Hi. What helped me a lot was the TB Enhance app that's available for
Window-eyes. I'm going to paste the readme file that comes with the
app so people not familiar with it can get a good idea of what the app
does, and what keystrokes you can use. Also what is really cool about
this app is that it gives you specific instructions as to what to change
in Thunderbird itself to make it friendlier to Window-eyes. Here it is!
Enhancements include: automatic maximizing of Thunderbird windows,
access to mailbox column headers (Control-Alt-C by default), email
auto-completion support, and support for using the default tabbed
message view.
This is the help text for using Thunderbird with the Window-Eyes
TB-Enhance app and Thunderbird sets. The sets are used in the main
Thunderbird window, the composition window, and in the spell-check
dialog. Press Control-Shift-Question_Mark in the spell-check dialog for
additional help there.
Recommended Thunderbird Changes.
The following are recommended changes to make in Thunderbird to make it
work better with Window-Eyes. To open the Thunderbird options dialog,
press Alt-T, then O. If this is the first time you do this, you will
start in the General tab. It is important to note that when you make
changes and close the options dialog, it will remember where you left
off and open in the same tab you were when you closed it.
1. In the general tab, press Alt-W to uncheck show start page when
launching Thunderbird. If checked, the start page, similar to a
Thunderbird web page will show links to things like FAQs and other
related information.
2. In the general tab, press Alt-S to uncheck show an alert when
messages arrive. If checked, it will interrupt things like read-to-end
while you are in another message.
3. In the Composition/General tab, press Alt-C to uncheck confirmation
when sending using keyboard shortcut. If checked, Thunderbird will ask
for a confirmation each time you send messages using Control-Enter.
4. In the Composition/General tab, press Alt-M to uncheck check for
missing attachments. If checked, Thunderbird will prompt you for an
attachment when you send the message if the message contains certain
keywords even if you don't want to send an attachment.
5. In the Composition/Spelling tab, press Alt-E to uncheck spell check
as you type. If unchecked, there is no automatic spell checking while
composing a message. Instead you can spell check by pressing F7 at any time.
6. In the Advanced/Reading & Display tab, press Alt-N to open messages
in a new window. This makes it so that only 1 window is used to contain
open messages. This way you can close it with either Escape or Control-W.
Reading E-mail.
When you are in the message list, press the Up or Down arrows to move in
the list. Press Shift-Tab to move to the folder list and then the arrows
to choose a new folder. Please note that first letter navigation is not
available in Thunderbird. After choosing a new folder, press Tab to move
to the message list of that folder. Press Enter to open a message. The
following are some useful hot keys while reading mail.
Control-N - Start a new message.
Control-R - Reply to an existing message.
Control-L - Forward the existing message.
Control-E - Edit an existing message as new.
Control-S - Save the current message to a file.
Customizing Thunderbird for reading mail.
1. Choosing message headers to display. By default Thunderbird displays
the subject, from, and date of the message. It can also display other
message headers such as the message status, number of messages in a
thread, and message tags. To choose which message headers are displayed,
press Control-Alt-C from the main Thunderbird window. A menu will open,
showing the list of headers you can toggle on and off. Up or Down to the
one you want and press Enter to change it's status.
2. The preview pane. It is best to turn off the preview pane so that
messages don't load in a smaller window as you arrow in the message
list. From the main Thunderbird window, press Alt-V, L, M to toggle the
preview pane from on to off. Another way to do this is by pressing F8.
Note that this is a toggle so if the preview pane is on, it will turn it
off.
3. Opening a message. To read a message, press enter on the message you
want to open. The message will open in a new window and Browse mode will
be on. All standard Browse mode keys apply here. When you are done
reading the message, you can press Escape or Control-W to return to the
message list. If the Reading & Display setting is set to the default of
opening each message in a new tab rather than in a new window, the
Escape key will not work.
4. Message headers. To read the From, To, and Subject of the currently
opened message, press Alt-1, Alt-3, and Alt-6.
5. Moving from inside messages. While a message is open, you can move
backward or forward through the messages with the B and F keys. Since
you are in Browse mode when a message is open, you have to bypass these
first with Insert-B. For example, if you want to go to the next message,
press Insert-B, F. If you want to go to the previous message, press
Insert-B, B. There are other quick keys which you can use while viewing
a message. All of them will need to be preceded with Insert-B for
Thunderbird to see them. If you are using the TB-Enhance app, you can
move forward and backward by pressing Alt-Left Arrow and Alt-Right Arrow
instead of B and F.
Writing E-mail.
When you press Control-N to start a new message or Control-R to reply to
an existing message, a composition window opens. If this is a new
message, you are placed in the To: edit box. If you are replying to an
existing message, you are placed in the body of the message. The reply
settings determine whether you are placed at the top or the bottom of
the message. While you are in the composition window, you can press
Control-Tab to move forward from the message body to the message
headers. There are times when replying to a message still leaves you in
Browse mode. If this happens, press Control-Shift-Tab then Control-Tab
to fix this.
The following are some useful hot keys while composing mail.
Control-Enter - Send the message.
F7 - Spell check, press Control-Shift-Question_Mark from there for
additional help.
Alt-S - Move to the subject field.
Control-R - Rewrap the quoted text.
Control-Tab - Moves forward to the next field.
Control-Shift-Tab - Moves backward to the previous field.
On 7/15/2016 12:08 PM, Jim via Talk wrote:
Jim, I have been using ThunderBird for several years although I
suspect I am far from being an expert. But I will try to answer your
questions. 73 & Have A Good Day! de
<KF8LT><Jim Wohlgamuth>.
On 15-Jul-16 07:03, JAMES ARDIN via Talk wrote:
need to talk to somebody that is good with Thunderbird
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