If you grow up with the 24-hour system you will have troubles with the 12-hour am/pm system. Add to that the various timezones and you are up for lots of confusion. If you regularly correspond with people from all over the world you should better know their timezone and how it differs from yours. This [...]

Categories: Email

The email client Thunderbird does not provide an option to automatically send specific emails to a CC or BCC email address. While home users normally do not need that feature it might be required to send all email correspondence to a supervisor or different department in the company that you are working for. It can [...]

Categories: Email

One of the limitations of Thunderbird is that there are no hotkeys to quickly switch folders or save mail into another folder. The user has to use the mouse to save or copy mails into folders and use it as well if he wants to switch folders. Well there actually is a way to switch [...]

Categories: Email, Software

Most users that I know have several email accounts at various email providers. I’m using about ten email accounts actively in Thunderbird and web interfaces and always thought that there must be a way to sync the contact information. Late last night I discovered the Zindus (via Download Squad) Thunderbird extension which syncs the Gmail [...]

Categories: Email, Google

Mailbox Alert (via Genbeta) is a add-on for the popular mail client Thunderbird that adds the ability to define alerts for mail folders in Thunderbird. Alerts can be messages, sounds or commands. The default functionality in Thunderbird allows to define one sound or notification that will be displayed when new mail arrives which does include [...]

Categories: Email