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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Thunderbird 3, which is currently available as a beta version, promises to be an excellent desktop email program far superior to the current version. It comes with many exciting features like powerful search options, archiving, tabbed email reading or message summaries. Most of the add-ons that are currently available at the Mozilla Thunderbird website are [...]

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The Mozilla Thunderbird development team has released beta 4 of the upcoming Thunderbird 3 desktop email client. The new version of the popular email client is already available for download at the Mozilla Thunderbird website. Downloads are as usual available for all supported operating systems (Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh) and languages. The release [...]

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There are basically two types of desktop email software users. Type one uses one huge folder for all emails while type 2 neatly sorts emails into subfolders for better manageability. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages. Method one for example does not provide a good overview of emails that have been send by a [...]

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Modern digital cameras can produce large photos which makes it difficulty to send them to email recipients due to their sizes. Problems become apparent when the sending of the email takes a long time but also when the emails are rejected by the recipient’s email provider due to their total size. Computer users can resize [...]

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The Mozilla Thunderbird development team has released an important update for the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. The upgrade which will increase the version of the email client to 2.0.0.23 includes one critical security fix that was reported by security researcher Dan Kaminsky. The compromise of SSL-protected communication vulnerability allows attackers to obtain certificates that would [...]

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Mozilla Thunderbird is probably the second most popular desktop email client next to Microsoft Outlook. One of its main advantages is the extension engine that users know from the Firefox web browser which makes it easy to create extensions for the email client that increase its functionality. ThreadVis is an interesting Thunderbird extension that visualizes [...]

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The desktop email client Postbox received quite a lot of attention lately on various technology news sites including Lifehacker, Download Squad and even Techcrunch. All websites spoke in favor of the desktop email client and liked new features such as the ability to view attachments out of context (meaning instead of searching for the email [...]

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