How many times have you migrated from one Linux box to another, only to say goodbye to your email and knowing you were going to have to set your email client up all over again. Oh sure you could tar up that ~/.evolution directory and hope that it worked. Most likely you would wind up [...]

Windows Live Mail is a messaging software that is part of Microsoft Windows Live. Windows Live Mail has replaced Outlook Express in Windows 7. Windows Live Mail users who work with the messaging program on a day to day basis might have noticed that it is not possible to minimize the program to the system [...]

The first release candidate of the email client Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 has just been released and is now available for download at the official Mozilla Messaging site and direct update via the update check in the desktop email client. Thunderbird 3.1 will replace the Thunderbird 3.0 branch once it is released introducing several new features [...]

Spam makes between 90% to 95% of all email on the Internet. This huge number means that most Internet users have to deal with spam on a regular basis. Many email providers use spam filters to sort out most of the spam before it reaches the user’s inbox. It is however often the case that [...]

Windows Mail, or Windows Live Mail, is a free messaging software for the Windows operating system. Windows Mail is part of Windows Live, a collection of Microsoft tools that are available to extend the Windows operating system. Windows Mail Saver has been designed as a backup and restoration utility for Windows Mail. The free software [...]

Have a service that you want to signup to but prefer not to signup with your own email address? You could use a disposable email address for that purpose if the new account does not contain sensible information. Another option is to use a proxy email address provided by services such as Tempalias. A proxy [...]

Hot of the press is the second beta of the popular email client Thunderbird 3.1. Beta 2 introduces several new features including a new migration assistant, new quick filter toolbar, improved Personas support but also fixes to improve upgrading from Thunderbird 2, stability and memory improvements as well as design improvements and corrections. The Quick [...]

Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 final has just been released by Microsoft. Outlook Connector allows Outlook users to manage Windows Live Hotmail email, calendar and contacts from within Outlook. The new version of the Outlook Hotmail Connector plugin is compatible with Outlook 2003, 2007 and the brand new Outlook 2010. The development team has added [...]

We have just shown you how to import Gmail contacts into Thunderbird and would like to continue this little article series with instructions on how to import a Thunderbird address book into Gmail Contacts. The restrictions and benefits of this approach remain the same as in the last article. The main benefit is that no [...]

One of the problems that users encounter when they work with different email clients is that the information between the clients is not synced automatically. But automatic syncing might not always be ideal as it usually requires to run a software program or add-on to sync the data regularly. The alternative is to manual import [...]

Chance is you have more than one email address. Many Internet users do. Usually one private and one work related email, or a private and public one. Some users, especially webmasters and developers can have lots more than that but if you got more than one you might have experienced a situation where you send [...]

Evolution is the groupware suite for the Linux operating system. It is, for all intents and purposes, Outlook for Linux. The only downfall is, out of the box, it doesn’t play well with Exchange 2007. But, like every other hurdle the Linux community has come up against, a work around was created. The work around [...]

It’s about that time. Ubuntu 10.4 is coming out and I am finally going to migrate my primary desktop away from Elive to Ubuntu. In this process it will be necessary to migrate my currently running Claws Mail installation from one machine to another. For some applications (think Outlook) this would be a tedious (and [...]

Thunderbird users can take a look at the email headers to find out lots of information about the email sender. This includes content types, dates and the servers the email was send from. Many Thunderbird users do not know that it is possible to add the user agent to the header display in the email [...]

Thunderbird 3 displays many information about the sender, recipient and email in the mail headers. The Display Contact Photo extension for the email client adds another element to the email header: The photo of the contact. Photos are automatically taken from the Thunderbird address book if available with the option to display a generic avatar [...]

Thunderbird 3 has introduced several major changes to the popular email client. The ability to perform global email searches for instance was a feature that was missing in Thunderbird 2. Extension developers have also added several interesting add-ons for the email client including the previously reviewed Sender Verification extension. Quick Filter is another extension for [...]

Phishing emails have become quite common in the past years and it has become increasingly important to verify the sender – or origin – of emails that are received. Experienced users can do that manually by checking email headers for instance. The email Sender Verification extension for Mozilla Thunderbird integrates an automatic option to verify [...]

Mozilla Messaging have published an update to their desktop email client Thunderbird. The update increases the version of the email software to 3.0.4 and is considered a security and stability upgrade which means Thunderbird users are recommended to update their version of the email program as soon as possible to fix the issues that have [...]

Netbooks usually run at limited screen resolutions which often fail to display websites and services properly. And those that are displayed properly still need to be scrolled so that all of the content of the website can be accessed on the netbook. Netbook users who access Gmail on the web face the same problem. Many [...]

An update to the desktop email client Thunderbird was released by the Mozilla Messaging developers. Thunderbird 3.1 Beta has been released replacing the previously available alpha version of the email software. Thunderbird 3.1 Beta is a preview release that fixes a total of 96 different bugs including crash, performance and security fixes. One of the [...]