Everton from Connected Internet send me an initiation to a new Google Apps account for our news site Windows 7 News. It basically was there to be able to access a mail account for the domain. It was not a huge problem to set it up and I was able to access the account online. [...]

Categories: Email

Tables can be embedded in emails easily. If a Thunderbird user receives an email that contains a table he is up for a problem though. It does not matter how he tries to copy the table or selected parts of it because the end result will always be that the formatting is lost. There is [...]

Categories: Email

The email client Thunderbird does not provide an option to automatically send specific emails to a CC or BCC email address. While home users normally do not need that feature it might be required to send all email correspondence to a supervisor or different department in the company that you are working for. It can [...]

Categories: Email

A question came up today if it was possible to export a Calendar in Microsoft Outlook and import it to Mozilla Lightning. Mozilla Lightning can be integrated in the email client Thunderbird. There are basically two ways to import the Microsoft Outlook Calendar into Mozilla Lightning. The manual way would be to export the Calendar [...]

Categories: Email, Knowledge

Just a day after updating both Firefox version 3 and 2 the Mozilla Thunderbird development team released a update for Thunderbird which raises the version of the email client to 2.0.0.17. The update is a security update and it is therefor recommended to update immediately if Thunderbird is installed and in use on a computer [...]

Categories: Email

One of the limitations of Thunderbird is that there are no hotkeys to quickly switch folders or save mail into another folder. The user has to use the mouse to save or copy mails into folders and use it as well if he wants to switch folders. Well there actually is a way to switch [...]

Categories: Email, Software

I recently spotted two new folders in Thunderbird which I definitely did not create. The names of the folders where nstmp and nstmp-1 and they did contain mails from the main email inbox folder. That was strange on first sight because it was not obvious why those folders were created in first place.It turned out [...]

Categories: Email

Just like Firefox Thunderbird can be customized with themes that give the email client a fresh look. Themes are installed just like add-ons in Thunderbird by opening the Tools > Add-Ons menu in the Thunderbird top menu and switching to the Themes tab on top. The install button is located on the lower left of [...]

Categories: Email

Did you know that a Mozilla store existed where you could buy all kinds of Mozilla merchandise? That was a first for me. You can buy Firefox and Thunderbird on CD with nice covers, t-shirts and polos with all kinds of Firefox, Thunderbird and Mozilla motives, gears like backpacks, jackets, posters, stickers, umbrellas and even [...]

Categories: Firefox