The Bottom Line
- Stationery lets you use rich message templates and backgrounds in Mozilla Thunderbird emails
- You can switch stationery even while composing your new message or reply
- You can adapt Windows Mail or Outlook Express stationery to work with Stationery, too
- Stationery does not import or repair stationery designed for Windows Mail or Outlook Express
- Several bugs make this early version an interesting albeit sometimes strenuous experience
- Stationery does not include a way to save emails you have created as stationery, specify default
Description
- Stationery implements email stationery for Mozilla Thunderbird.
- With Stationery, you can use any HTML file as a template for new emails and replies.
- Expanding the "Write" and "Reply" buttons, Stationery lets you select from recently used stationery or choose a new file.
- You can change stationery while composing. Text you have already written may be lost, though.
- Stationery supports Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5/2.
Guide Review - Stationery 0.4.8 - Mozilla Thunderbird Extension
All right. Maybe you know fanciful email stationery (including background images, animations, rich text, sound and everything else a decent greeting card on the web would also have) from Windows Mail, IncrediMail or Outlook Express.
Stationery the extension brings that kind of rich message to Mozilla Thunderbird — at least a quarter of the way. Using Stationery, you can pick any HTML file stored on your computer as a template for a new message or reply. Stationery expands the toolbar buttons for that purpose in a sensible manner and remembers the templates you most recently used.
The HTML code can include most of what you'd use on a simple web page (excluding JavaScript, for example, which is deemed unsafe for emails). So, in theory, your old Outlook Express stationery should work, at least to some degree.
Unfortunately, Mozilla Thunderbird expects references to images and other files in a format differing from what is used in much existing stationery. Sadly, Stationery is of no help, but you can manually make sure all files are referenced fully (using "file:///path/filename.ext" syntax) — a tedious task.
Stationery also lacks means of saving a message as stationery, and a number of bugs make using it quite an experience.
Still, there's fun in it, and you will rightfully exult when you get a template to work.
