I have been a user of the desktop email client Mozilla Thunderbird for the past five or so years. In that time, I have modified the default settings and behavior of the client to make it more secure against attacks and other malicious activities and issues. This guide acts as an overview of what I [...]

Categories: Email

By joining the rapid release cycle Thunderbird updates have become as frequently as those of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. It is therefor no surprise that Mozilla Messaging has just released version 6.0 of the email client Thunderbird on the same day that Firefox 6.0 was officially released. With that release, the release cycle is [...]

Categories: Email

Mozilla has released the first beta version of the upcoming Thunderbird 6 email desktop client. As you may know, Mozilla has moved Firefox to a rapid release process some time ago. This basically meant an accelerated development process with new versions of the browser every 18 weeks. Soon thereafter, the developers decided to move Thunderbird [...]

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I’m not a huge fan of the rapid release process of the Firefox web browser or Google Chrome. Not so much as a user but as someone who is interested in following the development of a web browser, and a webmaster who likes to write about it. A new version every three months or so, [...]

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Big release day at Mozilla. Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.10 has been released next to Firefox 4.0.1 on the very same day. The release notes of the new version of the email client mention several performance, stability and security fixes without going into greater detail. The linked Security Advisory page does not list the changes in that [...]

Categories: Email, Security

I have been using Claws Mail for quite some time (I’ve covered Claws Mail here on Ghacks quite a bit.) What I like about Claws Mail, over nearly every other email client, is that it’s incredibly configurable. If you can think of a configuration option, it’s probably there. In fact, some might say Claws Mail is [...]

Categories: Email, Linux, Open Source

Text Lightning is a free Microsoft Outlook add-in that integrates seamlessly into the desktop email client. The add-in offers a host of features that improve productivity, from one-click insertion of text, images and files to customizing text templates, one click searching and message archiving with a single click. Installation of the Microsoft Outlook add-on should [...]

Categories: Tools

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Categories: Email, Tutorials Basic