Hello, people,

I would like to make scripts in Thunderbird for things i do manually, but which are much boring, when there are a lot of messages in a folder (or more).

I tried to search Thunderbird addons for the word "script", but i found nothing there. Or i did not understand that one of the 38 results in this search are usable for this. The results seem to be for pretty different things, compared with my idea: different language tasks, system monitor (!!!), deminify javascript, ...

My idea is to write things similar do Bash scripts, while Thunderbird is running and logged into some account (i have more than one in it). It could run in a terminal window created by Thunderbird (so it closes when the program is closed or killed), but with a way to save scripts as files.

What do you think?

In this context, such an application script is often called a "macro". In browser-based software they are also called a "userscript".

For Firefox, Greasemonkey was the extension to use. A quick search suggests someone ported that to Thunderbird and called it Scriptish, but it hasn't been updated recently and the comments suggest it doesn't work (and the homepage is dead).

Maybe look at what it would take to re-port the current Greasemonkey?

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Yes... macros... I never heard this name in a linux context, though. Do you consider a Gimp script a macro, for example?

I will look into all these things, and see what can be done. Depending on what i find and do with these ideas, i report in this thread. Thank you! 😁