Thunderbird

• Incomplete Maildir support

Start profile manager:

thunderbird -P

Nvim support

external-editor-revived

• GitHub
• Rust, recent updates
• Thunderbird addon-store
• AUR package
  • Installs TB extension and native messaging host
• stevenxxiu/external_editor_revived_markdown
  • Script to convert to and from Markdown when editing.

Installation:

pamac install external-editor-revived
external_editor_revived
mkdir -p "$HOME/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts"
external-editor-revived | tee "$HOME/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/external_editor_revived.json"

Restart Thunderbird.

Configuration: Only needed if defaults (nvim, kitty terminal) need to get changed.

Other external editor plugins

• Firevim
  • Currently broken

Troubleshooting

Thunderbird is not responding

Option 1: Rebuild the Global Database:

rm ~/.thunderbird/default-profile/global-messages-db.sqlite

Clean imap email index files (*.msf):

find ~/.thunderbird/default-profile/ImapMail -name '*.msf' -exec rm {} \;

Clean calender cache:

rm -rf ~/.thunderbird/default-profile/calendar-data