Can I make ststionery for thunderbird
I used to make stationery for windows mail. Is there a way to add stationery to Thunderbird?
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Thank you very much!
Matt said
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/stationery/
I have this add-on installed on my TB (v.31.4.0), and it goes through all the motions beautifully -- adds buttons to menus and toolbars, etc -- but my html email stationery files (used for many years in Outlook Express 6) still don't display in any new email composition windows.
I wish there were some kind of systematic TBird help (with alphabetic search function), because I've spent at least an hour by now searching for details, with no luck.
Can anyone direct me to an accurate, detailed explanation of how to ensure that html files created as email stationery actually work in TBird?
Thanks, in advance, for your help.
Update: I read some of my ancient notes re. this stationery in Outlook Express, and remembered that one has to store both the html file and the image file in the same directory, and then tell the stationery addon where to find that directory. Once done, it worked.
However: now a subsidiary problem: my Outlook Express stationery HTML file contained some CSS that I'd written to dictate <body> margins, so that my email text would always begin left-aligned with my stationery's left boundary (it's a logo, that contains image and text), and a specific distance below.
Related to that, I see that within the Composition window, via Format - Page Colours and Background - Background Image - Advanced Edit -- that one can change some HTML attributes -- but margins/indentations are NOT listed. My hunch is that Thunderbird does not read CSS style formats, but that it MIGHT read in-line HTML code for these things. My HTML is rustier than my CSS, so . . .
[an hour later] Yes, TBird DOES respond to ancient, deprecated HTML practices. But does it respond to CSS?
Any TBird users out there who know about this stuff? If not, anyone know where I can find a Mozilla developer for tech help?
Thanks.
Modified by maberly
Try the manual http://en.flossmanuals.net/Thunderbird/ but I doubt it will answer your questions because your talking about implementation of specific bits of CSS and the use of an add-on.
You are, I think, looking for something that does not exist. It did not really exist for outlook express either, if I understand you. But let me point out that CSS support in most mail clients is poor. Thunderbird's is better than most.
Mozillas CSS support is documented at developer.mozilla.org. here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Mozilla_support_chart Geko is the rendering engine used by both Thunderbird and Firefox. These days the Geko version and Application version are the same.
A chart of supported CSS elements supported by other mail clients is here https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
Just keep in mind that support at gmail and Hotmail for CSS is rubbish and as a general rule Microsoft mail applications have the worst CSS support.
Matt said
Try the manual http://en.flossmanuals.net/Thunderbird/ but I doubt it will answer your questions because your talking about implementation of specific bits of CSS and the use of an add-on. You are, I think, looking for something that does not exist. It did not really exist for outlook express either, if I understand you. But let me point out that CSS support in most mail clients is poor. Thunderbird's is better than most. Mozillas CSS support is documented at developer.mozilla.org. here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Mozilla_support_chart Geko is the rendering engine used by both Thunderbird and Firefox. These days the Geko version and Application version are the same. A chart of supported CSS elements supported by other mail clients is here https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/ Just keep in mind that support at gmail and Hotmail for CSS is rubbish and as a general rule Microsoft mail applications have the worst CSS support.
Thank-you, Matt! I hadn't known about the flossmanuals site till several minutes prior to receiving your response. I realize that CSS isn't a routine app question, but formatting the body text relative to an email's stationery does seem directly related to an email app's operation.
My CSS is very rusty, so perhaps I'll see if anyone at flossmanuals would be willing to see what (if anything) is wrong with the basic CSS I've been using in OE.
Thanks again!