Chance is you have more than one email address. Many Internet users do. Usually one private and one work related email, or a private and public one. Some users, especially webmasters and developers can have lots more than that but if you got more than one you might have experienced a situation where you send [...]

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Thunderbird 3 displays many information about the sender, recipient and email in the mail headers. The Display Contact Photo extension for the email client adds another element to the email header: The photo of the contact. Photos are automatically taken from the Thunderbird address book if available with the option to display a generic avatar [...]

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Thunderbird 3 has introduced several major changes to the popular email client. The ability to perform global email searches for instance was a feature that was missing in Thunderbird 2. Extension developers have also added several interesting add-ons for the email client including the previously reviewed Sender Verification extension. Quick Filter is another extension for [...]

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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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If you are a Gmail user chance is that you are also subscribed to other Google services such as Google Calendar. We all know that Thunderbird users can integrate Gmail into the desktop email client to archive messages, access them while they are offline and manage the account almost as if they would use the [...]

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Users of the desktop email client Thunderbird can either use the options provided in the options of the program or the about:config dialog window to change and tweak the email client. Mail Tweak is an extension for the mail client that provides a third option. The add-on is provided for Thunderbird 2 and as a [...]

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The desktop email client Thunderbird does offer mass mailing capabilities by default. It is possible to add multiple recipients for an email. Problems appear however if the number of recipients is extremely large (more than 100 for example) and if the individual recipients should not see the other recipients that received the email. The second [...]

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One add-on that I do not want to live without anymore is the Fox Clocks add-on. I initially only installed it in Firefox where it displays the current time in the status bar with the option to hover the mouse cursor over the clock to see additional timezones that have been configured. That’s great for [...]

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There are a few ways to take care of important emails that are arriving in the email inbox. The best way to deal with them is to react right away if possible. This sometimes does not work however if research, data or consultation is required before the email can be processed and replied to. The [...]

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