Thunderbird day today? Not sure about that but today is the day where two interesting new add-ons have been posted at the Thunderbird website. The first was the add-on that increased the mass mailing functionality in the web browser. The Unsubscribe From Mailing Lists add-on does exactly that. It provides an option to unsubscribe from [...]
Increase Thundebird’s Mass Mailing Capabilities
The desktop email client Thunderbird does offer mass mailing capabilities by default. It is possible to add multiple recipients for an email. Problems appear however if the number of recipients is extremely large (more than 100 for example) and if the individual recipients should not see the other recipients that received the email. The second [...]
How To Setup Multiple Email Identities In Thunderbird
The desktop email client Thunderbird makes it very easy to setup and use multiple email identities. Multiple identities can be useful in multiple situations including the use of sub-addressing to combat spam (Gmail and Yahoo Mail users might have already come in contact with the concept through the use of mail aliases), use a set [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Nov 1st, 2009
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Gmail at your fingertips on the Linux desktop
When Gmail first came out I wasn’t a fan. But after a year of use I have found Google Mail to be a very valuable tool. Because I use Gmail mostly for work-related issues, I do not always like to check it within a browser. Instead I use various applications that enable me to have [...]
Google Mail Account Security Tips
The official Gmail blog has published five security tips to improve the security of a Gmail account. Email security should be one of the top priorities for a number of reasons but especially because other accounts are usually associated with an email account. Just think of all the websites and services that require users to [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Oct 26th, 2009
- Comments: 1
Stop SPAM in Postfix with Spamassassin
So you have your Ubuntu server up and running with a Postfix mail server (see “Install Postfix for reliable email delivery“). You have also set up Postfix for antivirus with the help of ClamAV (see “Add antivirus to Post fix with ClamAV“). Finally you have Postfix set up to relay (see “Mail relaying made simple [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Oct 25th, 2009
- Comments: 5
Add antivirus to Postfix with ClamAV
By now you have your Postfix mail server up and running (see “Install Postfix for reliable email delievery“). You even have relaying working (see “Mail relaying made simple with Postfix“). But one of the most important features you can add to a mail server is an system to prevent viruses from being passed to users. [...]
