Mozilla Thunderbird
Locating and moving your Thunderbird email profile
Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source alternative to Microsoft Outlook by the same organization that brings us Firefox. Like Firefox, Thunderbird stores all it’s customization, settings, and email in a user profile which defaults to the Users folder in Windows. The profile folder is buried quite a few levels deep but it can be accessed [...]
Sending and Receiving Hotmail Through Thunderbird
I wrote yesterday about how to interface Hotmail with Gmail now that Microsoft has opened up their Hotmail service to all POP3 clients. Without being so technical, the opening of POP3 allows you to check your @hotmail.com or @live.com addresses from a traditional POP3 client – such as Outlook or in this case, Thunderbird. I’ll [...]
Bringing Automatic CC and BCC to Thunderbird
The popular open source and free email client Thunderbird, by the same group that brings us Firefox, does not allow for any automation when it comes to using the carbon copy feature. CC and BCC allows the email composer to send a copy of the email to another recipient. Why is this something that you [...]
Syncing Your Contacts from Gmail to Thunderbird
At the office I’m forced to use Outlook as my main communication and scheduling tool. Outlook gets a lot of bad raps and while at one time I’m sure most of it was justified, nowadays it really isn’t that bad of a product – at least Outlook 2007. However, that doesn’t mean I use it [...]
Thunderbird POP timeout problem
I came across a problem today with Mozilla Thunderbird (though not necessarily isolated to this client) and the POP mail server. It came about because a user has been out of the office and not pop’ing his mail to the desktop. The server had accumulated 100MB of email over this time. The problem Thunderbird has [...]
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