The email client Thunderbird does not provide an option to automatically send specific emails to a CC or BCC email address. While home users normally do not need that feature it might be required to send all email correspondence to a supervisor or different department in the company that you are working for. It can [...]

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It’s been a good week with some great tips and tech articles around the place. Here where my favourites:
Take Back Control Over Your Right Click Menus
An article over on Make Use Of which I particularly  liked as I’ve been looking around for a application to do this for a while.
Philipp Lenssen’s Top Google Apps Tips
Some [...]

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Mailbox Alert (via Genbeta) is a add-on for the popular mail client Thunderbird that adds the ability to define alerts for mail folders in Thunderbird. Alerts can be messages, sounds or commands. The default functionality in Thunderbird allows to define one sound or notification that will be displayed when new mail arrives which does [...]

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I think we all have faced a situation before where we wanted to know if an email was read by a recipient. Did he / she receive the mail, was the email read ? You can’t know for sure even if you added read / write notifications to the email because most email programs ask the user about those. There is no sure way to notification at all if the recipient is cautious, most are not on the other hand and these tricks will work most of the time.

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Microsoft is often not using a standard format which is the case when you take a look at how Outlook Express saves the mails that have been send and received. Outlook Express saves the mails by default in dbx files instead of saving them in the wildly used mbx format which is being used by Thunderbird, Opera and most other email clients.

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