Tag the Bird
Tag the Bird adds tagging to your Thunderbird. Optionally you can use http://tagthe.net to auto-tag your messages via a secure connection. Tags are stored directly into a message's headers, so they are fully searchable. You can define an arbitrary number of external search engines (like Google or del.icio.us) where you can search for your tags.
Supported 
versions: Thunderbird 1.5 - 1.5.0.* ALL
Notes / Comments: Changelog:* Tags are stored directly into a message's headers now. ATTENTION: All the tags you entered prior to this version will be lost, because they were stored somewhere else!!! This won't happen in future versions.* The user interface has been completely redesigned. Now you can do much more without even touching the keyboard.* New options: "My Tags" and "Standard Action"* Lots of bugfixes.* More lots of little tweaks and enhancements regarding speed, stability and compatibility.Known Bugs:* Sometimes searches will return more results than you expected. The reason for this is, that when you command Thunderbird to search the 'X-Tags' header (or any other header) for a specific value, it will always search for that value in all headers. Therefore, for example, if you are searching for a tag called 'knallgrau', the search will return all messages tagged with 'knalkgrau' plus all messages that came from or went to somebody from that company, because the 'From' or the 'To' header (or even the 'Orgainzation' header) contain that string. This is a bug in Thunderbird, not Tag the Bird. I hope they fix it soon.* Sometimes searches will return no result altough they should. I could not find the reason for this yet, but I only encountered this behaviour right after Thunderbird started. My suspicion is, that the search engine somehow needs time to 'initialize'. Just do the same search again and it will return the right results. Help on this one is appreciated.* This is not really a bug: Tag the Bird uses a XPCOM method that has a comment about Mac OS (nsILocalFile:initWithPath()). I'd really appreciate if somebody could test Tag the Bird on one of the mentioned OSes.* If keep your messages ordered by thread and edit the tags of a 1st level message (= the root message of a thread), the thread will be moved to the top. There are two reasons for this: 1st, Thunderbird orders threads not by the Date headers of either the earliest or latest message in the thread (which imho should be the way how to do this), but in the same order messages have been added into TB's message database. 2nd, the only way to update a message's headers is to delete it and reimport it again. For this I'm using the CopyFileMessage() method. The second parameter should allow to replace a message which might import the filemessage without setting a new timestamp in TB's database. However, using this parameter causes the function (and TB) to block until TB is restarted, without the changes being made. I spent some time trying to fix this, but I couldn't find a solution, so I gave up for now. Any hints are welcome.Planned for future versions:* Support for imap and other server types (currently only localfolders and pop3).* Internationalization. Currently English and German. If you want to contribute, feel free to contact me.
Categories: Message Reading, Miscellaneous, Search Tools
Tags are displayed with the message's headers:
Context menu of a Tag:
Tags are edited in this dialog:
Tag the Bird options pt1:
Tag the Bird options pt2:
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Install: Tag the Bird
