Microsoft began to rollout the new Windows Live Hotmail yesterday to customers worldwide. The Hotmail mail accounts are stored on cluster servers that will get updated one at a time which means that some users will already be able to experience the new Windows Live Hotmail while others have to wait until their cluster gets [...]

Categories: Email

Mozilla Messaging has just released the second release candidate of Thunderbird 3.1 with the plan to introduce the final release of Thunderbird 3.1 in the middle of June. Thunderbird 3.1 introduces several new features to the desktop email client, among them the new quick filter toolbar to filter messages in a folder temporarily or permanently, [...]

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How many times have you migrated from one Linux box to another, only to say goodbye to your email and knowing you were going to have to set your email client up all over again. Oh sure you could tar up that ~/.evolution directory and hope that it worked. Most likely you would wind up [...]

Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Spam makes between 90% to 95% of all email on the Internet. This huge number means that most Internet users have to deal with spam on a regular basis. Many email providers use spam filters to sort out most of the spam before it reaches the user’s inbox. It is however often the case that [...]

Categories: Email, Security

Have a service that you want to signup to but prefer not to signup with your own email address? You could use a disposable email address for that purpose if the new account does not contain sensible information. Another option is to use a proxy email address provided by services such as Tempalias. A proxy [...]

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Thunderbird 3 has introduced several major changes to the popular email client. The ability to perform global email searches for instance was a feature that was missing in Thunderbird 2. Extension developers have also added several interesting add-ons for the email client including the previously reviewed Sender Verification extension. Quick Filter is another extension for [...]

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Phishing emails have become quite common in the past years and it has become increasingly important to verify the sender – or origin – of emails that are received. Experienced users can do that manually by checking email headers for instance. The email Sender Verification extension for Mozilla Thunderbird integrates an automatic option to verify [...]

Categories: Email

Mozilla Messaging have published an update to their desktop email client Thunderbird. The update increases the version of the email software to 3.0.4 and is considered a security and stability upgrade which means Thunderbird users are recommended to update their version of the email program as soon as possible to fix the issues that have [...]

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If you perform a search for notifiers on the Internet you usually find lots of notifiers for Google services such as Gmail but not so many for comparably popular services from other companies such as Microsoft or Yahoo. Hotmail Watcher is a Firefox add-on that can notify the user whenever new email has arrived in [...]

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