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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 18th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Email Client: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21

A new version of the popular desktop email client Thunderbird is currently distributed to various mirror servers throughout the world. The Mozilla Messaging team will release the update once the transfers are finished and the websites have been updated with the latest information. This can usually take anywhere from 1 hour to 24 hours after [...]

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Categories: Email

Encrypt Thunderbird Email with Enigmail

Sometimes email contains sensitive data which must be encrypted. You can handle this two ways, manually encrypt the data or use an exceptional Thunderbird Extension called Enigmail. This extension uses gpg and makes the encryption/decryption as user-friendly as it gets. With keys installed in Enigmail (either manually or from a keyserver) encrypted email is automatically [...]

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Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Mac, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 27th, 2009
  • Comments: 7

Thunderbird 3 Beta 2

The Thunderbird email client team is making progress. They released Thunderbird 3 Beta 2 yesterday for public download. Interested users should keep in mind that this is a beta version of the email client. It feels very stable but it can still produce bugs that might delete things unrecoverably. It is therefor not suggested to [...]

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Categories: Email

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 12th, 2009
  • Comments: None

Thunderbird Delete Confirmations

The email client Mozilla Thunderbird does not come with delete confirmations turned on by default. There is also no option in the Thunderbird settings to activate delete confirmations. The advanced config editor does list two entries that might be there to enable delete confirmations but there is zero information to be found on the Internet [...]

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Categories: Email

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 7th, 2009
  • Comments: 7

Thunderbird Archiving Shortcuts

The Archive This Thunderbird add-on provides configurable keyboard shortcuts to archive email messages with the press of a button. The add-on is compatible with all versions of Thunderbird 2. It is experimental which not only becomes obvious while trying to download the add-on but also when looking at the keyboard shortcuts that have been implemented [...]

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Categories: Email

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 27th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

SMTP Server Selector For Thunderbird

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 all [...]

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Categories: Email

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 21st, 2009
  • Comments: None

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 [...]

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Categories: Email

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