If you have multiple email accounts set up in the desktop email client Thunderbird, you’d probably noticed that it is hard to near impossible to distinguish accounts on first glance. The core reason for this is that there is no visual distinction between accounts. Everything is displayed in the exact same color scheme with no [...]

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Ghacks veterans know that Mozilla has synced the release schedules of the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird email client. Whenever a new stable version of Firefox gets released, a new version of Thunderbird is just around the corner. Both Firefox and Thunderbird have not really shown to many exciting new features ever since the [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The final version of the desktop email client Thunderbird 5.0 has been released by Mozilla. The new version has not been publicly announced yet on the official Mozilla website, and Thunderbird users who are already running the program will not receive update notifications at this point in time. It is however only a matter of [...]

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Big release day at Mozilla. Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.10 has been released next to Firefox 4.0.1 on the very same day. The release notes of the new version of the email client mention several performance, stability and security fixes without going into greater detail. The linked Security Advisory page does not list the changes in that [...]

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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 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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