A very handy shortcut that I use regularly in the Thunderbird email client is the archive shortcut. A tap on a archives the currently selected emails, one or multiple, into the archive folder of the mail account. That’s handy if you do not need or want to sort archived emails further, for instance by contact, [...]

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The Thunderbird email client uses the same core that the Mozilla Firefox browser uses. This means that it is possible to open websites and services directly in the email software which can be handy at times. Add-ons are needed to add the functionality though, or at least to make it easily accessible. Web Application Tab [...]

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Telify, an extension for the Thunderbird email client and Mozilla Firefox web browser, turns phone numbers in emails and on web pages into clickable links that open supported voice applications to make calls more comfortably. All it takes is to click on the phone number to initiate that call directly in the selected application. The [...]

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I can group emails that I receive into different priorities, the highest priority is for instance reserved for emails that concern my websites and servers. Messages that inform me about server, database or website downtimes for instance have the highest priorities while confirmation orders from Amazon have not. There is however no option in Thunderbird [...]

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Have you ever been in a situation where you had to write a special character that does not exist in your native language? Maybe it was an ü and you were corresponding with Herr Müller from Germany, or Søren from Denmark. Many European countries have special characters in their languages that others do not have. [...]

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The Firefox web browser comes with options to change the fonts used on websites that are displayed in its interface but there is no apparent option to change the font of the Firefox interface itself. It is possible to change the interface font, but that requires creating and editing the file userchrome.css in the Firefox [...]

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Pre-Thunderbird 3.3 versions display every email message on their own page. The only way to follow a conversation is to make sure that all messages are included whenever a new message is written. Sure, there is this new option that displays conversations in a threaded structure instead of sorting them into the email listing, but [...]

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Sometimes you may want to make sure that emails do not get deleted in an email client. There are various ways how emails can be deleted, either manually by a user of the email client or automatically by filters or other functions that perform cleanups and maintenance operations. Prevent Delete has been designed to protected [...]

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Thunderbird 3 users have access to a new feature called Quick Filter that enables them to quickly filter the emails of a specific folder in the email client. It is for instance possible to filter by email address, text, attachment, tag or only display emails that are from contacts in the address book, with everything [...]

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