBat with his original posting... maybe I'll have to leave people to apply the same algorithm as I did to the URL in BatBat's second posting... 8S

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[90] Submitted by: Levent on Sunday 20th February 2005 at 02:45 -0500

Outbox didn't work on Win98 - Thunderbird V 1.0.

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[91] Submitted by: Jose Rey on Sunday 27th February 2005 at 11:40 -0500

I want the scheduling option that brucemc mentioned. I want to work on emails during the weekend and have my Thunderbird send them Monday morning while I am still in bed

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[92] Submitted by: Old Gnome on Thursday 10th March 2005 at 14:34 -0500

I am extremely puzzled. How did I end up with an Outbox extension v 0.21????? I can be contacted at oldgnome57@charter.net. Thank you.

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[93] Submitted by: Tom on Sunday 13th March 2005 at 14:39 -0500

Outbok extension won't show up in extension Window but is installed.

1.) How can I remove it?
2.) Why is the icon so much bigger as all other icons?
3.) Why is the icon (before adding) screwed when configuring the toolbar?

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[94] Submitted by: Tom on Sunday 13th March 2005 at 19:49 -0500

All fixed now.

The already above mentioned Outbox 1.0 works like a charm! Unfortunately the link is missing a 'c', so here is the correct one, remove spaces:

h t t p : / / extensions. geckozone. org/ Outbox/

Note: If you have 0.1 installed, remove it first as described on this page, read carefully!

h t t p : / / extensionroom. mozdev. org/ uninstalling.html

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[95] Submitted by: hari prasadh on Friday 29th April 2005 at 22:59 -0400

gftyjtilk

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[96] Submitted by: LaBougie on Sunday 17th July 2005 at 15:13 -0400

Installed on T-Bird 1.0.5 without any problems. This is a lifesaver that kept me from going back to Outlook! THANKS.

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[97] Submitted by: Thomas Bøge on Monday 1st August 2005 at 06:05 -0400

I have added support for danish language - dansk - to outbox-1.0 found on geckozone.org.

It is now available from

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[98] Submitted by: Ben Rubinstein on Tuesday 16th August 2005 at 07:35 -0400

Extension seems to work approx as advertised (TB 1.0.6 on Mac OS X 10.4.2) - thanks very much.

However I did find the process quite confusing; and some bugs and might be bugs, which you may already know.

Firstly, the link at the top right of this page says it is version 0.1. The comments in this page suggest that there have been many versions since. The only other version I can see is on the 'install' page; this turns out to be the identical file, so I'm optimistically assuming that it is the latest version. (I haven't figured out how to find the version.) Editing the link at the top of this page to remove the "0.1" - and perhaps changing the date, it currently claims to have been posted in ten years time - would be helpful in reducing confusion.

Similarly the introductory comments that this is 0.1 software are presumably now out of date, and overly off-potting. (It would also be helpful if these comments were list newest first, I don't know if you have control over that.)

When installed, the extension appears and immediately disappears in TB's extensions window - there's no persistent sign of it.

It doesn't (at least, didn't for me) add any buttons to toolbars itself. I'm not sure if it's supposed to or not. What I found (eventually) was that after installing outbox, I could then use the 'configure' command on the relevant toolbars to add the Send Later and Send/Get buttons to the toolbars.

The Send/Get button on the main window toolbar is fine. When I tried to configure the toolbar in the compose window, it showed me a block of what looked like all the icons, in three sizes, with a single label below "Send Later". Dragging this enormous block of icons into the toolbar did however correctly add the single Send Later button.

I think [93] above experienced at least two of the these issues.

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[99] Submitted by: BatBat on Monday 5th September 2005 at 16:24 -0400

NOW OUTBOX IS AT :
h t t p : / / extensions. geckozone. org/ Outbox/
This is the 1.0 version because the original author don't develop any further version so i made a new one that is better than his 0.1 version. Feel free to mail me to give me locales !!!
h t t p : / / extensions. geckozone. org/ BatBat/

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[100] Submitted by: ThomKirgis on Wednesday 2nd November 2005 at 14:26 -0500

This page so full of data, I forgot what I was looking for, so no this search engine did not help , me.

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[101] Submitted by: BatBat on Friday 2nd December 2005 at 07:16 -0500

http : // extensions. geckozone.org/ Outbox-en
updated english page for Outbox compatible with FF1.5 !

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[102] Submitted by: Antoine Oliger on Saturday 20th May 2006 at 12:37 -0400

When i try to send messages it geos in the outbox and
stay there for ever WY: What can I do to corecct this problem.I have a XP Windows and a Sony Laptop.

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[103] Submitted by: Peters4 on Saturday 10th June 2006 at 18:16 -0400

Installed Outbox and now want to uninstall it. But it's not showing up on the list of extensions. How can I uninstall/remove it?

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[104] Submitted by: Peters4 on Saturday 10th June 2006 at 18:28 -0400

(continued from previous comment - #103)

The Outbox extension is not in my Profiles folder, so apparently I can't remove it manually.

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[105] Submitted by: Subra010 on Tuesday 10th April 2007 at 13:52 -0700

Running with Thunderbird 1.5 and WinXp
Installed Outbox...works fabulously. THanks a ton folks...you have my undying gratitude.

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[106] Submitted by: MistakeProne on Sunday 1st July 2007 at 22:30 -0700

I tried to install it with Tbird 2 and WinXP, but had no luck. :-(

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[107] Submitted by: naddude on Sunday 5th August 2007 at 20:15 -0700

how do you uninstall this?

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