Thunderbird 3 displays many information about the sender, recipient and email in the mail headers. The Display Contact Photo extension for the email client adds another element to the email header: The photo of the contact. Photos are automatically taken from the Thunderbird address book if available with the option to display a generic avatar [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Thunderbird Email Filtering Extension Quick Filter
Thunderbird 3 has introduced several major changes to the popular email client. The ability to perform global email searches for instance was a feature that was missing in Thunderbird 2. Extension developers have also added several interesting add-ons for the email client including the previously reviewed Sender Verification extension. Quick Filter is another extension for [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 8
Email Sender Verification for Thunderbird
Phishing emails have become quite common in the past years and it has become increasingly important to verify the sender – or origin – of emails that are received. Experienced users can do that manually by checking email headers for instance. The email Sender Verification extension for Mozilla Thunderbird integrates an automatic option to verify [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: None
Thunderbird 3.0.4 Released
Mozilla Messaging have published an update to their desktop email client Thunderbird. The update increases the version of the email software to 3.0.4 and is considered a security and stability upgrade which means Thunderbird users are recommended to update their version of the email program as soon as possible to fix the issues that have [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Thunderbird 3.0.3 Email Client Out
It seems that the Opera developers are not the only developers who have increased their output in the past weeks. The desktop email client Thunderbird 3.0.3 has been released only a week after Thunderbird 3.0.2. Short time between two releases is usually an indication that the first release contained a bug or security issue that [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Thunderbird 3.0.2 Is Out Sort Of
The next installment of the popular desktop email client Thunderbird has been released by the Mozilla Messaging team. The new releases has not been officially announced yet which is somewhat strange as it has been uploaded to the release ftp directory on February 18 which can be an indication of the following: It could be [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
Integrate Google Calendar Into Thunderbird
If you are a Gmail user chance is that you are also subscribed to other Google services such as Google Calendar. We all know that Thunderbird users can integrate Gmail into the desktop email client to archive messages, access them while they are offline and manage the account almost as if they would use the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
Display Email Attachment Sizes In Thunderbird
Many email providers only accept email attachments to a specific maximum. The maximum size limitation is different for most providers and can range for a Megabyte to 20 or 25 Megabytes that are supported by Yahoo Mail and Gmail. It is therefor important to have the means to display the size of attachments in an [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 2
Email Client Thunderbird 3.1 Alpha Released
The email client Thunderbird is a popular choice among users who install a desktop email client. The email software was recently updated by its developers to version 3 which brought many changes and new features like a global search option or better email account integration and configuration options. Thunderbird 3.1 will be the next release [...]