The Mozilla Thunderbird development team has released beta 4 of the upcoming Thunderbird 3 desktop email client. The new version of the popular email client is already available for download at the Mozilla Thunderbird website. Downloads are as usual available for all supported operating systems (Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh) and languages. The release [...]

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There are basically two types of desktop email software users. Type one uses one huge folder for all emails while type 2 neatly sorts emails into subfolders for better manageability. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages. Method one for example does not provide a good overview of emails that have been send by a [...]

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If you are a Windows user who uses a desktop email client chance is that you either use Mozilla Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook. Mozilla Thunderbird is in many aspects what Firefox is to web browsers. A highly configurable desktop email client. This article will explain several of Thunderbird’s email display options that will provide additional [...]

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Modern digital cameras can produce large photos which makes it difficulty to send them to email recipients due to their sizes. Problems become apparent when the sending of the email takes a long time but also when the emails are rejected by the recipient’s email provider due to their total size. Computer users can resize [...]

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The Mozilla Thunderbird development team has released an important update for the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. The upgrade which will increase the version of the email client to 2.0.0.23 includes one critical security fix that was reported by security researcher Dan Kaminsky. The compromise of SSL-protected communication vulnerability allows attackers to obtain certificates that would [...]

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Mozilla Thunderbird is probably the second most popular desktop email client next to Microsoft Outlook. One of its main advantages is the extension engine that users know from the Firefox web browser which makes it easy to create extensions for the email client that increase its functionality. ThreadVis is an interesting Thunderbird extension that visualizes [...]

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The third beta of Thunderbird 3 has been uploaded to the Mozilla servers and is now available for public download. The new beta release is available for all supported operating systems (Windows, Linux and Mac) and interface languages. The new beta includes some of the core functionality that the development team plans to integrate into [...]

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Most users of the email client Thundebird – and most likely users of other email clients as well – sort their emails by date. There are other means of sorting emails though like sorting them by subject, sender, priority or attachment. If you sort your emails by date you might have noticed that this is [...]

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Whenever a Thunderbird user replies to an email a default layout is being used to add information like the original authors name and email contents to the reply. Some users might want to change some of the elements that are added automatically. This can be for example useful if the user wants the replies to [...]

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