Thunderbird has a configurable option for auto-completion of email addressses. What’s auto-completion? Create a new email in Thunderbird and then start typing the email address in an address field. Thunderbird will automatically match the letters you type against its database of email addresses its created from your email activity. Where can you find the configuration [...]
Adding Another Address Book to Thunderbird
Subscriber James Biddle wrote asking for help with a problem he was fighting with Thundebird. Here, I’ve just started using Thunderbird, and I’m already getting questions that assume I know what I’m doing. Fortunately, it worked… I have a question about T-bird. I currently have 3 address books, Friends, Personal Addresses, Collected Addresses. I want [...]
Reader Feedback on the Thunderbird Email Program
After my articles in my recent email newsletters, in which I wrote about dropping Eudora OSE and switching to Thunderbird, I received several emails from current Thunderbird users. In one case, it was a question about something the reader couldn’t do. In this case, subscriber Richard Fuller wrote to give me his thoughts and complaints [...]
I’m Even Happier With Thunderbird
With another week of Thunderbird as my email program of choice, not only am I still happy, I’m happier. One of the things I forgot to mention last week is that Thunderbird is a lot faster than Eudora OSE is/was. Of course, that came in part because Thunderbird continues to get development, bug fixes and [...]
Using the Thunderbird Address Book When Sending or Forwarding an Email
Since I’ve started using Thunderbird, I’m starting to get questions about Thunderbird, too, like this one from subscriber Bert: I’m glad you like Thunderbird email – I have been using it for some time now and also think it is good. However, one thing that either I can’t figure out, or is a feature that [...]
I Dumped Eudora OSE
I changed one of my everyday software programs this week. I wrote about a year ago concerning Eudora OSE (Open Source Edition), a new open-source version of Eudora that is based on the Thunderbird email program from the Mozilla Foundation. After a few days of running my old Eudora program in parallel with Eudora OSE, [...]
Thunderbird to the Rescue!
Thunderbird, from the Mozilla Foundation and sometimes called Mozilla Thunderbird, is my new email program of choice. I had tried Thunderbird several years ago, but didn’t use it because I couldn’t do some of the things that I did with Eudora. About a year ago, I switched from Eudora to Eudora OSE, which was built [...]
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