Duplicate contacts are a issue on today’s Internet for many users. Many web services, including email or social networking sites, maintain a contacts – or friends – database, which consists of people the account owner knows. It is sometimes possible to synchronize or import contacts, but more often than not that is not the case. [...]

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A new version of the Mozilla Thunderbird email client is currently processed to be released later today. Thunderbird 3.1.1 fixes several security and stability issues, much like the new Firefox version that was released earlier today. The new version is currently only available on the official Mozilla release ftp server, with a slim chance of [...]

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Veteran users of the Thunderbird email client might remember that JavaScript was supported in version 2. Users who have recently upgraded to version 3 of Thunderbird might also have noted that JavaScript is no longer executed by the software, at least in email contexts. So what’s the deal with JavaScript and Thunderbird? The Thunderbird developers [...]

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No password protection is enabled by default in the email client Mozilla Thunderbird. Anyone with access to the computer system is able to open Thunderbird, read the emails and look at contacts and other information stored in the software. This lack of protection could be a problem if multiple users are using the computer or [...]

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Mozilla Messaging, the development team responsible for the Thunderbird email client, has just released Thunderbird 3.1. The new version is distributed to the world wide mirror server network before the official announcement on the website. The homepage has already been changed to provide visitors with information about Thunderbird 3.1, the latest available version however is [...]

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Mozilla Messaging has just released the second release candidate of Thunderbird 3.1 with the plan to introduce the final release of Thunderbird 3.1 in the middle of June. Thunderbird 3.1 introduces several new features to the desktop email client, among them the new quick filter toolbar to filter messages in a folder temporarily or permanently, [...]

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We have just shown you how to import Gmail contacts into Thunderbird and would like to continue this little article series with instructions on how to import a Thunderbird address book into Gmail Contacts. The restrictions and benefits of this approach remain the same as in the last article. The main benefit is that no [...]

Categories: Email, Tutorials Basic

Chance is you have more than one email address. Many Internet users do. Usually one private and one work related email, or a private and public one. Some users, especially webmasters and developers can have lots more than that but if you got more than one you might have experienced a situation where you send [...]

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Thunderbird users can take a look at the email headers to find out lots of information about the email sender. This includes content types, dates and the servers the email was send from. Many Thunderbird users do not know that it is possible to add the user agent to the header display in the email [...]

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