It turned out that a few weeks were really more like a few minutes. Mozilla Messaging has released the first alpha of Shredder (icon wanted), the code name of Thunderbird 3.
Read more »First look to Thunderbird 3 (a.k.a Shredder) Alpha 1
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Evolution - Moving away from Thunderbird
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I have been using Thunderbird for quite a while now. It’s a great e-mail client and the fact that you can use it on multiple platforms made it a winner for me. I carry a USB-drive around with Portable Thunderbird on it. A simple edit of the profiles.ini file is enough to point other Thunderbird installs (for instance on my laptop) to the folders on the USB drive.
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Sign & Encrypt your Emails with Thunderbird/Enigmail
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Thunderbird is a great and well know open source email client brought to you by the same group that puts out Firefox. But like Firefox, there’s extensions we can add to it to make an already secure application more secure. Welcome to the world of signing and encrypting your emails
Read more »Downloading and installing Thunderbird extensions
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Extensions are one of the major selling points for Firefox. No other browser can match the sheer volume of third-party mini applications and enhancements.
Read more »How do you replace Microsoft Outlook? Groupware applications
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How do you replace Microsoft Outlook? Do you go for Evolution or Kontact? Can a combination of Mozilla Thunderbird and Lighting do the trick? Do you split the features and are there any compromises to be made?
Read more »Quick Tip: HowTo Integrate Firefox and Thunderbird in KDE
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Whenever you click a http:// or mailto: link in KDE, by default, Konqueror and KMail will open. I’m not saying these are bad apps, just that if you have Firefox and Thunderbird installed, why wouldn’t you want to use them fully?
Read more »Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 update now available
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"Mozilla has released Thunderbird 2.0.0.12, an update that fixes five security vulnerabilities..." -- ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/2.0.0.12/linux-i686/
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Mozilla Messaging
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"Today we’ve announced the launch of Mozilla Messaging, the new name for the entity I’ve been calling MailCo on this blog. As promised, it’s a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, focused on email and internet communications. We’ve put up the essential information about the organization on the website, but I have more room for background here..."
Read more »7 Thunderbird Extensions that will allow you to replace Outlook
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Whether you are using Linux or not, Thunderbird is a great email client. It’s been around awhile, and works well. But what if we want more than what Thunderbird offers stock? What can we do so that we can share address books between users on completely different computers? Is there a way to use calendars? Can we then share the calendars so other users can access them? With fresh-from-the-box Thunderbird, good luck. Fortunately, the folks at Mozilla have given us the ability to create extensions for this great email client
Read more »Migrating from Netscape to Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird
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"Now that we have recommended users adopt Firefox and Thunderbird for their browser and e-mail needs, some people have asked how to go about migrating their data. Thanks to the Netscape Champions we now have some FAQ on how to accomplish this..."
-- I think that Firefox is the best transition before migrating to GNU/Linux ;)
Read more »Upcoming features: Calendar syncing
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"I’ve found a cool Howto about syncing your Icedove/Thunderbird Lightning calendar with Google Calendar, Zimbra, or any other iCal server (see Wikipedia for a list of servers which support it)..."
Read more »Will Penelope be the death of Thunderbird?
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So Mozilla has taken on the task of developing an open source version of the old Eudora email client under the name of Penelope.
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All the questions you may have about Thunderbird, answered by Mitchell Baker - Standblog
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"...Mitchell has put together several posts on her blog to answer questions that the community may have. I've digested them below. Enjoy....
Read more »Mozilla CEO denies Google decided Thunderbird's fate
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Mozilla's CEO Thursday evening answered charges that the company is dropping development of the Thunderbird e-mail client because of its partnership with Google. Several comments posted to Mitchell Baker's blog put forward conspiracy theories of a link between Mozilla's decision on Thunderbird and Google's push into e-mail with its Gmail Web-based service.
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Thunderbird -- Why Change Things?
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One large them of responses to the Thunderbird post is the question: Why can't Thunderbird and Firefox both prosper in the same development organization? Since there is money, what's the problem?
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