It seems that the Opera developers are not the only developers who have increased their output in the past weeks. The desktop email client Thunderbird 3.0.3 has been released only a week after Thunderbird 3.0.2. Short time between two releases is usually an indication that the first release contained a bug or security issue that [...]

The next installment of the popular desktop email client Thunderbird has been released by the Mozilla Messaging team. The new releases has not been officially announced yet which is somewhat strange as it has been uploaded to the release ftp directory on February 18 which can be an indication of the following: It could be [...]

Gmail Labs has been introduced as an add-on for Gmail that allows developers to test Gmail extensions by providing access to them to all Gmail users. Only a minority is using one or several of the Gmail Labs applications which may or may not be included into Gmail fully eventually. It can therefor happen that [...]

Picking up where we left off a while ago, let’s add yet another feature to our Ubuntu server. We’ve already looked at using Postfix with multiple topics (see Postfix on Ghacks). But we never discussed a means to deliver the mail from the server to the client. That will now change. Linux has multiple ways [...]

If you are a Gmail user chance is that you are also subscribed to other Google services such as Google Calendar. We all know that Thunderbird users can integrate Gmail into the desktop email client to archive messages, access them while they are offline and manage the account almost as if they would use the [...]

Daniel reviewed a program called Outlook on the desktop two years ago which allowed Windows users to display the Outlook calendar on the system’s desktop where it could be conveniently accessed without having to open Microsoft Outlook. DeskTask is an alternative to outlook on the desktop. It was back then recommended by Jojo in the [...]

Phishing is a serious problem on today’s Internet even with phishing protections in email clients, web browsers and security software in place as those security solutions only deal with already reported phishing scams and sites and not new ones. Internet users therefor need to know about phishing and how to identify phishing emails from safe [...]

Many email providers only accept email attachments to a specific maximum. The maximum size limitation is different for most providers and can range for a Megabyte to 20 or 25 Megabytes that are supported by Yahoo Mail and Gmail. It is therefor important to have the means to display the size of attachments in an [...]

E-Mails can be send to one or multiple users. A problem arises when sending out mails to multiple users as there is no way of personalizing emails for individual recipients except for using scripts that need to be added to the email. (Thunderbird can for instance do that with the mass mail and personal mail [...]

The email client Thunderbird is a popular choice among users who install a desktop email client. The email software was recently updated by its developers to version 3 which brought many changes and new features like a global search option or better email account integration and configuration options. Thunderbird 3.1 will be the next release [...]

Users of the desktop email client Thunderbird can either use the options provided in the options of the program or the about:config dialog window to change and tweak the email client. Mail Tweak is an extension for the mail client that provides a third option. The add-on is provided for Thunderbird 2 and as a [...]

It can happen that duplicate pst files appear in Microsoft Outlook. These files are sometimes referred to as ghost files which are displayed in the folder list and other folder views in the email client. These duplicate pst files can be very problematic as they usually cannot be deleted easily from Outlook. Error messages such [...]

Mozilla has recently updated their Firefox web browser to Firefox 3.6 and the desktop email client Thunderbird to Thunderbird 3.01. Users of previous versions might want to test the new program versions first before they update the programs used in their standard work environment. Tests can for instance be performed to see if the new [...]

What do you mean – “scan your Linux machine for viruses”? Linux is immune to viruses right? Well…mostly. Even though a proof of concept virus has been discussed, and nothing has actually made it into the wild…you still have email on your system. Some of that email could easily make its way (by way of [...]

A new version of the Mozilla Thunderbird desktop email client has been released and is currently being distributed to mirror servers worldwide. The release has not been made official yet but it is likely that the announcement will be made in the next 24 hours. The update check in the email client is also not [...]

Gmail is without doubt a popular email service which can largely be attributed to the fact that it is run by Google and that it offers lots of additional features and options to tweak the interface and speed up the workflow. Google has released a Gmail Ninja guide to further that popularity. The guide is [...]

Gmail users had until now the choice to use http or https when connecting to the Gmail servers. Http offered performance advantages while https made up for it with an increase in security. Gmail users could either use the http or https protocol to connect to Gmail. The Gmail options provided the means to permanently [...]

Many Firefox and Thunderbird users feel that Mozilla has not added enough protection in the software to avoid automatic plugin installation. A recent change in Firefox 3.6 made sure that third parties were not able to make use of the components directory to add their plugins to the web browser but it did not solve [...]

Today’s Linux article has two purposes: 1) To add a little spice to your boring old email signature, and to help you understand a bit about bash scripting. The goal is to be able to create a pseudo-dynamic email signature that adds the uptime of your Linux box and/or the output of the fortune command. [...]

A long requested feature of many Gmail users has been finally added to the popular webmail service. Gmail users can now merge duplicate contacts automatically, something that was not possible before. The only option of dealing with duplicate contacts before the recent changes was to manually merge selected contacts in the Gmail contact list. That [...]