The one and only program that I use for all my email archiving – or backup – needs is MailStore Home. The core reasons for this are that it is dead easy to use and able to tap into all my email accounts effortlessly. Want examples? It supports Gmail and Yahoo Mail, all Outlook and [...]

If you are using Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client on a desktop computer, you probably have updated to version 12 of the client when the new version came out. Shortly thereafter, Thunderbird was updated to version 12.0.1, which resolved several issues that came to light after the final release of Thunderbird 12. Some Thunderbird users ever [...]

If you are not using Microsoft Outlook as your mail email client on your computer system, you may have noticed that you sometimes receive winmail.dat attachments sent by Outlook clients to your email software that you can’t open on your system. Outlook users can sent so called Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format information with their emails, [...]

Automatic email translations have been available on Google Mail for some time as parts of Gmail Labs. Users who have activated the feature in their account, were able to make use of Google Translate to translate foreign language emails directly in Gmail. The new feature is currently being rolled out, and should be available to [...]

When it comes to downloading new email messages in desktop email clients, you have usually two options to do that. You can configure the program to retrieve the full messages, that is message header and body right away, or fetch only the email headers. The second option may not be as comfortable as the first, [...]

With Thunderbird 12.0 having been released less than a week ago, it may come as a surprise to may that Mozilla Messaging is already preparing a follow up release to resolve several issues that became known after the release of Thunderbird 12.0 was already on its way out to the users. Thunderbird 12.0.1, which is [...]

If you are running the latest Thunderbird Beta, or one of the experimental versions of the desktop messaging client, then you may be interested that the new Filelink feature has been integrated into the version of the software. If you follow the news posted here on this site, you know that Mozilla Messaging announced plans [...]

Mozilla Messaging has just released version 12.0 of the Thunderbird email and messaging client. The program update, available for all supported operating systems and languages, is available both at the official project website over at Mozilla, and through the internal update checker of the messaging client. Existing Thunderbird users should receive update notifications the next [...]

Microsoft has implemented two fail safe mechanisms when it comes to deleting emails in Hotmail. Emails that you delete in Microsoft’s email service are first moved to the deleted folder. This is similar to the way files are deleted in Windows. The idea here is to give you an option to recover emails that you [...]

While it is possible to open single picture attachments right away in the Thunderbird desktop email client, it becomes bit of  an issue if you receive dozens of images attached to an email. While you could open them manually one by one, you’d probably prefer a faster option that’s more comfortable to use. Some Thunderbird [...]

Thunderbird 11.0.1 has been released by Mozilla Messaging only two weeks after the update to Thunderbird 11 has been pushed out to all Thunderbird users. The new version of the desktop email client is already picked up by the application’s internal updater. It is also possible to run an update check manually with a click [...]

You have multiple options to copy a single word in the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client. You can move the mouse cursor to the word’s first letter, press and hold down the left mouse button, and move the mouse to the end of the word to highlight it. You could also use the [...]

Like many other email providers, Gmail is using anti-spam technologies to filter out spam messages automatically. These spam messages are then moved into the spam folder, and not into the mail inbox. That’s beneficial to the user, as it reduces the time it takes to go through all incoming emails. Gmail’s automated spam filter is [...]

When you look at the most recent releases of the Thunderbird email client, you’d be hard pressed to find major new features that the developers have added to the program. If everything goes along as planned, this is soon going to change as Mozilla plans to integrate instant messaging capabilities into Thunderbird 13. That’s three [...]

Photos these days can are often in the Megabyte range which makes it difficulty to transfer them via email or other means. Email is special as it has a it is usually limited in the amount of Megabytes you can send per email. The limit is usually in the 15 to 25 Megabyte range, with [...]

One of the things that you can do to validate an email is to verify that the sender is genuine. A basic example would be to look-up the location the email originated from. Think of the following: You are expecting an email from your friend living in the same city that you are living in. [...]

You probably know about Gmail’s Indicator setting which adds group and single message indicators to all mail folders. You can enable the feature with a click on the Settings button, the selection of Settings from the context menu and scrolling down on the page until you see the Personal level indicators preference. The very same [...]

I recently switched from using the Fox Clocks extension in Thunderbird to the lightweight Simple Clocks alternative (with a size of 100 Kilobyte compared to Fox Clock’s 700 Kilobyte). Both programs can be configured to display the time of select locations in the world. That’s extremely useful if you are communicating with people from all [...]

When it comes to sending files to other people, Internet users have a lot of options at their hand. From uploading them to ftp servers or file sharing sites to sending them per email or using a direct transfer client. All are either difficulty to set up for users who are not that tech-savvy, or [...]

Spam is one of those things that you never can get rid of completely, it seems. Email providers like Hotmail, Google Mail or Yahoo Mail are battling on the spam front ever since they opened their door for the first users. And while they managed to cut down significantly on spam in past years, there [...]