I’ve written a great deal about firefox and tons of extensions that have been developed for it but I’ve never done the same for thunderbird, the email client that is based on mozilla. I started using thunderbird about a week ago and imported all my emails from opera to it and I love this tool. It is fast, I can sort everything the way I like it and the spam mail recognition is awesome even without third party tools.

The list of extensions disappointed me a little bit, 297 add-ons is not much considering that firefox has 1863 add-ons listed. I nevertheless compiled a list of the ten most useful thunderbird add-ons according to my opinion, yours may and probably will differ on the subject.

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This topic has been covered before in my blog but I tend to take a look at older interesting topics from time to time and update them to reflect the changes that happened to the concept in the time between. One-Use-Emails, also known as Disposable Email Addresses and Throwaway Emails are really helpful when you do not want to give someone your real email address because you fear that they would abuse this information and probably sell the address to make a quick bug.

Many websites, forums and blogs display content only to members, which means users that registered at the website in question using an email address. They send a verification to the email to check that it is valid and the user has to use the information in that verification email to prove that it is indeed his email. This process is time consuming, dangerous for your email address and completely useless.

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I finally decided to make the switch from Operas M2 mail client to Thunderbird. The reason for the change was primary that the anti-spam combination Opera and Spamahilator was not working that well anymore and I thought that it would be better to have one single program to handle the spam and the mail. Thunderbird has a great working junk filter that seems to handle spam really well even after just a few days of working with the program.

Importing mail from Opera to Thunderbird was not that easy. Thunderbird’s imports function is only working for imports from Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Communicator which meant I had to find a way to import the mails manually. To do that I had to first export the mail in Opera which is easy, right click a mailbox, select export and save the file. I did that to my received and my sent items folder but you could do this as well for the trash for instance or other folders.

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I´ve written an article about disposable email services in march and I suggest you go there if you are looking for a list of one-way email addresses. The system is pretty easy to understand. Many services on the internet demand an email address for verification purposes. Sometimes you just know that they will sell your email and you will recieve lots of spam afterwards.

Disposable email services, also known as one-way email addresses, are a good way to avoid giving away your real email to such services. You give them an email address instead that you use once and forget about it afterwards. Temporaryinbox is one such service and someone apparently created a firefox extension for this service.

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If you are by chance collecting email addresses or keen on recieving a free @msn.com email you might want to take a look at the following page. You are normally not able to get a msn email unless you purchase their internet service. Click in msn email for free to visit the website where you can signup for one.

You could use this email as a backup email for instance, the good thing is that you do not need to provide a second email for verification. Use it while it´s available. I read that @msn.com email users get preference over others when applying for betas, but I´am not sure if that is true or just a rumor.

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