One of the problems associated with web based email services is that users only get indications of new emails when they are on the providers web page and logged into their account. That’s different from desktop email clients which usually show notifications somewhere on the screen. Email notifiers are available as desktop applications and browser [...]

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Firefox and Thunderbird share several components which makes it easier to develop for both applications but can also mean that there are some side effects that are better dealt with. One of those effects are plugins that are automatically loaded in the Thunderbird email client. Plugins? You know, stuff like Google Update, iTunes Application Detector, [...]

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If you have an email account you will receive spam. That’s a fact unless you are very, very careful using it. If you sign up on websites, even respectable ones like big shopping sites, there is a chance that you will eventually receive spam. If you reply to emails or send out emails chance is [...]

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If you are using a desktop email client like Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird you know that the antispam capabilities are limited to that one client. This can be a problem if more than one email client is used on the computer. But there is another problem. What if the antispam module of the desktop [...]

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When you reply to an email in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client you are automatically positioned at the very bottom of the quoted email. Users who want to write the reply on top need to scroll up to get there before they can start writing the email. This is especially frustrating if the reply contains [...]

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I bet you have read a lot about Facebook Messages, Facebook’s new communication hub, in the past 24 hours. Like most users I’m still waiting for my invite to try out the new service. But even without having tried it yet I can make the statement that Facebook Messages will not replace my primary email [...]

Categories: Email, Facebook

Hotmail just announced a new feature that allows every Internet user to sign up for Microsoft’s messaging service without creating a Hotmail email address. This was one of the features that users were requesting, and Microsoft decided to implement the feature so that users can use Hotmail features without having to create another (Hotmail) email [...]

Categories: Email, The Web

Yahoo today unveiled a new version of their online email client, improving the performance, search and spam filtering as well as unlimited storage, mobile and social media integration. Every Yahoo Mail user can switch the interfaceto Yahoo Mail Beta with options to go back to the old Yahoo Mail (available under Help > Return to [...]

Categories: Email, Yahoo

The email client Thunderbird will receive an update later today that raises the version of the application to 3.1.5. The new version is currently distributed to worldwide mirror services to prepare for the rush when the official release announcement is publicized. Thunderbird users can check for the new version in the email client, by clicking [...]

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