A Ghacks reader recently posted a comment asking whether it was possible to download old releases of Thunderbird. The situation was that he switched to Thunderbird 3 beta 3 and noticed that some of the add-ons that he had installed were not working anymore. The official websites that provide downloads of Firefox and Thunderbird only [...]

Categories: Browsing, Email, Firefox

Did you know that there is a difference between sending emails to recipients that are in the email address book and those that are not. The display name is one of the form fields that can be filled out in the email clients address book. This display name will be send along with the email [...]

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The desktop email client Postbox received quite a lot of attention lately on various technology news sites including Lifehacker, Download Squad and even Techcrunch. All websites spoke in favor of the desktop email client and liked new features such as the ability to view attachments out of context (meaning instead of searching for the email [...]

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The third beta of Thunderbird 3 has been uploaded to the Mozilla servers and is now available for public download. The new beta release is available for all supported operating systems (Windows, Linux and Mac) and interface languages. The new beta includes some of the core functionality that the development team plans to integrate into [...]

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We have just reviewed an add-on for the Firefox web browser that allows the user to add software links to one of the Firefox toolbars so that programs can be quickly started from within the browser window.This review now looks at a similar add-on for the Mozilla Thunderbird desktop email client which also allows users [...]

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Most users of the email client Thundebird – and most likely users of other email clients as well – sort their emails by date. There are other means of sorting emails though like sorting them by subject, sender, priority or attachment. If you sort your emails by date you might have noticed that this is [...]

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A new version of the popular email client Thunderbird has been released just a moment ago. Users can already download the new version from the official Thunderbird website or by using the built in update checker in the email client. The release notes have not been updated yet but the release itself is classified as [...]

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Here are two quick email tips that helped me save precious time over the years. The first tip works with any desktop email client running on the Windows operating system while the second tip works in any email client including desktop email clients like Mozilla Thunderbird and Microsoft Outlook but also online email clients such [...]

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Whenever a Thunderbird user replies to an email a default layout is being used to add information like the original authors name and email contents to the reply. Some users might want to change some of the elements that are added automatically. This can be for example useful if the user wants the replies to [...]

Categories: Email