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5 Extensions to Make Thunderbird Gmail-Friendly

I’ve spent the last several months trying to figure out, once and for all, my perfect email system. All my email is in Gmail, but there were certain things I didn’t love about using Gmail – the offline features are hit-or-miss, there’s no reading pane, and a few notably missing keyboard shortcuts caused me [...]

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Categories: Email

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 19th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Fix Slow Or Hanging Thunderbird Email Client

Thunderbird is a desktop email client that is seen by many as a viable alternative to Microsoft Outlook on the Windows operating system. Users who use the client heavily might experience slow downs or lags when using the desktop email client after some time. This can usually be attributed to corrupted msf files in the [...]

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Categories: Email

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 22nd, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Gmail UI For Thunderbird

If you use both the online email client Gmail and the desktop email client Thunderbird you might like the idea of porting some of the features and shortcuts that Google has introduced to Gmail into Mozilla Thunderbird. Gmail UI does that. It does not port all of the features to the desktop email client but [...]

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Categories: Email

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 15th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Move Thunderbird Email Profiles To Another Location

The email client Mozilla Thunderbird uses a similar structure of storing data in so called profiles which are saved by default in the user directory of the operating system.There are a number of reasons why some users might want to move the data from the Thunderbird folder to another custom folder. Some that instantly come [...]

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Categories: Email

  • 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

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