One of my security and privacy recommendations for desktop email users is to disable HTML emails. This basically turns every email that you receive into a plain text email that does not load anything from third party servers. Once in a while though you may stumble upon an email that you need or want to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Use BCC Instead For Thunderbird For Better Email Privacy
When it comes to sending emails to multiple recipients you have several options at your disposal. The most common options are to use To, CC or BCC for that. The first two options may cause a privacy issue as they reveals all recipient’s email addresses to all recipients. That may not be a problem if [...]
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Advanced Unread Folders For Thunderbird
Thunderbird supports different folder view modes. From the standard listing of all folders to a unified folder listing to a listing of all root folders with unread messages. Especially the unread folder view is handy to display only folders with unread messages. The view mode may on the other hand be insufficient for users who [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Thunderbird Send Later, Schedule Emails
Sometimes you may want to send an email at a later time, maybe because you want someone to receive it a specific time and not earlier, or because you want to avoid mail server overload. The Thunderbird email client does not offer email scheduling options and it requires manual workaround to send out emails at [...]
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Thunderbird URL Link
URL Link is a very sophisticated add-on for the email client Mozilla Thunderbird that provides advanced link manipulation techniques. The most obvious – and probably common as well – function is to join links that spawn across multiple lines which is often the case when verification emails are send. It also substitutes spaces in links [...]