As you might imagine, I wind up with a lot of folders this way. Like many folks, I’ve organized my mail by folders - work mail goes into one folder, LUG mail goes into another folder, receipts from ecommerce sites go into yet another folder, and so forth. Thunderbird will search by subject, tag, date, priority, status, age in days, and much more. Thunderbird 2.0 supports saved searches, so you can, for example, create a saved search that looks in one or more folders for messages that match certain criteria. You can also use tags to help set up virtual folders from saved searches. I looked through the Config Editor to see if it might be possible to tweak the tag order in that way, but I couldn’t find any preference names that seemed tied to the tag order. If you want to reprioritize tags, so that a newly added tag gets a shortcut, you have to delete and re-add tags to move them - Thunderbird doesn’t allow you to reorder the tags via its preference dialog. Thunderbird 2.0 in wide mode and tagged messages – click to view If you have more than nine tags, you’ll have to assign tags to messages using the menu shortcuts or the mouse. Thunderbird assigns the first nine tags keyboard shortcuts - 1 through 9 will assign a tag, 0 will remove a tag. If you’re a Getting Things Done (GTD) maniac, you can implement the tags necessary for GTD and still have tags left over.
So, for instance, if you run your own business and you get a message from a client, you might want to tag that with a tag for the client, and a to-do tag to follow up on the message. The primary advantage to tagging is that a message can have multiple tags, but a message could only have one predefined label in previous Thunderbird releases. So, what’s so special about tagging, rather than just saving messages by folder or giving them labels as in previous releases of Thunderbird? Thunderbird 2.0 ditches labels altogether and goes for the Web 2.0 gusto with tags - as many tags as you want. Three there shall not be, and six was right out. You could customize the color and text for the label, but five was the limit. One of the things I didn’t like about Thunderbird 1.x was that you were limited to five labels for messages. Thunderbird 2.0 won’t knock your socks off with exciting new features, but it’s a nice, gradual improvement over the Thunderbird 1.5 series. The new release boasts tagging, history navigation, new mail alerts, improved extension support, and a number of other features. The Mozilla Foundation released the first beta of Thunderbird 2.0 last week, and I’ve been using it to manage my mail since then. After many months of development, Thunderbird 2.0 is almost ready to debut.
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