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 [...]

A First Look at Eudora OSE

I got a surprise recently. I’d been keeping tabs on the new version of Eudora, which is based on the Thunderbird email program from the Mozilla Foundation along with the user interface from the Eudora program that I have used for years. It was released as Eudora OSE (Eudora Open Source Edition). I had tried [...]

New Eudora OSE eMail Program Released

I got a surprise this week. I’d been keeping tabs on the new version of Eudora, which is based on the Thunderbird email program from the Mozilla Foundation along with the user interface from the Eudora program that I have used for years. It just got released as Eudora OSE (Eudora Open Source Edition). I [...]

Problem Migrating Thunderbird to Windows 7

Subscriber John in Dallas wrote to ask about a problem he was having in migrating to his new computer: Hi-Terry, Enjoy your newsletter; always something to learn.. I just bought a new Dell Win7-64bit!! I DO share your opinions on DELL!!!! Apparently, Michael no longer owns Dell? He would never allow support to sink to [...]