We have covered a Thunderbird add-on in the past to change the email folder sort order in the mail client which is handy to move the important folders to the top, and the unimportant ones to the bottom of the email folder listing. Folders were still restricted by the email account order in the folder [...]

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When it comes to email discussions with multiple participants, it sometimes happens that the discussion takes a turn that is no longer of interest to individual users. This can be a discussion on a mailing list for instance, where other members of the list discuss specific topics. Being part of the mailing list however means [...]

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Duplicate contacts are a issue on today’s Internet for many users. Many web services, including email or social networking sites, maintain a contacts – or friends – database, which consists of people the account owner knows. It is sometimes possible to synchronize or import contacts, but more often than not that is not the case. [...]

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No password protection is enabled by default in the email client Mozilla Thunderbird. Anyone with access to the computer system is able to open Thunderbird, read the emails and look at contacts and other information stored in the software. This lack of protection could be a problem if multiple users are using the computer or [...]

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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 [...]

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Many email providers only accept email attachments to a specific maximum. The maximum size limitation is different for most providers and can range for a Megabyte to 20 or 25 Megabytes that are supported by Yahoo Mail and Gmail. It is therefor important to have the means to display the size of attachments in an [...]

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The email client Thunderbird displays email conversations on one page. The visual distinction between individual messages is a colored vertical line. Those lines can take up quite a bit of screen estate if lots of emails have been send back and forth. We recently covered the Collapse Quotes add-on for Thunderbird which provided a better [...]

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The Mozilla development team that is responsible for the functionality of the website that is offering downloads for Firefox, Thunderbird and other Mozilla projects has changed several key features of the pages that contain the add-ons for the software programs over the last couple of months. Some major changes included filtering experimental add-ons from the [...]

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Most email clients and services display quotes around the original email message when the user replies to a received email. These quotes indicate the original message and the whole conversation if emails are send back and forth multiple times. Quotes are a good indicator of new and old content and can also be used to [...]

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