Google accidentally (or maybe not) published a video on the company’s official YouTube video channel that introduced a new Gmail interface. The video has been set to private shortly thereafter but viewers were quick enough to save it and re-publish it on YouTube. The video announcement highlights many upcoming Gmail design changes and features. This [...]

Categories: Email, Google

I have been using MailStore Home for some time to backup and archive my Thunderbird email databases (see Use MailStore To Backup Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Emails and How To Speed Up Thunderbird By Archiving Emails). The developers of this excellent free email backup software have just released version 5 which is more of a bug [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

News about big hacks and the publication of user databases have slowed down considerably in past months. Before that reports of hacks were nearly daily in the news with companies like Sony, Gawker or Ashampoo the target. Many user databases that the hackers dumped during the hack were published on the Internet afterwards. Not all [...]

Categories: Security

Thunderbird has joined the rapid release process just like Firefox did. The two programs are now being developed and updated in sync, which means that you will see updates for both programs pop up at around the same time. With the release of Firefox 7 came also the release of Thunderbird 7. The email program [...]

Categories: Email

When it comes to sending emails to multiple recipients you have several options at your disposal. The most common options are to use To, CC or BCC for that. The first two options may cause a privacy issue as they reveals all recipient’s email addresses to all recipients. That may not be a problem if [...]

Categories: Email

Thunderbird, like any other email program, comes with an address book that contains email addresses and often other information about contacts. The program by default adds all outgoing email contacts automatically to the address book. The address book may contain more information than just the email address and name of the contact. Information may include [...]

Categories: Email

From time to time people want to change their email provider.  It could be that you have been with Hotmail for years and want to move to Gmail, or that you’re worried about the future of Yahoo! and want to safeguard your email account with another provider.  It could even be that you’ve finally had [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

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

A very handy shortcut that I use regularly in the Thunderbird email client is the archive shortcut. A tap on a archives the currently selected emails, one or multiple, into the archive folder of the mail account. That’s handy if you do not need or want to sort archived emails further, for instance by contact, [...]

Categories: Email