Printing headers only in Thunderbird

November 23, 2006 9:41 PM

Is it possible to just print out the headers (subject, sender, date, etc.) for all the e-mail in a folder in Thunderbird?

I need to print out a list of received e-mail in Thunderbird. What I'm aiming for is a single page with a column for the message title, a column for the sender, a column for the date received, etc.

I know this is possible in Outlook by selecting all the messages and hitting 'print', but Thunderbird insists on printing each whole message on a separate page, and I only want the headers (on one page). The knowledge base has nothing. So, is there a way to either (a) get Thunderbird to print this, or (b) export the data to a spreadsheet or something so I can print it out? I'm using Thunderbird 1.5.0.8, if that's relevant. Thanks in advance!

posted by Paragon to computers & internet (2 comments total)

I write Thunderbird extensions for fun, and this sounds like it would be easy to do with an extension (my addressContext extension already does most of the work of grabbing messages and their headers). If you email me (email in profile) I can get in touch with you and cook something up in the next week or so.
posted by mikeyk at 11:12 PM on November 23, 2006

In the meantime, can you just take a screen capture of the folder window and print that? You can configure which columns are displayed, and only have those relevant ones.
posted by Boobus Tuber at 5:20 AM on November 24, 2006