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Accessing Thunderbird emails directly from an external hyperlink

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Hi, I want to save the address of any specific email into a hyperlink which then can be accessed from outside of Thunderbird.

I know I can export the email as a separate file and create a link to the new file but this results in hundreds of new files and is clumsy.

If possible, I prefer to have one Word file as an index with many hyperlinks. Thanks in advance. afk

Hi, I want to save the address of any specific email into a hyperlink which then can be accessed from outside of Thunderbird. I know I can export the email as a separate file and create a link to the new file but this results in hundreds of new files and is clumsy. If possible, I prefer to have one Word file as an index with many hyperlinks. Thanks in advance. afk

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Not sure if you want to store email addresses as hyperlinks, or pointers to specific messages. For the former, create a list of mailto:someone@example.org hyperlinks. For the latter, store the Message-ID of the messages and locate them by searching TB on the Message-ID header.

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/copy-message-id/

https://superuser.com/questions/285736/quick-way-to-find-a-specific-email-in-thunderbird-inbox

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sfhowes
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Chosen Solution

Not sure if you want to store email addresses as hyperlinks, or pointers to specific messages. For the former, create a list of mailto:someone@example.org hyperlinks. For the latter, store the Message-ID of the messages and locate them by searching TB on the Message-ID header.

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/copy-message-id/

https://superuser.com/questions/285736/quick-way-to-find-a-specific-email-in-thunderbird-inbox

afk
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Hi, Thanks for the quick response. All the best. afk