Protect Private Email Addresses In Thunderbird
Chance is you have more than one email address. Many Internet users do, usually one private and one work related email, or a private email address and a public one.
Some, especially webmasters and developers can have more than two email addresses. If you got more than one you may have experienced a situation where you sent an email to someone or even multiple recipients using the wrong email account.
Say you sent work related emails using your private account, or a work account to sent private emails.
While you can get around this by separating email addresses by program, for instance by using Thunderbird for all private emails, and Gmail or Outlook for all work related emails, it is not that comfortable.
PrivateID Reloaded
PrivateID Reloaded for Thunderbird 3 has been designed to warn users before emails are sent on their way. The extension maintains a list of private email IDs and address books that it will compare against all emails.
Basically, what it does is link email addresses that you use to address books. These addresses are whitelisted then, and you won't get any warnings if the extension finds a match.
It is possible to specify email addresses or strings during configuration. The latter enables you to match domains so that all addresses are matched automatically without you having to type each individually.
The program displays warnings if recipients are not found in address books linked to the "from" email address.
It is still possible to send emails to recipients, but the warning gives you the option to rethink that step. It is for instance possible to opt out and change the email account the messages are send from.
PrivateID Reloaded can be downloaded from the Mozilla Thunderbird extension repository. The add-on is compatible with Thunderbird 1.5 to 3.0.x.
Update: The script has not been updated for a year and is no longer compatible with Thunderbird. It therefore has been pulled from the official add-on repository. There is no comparable extension available at the time of writing that you could use instead to avoid using the wrong email account when sending out emails in Thunderbird.
You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?
I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!