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 a default [...]

How Gmail Killed the Thunderbird

I’d just like to say that by now, everyone that has wanted to toy around with Gmail already have and the rest continue to have some strange attachment to Hotmail. The hype has dissipated; mainly because all its competitors have copied the copious amounts of storage space previously unheard of until Mr. Google decided it should be so. If for no other reason than this, Google has redefined the world’s expectations of what a free webmail service must offer.

I keep all my email, always have. It’s amazing when some seemingly random and unimportant email becomes anything but seven months later. I don’t proclaim to be special but over the decade I have accumulated tens of thousands of email. Searching for that one address or phone number of a long lost contact took awhile in Mozilla Thunderbird, a long long while. Gmail accomplishes this same feat in 2.3 pico-seconds. I timed it – I wouldn’t lie to you.