You may know that I made the switch to Thunderbird 3.3 some time ago which is currently available as a alpha 2 release. Most of the extensions available for Thunderbird are not compatible with this version. I never really bothered to find a solution for that since I did not make use of must-use extensions [...]

Categories: Email, Tutorials Basic

When you purchase a new computer you often want to move at least some data from the old computer to the new. At the very top of the lists are usually email accounts if a desktop email client like Thunderbird or Outlook is used. The same move may be necessary after a hard drive crash [...]

Categories: Email, Tutorials Basic

Lets say you have used the Mozilla Thunderbird client for some time and have decided to move to the cloud, more precisely to Gmail or Google Mail. Question is, how do you get your emails and the folder structure over to Gmail? Sure you could do that manually; Create the folders over at Gmail and [...]

Categories: Open Source, Software, Windows

Firefox, like most modern web browsers, can be used to save login information so that they do not have to be entered by the user again on the next visit to a website or service. This behavior could be problematic on multi-user systems if users manage to get access to a user’s Firefox installation as [...]

Categories: Browsing, Email, Firefox

I can group emails that I receive into different priorities, the highest priority is for instance reserved for emails that concern my websites and servers. Messages that inform me about server, database or website downtimes for instance have the highest priorities while confirmation orders from Amazon have not. There is however no option in Thunderbird [...]

Categories: Email

Firefox and Thunderbird share several components which makes it easier to develop for both applications but can also mean that there are some side effects that are better dealt with. One of those effects are plugins that are automatically loaded in the Thunderbird email client. Plugins? You know, stuff like Google Update, iTunes Application Detector, [...]

Categories: Email

When you reply to an email in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client you are automatically positioned at the very bottom of the quoted email. Users who want to write the reply on top need to scroll up to get there before they can start writing the email. This is especially frustrating if the reply contains [...]

Categories: Email

Mozilla Messaging is currently distributing an update to the popular desktop email client Thunderbird. The new version of the email program has not been officially announced yet, this will be done once the distribution to mirror servers worldwide has been completed. This also means that there is no official release log yet, only the beta [...]

Categories: Email

Pre-Thunderbird 3.3 versions display every email message on their own page. The only way to follow a conversation is to make sure that all messages are included whenever a new message is written. Sure, there is this new option that displays conversations in a threaded structure instead of sorting them into the email listing, but [...]

Categories: Email