Users of the Thunderbird email client can zoom the text of email messages by holding down Ctrl and tapping on + to increase the font size or – to reduce it. The zooming options are furthermore available under the View > Zoom menu in the menubar of the email client. There is however no option [...]

Microsoft introduced a new email alias feature for all users of their email service Hotmail. Email aliases are alternative on-the-fly email addresses that can be generated directly in Hotmail. Two different versions of email aliases are available. The first available option is to add characters to the first part of the email address. A new [...]

The Thunderbird email client uses the same core that the Mozilla Firefox browser uses. This means that it is possible to open websites and services directly in the email software which can be handy at times. Add-ons are needed to add the functionality though, or at least to make it easily accessible. Web Application Tab [...]

You may know that I made the switch to Thunderbird 3.3 some time ago which is currently available as a alpha 2 release. Most of the extensions available for Thunderbird are not compatible with this version. I never really bothered to find a solution for that since I did not make use of must-use extensions [...]

Telify, an extension for the Thunderbird email client and Mozilla Firefox web browser, turns phone numbers in emails and on web pages into clickable links that open supported voice applications to make calls more comfortably. All it takes is to click on the phone number to initiate that call directly in the selected application. The [...]

It is sometimes necessary to start the desktop email client Outlook with startup parameters, usually to resolve issues or troubleshoot the email client. System administrators and tech savvy users should not have difficulties finding a list of available shortcuts and adding them to the start of the email client. Everyone else might like the free [...]

When you purchase a new computer you often want to move at least some data from the old computer to the new. At the very top of the lists are usually email accounts if a desktop email client like Thunderbird or Outlook is used. The same move may be necessary after a hard drive crash [...]

Firefox, like most modern web browsers, can be used to save login information so that they do not have to be entered by the user again on the next visit to a website or service. This behavior could be problematic on multi-user systems if users manage to get access to a user’s Firefox installation as [...]

I can group emails that I receive into different priorities, the highest priority is for instance reserved for emails that concern my websites and servers. Messages that inform me about server, database or website downtimes for instance have the highest priorities while confirmation orders from Amazon have not. There is however no option in Thunderbird [...]

Firefox and Thunderbird share several components which makes it easier to develop for both applications but can also mean that there are some side effects that are better dealt with. One of those effects are plugins that are automatically loaded in the Thunderbird email client. Plugins? You know, stuff like Google Update, iTunes Application Detector, [...]

Have you ever been in a situation where you had to write a special character that does not exist in your native language? Maybe it was an ü and you were corresponding with Herr Müller from Germany, or Søren from Denmark. Many European countries have special characters in their languages that others do not have. [...]

Gmail is a free ad-supported web-mail service using both POP3 and IMAP4 email protocols. It is provided by Google, the company that runs the search engine website of the same name. Gmail works with any browser, but the extra plugins, add-ons and extensions to Gmail work best with browsers like Firefox, Mozilla, and Google’s own [...]

The Firefox web browser comes with options to change the fonts used on websites that are displayed in its interface but there is no apparent option to change the font of the Firefox interface itself. It is possible to change the interface font, but that requires creating and editing the file userchrome.css in the Firefox [...]

If you have an email account you will receive spam. That’s a fact unless you are very, very careful using it. If you sign up on websites, even respectable ones like big shopping sites, there is a chance that you will eventually receive spam. If you reply to emails or send out emails chance is [...]

If you are using a desktop email client like Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird you know that the antispam capabilities are limited to that one client. This can be a problem if more than one email client is used on the computer. But there is another problem. What if the antispam module of the desktop [...]

When you reply to an email in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client you are automatically positioned at the very bottom of the quoted email. Users who want to write the reply on top need to scroll up to get there before they can start writing the email. This is especially frustrating if the reply contains [...]

Mozilla Messaging is currently distributing an update to the popular desktop email client Thunderbird. The new version of the email program has not been officially announced yet, this will be done once the distribution to mirror servers worldwide has been completed. This also means that there is no official release log yet, only the beta [...]

Pre-Thunderbird 3.3 versions display every email message on their own page. The only way to follow a conversation is to make sure that all messages are included whenever a new message is written. Sure, there is this new option that displays conversations in a threaded structure instead of sorting them into the email listing, but [...]

I’m not sure why the developers of the Thunderbird email client have made the decision to limit the visible characters of email attachments in the desktop email application. Attachments in the email client are displayed with a maximum of 14 characters in the beginning, a few dots and one character in the end. That’s problematic [...]

Sometimes you may want to make sure that emails do not get deleted in an email client. There are various ways how emails can be deleted, either manually by a user of the email client or automatically by filters or other functions that perform cleanups and maintenance operations. Prevent Delete has been designed to protected [...]