ReplyWithHeader Mozilla (RWH) is an Add-on for Thunderbird and
Postbox (a.k.a extension) to bring Outlook-style message headers while Reply/Reply All/Forward and few goodies to manage Message composition. RWH add-on is available for Apple Mail.app too.
Quick Links: Features | Compatibility Matrix | Installation | FAQ | Donators
Enjoy RWH add-on for your Thunderbird
File Size: 69 kb, source
Features
Completely manages and enable the most important feature ‘Message Attribution’ for Reply, Reply All & Forward in the Thunderbird & Postbox.
- Cleans up special internal email headers from Message Attribution
- Provide special/meaningful email message separate of thin blue color line
- Clean handling of header attribution [From, Subject, Date, To & Cc], rest are suppressed
- Typography feature for message attribution (Headers) in-terms of Font Face, Font Size and Color
- Message attribution sequence in-terms of From:, Sent:, To:, Cc: and Subject
- First Name and Last Name used instead of quoted email address
- Provides optional prefix transformation for Re: -> RE: and Fwd: -> FW:
- Header line spaces option like before header, after header and before separator
- Cleanup/Content formatting for block quotes and ‘>’ char
RWH Mozilla Donators
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Following RWH users contributed and supporting RWH development (of-course that’s me)
Also, time-to-time I send donation to Thunderbird from this donation.
Date | Name | Amount | Donated Via |
May 24, 2015 | [Kept private as per user], CA, USA | $100.00 | PayPal |
Feb 11, 2016 | Aj Lester, Western Australia, Australia | $10.00 | PayPal |
Nov 26, 2017 | Hans Polling | $3.00 | PayPal |
Apr 08, 2017 | Bytes, Inc | $10.00 | PayPal |
Apr 20, 2018 | Christopher Miller | $25.00 | PayPal |
May 05, 2018 | Ho Winston | $21.00 | PayPal |
Nov 14, 2018 | Juerg Sommer | $5.00 | PayPal |
Dec 10, 2018 | Hank Ausse | $10.00 | PayPal |
Dec 19, 2018 | Unknown (I wish to know the name) | $10.00 | PayPal |
Mar 13, 2019 | Loeper Matthias | $10.00 | PayPal |
May 11, 2019 | Thomas Iglehart | $15.00 | PayPal |
May 24, 2019 | Patrick Illi | $5.00 | PayPal |
Sep 20, 2019 | Felix Reich | $5.00 | PayPal |
Sep 27, 2019 | Torben Fahrnbach | $5.00 | PayPal |
Oct 8, 2019 | Bo Hansen | $10.00 | PayPal |
Oct 23, 2019 | Jürg Sommer | $15.00 | PayPal |
Nov 17, 2019 | Alan Jacobsen | $40.00 | PayPal |
Nov 18, 2019 | Lyndon Scott | $10.00 | PayPal |
Nov 30, 2019 | Jan Galajda | $3.00 | PayPal |
Dec 16, 2019 | Jakob Baum | $25.00 | PayPal |
Jan 1, 2020 | Benjamin Allen | $20.00 | PayPal |
Jan 24, 2020 | Jeff Martin | $5.00 | PayPal |
Jan 26, 2020 | Jan Galajda | $5.00 | PayPal |
Jan 30, 2020 | Charles Merfield | $10.00 | PayPal |
Feb 14, 2020 | Michael Dowd | $5.00 | PayPal |
Apr 03, 2020 | Pedro Berg | $50.00 | PayPal |
Jun 09, 2020 | Uwe Röger | $20.00 | PayPal |
Aug 22, 2020 | Rich S. | $10.00 | PayPal |
Oct 02, 2020 | Inventec Informatik AG (source-code.biz) | $10.00 | PayPal |
Oct 05, 2020 | Nick Berg | $200.00 | PayPal |
Oct 06, 2020 | André Wehrli | $20.00 | PayPal |
Oct 06, 2020 | Hyeoungkyu Chang | $20.00 | PayPal |
Oct 06, 2020 | Andrea Angelo Locatelli | $20.00 | PayPal |
Oct 07, 2020 | Jürgen Reichenecker | $10.00 | PayPal |
Oct 07, 2020 | Lyndon Scott | $20.00 | PayPal |
Oct 08, 2020 | Todd Citron | $20.00 | PayPal |
Nov 03, 2020 | Uwe Röger | $20.00 | PayPal |
Nov 17, 2020 | Chris Chambers | $5.00 | PayPal |
Dec 09, 2020 | Albert Dietz | $10.00 | PayPal |
Dec 17, 2020 | Bill Horton | $10.00 | PayPal |
Jan 25, 2021 | Tuan Long Vu | $15.00 | PayPal |
Feb 24, 2021 | Данил Герун | $1.00 | PayPal |
Mar 19, 2021 | Emanuele Signori | $20.00 | PayPal |
Apr 26, 2021 | Mike Millen | $5.00 | PayPal |
Aug 21, 2021 | Andrea Angelo Locatelli | $20.00 | PayPal |
Aug 30, 2021 | Rene Servranckx | $30.00 | PayPal |
Sep 11, 2021 | I donated to MZLA Technologies Corporation | $60.00 | |
Oct 8, 2021 | Dennis Stewart | $10.00 | PayPal |
Dec 12, 2021 | Ralph Kradolfer | $20.75 | PayPal |
Jan 14, 2022 | Nathan Schwam | $10.00 | PayPal |
Jan 20, 2022 | Zaheer Samee | $30.00 | PayPal |
May 19, 2022 | Thomas Siegler | $10.00 | PayPal |
Jun 30, 2022 | Todd Stauffer | $20.00 | PayPal |
Jul 04, 2022 | André Wehrli-Allenbach | $20.00 | PayPal |
Jul 24, 2022 | Rowel Samuels | $10.00 | PayPal |
Nov 03, 2022 | Chris Chambers | $4.00 | PayPal |
Mar 06, 2023 | Niles Guthrie | $25.00 | PayPal |
Jul 19, 2023 | Andrea Pancaldi | $20.00 | PayPal |
Aug 09, 2023 | Stanislav Gusev | $5.00 | PayPal |
Compatibility Matrix
RWH Version => | v2.6.0 | v2.5.0 | v2.4.0 | v2.3.0 | v2.2.1 | v2.1.0 | v1.5 |
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Postbox 3.*, 4.*, ≤ 5.* | ![]() |
Known Issues
The following are the known issues of the add-on:
- Quick reply mode in the Postbox application is not yet supported
Add-on Installation
Instructions for Installing ReplyWithHeader Mozilla Add-on into Thunderbird & Postbox.
Thunderbird
- Download and save the .xpi file to your hard disk
- In Mozilla Thunderbird, open Add-ons from the Tools menu
- From the options button next to the add-on search field, select Install Add-on From File... and locate the downloaded add-on from your hard disk
- Now RWH Add-on is ready to use!
Postbox
- Download and save the .xpi file to your hard disk
- In Mozilla Thunderbird, open Add-ons from the Tools menu
- From the options button (rightmost corner), select Install Add-on From File... and locate the downloaded add-on from your hard disk
- Now RWH Add-on is ready to use!