Regular readers know that Mozilla has synchronized the release schedules for both the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird email client. Both applications share the same rapid release process, and both are usually updated at the same day. Mozilla today, after releasing Firefox 10, has also released Thunderbird 10, a new version of the email [...]

Google recently revealed the plan to merge the privacy policies and terms of service for most of the company’s products. This move gives all Google services direct access to all user data. Google search for instance can take into account what kind of emails a user gets in Gmail to personalize the search results based [...]

Most email notifiers inform you whenever messages have been received in a connected email account. These programs usually make no distinctions between important messages and unimportant ones, which can be a issue of the account is regularly flooded with spam, newsletters and other non-time-relevant messages. The free Microsoft Outlook add-in Important Mail Alert changes this [...]

One of my security and privacy recommendations for desktop email users is to disable HTML emails. This basically turns every email that you receive into a plain text email that does not load anything from third party servers. Once in a while though you may stumble upon an email that you need or want to [...]

I have been a user of the desktop email client Mozilla Thunderbird for the past five or so years. In that time, I have modified the default settings and behavior of the client to make it more secure against attacks and other malicious activities and issues. This guide acts as an overview of what I [...]

When I signed up for my Hotmail email account I used a custom email address. As a consequence, I never received a “real” Hotmail email address. While I was able to create Hotmail aliases, I could not really use all the features associated with an account on the site as I used the third party [...]

Did you know that newsletters make up about 50% of the email the average user receives? Microsoft discovered this after analyzing what they called graymail. Graymail in short is all mail that is not spam or personal email. When they looked at graymail they discovered that newsletters and social updates were the two biggest groups [...]

Email signatures are automatically added to emails. They often contain additional contact information, for instance the senders phone number, messenger chat name or address, and sometimes disclaimers and other legal notifications. Creating a basic signature is actually pretty easy even though the process has changed with every new version of Outlook. You can create a [...]

If you have multiple email accounts set up in the desktop email client Thunderbird, you’d probably noticed that it is hard to near impossible to distinguish accounts on first glance. The core reason for this is that there is no visual distinction between accounts. Everything is displayed in the exact same color scheme with no [...]

Thunderbird users who are running the latest stable version of the browser are currently receiving update notifications in the email client. Mozilla Messaging has just released version 9 stable of the program for all supported operating systems. Thunderbird users can alternatively download Thunderbird 9 final from the Mozilla website where it is also offered for [...]

Yesterday I started noticing a strange issue in the Thunderbird email client. I could open the email client as usual, and mail would be retrieved. I was also able to click on one mailbox and read the mails there. But when I tried to click on another mailbox, or another folder of the same mailbox, [...]

If you are using Microsoft’s Hotmail email service you have probably already noticed new options that are displayed in the web interface. Here is the new feature overview for those who have not, and those who have spotted some but not all of the new features. New email accounts can be created on the official [...]

Outlook stores your email in a PST file. PST stands for personal storage table. Outlook uses this file format to store your data including emails, contacts, calendars, etc. Depending on your settings, you may need to use your password to open them and they may or may not be encrypted. Most likely, if you did [...]

The BBC is reporting a small study by UK security firm Securenvoy into the impact work-related email will have on UK workers this Christmas.  The study says that British employees are so “email obsessed” that almost 50% plan to check their work email over the Christmas holiday period. So how does this break down and [...]

Whenever possible I prefer not to enter login information on third party computer systems and networks. Why? Because I do not have full control over the software running in the background. Other means of logging in are preferred, especially passwords that are only valid once and expire afterwards. That’s what Hotmail has added to their [...]

Both the Thunderbird desktop email client and the Lightning calendar add-on have been recently updated. Using Lightning is not the only way of integrating Google Calendar in Thunderbird. In 2010 I reviewed the Thunderbird add-on Google Calendar Tab which integrates the service into Thunderbird by opening the Google Calendar web page in the email client. [...]

One of the main points of criticism in regards to the email client Thunderbird was the missing calendar. While it was possible to install an early version of Lightning in previous versions of the email program, it was not really on-pair with the calendar in Outlook or Google Calendar. With the release of Thunderbird 8 [...]

Ghacks veterans know that Mozilla has synced the release schedules of the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird email client. Whenever a new stable version of Firefox gets released, a new version of Thunderbird is just around the corner. Both Firefox and Thunderbird have not really shown to many exciting new features ever since the [...]

For the last days I have been receiving lags and issues both in the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird email client. With Thunderbird I’m experiencing lags where the window is not responding for some time. I just have to wait and the window becomes accessible again. With Firefox it is another issue. The browser [...]

Google accidentally (or maybe not) published a video on the company’s official YouTube video channel that introduced a new Gmail interface. The video has been set to private shortly thereafter but viewers were quick enough to save it and re-publish it on YouTube. The video announcement highlights many upcoming Gmail design changes and features. This [...]