If you ever needed to select a different SMTP server while sending mails in Thunderbird you can now by installing the Send Via add-on for Thunderbird. The add-on can come in handy if the main SMTP server is not accessible at the moment or having accessibility or connection problems. The Thunderbird add-on is available for [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Thunderbird Email Address Crawler
The email client Mozilla Thunderbird comes with the option to import address books from various other email clients like Microsoft Outlook, Eudora or text files. There is however no automatic way to import contact information from a set of emails. Why might that be useful? Imagine having to communicate with a group of users. You [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Display Timezones In Thunderbird
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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Thunderbird 3 Beta 1
It felt like development for the email client Thunderbird came almost to an halt in the last twelve months. Yes, updates were released but most of them were security related. Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 is the first beta release of the upcoming version 3 of the email client. This version will introduce some long needed [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Use Gmail As Email Backup Space
Gmail is currently providing each Gmail user with Gigabytes of free storage space for their mails and attachments. One way to utilize that space is to use Gmail as the email backup for a local email client like Mozilla Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook. The great news is that no third party software is needed to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Fix Thunderbird Junk Filter Not Working Anymore
Here is a fix for a problem that was encountered recently on a Windows XP test system running the latest version of the email client Mozilla Thunderbird. The Junk Mail filter in Thunderbird stopped working suddenly. Mail was not marked as junk anymore and the manual Junk controls (mark mail as Junk or Run Junk [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.18
A new version of the email client Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 is currently distributed to mirror sites to prepare for the official update announcement that is expected to be released later today. The only way to download the new version right now is to download the Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 release from the Mozilla ftp site. The release [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Gmail Backup
Online mail users without a software client should still make sure that their precious emails are backed up regularly to avoid data loss. Lifehacker mentioned the tool Gmail Backup which can be used by Gmail users to perform regular backups of all stored Gmail messages. Gmail Backup will backup all Gmail mail folders and mails [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Why I’m Still Using A Software Email Client
The question why I’m still using an email client came up recently in an article about adding Gmail properly to a software email client. That’s actually a pretty good question; Online email services have evolved in the last years. They provide so much storage space that most users would never be able to fill it [...]