A new version of my favorite mail client Thunderbird has been released and it finally manages to join up its version with Mozilla Firefox. I have not been informed about the new version by Thunderbird yet, a manual check by clicking on HELP > Check for Updates found the new update and installed it immediately [...]
Five Advanced Thunderbird Tips
Thunderbird is my mail software of choice even though I do have various webmail accounts. I simply prefer my mail to be on my computer and not on a server somewhere on the Internet. I run a fairly customized version of Thunderbird and I would like to share five advanced Thunderbird tips with you that I implemented in my version.
Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 has been released
A new version of my favorite email client Thunderbird has been released and is currently distributed to high speed mirror sites throughout the world. The release version with the version number 2.0.0.12 is already available on the main Mozilla ftp website. Early adopters who do not like to wait another 12-48 hours before it becomes officially available through the automatic update feature and the Mozilla Thunderbird website can download it right away.
Get Yahoo Mail in Outlook, Thunderbird and other mail clients
The free Yahoo Mail service is not offering Pop3 access to your mails. Pop3 access means that you can use a desktop email client like Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird to access your Yahoo Mail account instead of having to use the Yahoo website. Only Yahoo Mail Plus, which costs $19.99 a year is offering Pop3 access. There are however other ways and I’m going to show you how you can access your Yahoo Mail account with desktop email clients like Outlook and Thunderbird without having to upgrade or pay for a software.
A solution for visiting blocked contents
Companies, Universities, Schools and pretty much everyone else are blocking or banning contents on the web that they deem inappropriate, questionable or distracting. The banning spree however goes sometimes to far and websites that should not be blocked are blocked as well.
Show message count of all folders in Thunderbird
Thunderbird displays only the message count of unread mails of every folder by default. I tried to find a way to display the count of all messages instead which would help me get a better overview of the amount of mails inside a folder. I wanted to make sure that the unread messages number would still be shown as well.
The option to activate the message count for all mails is kinda hidden in Thunderbird. You need to enable the “Show Expanded Columns” option first which can be done by going to Tools > Options, selecting the Advanced tab and checking “Show Expanded Columns in the Folder Pane”.
Thunderbird 2 Final sighted on Mozilla FTP
If you are an early adopter and don’t want to wait a few more days to download and install the email client Thunderbird you could head out to the Mozilla ftp and download it for your operating system and language right away. The Mozilla team is usually upping the latest version of either Thunderbird or Firefox on their ftp mirrors to ensure that they can serve the server load when they publish the links on the official program pages. This is indeed a good way to download Thunderbird 2 fast because the servers will not be that populated at this time.
