I’ll be posting more about this later. I couldn’t find anything on Mozilla’s site about changes they’ve made from 2 beta 1, so I’ll have to check it all out manually.
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The Unofficial How-to Blog for Thunderbird- Moving on up! March 21, 2007If you’re here, that means you’ve found one of the best blogs about Thunderbird and how to use it! Thanks for checking out the site! However, I’ve moved my how-to blog over to its own domain name, so check there for the latest articles! Make Me An Expert.com Thanks for reading Chris [...]Chris
- How to put links in your messages March 5, 2007The most beautiful (and useful) part of the Internet is linking. Every picture, document, and file on the Internet can be linked to each other so you literally have a “web”, thus the name… Linking inside an email gives us the convenience of showing someone where to find a particular something, whether it’s [...]Chris
- How to format strike through text March 5, 2007I recently received an email from a reader asking about how to get text that has a strike through it. Luckily, Thunderbird already has this ability built into its formatting options. Here’s the easiest way to set this up: Type out some text Select the text you want formatted with the strike through Go [...]Chris
- Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 released today! March 2, 2007Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 was released today. Here are the release notes: Improvements to product stability. MFSA 2007-06 Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) SSLv2 buffer overflow MFSA 2007-01 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.10/1.8.1.2) Have fun updating!Chris
- How to thread (or unthread) messages March 1, 2007Someone recently approached me and asked about an odd behavior with their Inbox. Apparently messages that weren’t remotely related to each other were showing up grouped together and the user wanted to know if there was a way to stop this. Ends up, the user had turned on “threading” and unrelated emails were [...]Chris
- How to set up an out-of-office auto-reply February 16, 2007I’m sure lots of people who are used to using Outlook are looking for this one. Unfortunately, Thunderbird doesn’t have this capability built in and I couldn’t find an extension that offers this function either. However, there is a way to rig a simple out of office reply: Open Thunderbird Click on the write [...]Chris
- How to NOT add addresses automatically February 12, 2007I recently got this email: My problem isn’t deleting addresses but not adding them. I seem to have Tbird set such that any new replies get added to the address book. I’d rather put all new entries in manually (mostly because ‘m a lecturer and don’t need all my students’ emails in my address [...]Chris
- Thunderbird 2 beta 2 released! January 25, 2007I’ll be posting more about this later. I couldn’t find anything on Mozilla’s site about changes they’ve made from 2 beta 1, so I’ll have to check it all out manually.Chris
- How to save attachments January 24, 2007On the Mac, the default place that Thunderbird saves attachments is on the desktop, which can get messy pretty quickly if you get lots of attachments. You can easily change where Thunderbird saves attachments though, try this: Open Thunderbird Open Preferences On a Mac: go to Thunderbird > Preferences On Windows: go to Tools > Options Go to the [...] […]Chris
- Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 released today! December 20, 2006Merry Christmas to us! Mozilla released Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 today. They also released Firefox 2.0.0.1, which is cool, because I’ve been waiting for the first update to give 2.0 to my clients at the school. Anyway, here are the changes for this new version: Improvements to product stability Several security fixes: Mail header processing heap overflows M […]Chris
- Moving on up! March 21, 2007
February 3, 2007 at 10:08 pm |
Hey this is a great blog………I have spent all day frigging reading your info and adjusting my thunberbird……Keep the tips and tricks coming…….The ability to send attachments inline was priceless….Thanks.
Hey how do I get your site to link to my netvibe site so I can see when you have new postings……I’m not that versed on RSS readers (do I see a tip/trick coming soon, HA) but netvibes allows you to drop and drag your favorite blogs, but not sure how to do it. If I need something else, let me know…Cool beans…..
February 4, 2007 at 2:58 am |
Ok, you can scratch my question about the RSS reader and how to get your blog. Got it,,,I hadn’t quite gotten to your News/Blogs entry…
Ok, question………….I am confused about the tags and folders. Why would I use tags???
Could you give a few examples of using a tag vs folder……
Or are tags supposed to make you stop using folders???
Thanks in advance….
February 4, 2007 at 4:50 am |
Thanks for the compliment, Frank! I’m glad to hear you’re getting help here.
Right, tags replace folders. They make sorting your emails much easier and actually give you more options too. Let me give you an example to help make it clear.
Let’s say you have folders for each project you’re working on and you sort emails into the appropriate folder from your Inbox. Doing it this way, if you get an email that’s related to multiple projects, you could only put that email in one project’s folder and none of the others.
Using tags, the emails stay in your Inbox, but you can assign multiple tags to each message, so when you filter by each project’s tag, the same message will show up as related to each project.
Does that make more sense?