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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 14th, 2007
  • Comments: 5

Use Thunderbird and Thunderbird Portable

Thunderbird portable is the portable version of Thunderbird, it does not require an installation which makes it an ideal tool for USB sticks and removable storage devices. I’m using Thunderbird on my desktop computer and decided that I wanted to use Thunderbird Portable on my USB drive to be able to check mails when on the road.

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Categories: Email

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 13th, 2007
  • Comments: 2

OlFix Repair tool for Microsoft Outlook

OlFix is a tool that tries to repair several problems that users can encounter using Microsoft Outlook. The program is portable and does not require an installation, it should work with all versions of Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express. Its main features are that it can repair Outlook profiles, repair contact links, extend reminder folders, delete search folders, change message classes, find duplicates, set file extensions, start several Outlook repair command line options, repair the inbox and automatically find and delete extend.dat.

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Categories: Email, Operating Systems, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 9th, 2007
  • Comments: None

Productivity Tip for Thunderbird

Drag and Drop is probably the more comfortable way to move emails around but keyboard shortcuts can speed up the process tremendously. That is what Nostalgy, a Mozilla Thunderbird add-on, is all about. It adds keyboard shortcuts to move and copy messages, change folders and display the folder pane.

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Categories: Email

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 9th, 2007
  • Comments: 1

Identify Legit Emails from major companies

Email spam is so common these days that it has become a part of our live to wade through the spam to identify the real emails that have been sent to our mail account. It can be a challenge for the average user sometimes while IT-professionals and experienced users identify legit and fake emails at a glance .

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Categories: Browsing, Email, Security, firefox, ie

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 6th, 2007
  • Comments: 1

Remove Duplicate Address Book Entries in Thunderbird

It can happen that you end up with duplicate address book entries in Mozilla Thunderbird and wonder how you can remove them so that only one entry per contact is visible in the Thunderbird Address Book. The current Thunderbird address book is most likely fragmented or corrupted and the easiest way to fix that is to create a new Address Book and copy the contents of the old Address Book into the new one.

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Categories: Email

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 29th, 2007
  • Comments: 5

Enable Pop3 Access for most Webmailers

It sure does have advantages to access mail accounts from a website like accessibility for instance. I never liked using webmailers that much because I did not like the thought that my mails would sit on a server somewhere on the Internet. The good news was that many webmailers such as Gmail or Yahoo Mail offered a way to access the mails using the Pop3 protocol and a mail client.

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Categories: Email

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 26th, 2007
  • Comments: 3

Convert Outlook Express mails from DBX to MBX format

Microsoft is often not using a standard format which is the case when you take a look at how Outlook Express saves the mails that have been send and received. Outlook Express saves the mails by default in dbx files instead of saving them in the wildly used mbx format which is being used by Thunderbird, Opera and most other email clients.

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Categories: Email

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