Import from Microsoft Outlook pst

install readpst
$ sudo dnf install -y libpst

convert for Thunderbird, see link

cd ~/Downloads
mkdir werth_b
readpst -o ./werth_b -M -u -w -e -b /run/media/xps13/RUGGED/OECD/werth_b.pst

External Editor

Thunderbird 52.0

Hi, I made a tweak and it seems like working.
Binary: https://github.com/snipsnipsnip/exteditor/releases/download/v1.0.1-unofficial/exteditor_tb52_v101.xpi
Patch: https://github.com/snipsnipsnip/exteditor/commit/4d0f836e4c5b8695df3d59427bd212de234de246

Google Task Sync: change background and text color

download and extract contents to folder

go to folder
$ cd /home/xps13/Dropbox/Programming/Thunderbird/google_tasks_sync-0.5.2-tb
delete current file
$ rm ../google_tasks_sync-0.5.2-tb.xpi
zip folder contents
$ zip -r ../google_tasks_sync-0.5.2-tb.zip *
change file extension
$ mv ../google_tasks_sync-0.5.2-tb.zip ../google_tasks_sync-0.5.2-tb.xpi

install in Thunderbird

Changes from original

modify /chrome/skin/google_tasks_sync.css

  • set text color to “-moz-field”
  • remove background-color
vbox#gt_tasks_sync_taskcontainer, #gt_tasks_sync_reorderingcontainer, vbox#gt_tasks_sync_dummycontainer, vbox#gt_tasks_sync_testingcontainer
{
	overflow: auto;
	color: -moz-field;
	/*background-color: -moz-field;*/
}


Published

05 February 2016

Category

technical