A question came up today if it was possible to export a Calendar in Microsoft Outlook and import it to Mozilla Lightning. Mozilla Lightning can be integrated in the email client Thunderbird. There are basically two ways to import the Microsoft Outlook Calendar into Mozilla Lightning.
The manual way would be to export the Calendar files [...]
Importing Calendar From Microsoft Outlook To Mozilla Lightning
Thunderbird Security Update To 2.0.0.17
Just a day after updating both Firefox version 3 and 2 the Mozilla Thunderbird development team released a update for Thunderbird which raises the version of the email client to 2.0.0.17.
The update is a security update and it is therefor recommended to update immediately if Thunderbird is installed and in use on a computer system.
Interested [...]
Thunderbird Folder Hotkeys
One of the limitations of Thunderbird is that there are no hotkeys to quickly switch folders or save mail into another folder. The user has to use the mouse to save or copy mails into folders and use it as well if he wants to switch folders. Well there actually is a way to switch [...]
Nstmp Folders In Thunderbird
I recently spotted two new folders in Thunderbird which I definitely did not create. The names of the folders where nstmp and nstmp-1 and they did contain mails from the main email inbox folder. That was strange on first sight because it was not obvious why those folders were created in first place.It turned out [...]
Eight Beautiful Mozilla Thunderbird Themes
Just like Firefox Thunderbird can be customized with themes that give the email client a fresh look. Themes are installed just like add-ons in Thunderbird by opening the Tools > Add-Ons menu in the Thunderbird top menu and switching to the Themes tab on top. The install button is located on the lower left of [...]
Mozilla Merchandise
Did you know that a Mozilla store existed where you could buy all kinds of Mozilla merchandise? That was a first for me. You can buy Firefox and Thunderbird on CD with nice covers, t-shirts and polos with all kinds of Firefox, Thunderbird and Mozilla motives, gears like backpacks, jackets, posters, stickers, umbrellas and even [...]
Synchronize Contacts Between Thunderbird And Gmail
If you use both the email client Mozilla Thunderbird and Google Mail (Gmail) you might need a way to keep both address books in sync so that they can be accessed from both software programs. It’s unfortunately not that easy to synchronize the address books with the default options at hand.
The Thunderbird add-on gContactSync tries [...]

