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 [...]

I’m running a basic theme on my Windows 8 Professional system, mostly because I do not like the transparency effects at all. If you have installed or updated the email client Thunderbird recently under Windows, you may have noticed that Mozilla Messaging went in heavy in regards to Aero support. All toolbars make use of [...]

Thunderbird has joined the rapid release process just like Firefox did. The two programs are now being developed and updated in sync, which means that you will see updates for both programs pop up at around the same time. With the release of Firefox 7 came also the release of Thunderbird 7. The email program [...]

When it comes to sending emails to multiple recipients you have several options at your disposal. The most common options are to use To, CC or BCC for that. The first two options may cause a privacy issue as they reveals all recipient’s email addresses to all recipients. That may not be a problem if [...]

Thunderbird, like any other email program, comes with an address book that contains email addresses and often other information about contacts. The program by default adds all outgoing email contacts automatically to the address book. The address book may contain more information than just the email address and name of the contact. Information may include [...]

When you read or reply to emails in Google’s mail service Gmail, you see the email addresses and contact names of the recipients and senders. But that’s it. Sometimes you may want to find out more about a person on Gmail, for instance before you reply to an email. While you could do that by [...]

By joining the rapid release cycle Thunderbird updates have become as frequently as those of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. It is therefor no surprise that Mozilla Messaging has just released version 6.0 of the email client Thunderbird on the same day that Firefox 6.0 was officially released. With that release, the release cycle is [...]

A very handy shortcut that I use regularly in the Thunderbird email client is the archive shortcut. A tap on a archives the currently selected emails, one or multiple, into the archive folder of the mail account. That’s handy if you do not need or want to sort archived emails further, for instance by contact, [...]

I have to admit that I barely use the Google Mail web interface, as I’m handling all emails in the Thunderbird desktop email client. Sometimes however I have to open the Gmail website, for instance if I’m not at my home computer but need to check or send emails. One of the things that I [...]

Google back in 2010 introduced a call phones from Gmail feature in the United States which allowed Google Mail users to use their computer’s microphone and speakers to make calls for free to the US and Canada, and for a low rate to other supported countries. Google has now announced on the official Google blog [...]

I use a custom folder structure for all my email accounts in Thunderbird. Part of that structure is powered by message filters that automatically put emails into folders based on selected parameters. I do that to keep my inbox clean and tidy. One example: I do get a lot of status messages and alerts from [...]

I remember reading about attackers a while ago that broke into Gmail account of webmasters. Instead of doing all kinds of things there they simply added mail forwarding filters to the account. Why did they do that? To suppress email notifications of domain transfers. Registrars send an email to the registered owner if a domain [...]

Microsoft’s desktop email client Outlook offers a conversations view which users can activate under the View ribbon toolbar. What it does is that it groups emails from the same sender or group of senders together so that it becomes easier to access all of them at once. Very handy if you need to read a [...]

Millions of emails fly through cyberspace daily, and as is the case for many users, it can be useful to identify the location that the e-mail originated from. Persistent spam and malware attachments abound. Sometimes it is best to say, “I have had enough!” Particularly for e-mails that include malware, this is important. By reporting [...]

Mozilla has released the first beta version of the upcoming Thunderbird 6 email desktop client. As you may know, Mozilla has moved Firefox to a rapid release process some time ago. This basically meant an accelerated development process with new versions of the browser every 18 weeks. Soon thereafter, the developers decided to move Thunderbird [...]

With over 200 million users, Google Mail, or Gmail, is one of the most used email systems in the world today. Even companies are getting in on the act by moving their email infrastructure to Google Apps, which gives them all the benefits of Google and the convenience of using a custom domain. With a [...]

While I’m a Thunderbird user at heart, I run Microsoft Outlook as well on all of my computer systems. I have tested and worked with dozens of third party Outlook tools over the past years of which a few have proven to be very useful. This article offers a short but handy list of Microsoft [...]

Ghacks readers know that online security is of uttermost importance. That includes picking passwords that are not common, easy to guess or dictionary words. The majority of Internet users on the other hand select convenience over security when it comes to their online password, or shall I say password. Many users pick a common password [...]

There really can be no escaping from it these days and we’ve accepted the barrage of emails we receive from people as a normal part of life.  Should it be this way though and will something have to give soon in order to avoid people either becoming completely addicted to their email, or to help [...]

When it comes to the attitudes with which various people approach the concept of email we find highly fragmented groups, even within the confines of such a relatively small group like techies. Some of those who use and enjoy technology on a daily basis see email as a welcome and acceptable part of that electronic [...]