Email is not the best option to transfer large files. One of the reasons why it is not are attachment limits that make the email servers reject emails that are larger than a specific size. Many users help themselves by uploading the attachments to file hosts first to only include the link to the file [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Thunderbird 3 RC 2
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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 23
Setting Up Email Accounts In Thunderbird 3
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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 18
Thunderbird 3 Release Candidate 1
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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 9
5 Useful Thunderbird 3 Add-Ons That You Might Not Have Heard About Yet
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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Microsoft Outlook Data Export Add-In
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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 2
Thunderbird: Unsubscribe Mailing Lists
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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 1
How To Setup Multiple Email Identities In Thunderbird
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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Google Mail Account Security Tips
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 [...]
