The email client Thunderbird displays email conversations on one page. The visual distinction between individual messages is a colored vertical line. Those lines can take up quite a bit of screen estate if lots of emails have been send back and forth. We recently covered the Collapse Quotes add-on for Thunderbird which provided a better [...]

After several beta versions and two release candidates the final version of the popular desktop email client Thunderbird 3 has finally been released to the public. The new version of the email program is already available at the official Mozilla Messaging website. Update checks within the email client should also be able to pick up [...]

Microsoft’s Outlook email client comes with an option to add photos to contacts that have been automatically or manually by the user. This does make sense as it becomes easier to identify contacts in the email program. It can however mean lots of work if the address book consists of more than a few dozens [...]

Most email clients and services display quotes around the original email message when the user replies to a received email. These quotes indicate the original message and the whole conversation if emails are send back and forth multiple times. Quotes are a good indicator of new and old content and can also be used to [...]

The Mozilla Thunderbird developers have updated the upcoming version 3 of our favorite desktop email client. Thunderbird 3 RC2 is the second release candidate of the email software. It is, from looking at the changes, an unplanned release, as it only fixes four bugs when compared to the first release candidate. One of the bugs [...]

Mozilla Thunderbird 3 is currently available as a release candidate. This suggests that the final version of the desktop email client will be released rather sooner than later. One of the biggest changes between Thunderbird 2 and Thunderbird 3 is the way new email accounts are created. Email users needed to setup the email account [...]

The first release candidate of Thunderbird 3 has just been released by the Mozilla developers after four beta releases. This marks a new milestone in the development of the desktop email client. The changes in this release are unfortunately not made clear in the release notes as they are being used to list the new [...]

Have you ever asked yourself how you did end up with the email account that you are currently using? Chance is that you have at least one account at one of the three most popular web based email service providers Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Windows Live Hotmail. This question might have become insignificant in recent [...]

I have been using the desktop email client Mozilla Thunderbird for many years and have witnessed its rise to become one of the most powerful email software programs. I switched to version 3 since the first beta hit the download servers and have not looked back since. Version 3 of Thunderbird adds many interesting new [...]

Microsoft Outlook is a desktop email client that is part of the Microsoft Office software suite. The email client does not come with a lot of options to export data like emails, notes, appointments or contacts into other formats or applications. That’s where the Microsoft Outlook Data Export Add-In comes into play. The free add-in [...]

If you visit your Google Mail account you can look at the footer of the mail index to see how many free space is still available for that account. The current free storage that most Gmail users currently get is 7839 Megabytes which should be enough for the majority of the email users. But there [...]

One feature that is missing in all versions of the Mozilla Thunderbird desktop email client is the ability to take notes, a feature that has been available in Microsoft Outlook for a long time. Note taking comes in handy in several situations but mostly for adding information to received or send email messages. This can [...]

Thunderbird day today? Not sure about that but today is the day where two interesting new add-ons have been posted at the Thunderbird website. The first was the add-on that increased the mass mailing functionality in the web browser. The Unsubscribe From Mailing Lists add-on does exactly that. It provides an option to unsubscribe from [...]

The desktop email client Thunderbird does offer mass mailing capabilities by default. It is possible to add multiple recipients for an email. Problems appear however if the number of recipients is extremely large (more than 100 for example) and if the individual recipients should not see the other recipients that received the email. The second [...]

The desktop email client Thunderbird makes it very easy to setup and use multiple email identities. Multiple identities can be useful in multiple situations including the use of sub-addressing to combat spam (Gmail and Yahoo Mail users might have already come in contact with the concept through the use of mail aliases), use a set [...]

When Gmail first came out I wasn’t a fan. But after a year of use I have found Google Mail to be a very valuable tool. Because I use Gmail mostly for work-related issues, I do not always like to check it within a browser. Instead I use various applications that enable me to have [...]

The official Gmail blog has published five security tips to improve the security of a Gmail account. Email security should be one of the top priorities for a number of reasons but especially because other accounts are usually associated with an email account. Just think of all the websites and services that require users to [...]

So you have your Ubuntu server up and running with a Postfix mail server (see “Install Postfix for reliable email delivery“). You have also set up Postfix for antivirus with the help of ClamAV (see “Add antivirus to Post fix with ClamAV“). Finally you have Postfix set up to relay (see “Mail relaying made simple [...]

By now you have your Postfix mail server up and running (see “Install Postfix for reliable email delievery“). You even have relaying working (see “Mail relaying made simple with Postfix“). But one of the most important features you can add to a mail server is an system to prevent viruses from being passed to users. [...]

There are several possibilities why duplicate items can appear in Microsoft Outlook including mail retrieval errors or importing data from another source like Gmail or another email program. Duplicate items take up space and can be cause for all kinds of errors and confusion. The Outlook Duplicate Items Remover is a free program for the [...]