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 [...]

Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – October 2, 2011

This week’s email newsletter article is: Reader Feedback on the Thunderbird Email ProgramAfter 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – September 25, 2011

This week’s email newsletter article is: I’m Even Happier With ThunderbirdWith 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 [...]

Why Don’t Deleted Emails Appear in the Recycle Bin?

Subscriber JPB had a question about deleting emails, and why they don’t get recycled: When you delete files (normally) they go to the recycle bin. How come E-mail doesn’t work the same way. it get’s compacted? I’m using Thunderbird and Windows 7. The reason that deleted emails don’t show up in the Recycle Bin is [...]

Eudora Open Source Edition (Eudora OSE) Followup

I started using Eudora Open Source Edition as soon as I knew that it was available (A First Look at Eudora OSE). Within days, I stopped running a parallel version with my earlier Eudora version, and began using Eudora OSE as my primary email program. That was last November. Since then, I’ve continued with Eudora [...]