Aug 2, 2020

MailExtensions EnForward

EnForward 2.0.0 is available for download.  It support Thunderbird 78.

EnForward is add-on that save messages to Evernote by using Evernote's forwarding functionality. See the following for details of the mechanism.

You can also forward messages to other services such as OneNote.

Download

After you install EnForward, at first, configure your account information in the option. At least the followings are needed.
 
Please note  preferences you did in EnForward 0.5.1 are not migrated.

Common

Choose command which is invoked by clicking a toolbar button. The option is only relevant to the toolbar button.



For Evernote

Fill the Evernote Email Address field. You can get the address from Evernote's account information.



For other service

Fill Service name, Address and Identity. By default, these are configured for OneNote.

Service name is used for UI such as a context menu. You can input any name. Address is the email address you want to forward. Identity is your account used to send a message. It it remains "(Choose identity)", forwarding will fail.



After the setup, you can forward messages to Evernote. Put EnForward toolbar button and click it with messages selected. You will see a popup with note information such note title, notebook name etc. Modifiy it if needed then click the Forward button.

You also invoke EnForward from contex menus and keyboard shortcut. Shortcut keys are disabled by default. So, set up the keys first.



New functionalities

EnForward 2 has two new functionalities.

One is tagging of original messages. See the option and find "Add following tags to the original message". If you check some tags here, they will be added to the original message. This functionality assumes to be used to manage forwarded messages. For example, prepare "Evernote" tag and add it to forwarded message.

Similary, you can remove tags from the original message.


The options are implemented for both Evernote and Other note service.

Another functionality is a toolbar button for the message compose window. If you click the button, the following popup will appear. By filling this form and clicking Update button, To address and the mail subject are updated as you input. If you click the Fill fields button, EnFoward fills fields based on currently selected message. It assume cases such as followings:
  • Taking meeting note by the message compose window and send it to Evernote
  • Edit a message content by "Edit as a new message" functionalities and then send to Evernote

 

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I cannot use EnForward anymore after the update. It is not in the menu when I right click on a message. It is installed but I don't see a button for Options, only buttons for Delete and Disable in the add-on list. I am using the latest version of TB: 68.11.0

h.ogi said...

EnForward 2 does not support Thunderbird 68.x. Please keep using v0.5.1.

Anonymous said...

I installed the previous version and disabled automatic updates. It's working again. Thanks.

h.ogi said...

Sorry, this was my mistake of the configuration. Now EnForward 2.0.1 notification to Thunderbird 68 is stopped.

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