So that I don’t forget how to tweak PostBox again, I’m posting a few custom configuration settings not available in Tools/Options directly that I find useful.

If you don’t want to see the somewhat annoying status and progress dialog in Postbox (or Mozilla Thunderbird) anymore, there’s a change you can make to hide the status window (dialog) entirely.

Sending Messages, Status, Progress

Open the Advanced Configuration Config Editor option found in Tools/Options/Advanced/General:

When you open the Configuration Editor, you’ll be shown a warning by default:

As it suggests, be careful when you make these low level settings changes. Preferences that have changed from the default are shown in bold (preferences could have been changed by a variety of mechanisms, so don’t panic when you see lots of non-default preferences).

Here’s how to hide the Sending Messages status window and instead show the status at the bottom of the message being sent (in the status bar). Using the configuration editor, change mailnews.show_send_progress to false. To quickly find the setting, type “show_send_p” in the filter:

Then, double-click on the row to toggle the Value from the default true to false.

If you want Postbox’s (or Thunderbird’s) delete message behavior to more closely match Microsoft Outlook’s, you may want to make this other change. Using the same technique as above to make a custom configuration edit, set the following preference to false.

mail.delete_matches_sort_order

When this is set, pressing the Delete key will not move to the next message (down) in the list. It will stay in place.

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