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Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 released today!

March 2, 2007

Thunderbird 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!

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The 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 [...]

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How to format strike through text March 5, 2007

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Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 released today! March 2, 2007

Thunderbird 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!

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Someone 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 [...]

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How to set up an out-of-office auto-reply February 16, 2007

I’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 [...]

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I 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 [...]

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Thunderbird 2 beta 2 released! January 25, 2007

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How to save attachments January 24, 2007

On 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 [...] […]

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Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 released today! December 20, 2006

Merry 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 […]

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